Alone Time

Hey, Barb.

Dinner with C sounds like a dream evening.  What was the restaurant? I have to tell you, I'm a total hypocrite, and your description of dinner made me fess up: Friday, having decided to take the day for myself, after running several errands, I wanted to stop at a local deli I love for their Friday clam chowder. It's not expensive or anything, but I talked myself out of it because....well, because I had a fridge full of leftover pizza. :-)

So I didn't work yesterday, and I ended up with kind of a weird day.  First of all, when I woke up, my internet was down.  I called Comcast, who told me the problem was being worked on.  In light of my new personality, I decided to be patient, instead of throwing a fit and making up a lie about how I work out of my home and this was going to cause lost revenue.  Then I didn't know quite what to do, since I had all this computer related stuff on my list.

So I went to the gym.  WOAH!! Just like that.  And when I got there, I realized I was just in time to take the Bosu/Core class, so I did.  Of course, it was about 26 levels above my ability, in terms of how out of shape I am, and today I can barely move because my stomach muscles are still convulsing, but I did it. The whole 30 minutes, which felt like 30 hours.  I came home and did some laundry, blah, blah, blah, and the internet was still down, so I went and got my nails done. I had a dinner last night and another one tonight, and baseball coming out my ears all weekend, so I figured it was as good a time as any to get pretty. I spent the rest of the afternoon ironing and finishing the laundry, then picked up JJ from school to get his allergy shots. We went from there to the mall, because he wanted to buy a new Pirates hat for the season. We had to wait to get his name embroidered on the back, so we wandered through Macy's and generally hung out.

We got home just in time to change for baseball practice (him) and dinner (me) and then we were out the door again.  I dropped him off at practice and got back here ten minutes late to pick up J for dinner, but no big deal. It was just Kim &Josh taking us out for Mexican with T&S and another couple - the other woman who is helping me plan this party. It was fun, sort of...J and I were battling and I was having an allergy attack so I chose not to drink.  This meant, of course, that there was no alcohol in me to soften me up so I sat there like a child and stewed at him all evening. I'm such a bitch.

Now that my internet is back up, I've spent the morning finishing up the stuff I had to do yesterday and I'm off to baseball in about a half hour. JJ and J left awhile ago but I opted to stay here and honor my alone time for a bit. J and I worked ourselves out this morning, but we're both going straight from the ball game to a retirement dinner tonight, so I'm all about this down time. Plus, I'm taking JK with me, since we she's staying with us tonight, and she doesn't stop talking. Ever.

I know you and W are enjoying your time together, so if I don't hear from you, I hope you're having a wonderful visit with each other.

Love you!
A