I was a good girl today and went to the gym, where I did not only upper-body
weights but also 3K on the erg. Almost at stud muffaletta level. However,
considering I haven't done over 6K on the erg on any given day since I started
considering the Concept II
challenge, I somehow doubt I'll ever make that.
At any rate, I
won't make it if we go away for either Thanksgiving or Christmas, and especially
not if we travel for both. Rudder is talking about taking next week off so we can
drive up to see Yellowstone and its neighboring Big Tits (Grand Tetons National
Park, in more formal parlance). The trip sounds like fun, but I was just thinking
how nice it would be to spend a weekend in my own bed, so I'm ambivalent.
Especially as I would then get back, have exactly one week here, and then head off
to Philadelphia.
I've got a significant portion of my holiday gifts
ready; my brother's, his girlfriend's, and my mother's are done, and my father's
just needs to be ordered. That leaves my uncle and Rudder. However, we celebrate
both Chanukah and Christmas, and Rudder's birthday is just before the latter, so I
usually get him a lot of stuff. His Chanukah gifts will be small things, and
probably mostly candy this year, but I want to get something he'd like for
Christmas and his birthday, though without spending as much as I generally
do.
Turtleguy's entry
href="http://turtleguy.diaryland.com/011112_81.html">today is reminding me
that I need to go to Wal-Mart soon and buy some protein bars for Rudder. The only
thing that makes that more bearable is that I know exactly where they are and,
though they're always busy, I can go during the day when at least they're a tiny
bit less crowded. Also, for some reason the protein bars are in the pharmacy
section, so I always check my blood pressure on the machine there, just in case
it's so low I can gloat about it. Or in case it's gone up, I suppose. I'll put the
Wal-Mart trudge off until tomorrow, though, so I can combine it with a visit to
Cool Salon Guy. Today, I just have to visit the library, and call the person who
was supposed to be wanting to interview me, since I have given up on her company's
HR to get anything done in a timely fashion.