It's Friday, yaaaaaaaaayyy!!
- Work
- Come home and make pasta salad for lunch with all the MacConnell movers tomorrow
(I recently learned that the secret to great, fresh pasta salad is to add the dressing right before serving, so I will make the dressing separately and not add it until tomorrow when we eat)
- Crochet! I'm finally making the cute Knot Ugly Shrug from Stitch n' Bitch Crochet: The Happy Hooker. Next I want to make the cowboy hat, for which I will use the two huge skeins of white cotton I got to make a flower girl basket but didn't. If I decide I don't want a white cowboy hat, I can always dye it.
- This is a bit out of order, but we're also going over to the Killian's for dinner, since Han will be home for her library interview tomorrow - good luck, Han!!
Other than that, I'm happy to say that I rode my bike to work yesterday. Hopefully soon I will have bike pedals to go with my shoes...but until then it's still fun to ride in just my sneakers! After work I rode to Peppino's for a sub, which I took with me to Cornerstone Coffee House for a skinny iced chai (my fav drink evar), then to choir practice at Trinity, where Paul picked me up at 9:30 so that I wouldn't have to ride home in the dark. I was going to ride again today, but I feel all weird (maybe from the prednisone?) and funky, and still pooped from yesterday, plus I need to stop at Rite Aid so I'm just going to drive. I'll get plenty of exercise tomorrow helping Kelly and Reed move! Yay for having a girlfriend nearby again!! And with Han graduating in a couple of weeks, I'll have her nearby too, I can hardly wait. Now if only I could get my house cleaned up, unpacked, and organized so that I could finally have my housewarming party...maybe I should work on that Sunday instead of more gardening.
In other other news, I'm also feeling happy this week because over the last couple of weeks I feel like things have clicked with the two other project controllers here in Camp Hill. We've been getting along really well, chatting a lot, taking trips to Starbucks a few times a week, and I feel much more comfy and happy at work from a social standpoint than I had been. I still miss Sarah and Jeneane a whole lot, of course, which is why Paul and I are going to head South a day early on Saturday, May 24 to visit them on our way down to OBX for the next wedding. One month from yesterday, it will be so wonderful and fun I can hardly wait!!!!!
OK OK OK, I guess I'd better get dressed and head to work. Srsly. Byes...
Friday, April 25, 2008
Tuesday, April 22, 2008
Happy Earth Day!
To do: ----------------------------------------- Update in the evening:
Get dressed ------------------------------------- check
Take Prednisone for poison ivy ----------------------- check, it's working like a charm
Vote (Obama '08!) ---------------------------------check!
Stop at Starbucks? (Michelle may have already done this) --- check, Michelle got me my fav iced fat-free chai
Work (accruals, accruals, accruals!) -------------------- check, got them all finished before 3:00, earlier than usual!
Come home --------------------------------------check, altho I dawdled at work and didn't get home until 7:00
Laundry ----------------------------------------- check, gotta go switch loads soon
Dishes ------------------------------------------ check, Paul got them started before I got home and finished them while I was folding laundry
(Clean dining room floor?) --------------------------- not tonight...
(Vacuum family room?) ------------------------------not tonight...
Dinner (Cream dried beef?) ---------------------------check, and baked potatoes, it's delicious! and so easy!!
Crochet ------------------------------------------this is what I plan to do instead off cleaning & vacuuming...
Sleep --------------------------------------------again, instead of cleaning...altho the 'roids might keep me up for a while...!
In other news, I finished "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer last night. It was very good. Also very unique and, Han is absolutely right, very post-modern. You'll see what I mean if you read it. I highly recommend. He also wrote "Everything is Illuminated," which is also a good movie, but I barely remember the book because it's been a few years since I read it.
Peace out...
Get dressed ------------------------------------- check
Take Prednisone for poison ivy ----------------------- check, it's working like a charm
Vote (Obama '08!) ---------------------------------check!
Stop at Starbucks? (Michelle may have already done this) --- check, Michelle got me my fav iced fat-free chai
Work (accruals, accruals, accruals!) -------------------- check, got them all finished before 3:00, earlier than usual!
