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every so often, you can just have one of these great, great times that make you feel all alive and invincible and ready to take on the world – any task, mind you – dust bunnies under the bed, blog posts that are sorely behind, balancing a checkbook, losing 20#, creating peace in the middle east…. well, i have had one of these weekends, my friends, gather round while mother tells you all about it…
my sweetie came out to visit for a nice long weekend, of course, pre-visit, i did my usual twisting in the wind and generalized fretting about the aforementioned dust bunnies and how maggie would behave (which was great! except for a minor vomiting episode ON THE BED and the “let me gently lift you off of lisa” incident in which said sweetie saw the lightening quick change from cuddlebug to devil dog), but all went so well!
day one was a welcome to my town, a drive around, a tour of the neigboorhood, bonding time with the magpie. next, my very own metrosexual whips out this awsome ensemble (no capes) that put me to shame with its casual unstudied funky elegance with an edge (we call CUFEWAE for short). we went and had a great dinner at a cool place called the boot in norfolk. for reasons unknown to either of us, we had no cheeseplate – though it was there….. instead we did split a fantastic goat cheese bruchette – which i feared as it was described to include a pine nut-cumin… vinaigrette i think? i am not a cumin fan. we got it on the side and gobbled it up in 8 seconds.. 
the rest of the dinner was wonderful – wish only that we had gotten more adventurous early with the cocktail choices
as i had told trace that one of the things i love about this place is their signature cocktails - and i am NOT talking apple martinis. they had something called a “super collins” (i don’t even know what a tom collins is and i am a wine girl, so i usually shy away from these types of things) but it was homemade grapefruit simple syrup, soda water and vodka. adult lemonade. YUM! oh yes, and we highly recommend hub’s peanuts on your coffee gelato brownie sundae (we did split one in my own defense).
saturday was another fun one – it was beautiful out, but cold as sh…. – is shit cold? i think not. why do i even think that? am i in 7th grade? sheesh. we walked the magpie, we laid around, i had to wash the aforementioned barf extravaganza off the duvet that i just washed the day before! then – and this is the part that makes me go “awwwww!!!”, trace and i went to donate blood!
a dear friend, tairy over at the little red’s writing hood podcast (poetry) and of disney tidbits: did you know? has developed a charity effort 
that is so wonderful – we’ve mentioned it on those darn cats and i hope to talk about it more there and here. she has been a long time blood and platelet donor. she is asking folks to sponsor her this year, one measly dollar every time she makes a donation. i believe the monetary donations will be going to a diabetes charity – she has just finalized some of the red tape around getting this project up and running, so more details are to be found at the website. i know of several pals who donate blood regularly – perhaps you would consider linking your donation with tairy’s AND making a small monetary donation? we are talking less than $30 for the entire year? please consider?
anywho, the cool thing for me was, i haven’t donated blood in like 10 years. if you’ve attended college or grad school, i’m sure you are aware there are blood drives on campus about every 82 seconds. i’ve donated blood before, but, i went through a period (no pun intended) where my hemoglobin was always too low to be a donor. like 4 or 5 times of trying to donate and then not. i gave up. talking with my pal tairy as she was sharing her inspiration and idea for this blood drive, motivated me to give it a try. and tairy did all the hard work!!!! i just sent her my zip code and she emailed me back a place to donate! and guess what? it was RIGHT ACROSS THE STREET!!! so, in a gesture of solidarity, trace and i did this…
the rest of the weekend i can happily report was not quite so bloody…. we visited the atlantic ocean – which trace had not been to before (and which he keeps calling “the arctic ocean” given the lovely temps of the day… then we enjoyed a seafood tower of terror and a wonderful long evening of talking and noshing at catch 31 on the ocean front! yummmmmm!!!
