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"Where Am I?"

We're just waiting for the kid's version of The Blair Witch Project to begin casting so that we can send in this picture:

First Thoughts on a Sunday morning

Something needs to change with my job-either my taking it all so personally or perhaps even sloughing a great chunk off to a colleague. The problem is that 1/2 of my team is either on maternity leave or (knock on wood) going to be leaving for it within the next half year. So if I shove something off, it comes back to me. It's a lot like true love.

There is nothing quite like finding yourself procrastinating on a Sunday morning--on a holiday weekend nonetheless--having to go into work to retrieve your laptop for a little bit of a last minute work-related thing that needs to be more or less completed by Tuesday morning, signed/sealed/on its way. But I'm not going to let it ruin the last two days of my holiday vacation-I'm pushing through, not getting too worked up because it's not worth it. It'll be finished because I can finish it. Go me!

Remote Destinations

I don't have any choice but to last a week without knitting, reading, or spinning. The first is foreclosed by the fact that I ran out of my main color yarn on the 10-hour drive to the airport from which we departed. I didn't have time to thread a piece of yarn through my live stitches either. Some of you can understand the tragedy in this-a week in a tropical destination with no work to keep me away from finishing the back and possibly one front side of The Governor's Accordion. The second is foreclosed by the fact that the two days before we left, I just didn't see the value of spending another $30.00 on another book to read. I'm starting to see the value of it now.

There are no spinning classes at the resort. Enough said for the third thing.

We are keeping ourselves busy. There is a great pool and endless beach and enough doing-nothingness. I'm not used to doing-nothingness, so I think that's probably my problem. Once I get over that, I'll have a Merry Christmas indeed.

Christmas...Bliss?

I can't stand to look at my calendar anymore. There are eleven (!!) days until the three of us leave for the territory of P.R. and we have not completed our holiday shopping. There is an entire family side that needs to be bought for, my parents, and my brother and sis-in-law. Sometimes, I'm tempted to say "gift cards for everyone" because I agree with CTG on that issue, and frankly I like getting them as gifts. However, I know some folks in my family like to actually receive actual "things." If I'd learned to knit earlier, about 1/2 of my family would be receiving varied assortments of hats, scarves, and shoulder wraps. But alas, with 10 or so days to go, it ain't gonna happen.

Kansas City rocks, if anyone's wondering. There's tons for kids to do, and most of the major stores I like are here. Probably the only thing I really miss is TJs and the amount of Three-Buck Chuck you can scoop up in one setting. When we were at my parent's house, that was the one place we went on Black Friday. I'm super sad that we've already finished up our stash of chocolate raspberry sticks, but we still have those belgian chocolate covered cherries left.

Besides, I probably shouldn't be eating too much of thatbecause the old bod needs to be bikini worthy in eleven (!!) days.

Spinnin' Around

I love my gym to pieces. There is always a treadmill or elliptical machine open, the classes are great, and there's even rock climbing and an indoor pool. However, I wasn't prepared for the entire "spin thing."

I've never taken a spin class, but my sister the exercise fiend loves it. Since my left ACL is reconstructed and my right one has some meniscus issues, I've been trying to cut down my running (which oddly I've started to enjoy) and other high-impact. I went to my gym this morning for a 9 a.m. class, only to find out that it had already been packed since 20 minutes beforehand. Some people were there at 8:15 to lay claim to a bike, even. The instructor suggested an intro class, but there's only one and it takes place during prime work hours. If I took it I'd be at work by 11 a.m.

I ended up taking a really good dance/aerobics class that I took two weeks ago, but due to my utter rejection this morning, I'm now dead set on a spin class. Funny how getting utterly embarassed in a room full of people does that to you.