Come home --------------------------------------check, altho I dawdled at work and didn't get home until 7:00
Laundry ----------------------------------------- check, gotta go switch loads soon
Dishes ------------------------------------------ check, Paul got them started before I got home and finished them while I was folding laundry
(Clean dining room floor?) --------------------------- not tonight...
(Vacuum family room?) ------------------------------not tonight...
Dinner (Cream dried beef?) ---------------------------check, and baked potatoes, it's delicious! and so easy!!
Crochet ------------------------------------------this is what I plan to do instead off cleaning & vacuuming...
Sleep --------------------------------------------again, instead of cleaning...altho the 'roids might keep me up for a while...!
In other news, I finished "Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close" by Jonathan Safran Foer last night. It was very good. Also very unique and, Han is absolutely right, very post-modern. You'll see what I mean if you read it. I highly recommend. He also wrote "Everything is Illuminated," which is also a good movie, but I barely remember the book because it's been a few years since I read it.
Peace out...
Tuesday, April 08, 2008
Laps
I did 50 laps this evening at the YMCA!
April 1st I did 30 laps, then on the 3rd I saw the bulletin board at the pool with all the lap/mile equivalents, so I did 42 laps that day in order to have 72 total that week, or 1 mile! (We're calling one length of the pool a lap in this case.) Today I added myself to the little spreadsheet on the bulletin board, the "lap club." It just has a column for each day of the month, so that you can keep track of your laps for that month. Above that, there's a typed spreadsheet with everyone's names and their totals for each month so far in 2008. Next month, my name will be on there for April! Then I'll know, throughout the year, how many laps I've done each month, and can compare with the 20-odd others on the sheet. It's great motivation! So I have 122 laps so far in April! Yay.
Don't think I've lost weight yet, but I feel better, and I think I'm re-distributing a bit, if you know what I mean. Yay again!
It needs to get a *little* lighter and warmer in the mornings before I start riding my bike to work again, and also I want to get clipless pedals and shoes, and a bag that will fasten more securely to my pannier rack. And maybe a bike rack that will fit on the Matrix so I can take my bike to the Outer Banks in May.....
I love Spring!
April 1st I did 30 laps, then on the 3rd I saw the bulletin board at the pool with all the lap/mile equivalents, so I did 42 laps that day in order to have 72 total that week, or 1 mile! (We're calling one length of the pool a lap in this case.) Today I added myself to the little spreadsheet on the bulletin board, the "lap club." It just has a column for each day of the month, so that you can keep track of your laps for that month. Above that, there's a typed spreadsheet with everyone's names and their totals for each month so far in 2008. Next month, my name will be on there for April! Then I'll know, throughout the year, how many laps I've done each month, and can compare with the 20-odd others on the sheet. It's great motivation! So I have 122 laps so far in April! Yay.
Don't think I've lost weight yet, but I feel better, and I think I'm re-distributing a bit, if you know what I mean. Yay again!
It needs to get a *little* lighter and warmer in the mornings before I start riding my bike to work again, and also I want to get clipless pedals and shoes, and a bag that will fasten more securely to my pannier rack. And maybe a bike rack that will fit on the Matrix so I can take my bike to the Outer Banks in May.....
I love Spring!
Sunday, April 06, 2008
Juniata Choir trip to Camp Hill a success!
I haven't uploaded the very few pictures I took yet, but the Juniata Choir's concert at Trinity was reasonably well attended, the choir sounded AMAZING, everyone loved the concert, we had some yummy snacks afterwards, and everyone found their homestays and got back on time the next morning. A very successful evening, IMHO. And hopefully they'll be coming back again in future years!!
In the mean time, enjoy this video I found on youtube from our Brazil tour in March 2005 (we're singing in Portuguese, not Spanish. This is Brazil, remember):
I'm famous! Haha. My hair looks awful, but please remember that we were in the tropics: it was incredibly humid, very warm, and no one had air conditioning, so there wasn't much hope for my hair. At least I can smile and play the claves at the same time, right?
In the mean time, enjoy this video I found on youtube from our Brazil tour in March 2005 (we're singing in Portuguese, not Spanish. This is Brazil, remember):
I'm famous! Haha. My hair looks awful, but please remember that we were in the tropics: it was incredibly humid, very warm, and no one had air conditioning, so there wasn't much hope for my hair. At least I can smile and play the claves at the same time, right?
Tuesday, April 01, 2008
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