Longest day of 2011

Oh my gosh....I guess I need to back up to yesterday at 3:43 p.m. That's the time I fell asleep and took a 2.5 hour nap. Oops. Whenever that happens, I can't fall asleep until after midnight. Like well after midnight.

Cue the 12:45 a.m. thunderstorm...so not helping my sleeping pattern. Neither was the car alarm that kept going off, likely due to the aforementioned thunderstorm. Left my bedroom to sleep on the couch since I couldn't hear the car alarm there, but it's also not as comfortable.

Alarm clock went off in time to make it to the gym in the morning...and I didn't go...too tired. Went back my bedroom to go back to sleep for another hour before my work alarm went off. Then hit snooze until my alarm didn't bother going off any more. Finally got up, got dressed, sent e-mail explaining why the hell I was going to be late (overslept), then finally got myself out the door.

Drove to metro and went into the full parking lot instead of the parking lot for the excessively late. Got a parking space in the other lot, sat in the car until one song was over, then another song, and decided I had to get out of the car or else I would just let myself listen to Neil Young all day instead of going to work. (I don't think Neil Young would have minded being the reason for my work absence if he knew what my job was. He probably would have been happy.)

Finally got to work an hour and a half late.

Boring day at work. Just waiting for the time to pass now. I've got to get home to go to the store and the gym since I missed my workout this morning. I'm looking forward to getting to the gym. I missed going there this morning.

Lebanese Taverna

Restaurant Review: Too much lemon.

Oooh...double post day

Sparklie gave me an AeroGarden for Christmas. It's yellow and very bright and it grows plants indoors. The plants come in pod form and the pods dangle in water and the roots grow in the water. Kind of like those weird potato experiments from elementary school, only these will turn into useful fresh herbs. I planted Thyme, Basil, and Dill on Saturday. The Thyme and Basil plants are already starting to grow! There's tiny green leaves and everything. The leaves on the Thyme plant are smaller than a 4 leaf clover, and very cute.

I'm pretty excited to make roasted carrots with fresh Thyme. Maybe in a few weeks or a month or something.

My Nemesis

The elliptical machine has been my nemesis at the gym for as long as I can remember. Today I shattered my personal best on the elliptical by 5 minutes. I got 10 continuous minutes on the elliptical last Thursday, then today I decided I was going to try for 15 minutes and totally got 15 continuous minutes on the elliptical.

The balance is shifting. I kicked the elliptical machine's butt instead of the elliptical kicking my butt.

My Fall-Back Job

I was waiting for a guest to arrive at the security door of my floor at work, then one of my co-workers walked by and told me that at least now I'm ready for my fall-back job as a greeter at Wal-Mart. At least I can just laugh at stuff like that.

That's not even the funniest thing that happened to me today. But I'm not going into that here.

Happy Valentine's Day! At least it has been funny.

Clothes from long ago

This morning I was having the hardest time thinking of something to wear - nothing looked really appealing. So this morning I reached for something that I haven't worn in a year because it didn't look great the last time. Today I tried it on and if fit perfect, maybe even a little loose.

I'm so excited to be getting back to a better clothing size.

Monday Morning

I heard birds singing this morning. It's the first time I've heard birds singing this winter. Spring must be on the way.