Weekend Update

What a great weekend! I feel so rested and refreshed. :)

Saturday was a completely lazy day. We slept in and it was glorious. The most active thing we did was drive to the thrift shop and do a little shopping. We didn't get much. painted_wolf, being the geek she is, bought a few text books on various science subjects and an Answers in Genesis video on dinosaurs so she could have a good chuckle. :P I found a CD of some indie band in Chicago and... there was a reason it was in a thrift shop for $1. The rest of the day was lounging around, surfing the web and PW found a site full of British slang so we had fun with that.

Sunday we slept in again but not too much. We stopped on the way into Plymouth to buy some snacks and beverage, stopped into my office so I could do a couple of quick tasks and then we went over to visit Sarah and Randy in their new apartment. It's a very cute place! Sarah did a great job of decorating and making the apartment look very charming. I also finally got to see her art and it was wonderful! We chatted while Randy and a friend finished a game of Thurn & Taxis. Then we played a fairly large game of Citadels with the Dark City expansion and for the first time I got to see the Ball Room district in play. It adds a fun element to the game! Fortunately I was sitting next to two people who were obviously going for the King frequently so I played the Queen role multiple times and made a great deal of money from it. After that we chatted more until a bunch more people showed up for the WWE pay-per-view, including sk_brainstorm. We had more snacks and I cooked up the fresh corn we brought and everyone had fun watching wrestling and mocking the wrestlers and such.

We ended up leaving early so we could be home for a call from shivakat, which we thought we were going to miss because someone upstairs decided to go online (we have dial-up). Joy. Fortunately he disconnected not too long after the arranged time and shivakat was still able to call and everything worked out, so yay!

Fitness and Wellness Update

My cankles are going away!!! ^_^ The swelling in my ankles has gone down a great deal I noticed yesterday. I can see and feel my ankle bone again on my left leg! My right leg is still worse but the swelling has gone down there, too. The splochiness is going away some, too.

I'm eating less for breakfast now. I'm down to eating only two eggs for breakfast now.

I started walking in the morning this morning before I do anything else. It feels so amazing! I think a morning walk is the way to go for now as far as exercise is concerned. I think I'll have the best luck keeping up with my routine if I make it a morning priority.

Peculiar Spiritual Coincidence

For the past few years I have held a spiritual commitment to fast for 24 hours on my birthday. This year Yom Kippur is the day before my birthday. For those who aren't familiar with Yom Kippur, it is a Jewish holiday focusing on atonement. Part of this Day of Atonement is a 25-hour fast. I'm not Jewish. I just find this to be a very interesting and wonderful coincidence!

FUMES!!!

When I came in it was fumes from some sort of varnish or paint in the new office constructed near mine. Now it's fumes from heating oil due to the boiler repair going on in the room next to me. If I don't pass out or go brain dead before I leave work today it will be a miracle. UGH! I was planning to make today a long day to get a bunch of stuff done but now I think that will wait until later in the week. I'm going to leave at 3:00 to catch up with Kathy and do lunch.