- Dude
sunday turned into the fun lazy day i was
hoping it would be…. a yummy breakfast at the silver diner (crabcake omelettes YUM!), moving of my bedroom furniture to restore proper fung shui (me thinks it worked), a visit to the local disneystore (just to check it out), an ill motivated visit to uno’s (i should have gone for the pho that drove me there, but the smell of cheeses!!! DAMN YOU CHEESY GODS!!!) then some disney movie marathons and the oscars!!
of course there was plenty of cuddling, and fun times as well. sigh. long distance relationships…. not my fave, but hey, you can’t always pick how things turn out…. and let me just say – WOW! from a year ago??? no, from like all my life ago till now?? definitely worth the wait and the drama… even if it isn’t a forever thing (i’m very superstitious) what a joy to be with an open, intelligent, funny, cute, adult, together, responsible, did i mention super cute?, dude who has their shit together???? holy mackerel!!!! we’ll probably break up tomorrow….. cause i’m positive like that!
i have been remiss, dear reader, to not update after the sturm und drang of my last post… yes, i indeed went to my surgeon (i LOVE him!!!!!!) and… duh duh DUH!!!! i am cleared to return to work! yay and huzzah! my bone is fusing appropriately and my MRI was much improved. he thinks the discomfort i still have (which has been improving over the last 3 weeks) is muscle spasm related and will subside with appropriate activity increase, PT and continued use of muscle relaxers. i am going back to work monday (YIKES!!!), but no more 16 hour shifts for me. and i am going to try to aim for certain case specialties and nurse anesthesia resident cases to minimize my lifting etc.. unfortunately, my first PT appt isn’t for another 2 weeks, but i hope i get a good therapist who can give me some real and practical strength building exercises and guidance to resume activities. i can even resume erging (thats the rowing machine) on LOW resistance for SHORT times. WOOT!
i have resumed my “running” program. theoretically, it is the physical therapist who will assess and clear me for normal activities, but i am doing the infamous walk/jog (WOG) deal, and honestly, given my time off, i ain’t running long distances, but i am committed to getting my mileage in to complete that damned 1/2 marathon i am doing in early january. so this week started off with a bang – 2 4mile “runs” and the long run supposedly 7 miles this week. today i completed my second ~3.55 mile wog at a combined pace of ~13:40. now, thats slow, but i was surprised that i even did that distance in that time given a)no real cardio since mid july and b) the first 5K i ever did, that i trained for, took me 50 minutes of honest jog time, so, though not the jock hottie i want to be, i think it is a more than respectable start. the distance is what it is due to the fact that i am back outside and trying to develop running routes i can do straight out the door. i haven’t even figured out what i am going to do saturday as the thought of just doing the current route twice makes me think i will hurl from boredom.
i feel pretty good actually, relieved. although, at the moment, i belieive i am having what is called a muscle spasm, probably from the running maybe, the fact that i didn’t, until about an hour ago, take any pain meds/muscle relaxers today and that i sat out by the pool and ended up having an hour long chat with s dude, not too much older then myself – a dentist actually – in the building who had his hip replaced. we compared recovery stories and i was twisting around to talk quite a bit. god i am old.
i feel happy this week because i am indeed officially in crush hood (my pessimistic nature insists i follow that statement with the declaration that y’all need to prepare for more crash and burn heartbreak blogging in the near future therefore) and i am feeling happy over podcasting efforts and an upcoming disney online community event of which my podcasting power duo blog partner and i are taking part in as sponsors! i still have tons to do to get ready to go back to work, but i feel happy!!! (side note – i was indeed on the rag when i posted the last couple posts of doom – i feel the need to share that as i haven’t posted on the period periodicals lately and, with my birthday coming up quick, i realize i probably won’t have old auntie flo to kick around for much longer).
oh, and i VOTED today!!!!!!!!
yes, i KNOW somewhere on the hat is should add : “…even though they try to eat my face off”, but what can i say, the full immersion in co-dependency with my demon dog continues…
call ended up being fine, though i didn’t get much sleep. not (fortunately) because i was at work all night, but because i was on call and i can never really relax. also, there were those fireworks. i must blank out every year on how dogs feel about fireworks, cause pretty much miss maggie barked her head off for about 3 hours straight. and the party outside my patio door really wasn’t TOO noisy in the scheme of life, but just enough activity to send maggie into a her usual frenzy. i worked about 5 hours during the day, then didn’t have to go back in. i will be curious to see how the weekend crew gets hit, because it was cookin’ yesterday at the little house and i can’t imagine people didn’t blow off their fingers or try to race the police last night too…
so i have planned to do some errands today (being post call, you never know if you are going to have slept or been up for 24 straight), maybe get a pedicure. would love to get in some pool time, but the forecast is rain and it is very overcast outside (though it is 8 gajillion degrees with equal humidity) and it smells like smoke. still.
