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As silent as the night for all you cry
2006-06-13 - 1:36 p.m.
I did actually go out and run yesterday. It was pathetically slow, but
it was much better than nothing. I have to keep it up. I was thinking
I should make some sort of rule like if I work, then I run. Period. I
can't allow myself to let Lolo get in the way of that. It's hard
because of course I'd rather be spending time with him than be out
sweating and gasping for air miserably. But on the other hand, if I
don't want to be a fat person, I need to not act like a fat
person. Fat people don't exercise enough and they make poor nutritional
decisions. I need to stop doing those things. Plenty of exercise and
wise nutritional decisions here I come! I have Thursday
off and so does Lolo. It's an extreme rarity that he and I both have
the same weekday off. Originally we were planning on going canoeing
with Butiki on Lake Washington, but the weather forecast isn't looking
so good: "few showers." Lolo is notorious (in my mind) for not wanting
to go out if the weather isn't nice so most likely the canoeing thing is
off. He also happens to work until midnight the night before. I'm
thinking I might re-do the fifty-mile bike ride on Thursday morning, but
this time without Lolo. If I get up at my usual time (5am) and get
going by 6, I could probably make it around before he's ready to get
together anyway. My other idea is that he and I could go hiking
together, maybe up to Otter Falls, a low elevation hike to avoid snow,
but once again there's that weather issue. I wouldn't have any issues
doing it, but he probably will. We'll see.I'm going to be
back in California in mid-July. I've been trying to organize my college
friends to all get together while I'm there. But will they do it? Of
course not. I'm a bit irked, actually, because when I first proposed
the idea of getting together on a particular Saturday Tigger told me
that she couldn't do it because she wasn't planning on being in Northern
California that weekend (she's still down in LA teaching while she's out
of school for the summer). Then she said she had rearranged her
schedule such that she would be able to make it up there for that
weekend. Now she says she can't do it on that Saturday because she has
plans with her family. She wants to do it that Friday evening instead.
Of course everybody else has already made plans to get together on
Saturday. Flik and the Babe might be able to rearrange their schedules,
but Doodle can't. Not to mention the fact that Friday is much less
convenient for me. I'm annoyed. I'm only going to be there for that
one weekend and I gave them several months warning. I had dibs!
But no.I'm planning on heading down to REI tonight for a
presentation on the STP. While I'm there, though, I have a bit of a
shopping list. For some reason I got it into my head that I want a
compass and a thermometer for when I'm out hiking. Why? I don't know,
really. A compass is one of the ten essentials, but I've never felt in
need of one. Mostly just for fun, I guess. I'm trying to decide how
fancy of a compass I'd like to get. I don't actually know anything
about compasses, the basic keychain kind would probably cover all of my
needs just fine. But they have compasses that run all the way up to
over $100. There's a $50 one that I was considering. I think, though,
that I'm going to just go for one that's more of a keychain. For $12 I
can get a keychain type that has both a compass and a digital
thermometer. But I'm going to go to a Backpacking 101 course soon, and
I think I'll hold off making my purchase until after that, just in case
they convince me that I really do need the $50 kind. Maybe I could get
all into it and take an orienteering course too. That might be
interesting.Also on my list is a watch. I'm thinking of
getting this
one (only in blue, I'm still not a pink kind of girl and the blue one
has a cooler watch band, I think). I don't have a "play" watch at the
moment. The only watch I have is the watch I wear to work, a nice
little silver-colored thing my parents gave me as a graduation gift from
pharmacy school. It's not really ideal for hiking/biking. I'm afraid
of breaking it and it turns my wrist black when I sweat. I'm also
thinking of getting a rearview mirror that attaches to my bike helmet.
When I first saw them I thought they were dorky, but now the idea is
growing on me. Wouldn't it be nice to know that Lolo is still behind me
and hasn't stopped by the side of the road somewhere? And the last
thing on my list is a pair of board shorts for playing ball on the
beach. If only I can find a pair that I wouldn't be embarrassed to go
out in public in. If I can't find a pair there, I wonder where else I
could look.Lolo and I are planning on going to England in
late September. We've been working a bit recently on making the plans
just a tad more specific than that, at least narrowing things down to
which city we'll be in so that we can book hotels. We're starting to
get pretty excited about the trip even though it's still three months
away. The plan so far is to fly to London and spend the first night
there. Then down to Penzance where, among other things, we'll be seeing
a play at the Minack Theater. Two nights in Penzance then two nights in
Salisbury where we'll see Stonehenge and the Salisbury Cathedral and
whatnot. Then back to London where we'll spend the rest of our stay
including a day trip down to Beachy Head to see some white cliffs.
White cliffs and the play were my two requests, everything else we're
doing is pretty much what Lolo wants to do, although he hasn't mentioned
any itinerary options that I haven't also been interested in.
One Good Thing: I'm excited about biking!
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