Spare Change? Need massage.
2003-05-09 9:42 a.m.

Sometimes I feel really old. I woke up at 3:00am this morning in a lot of pain. The arches of my feet hurt because I pulled on my toes too much in yoga yesterday doing seated forward bend. My lower back was aching because I pushed my cobra pose too hard for five minutes. Then my quadraceps were throbbing because on Wednesday night I learned three new kicks in kung fu and practiced them unabated for half an hour. I took an 800mg ibuprofen and watched television for half an hour until I thought I could sleep again. I hit the snooze bar for 20 minutes this morning. I really really want to go back to bed.

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Leon the janitor.
2003-05-08 9:42 a.m.

I was discussing elementary school janitors with a coworker this morning. The janitor at my elementary school was named Leon. He was quite a character, very funny, knew most of the kids names. It was third grade around Christmas time (this is before Christmas was banned from the schools) and Mr. Manning had four gigantic letters cut out of poster paper covered with glitter that said NOEL. One morning we came into class and the letters had been rearranged to say LEON. Us kids thought this was hysterical and directly started replacing the word Noel with Leon in all our Christmas carols. I remember my teacher going out into the hall screaming "Leeeeoooooon!"

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Happy Alien Appreciation Day!
2003-05-07 11:08 a.m.

In my job I review disability claims which means I get to spend some time with physicians who consult for us. They are a really great bunch of doctors who maintain their own practices and work for us a few hours per week. I met with one of our psychiatric consultants regarding a tricky claim I have. She informed me that today was Alien Appreciation Day. After my consult I got a plasic alien and a small bag of candy. Cool. Is it really Alien Appreciation Day or did she just make it up? I tried looking it up on Google and couldn't come up with anything. I added the alien to my shrine of the tacky and unusual. A few items currently residing in the shrine are: plastic figurines of Wallace and Grommit, a pewter medieval knight, fire extinguisher squirt gun, Gumby, glow in the dark rosary, a picture of Elvis and a yellow rubber duck.

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Megahappyflashbattle.
2003-05-06 10:00 a.m.

My lat muscles are rebelling this morning. I went back to weight training during lunch and last night in kung fu class we worked a series of punches that required a lot of pivoting and follow through. I also found out that I've been training my knuckle push ups incorrectly. One of the exciting parts of being a purple sash is when sifu shouts out to drop and give him twenty push ups you are no longer allowed to do them on flat palms, they need to be knuckle push ups. However, I've been practicing them with equal weight distribution along all my knucles. I'm suppose to be cranking my wrists farther forward so my weight is on the top two knuckles. As I have tiny weak girly wrists this is very very difficult. My top two knuckles are swollen and puffy this morning.

On another note I think it's time to change the look of my weblog. I like the whimsical template that Webchick did for me and I'm quite attached to the kungfukitten that GreenKitty drew for me but I think it's time for a change. I'm thinking something more streamlined and more grown up. I know only rudimentary HTML. Anyone want to give it a go? I can pay in Amazon.com wish list items.

Megahappyflashbattle.

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Don't make me kick your ass.
2003-05-05 11:56 a.m.

Another reason I need to get back into training is that I let an insane homeless person sneak up on me this weekend when I was struggling to get a case of wine into the trunk of my Miata in the rain. It's a special talent where you balance the case of wine against the bumper with one knee and hand while you unlock the trunk with your opposite hand. Suddenly there was a dirty guy right in my face demanding money. This happens a lot to me. Portland has a huge homeless problem and apparently I look like someone who carries around wads of unwanted cash. These people are very aggressive about trying to weasel your loose change from you. This particular guy didn't want to take no for an answer. I finally raised my voice to angry-psycho-woman-level and he backed off.

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X-men, food & training reloaded.
2003-05-05 9:44 a.m.

Friday night went to see X-Men with a group of friends. I enjoyed the special effects and really liked the fight scene with NightCrawler teleporting in and out in a puff of black smoke. Since I didn't see the first one I had a hard time figuring out what Rogue's special power was and what her character's background was suppose to be. It was a nice story line where the good guys win and the bad guys die a horrible death. I'll just say I liked it more than Daredevil but not as much as Spiderman.

I am going to be very very poor until the fifteenth. I spent over $200 this weekend on food alone, most of it was at a swanky French restaurant called Willaims on 12th. It was a wonderful dinner, they space out the courses so dinner is a leisurely meal. We even got complimentary appitizers and celery soup. I ended dinner with piece of pear apple cake and a madiera port. Yum. Was comotose and asleep by midnight.

This week I get back into training hardcore. That means kung fu, yoga and weight training every day of the week and a seriously clean and simple diet. I'm tired of carrying around this extra padding. I want to be dead sexy for my *gasp* 35th birthday in a couple of months.

Ten more days until Matrix Reloaded.

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