Satine
April 8, 2012

Doing 55 in a 54

I am in a horrible mood today!  No real reason either, other than the usual daily annoyances.  I need to do something calming…but even the idea of things that most people find calming (meditation, yoga, healthy cooking, knitting?) sends me into an angry rage spiral.  So instead I will sip my diet mountain dew and seethe silently.  That’ll do for now.  Or dew for now..haha.

Friday was a normal day at work but I was really stressed because I had a physical scheduled for afterwork on Friday, which I was not looking forward to. I had to do one for my English Channel swim a few years ago, and it was a huge debacle with the original doctor telling me I had a heart problem, me being terrified there was something wrong with me for several weeks, until additional tests and  finding out that the first doctor was a complete idiot and I was totally fine.  Ugh.  I am riled up again just typing that.  

Anyway, I was hugely upset/scared to get the physical on Friday, but it was totally fine and S met me at the office and we went to dinner.  Some of his friends were in town and I was not planning to go out but he really wanted me to and somehow ended up drinking Four Loko out of champagne glasses in a suite at the Ace Hotel until all hours of the morning.  Of course the next day we had a 10k run at 8am in Central Park which was surprisingly fine once we got going.  We haven’t run forever so it was pretty slow going but felt terrific, which was kind of a miracle.  We went home, ate some food, took a nap, showered, and I went to French class while S headed off to brunch and a hockey game with his friends.  This was the first class of the new session and definitely some more interesting characters.  The class seems to be moving faster so far too, which I like much better.  After class I took the train downtown for a keratin treatment on my hair, read magazines in the chair, took a walk afterwards, went home, and went to sleep.  I didn’t do anything in the evening and still felt like it was a long day!  S came in sometime after 4am (haha) and we slept in until around noon.  

Then I headed out to my parents’ house for Easter, had lunch with my parents and brother and sister, watched a movie with my mom, had dessert, and then I got into the car with my mom thinking she would drive me back to the train station, but instead she drove me all the way home!  I had the Hunger Games books and she hadn’t read them yet so I called ahead to have S bring them down, we said goodbye.  It was beautiful out and I kind of wanted to grab a drink or take a walk but S was zonked from staying home and doing his taxes all day so we just went to sleep.  I am loving this spring weather! 

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Sometimes I think that doctors enjoy finding something wrong. Every year it seems I need an ultrasound of some sort just to say that I’m perfectly healthy. I’m glad yours went well this year.

Complicated Disaster
April 9, 2012

I’m always surprised that there are 10k runs in the US! CD xxx

colige_grajuit
April 9, 2012

I’m annoyed at everything today, too. Four Loko out of champagne glasse is too cool for school.

colige_grajuit
April 9, 2012

Also, love the title reference.

dreamer71
April 9, 2012

Drink Four Loko until all hours of the night and then blast through a 10k when you haven’t been running lately? Dang, woman!

Cat
April 9, 2012

doctors are idiots.

we should get the day after easter off. you’ve had lots of hair appointments lately! i would like a new look for mine.

I never picked you for a Mountain Dew girl. I don’t know why but it makes me like you even more. 🙂

Perhaps you need to find a puppy to kick.

Januarychild
April 9, 2012

ah yes…. sooooo good to run. Such a great feeling 🙂

RYN* It’s not horrible, it’s a great mood lifter! PUNT! (wooooof!)

I hate bad mood days, hope you start feeling better soon! Sounds like a great weekend, glad you had fun with the fam =)

midnight radio
April 9, 2012

I can’t even imagine being out until 4am anymore. I’m frequently up at 4am breastfeeding a baby though. :o) Happy Easter! ~jo

YInMn
April 9, 2012

I can’t remember the last time I had an honest to goodness physical. High school for soccer maybe? Wow, that’s bad. And how can you even stomach four loko?? Even if it does come in a champagne glass! I tried some once and just about threw up. They don’t even sell it in MI anymore.

I swear, there is something about running after you haven’t gone out in a long while. I’m glad you enjoyed the race! I hope that bad mood goes away very soon, and tomorrow is a much better day. 🙂

artist
April 9, 2012

Thanks so much for your note. I would love it if you could see the show.

when in Tarifa, my parents stayed at Hotel Meson de Sancho. They said it was fine – nothing fancy, but their room was big and clean and had a nice balcony. They didn’t care to pay for anything nicer since they were only there for one night and would be out and about all day anyway.