i have some podcasting work to do this weekend, and i am enjoying it, although it is time consuming. i am liking even what little bit i have learned and am hoping that my audio output quality will continue (or begin?) to improve as i go along. i think it is great that me and my bff are sharing the post-production responsibilities anyway – AND that she can tolerate my computer unsavviness as i still don’t really understand the difference between a host and a server and i never did get those damn MX records changed anyway.
mild or minor annoyance? i was checking email this morning and my vaio slipped and went bonk – no more than 10 inches from the floor, not bashed, onto carpet. but it appears to have landed squarely on the power outlet cord, denting the plastic casing around the ac plug dealie. it is working fine. there is a crack and the angle of the power cord isn’t straight, but the battery IS charging and the connection seems to feel tight. i find it 100 percent annoying that a bare little slip can make that crack. i don’t know if that little piece is a little widget that could be fixed or a fatal flaw that, once it wiggles loose, my whole computer will be lost. hmmmmm….. this vaio is about 3 or 4 years old. i like it. i had been thinking that i might need to begin to emotionally prepare for a new computer in the next year just due to size and technology and all the podcasting stuff, maybe i would need something faster. i have never been one to add or have someone add new drives or what ever. i’ve had each of my 3 computers for about 5-6 years each, at which point windows had changed so much and the speeds increased, i just donated the old one (my old church, my poppa) and got a new one. also the right mouse click button thing is getting loose. but i am sure buttons do not a whole new computer require….
anywho, better hop in the shower and get my errands done. feels like it is early, but its already after 10am!!!!
oh lordy me. tomorrow is mousefest. i am going. i am tired. i hope i have half the fun i am expecting to have. i have started a new blog, my life on the WDW d-list, to contain my disney nerd ramblings…
i was thinking i’d post on both before i left, but time’s a runnin’ out and i NEED to sleep! i’m taking all my gadgetry on the road, so i will update more from there….
OH YEAH, i’m tivo-ing project runway, so don’t spill the beans!
the savvy reader and disney aficionado out there knows mousefest 2007 is coming up quick! those that don’t fall into those categories are pretty much just afraid and/or shaking their heads right now.. so tonite wayne and kimberly release show #72 and announced our official “unofficial” meet at the haunted mansion! kimberly revealed on earlier episode of the mickey room that she hadn’t ridden the haunted mansion in years – maybe since their cute son gavin was born! she usually ends up holding gavin during some of the scarier or less kid-friendly rides (no dinosaurs on this one). of course, being the savvy travelers they are, they know they could do the kid swap on those kinds of rides…
i thought that was a shame! so i suggested a “girl’s ride out” in which at the least she and i can ride and we’ll have wayne watch gavin whilst we get our spook on in the HM. of course y’all are invited too so don’t forget to bring your death certificate! so on sunday, december 9th, we’ll gather at 10am in front of the haunted mansion! be there or be square!
oh yeah- before y’all comment – i KNOW the poster is for disneyland!! but i like it!
UPDATE: how cute is this?? 
and don’t tell kimberly, its a surprise!
UPDATE: color me pissed because i zazzle won’t make my shirt due to the disney reference in the mickey room logo i have to assume…. so, i’ve got less than 2 weeks… what to do, what to do
i like daylight savings time. or i guess now its just regular old time as the daylight savings part is over. so i just changed my many multitudinous clocks back this morning. i love the easy feeling of waking up in the morning. i look forward to working out in the mornings this winter because did i mention i am trying to run.. well let’s just say FINISH.. how about not be killed in a half marathon this january. i was thinking i would post all my training back when i started in march, and i think i’ll do that from here on out. i was following a training guide, but it got hot and i started rowing competitively for the season in may so the thrice weekly runs got scuttled. i’ll update more about the training program i’m going to try and follow for the, oh, 8.2 minutes left before the race another time…
it does suck when the days are so short – but come christmas time, they become longer again!!! yes, i start anticipating it that early!
why my computer and my dvr “know” what time it is, why doesn’t my atomic clock, ipod dock and my @!*&##$!*!! “smart phone”know, hmmmmmm??
sidenote: VERY enjoyable MGW podcast i’m listeing to this am (ok, yes, me and jennifer have a segment that makes me laugh hysterically in it, but dan and eric discuss “when you wish upon a star” and i just love their whole show! all the things they talk about and of course, the snappy repartee (insert accent here)..
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