Sunday, January 25, 2004
Chris left this morning for Texas (more classes for work), and I got up with him at 6:15. Since he was out of bed with me yesterday at 6:30 so I could go to the yard sale, it was only fair. Besides, I don't much like rolling around in those vast expanses of sheets and goose down without him. He left an hour ago, and I've had a couple more cups of coffee. I've read the first few essays of The Bitch in the House, and watched the morning get brighter. I'm not too lonely for my sweetie yet, so I'm very much looking forward to a day of adventure.
I'll have lunch with Marcy, and we'll go to the fish store. It's not the fish store that I usually frequent, so that will be nice and different.
I plan to do some bike riding today, too, as I inherited Chris's old Cannondale this weekend. I haven't ridden to speak of for quite a few years. And I don't remember exactly liking it. But I've *got* to start moving this consistently aging body of mine. Not just so that I can fit into my 'old' jeans by Valentine's day, but because it's the healthy thing to do. I don't move much, you see. I sit a lot at work, I sit a lot at home. I sit in the car, and at restaurants. I sit at J&L's and drink beer. I sit far, far too much. So less sitting and more moving!
I'll have a nice dinner this evening of chicken and peppers and onions and dressing, rolled up in a tomato and pepper tortilla, most of which Chris prepared for me last night, bless his heart. And watch Blue Velvet. I haven't seen that in ages. There will be some cat box cleaning in there somewhere, and some tidying about the house. Though Chris did practically all of the laundry yesterday (Yes, I'm bragging!). And I'd like to go see Monster with J&L, too.
Wish me luck on fitting all of this in in one day!
I'll have lunch with Marcy, and we'll go to the fish store. It's not the fish store that I usually frequent, so that will be nice and different.
I plan to do some bike riding today, too, as I inherited Chris's old Cannondale this weekend. I haven't ridden to speak of for quite a few years. And I don't remember exactly liking it. But I've *got* to start moving this consistently aging body of mine. Not just so that I can fit into my 'old' jeans by Valentine's day, but because it's the healthy thing to do. I don't move much, you see. I sit a lot at work, I sit a lot at home. I sit in the car, and at restaurants. I sit at J&L's and drink beer. I sit far, far too much. So less sitting and more moving!
I'll have a nice dinner this evening of chicken and peppers and onions and dressing, rolled up in a tomato and pepper tortilla, most of which Chris prepared for me last night, bless his heart. And watch Blue Velvet. I haven't seen that in ages. There will be some cat box cleaning in there somewhere, and some tidying about the house. Though Chris did practically all of the laundry yesterday (Yes, I'm bragging!). And I'd like to go see Monster with J&L, too.
Wish me luck on fitting all of this in in one day!
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
One fish, two fish, red fish, NEW FISH!
It's still a hobby. It's not an obsession.
Meet Wanda:
She's a beautifully colored female Betta.
This is Pat:
Pat is a baby Betta! His/her sex is undetermined (Hence the name 'Pat'), but judging from the hints of red and blue on his/her fins he/she is surely going to be a lovely color upon puberty! Or whenever Bettas get their color.
Wanda and Pat each have their own filtered ~1 gallon tanks on my shelf at work. This afternoon Jen's Betta, Aries, came over for a play date. Aries is in a round bowl, so I couldn't get a decent picture of him. But being close to Wanda's tank got him quite excited! He flared his red fins at her all afternoon. You've never seen a Betta look gorgeous unless you've seen him in the presence of a female. You go, Wanda!
Meet Wanda:
She's a beautifully colored female Betta.
This is Pat:
Pat is a baby Betta! His/her sex is undetermined (Hence the name 'Pat'), but judging from the hints of red and blue on his/her fins he/she is surely going to be a lovely color upon puberty! Or whenever Bettas get their color.
Wanda and Pat each have their own filtered ~1 gallon tanks on my shelf at work. This afternoon Jen's Betta, Aries, came over for a play date. Aries is in a round bowl, so I couldn't get a decent picture of him. But being close to Wanda's tank got him quite excited! He flared his red fins at her all afternoon. You've never seen a Betta look gorgeous unless you've seen him in the presence of a female. You go, Wanda!
Monday, January 12, 2004
I'm so testy
With C out of town, I've lowered myself to the depths of taking on-line tests. Though I don't think he'll be too excited about my results from this one. Or then again, maybe he will... ;-)
Shamelessly whored from Jane, this test thinks I'm a MAN, Baybee! But I was really riding the line. Right in the middle. I swear!
Shamelessly whored from Jane, this test thinks I'm a MAN, Baybee! But I was really riding the line. Right in the middle. I swear!
Sunday, January 11, 2004
Do you know what it's like to be lonely?
