my day off

 Today is wednesday, and I’m off today. Having Wednesday off is kind of weird; I’m usually off on Monday and Tuesday and start my work week on Wednesday.  I worked yesterday and have today off…. oh well. It’s gray and rainy this morning and I’ve already got some laundry in the washer, dishes in the dishwasher, and I’m going to try to spend the day getting some junk out of this house. I have tons of cardboard that I just need to ditch, yo. it’s just cluttering up my dining room area, and we want to try to have a housewarming party on the 22nd, and that won’t happen if we don’t clean this place up.

It’s weird, I spent weeks busting my ass trying to get everything unpacked and in the right place when we got here, but I guess I jut hit a saturation point with that. I don’t want to do anything! Having a party is a great motivator though, even though I only know like 3 people outside of work.

Oh, on that note… I made some great friends with the people I worked with in Texas, but I don’t see much potential for that in the group I have here. They’re all really nice and funny and fun, but I’m struggling to find common ground with almost all of them outside of "we work at the same place". The average age is probably between 20 and 24, with only myself and two others over the age of 32 (among 35 employees). Their interests are pretty much shopping at the mall we work at to buy clothes to go out and have fun with… that’s not bad; not when you’re 22! But I’m not interested in that so much anymore. It’s nice that they keep asking me to join them, but I just don’t know what we’d talk about. I can’t avoid it forever, I’ll be sure to keep you posted on the excitement.

On Sunday we rode our bikes to the zoo (which is about a half a mile from our condo), and then rode along the Rock Creek Parkway for about 10 miles or so (I KNOW that I’m overestimating that!!) and ended up in the middle of DC where all of the monuments (and tourists) are. We got up close and personal with the Lincoln memorial (did you know that there is a bookstore inside there? and a bathroom too? I was totally blown away by that) (I peed in the Lincoln Memorial!). We ended up near JR’s bar and grill on the way home, so we stopped for a drink there. After a while we got a phone call from one of the people we’ve met in DC and went over to where he works for a drink; it’s a gay owned bed and breakfast. I like going there because it’s him and all of the guests in a sort of happy hour mood, and it’s like being in a private bar. I also learned that night that drinking and bicycling is not a great idea… I had a little accident with a curb and scratched my fenders a little. Dang…I hate the cosmetic damage on my pretty new bike.

Rich and I are doing well; he’s been sick for the past few days and I think I might have picked up his cold. It’s never good when we’re both sick because all we do is sit around and eat. I had lost 25 pounds before I moved up here, and so far I’ve put back on 8 of those. I think I’m going to hire a personal trainer through my new gym; they have this offer where you can get one session a month for 40 bucks a pop if you commit to a 6 month minimum. I think I need someone to be accountable to for this. It doesn’t hurt that I’ve already had my free session and the trainer really knew what he was talking about AND was super hot. I’ve been able to make it to the gym about 3 times a week, but Rich hasn’t been there in a while…. he says that wants us to go and work out together, but when we do go he doesn’t want to work out together. He likes to run around on the basketball court and shoot the ball around,and I like to lift weights for about half an hour before doing half an hour of cardio, then half an hour of yoga. We just don’t like the same forms of exercise, but mine is the one that shows better results, so I’ll stick with it. We actually had to sit down and I told him "hey, it’s okay if we don’t work out together, it just means we like to be active in different ways!" 

We have a lot of fun together, and I think that’s all that’s important. Wow, I kinda rambled again… I guess it’s easy to fall back into. 

I’m going to send out a few more emails today to some yoga centers and see if I can find even more places to teach nearby. I really need to teach, I’m losing my mind. This is the longest I’ve gone without doing it for 10 years, including the month I left to tour Europe. Okay… off to work!