Ugh, I hate days like that. Hope today was better for you! And RYN: you’re right, it IS pretty wonderful to see where I am now vs. then… when you look at it that way how could things not be promising? 😉

hoki
April 10, 2012

Doctors! Bah! This spring is fantastic! Keratin treatment? What’s that? Aaaah, you really do live in NYC. 🙂

Missus Mia Wallace
April 10, 2012

Congrats on doing a 10K with slight hangover and less sleep. Champion!

ryn: funny, ‘cuz i actually thought of you and S when i was thinking of ODers and their significant others and the list! 🙂

Manhattan
April 11, 2012

Wow! I don’t know if I’ve ever hear you mention a bad mood before. Sure it’s long gone by now.Love the Ace Hotel sometimes. Considered having my leaving cocktails there!

A qui de droit
April 11, 2012

10k runs…after champagne…at 8am…you must be mad.

Bella Jess
April 12, 2012

I am in a pissy mood today and I can’t shake it. I have a million things to do and just want to sit right here in my pj’s and not do a single thing!!

Paris Rosebud
April 12, 2012

So jealous of spring weather 🙂

ryn: but it is sooo much better than my Target stuff! worlds better!

Ryn: there’s a lifestyle manifesto?? Wow, creepy. I am totally ignorant of everything except them being overpriced and being the only place around selling sports bras in a DD. 🙂 going off to google it. the murder was in Bethesda, Maryland – apparently they just kept transferring that crazy chick for having issues instead of firing her.

Hm, do you find swimming calming? Or reading? Knitting would NOT calm me either!!! Hahahaha!

Spring weather makes me so swoony; I think it’s the fact that all of a sudden, it sneaks out from behind winter & suddenly, YOU CAN WEAR SANDALS AND SKIRTS AND OMG, and every springy day is the best day ever.

MJ
April 16, 2012

Spring weather is great. I am with you on the physical, though. What a pain. And the docs almost always make you worried by ordering extra tests.

BluestockingBlue
April 18, 2012

When I had my eyes looked at in 2009, the eye doctor told me that he saw a slight abnormality after dilating my pupils and looking inside my eyes and that it could be a tumor or it could just be intercranial hypertension, and that it was probably no big deal but I should come back in a year! At the time I was having horrid headaches too (because I needed glasses!)…

BluestockingBlue
April 18, 2012

…so I was pretty sure I was dying, but I didn’t go back after a year because the headaches had stopped and I didn’t really want to know. Finally, around the two year mark I started to notice that I probably needed a stronger prescription, so with great trepidation I scheduled an appointment with a different doctor. He did the whole exam and told me that my vision is actually really good…

BluestockingBlue
April 18, 2012

…and I only needed a mild correction, and then I told him about what the last doctor had told me and he said there was absolutely no indication of anything like that and whatever technology he was using was better than dilating your pupils with drops and I was the picture of good optical health. I cannot even express how relieved I was! Sometimes doctors just make stuff up. Maybe even mostly.

I always go the opposite; I need loudLOUDloud music to calm me down. Rob Zombie, Slipknot, Static-X + the windows down = zen.

forget me not.
April 23, 2012

Thanks for the good luck! Best of luck to S too…I’m terrified! 🙂

ryn: he basically drank a few glasses of red wine after playing like 36 holes and being out in the sun for hours and it really hit him. Red wine makes him tired and lethargic even when he’s completely fresh and well-rested, which he KNOWS. He started feeling really dizzy and sick and ended up having to sleep in the car for several hours before driving home, at which point his hangover was in fullswing. Plus his phone died while he was asleep so even though I knew he started to feel sick, I didn’t know what the hell was going on and was worried he’d driven home and crashed or something. He just… knows better. I haven’t been this mad in ages. I’m almost over it… I think his two-day-long hangover was punishment enough. He didn’t even make it out of bed on Sunday. We have Thursday tickets! I’ll be taking the bus to NYC sometime during the day and staying with the boys of course. If you guys end up going on Thursday, we should get drinks (no pressure of course.) 🙂

YInMn
April 24, 2012

ryn: No idea. It was one of those head shaking moments.

Spinnaker
April 25, 2012

How long have you been taking French classes? I have missed so much these past couple years, more than the years before. I am looking forward to living in Europe again. This time I will make a point of learning more French, German and Spanish. 🙂 I will have to learn more Spanish!!! I don’t know ANY.

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