Chris is in Jacksonville. He'll be there all week for some training classes, and I'll be here in G'ville. Boy, this house seems big already. I've hit a few of my friends up for meals so that I won't starve while my personal chef is out of town. Lawd knows I'm past the point of being able to fend for myself, especially since mac'n'cheese isn't on the diet menu. But I'll get to see him on Wednesday. I'm leaving work early, and heading to Jax to kiss my sweetie and celebrate Chelsea's birthday. I don't have to be at work again until noon on Thursday, so I'll stay over and see C off to school. It's going to be interesting leading the bachelorette life again, if only for a couple of days. I'm curious to see whether I go crazy fixing and decorating things around the house, or just flat out veg on the couch all week. Hopefully, I'll find a healthy balance of each.
Thursday, January 08, 2004
Heeeere fishy fishy fishy
I got a fish for my office at work. His name is Alpha. He's a beta fish. Alpha. The beta. Get it? He's cute and cuddly and blue! Here he is in front of his pretty little rock. I like to think that he's a happy fish now, not having to live in that tiny little beta bubble bowl swimming in his own poop. Now he has filtered water, and contrasting gravel, and a real live plant. So he's got plenty of room, and is fashionable to boot!
Just Desserts
It’s the first (full) week of January, and like countless other Americans, I started a diet this week. I’m not trying to fool myself this time. This is *not* a ‘lifestyle change’. It’s a flat out diet. I intent to lose weight as quickly as possible so that I can go back to eating like a normal human being again. I miss chocolate already.
I am being sane about this, mind you. I’m not starving myself by any means. Luckily I live with a man who loves to cook, so I’ve had tasty, sensible, not-so-big-that-I’ve-gorged-myself meals all week. I’ve minimized carbs drastically, but not entirely, and I’ve cut out the junk food. Not a single tortilla chip has passed these lips in four days, and that’s hell for me, I tell ya.
I’ll add exercise soon. When it’s warm enough to go outside again. Or when monkeys fly out of my ass. Whichever comes first. Seriously, though, I plan on adding real exercise to the weight loss strategy in the near future. And exercise is something I plan on keeping up with after I wean myself back onto biscuits and gravy. My poor little heart doesn’t know what’s hit it when I trot up a single flight of stairs, and that just ain’t right for a gal of my youth. Gotta keep that ticker going, I’ve got things to do with my life!
Many of my friends tell me that I don’t really need to lose weight, and they are correct. I am not overweight for my height. But I am at the very tippy tippy top of the bracket. I’d like to be much closer to the left side of that bell curve. It’s a financial thing, really. You see, I don’t fit in any of my clothes anymore! And I have some waaaay cool clothes that I hate to see gather any more dust in the closet.
Wish me luck, and if I call you at 11pm begging you to call the pizza guy for me so that C doesn’t see FiveStar’s number on the outgoing calls list, don’t do it! Or do it, and convince me that it’s the healthy thing to do.
I am being sane about this, mind you. I’m not starving myself by any means. Luckily I live with a man who loves to cook, so I’ve had tasty, sensible, not-so-big-that-I’ve-gorged-myself meals all week. I’ve minimized carbs drastically, but not entirely, and I’ve cut out the junk food. Not a single tortilla chip has passed these lips in four days, and that’s hell for me, I tell ya.
I’ll add exercise soon. When it’s warm enough to go outside again. Or when monkeys fly out of my ass. Whichever comes first. Seriously, though, I plan on adding real exercise to the weight loss strategy in the near future. And exercise is something I plan on keeping up with after I wean myself back onto biscuits and gravy. My poor little heart doesn’t know what’s hit it when I trot up a single flight of stairs, and that just ain’t right for a gal of my youth. Gotta keep that ticker going, I’ve got things to do with my life!
Many of my friends tell me that I don’t really need to lose weight, and they are correct. I am not overweight for my height. But I am at the very tippy tippy top of the bracket. I’d like to be much closer to the left side of that bell curve. It’s a financial thing, really. You see, I don’t fit in any of my clothes anymore! And I have some waaaay cool clothes that I hate to see gather any more dust in the closet.
Wish me luck, and if I call you at 11pm begging you to call the pizza guy for me so that C doesn’t see FiveStar’s number on the outgoing calls list, don’t do it! Or do it, and convince me that it’s the healthy thing to do.
Monday, January 05, 2004
Wow! What a weekend!
And a nice, long weekend at that.
Our time in Savannah was just wonderful. Chris's dad seems to know most every bar and restaurant owner in town, and that helps to make for a leisurely visit. On Friday we walked around town some, had a bite to eat, drank a couple of pints, then walked around town some more. We took the haunted pub tour, given by a friend of Dave's, Chris's dad. That was a blast. We'd go from one bar to the next, drinking and walking and laughing. The tour wasn't necessarily scary, but we received access to parts of some of the 200+ year old buildings that most people can only wonder about. Absolutely beautiful buildings, they are, and it was great fun to imagine them full of people in period dress, laughing and cavorting just like we were.
Saturday brought more walking, more food, more drink, and more walking. Savannah is such a beautiful town, I could just walk around and look at the buildings for days. We saw the Mercer House, featured in the movie _Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil_, and we went into a fantastic cathedral. And I didn't even get struck by lightening! Other highlights included buying loose tea at The Tea Room (The Gryphon was closed for the weekend.), these wonderful shrimp jalepeno poppers at the Tapas bar, and seeing more live cats than dead ones.
