i have been up practically the whole night dorking about with work stuff, so my memory is a bit hazy right now. what has happened the past few days?
friday (continued): lainie and erika came over for dinner. we made a spinach and red pepper lasagna thing out of amanda’s weight watcher’s cookbook. we had a white burgandy that was not all that bad (i am not really all that fond of chardonnays, but it matched well with dinner). i am sure we had other things, but they are escaping me at the moment.
i had been working quite a bit, so i rewarded myself with a computer game — thief 3. i do not really play all that many computer games anymore, but this game series is great stuff. as a fun factoid that is probably only interesting to me, i had been playing the previous version almost four years ago when amanda unexpectedly dropped by my old house. she had just come back to ithaca from her med school interview from buffalo and unexpectedly needed a place to crash as her mom was staying in her room at von cramm.
the cashier actually carded me when i bought the game! it is rated “M” for 17+ persons, but since i was twice the minimum age, i thought that a bit much. on the other hand, getting carded is a compliment. maybe she did not notice all my gray hair.
saturday: saturday is kinda hazy. i do not really remember what happened. i did get some lifting done and decided that exercising a body part three times a week is the way to go (since i had been in buffalo practically all week, i got a full lifting schedule in). three times are week makes each lifting session fun and energizing and non-painful. two times a week is alright, but not ideal. once will fend off atrophy, but makes the lifting session way unpleasant. i have not been making much progress in lifting in the past few months, but i suppose i have not been getting worse. i really need to concentrate on cardio and get rid of my buddhabelly.
ok, i am sure that aside on lifting was fascinating. otherwise, i think we used carlos’s grill for some corn for dinner; carlos grilled three days in a row over the weekend.
apparently, carlos has not proposed to karen yet. don’t know what’s going on with that.
we did borrow karen’s wet rug cleaner (not really a stream cleaner, but used hot water) to clean up the living room because it was too pigletly even for amanda. the rug was pretty filthy, even though it looked outwardly clean.
sunday: i tried to get work done, but was uninspired and was not very productive although i did make progress. amanda went out to brunch at solid grounds with erika and lainie while i plowed on working. after brunch, lainie and amanda went on a long walk from lainie’s apartment to delaware park. i went for a run and met up with them at the park. i was surprised that the run was not all that bad (tho i only ended up running maybe 2.5 miles); i had not done any serious cardio work since december except for some idle jumproping. i walked back with them to lainie’s apartment.
amanda was shocked with how cheap drinks were at the park’s little snack hut. “you have the cheapest drinks in the city! you’re the best!” apparently, it was the only good thing anyone had told the attendants that day.
lainie was going to come by for dinner later, but she had actually been overnight the night before and probably collapsed.
laine lost 3 pounds last week. “see what happens when you starve yourself” says she.
i was going to go on a 24 point a week diet (1200 calories) to show my solidarity, but i reconsidered. maybe i will try next week. however, considering i ate 70 points worth of food on sunday (too many fried potato products, but the multiple peanut butter and jelly sandwiches were not good either), it will take some serious willpower for me to cut down. tho better planning would help, too, as i was famished after the run/walking.
monday: it was a holiday, but i worked. my lower back and right shoulder hurt from running. i hate being in bad shape, but hopefully better days are ahead. amanda caught up on her radiology. fortunately, the weather sucked, so i at least was less tempted to go goof off outside. amanda got really upset at a person who had parked in one of the reserved spots in the back of our building. the person had gotten parked in by the rightful parker (ross), but could not get ross to let her out. she ended up having amanda open up a space so she could get out. amanda apparently gave her an earful.
we took a break from our respective labors to by cleaning materials at target. not much of a break, eh?
i made a version of broccoli and tofu for dinner. amanda said it was the best ever. unfortunately, it did not sit well with me, so i will not put it in the cookbook.
tuesday: i kinda worked until 5am and then took a bit of a nap before leaving for ithaca at around 815am. amanda said i was very icicle like when i came to bed; perhaps intense work really burns up the food stores and metabolism had started to slow down. i took the corolla back to ithaca because it gets better gas mileage than the subaru (whose highway/city mileages are not that much different).
so here i am at work. there is still much to be done. but that is good in a way.