On the way back to Jacksonville on Saturday we stopped by Seth's in Kingsley, GA. Hadn't seen him since home show, and we got to meet his girlfriend, Katie, and her cat, Jinx. Had some dinner at a so-so Mexican place, and laughed a lot.
Saw _21 Grams_ with J&L last night. Fantastic movie. You should see it. Despite it's title and featured male actors, it's not about drugs. Well, not *entirely* about drugs. Besides, any movie that opens with a shot of Naomi Watt's nipple can't be horrible, now, can it?
In other news, the digital camera should arrive today, so at some point you might expect to see idyllicchick.com updated pretty regularly. Won't that be nice?
Our time in Savannah was just wonderful. Chris's dad seems to know most every bar and restaurant owner in town, and that helps to make for a leisurely visit. On Friday we walked around town some, had a bite to eat, drank a couple of pints, then walked around town some more. We took the haunted pub tour, given by a friend of Dave's, Chris's dad. That was a blast. We'd go from one bar to the next, drinking and walking and laughing. The tour wasn't necessarily scary, but we received access to parts of some of the 200+ year old buildings that most people can only wonder about. Absolutely beautiful buildings, they are, and it was great fun to imagine them full of people in period dress, laughing and cavorting just like we were.
Saturday brought more walking, more food, more drink, and more walking. Savannah is such a beautiful town, I could just walk around and look at the buildings for days. We saw the Mercer House, featured in the movie _Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil_, and we went into a fantastic cathedral. And I didn't even get struck by lightening! Other highlights included buying loose tea at The Tea Room (The Gryphon was closed for the weekend.), these wonderful shrimp jalepeno poppers at the Tapas bar, and seeing more live cats than dead ones.
On the way back to Jacksonville on Saturday we stopped by Seth's in Kingsley, GA. Hadn't seen him since home show, and we got to meet his girlfriend, Katie, and her cat, Jinx. Had some dinner at a so-so Mexican place, and laughed a lot.
Saw _21 Grams_ with J&L last night. Fantastic movie. You should see it. Despite it's title and featured male actors, it's not about drugs. Well, not *entirely* about drugs. Besides, any movie that opens with a shot of Naomi Watt's nipple can't be horrible, now, can it?
In other news, the digital camera should arrive today, so at some point you might expect to see idyllicchick.com updated pretty regularly. Won't that be nice?
Thursday, January 01, 2004
Happy New Beer!
I mean, *year*.
Had a lovely NY Eve, having dinner at dinner with J&L, then moving on to 'Aunt' Gay and 'Uncle' Joe's annual countdown celebration. Unfortunately, at about 11:30pm, the cold medicine that I took had a fistfight with the couple of beers that I had drank. I felt like crap, and it was all I could do to hang on until midnight. Chrises, bless his heart, took me home and took good care of me. I'm still pretty sniffly today, but the cold is clearing up.
Today Will and Casey and Moya came back through town, and we got to spend a longer amount of higher quality time with them. Had lunch at Sonny's, then went to the park. Charlie, Will, and Chris put on a great juggling show, and the kids had fun on the swingset. It was like Will and Casey lived in town again, and I miss them now more than ever. I'm pulling for Will to get a swanky job in Orlando designing VR rides and such, so that they can be close enough for us to visit regularly.
C&I are in Jax tonight on our way to Savannah for the weekend. I haven't been to Savannah since my and Katie's whirlwind tour of Georgia over spring break in, say, oohhh, 1991 or 92 or so. We enjoyed the place, and I'm looking forward to getting a residents tour (Chris's dad lives there.). We're going on the haunted bar tour tomorrow night! W00t! It's going to be a great weekend!
Oh. Have I mentioned that my hair is now fuscia?
Had a lovely NY Eve, having dinner at dinner with J&L, then moving on to 'Aunt' Gay and 'Uncle' Joe's annual countdown celebration. Unfortunately, at about 11:30pm, the cold medicine that I took had a fistfight with the couple of beers that I had drank. I felt like crap, and it was all I could do to hang on until midnight. Chrises, bless his heart, took me home and took good care of me. I'm still pretty sniffly today, but the cold is clearing up.
Today Will and Casey and Moya came back through town, and we got to spend a longer amount of higher quality time with them. Had lunch at Sonny's, then went to the park. Charlie, Will, and Chris put on a great juggling show, and the kids had fun on the swingset. It was like Will and Casey lived in town again, and I miss them now more than ever. I'm pulling for Will to get a swanky job in Orlando designing VR rides and such, so that they can be close enough for us to visit regularly.
C&I are in Jax tonight on our way to Savannah for the weekend. I haven't been to Savannah since my and Katie's whirlwind tour of Georgia over spring break in, say, oohhh, 1991 or 92 or so. We enjoyed the place, and I'm looking forward to getting a residents tour (Chris's dad lives there.). We're going on the haunted bar tour tomorrow night! W00t! It's going to be a great weekend!
Oh. Have I mentioned that my hair is now fuscia?
