escape yourself and gravity

Days that I go to the gym seem to be over before I know it.  Off work at 4:30, at the gym by 5, class starting at 5:30, and then suddenly it's 7 or 7:30 by the time I get home, and I still have to shower.  And since Mom tried to cut her finger off yesterday, I did dishes for her tonight, so it was 9 before I could sit down at all.

Best friend and I tried spinning today.  Now I realize that saying spinning is a "stationary bikes class" is like saying that a jaunt up Mount Everest is "a brisk walk", but still, I was not expecting it to kick my ass quite like it did.  I had sweat dripping off the end of my nose, which I don't think has ever happened before.  I felt like a Gatorade commercial.  Also, the best friend got off her bike and went to the locker room halfway through because she thought she was going to throw up.  Then she texted me about an hour ago and said she thinks she needs to try it again.  We'll see.  Right now my abs are trying to murder me, and we won't even talk about my quads.

Speaking of the best friend, she finally got hooked on CM about a month ago during A&E's season three marathon.  I took her the last half of season five today.  She is now begging me for Reid/OFC fic.  I sort of want to hurt her.  I keep telling her Reid is gay for Hotch, but she doesn't seem to agree.  I did send her some of Fifth Year, which made her gasp with how racy it was, so I won't be telling her about the fact that I write NC-17 fic.  LOL

( Possible Medical TMI )

Let's see.... cm_exchange signups are open!  If you haven't gotten over there yet, you've still got plenty of time, but don't forget about it!  We opened it a little early this year because we're going to have fics due a bit earlier.  I'm really looking forward to it!

That's about all I have for my really long update.  I need to go ice my butt and finish my glass of Tabor Hill Traminette.  LOL

I honestly can't believe everything I've accomplished this weekend.  I think either the Zoloft kicked in or I kicked my own ass into gear.  Things I've done since Friday evening:

• Went through both closets and four of my five dresser drawers and got rid of three trashbags full of clothes.  Dad dropped them off at Trinity Mission for me yesterday.
  
• Three loads of laundry
  
• Got all my exercise clothes washed and loaded into my gym bag.
  
• Biked several miles on the West Lafayette park system's bike trails with Mom.
  
• Hiked at Celery Bog and saw a green heron, a kingfisher, and lots of the usual waterfowl.
  
• Got my night-elf warrior up to level 37 and fished in the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza.  Didn't win though.
  
• Started working on new graphics for this year's cm_exchange--which will be opening for sign-ups this month!
  
• Cleaned off my desk.
  
• Found DVD #1 of North and South (BBC one) and the padlock I spent 20 minutes looking for yesterday.
  
• Balanced my checkbook and paid all my bills--and even had money left over!
  
• Revised 1500 words of my original novel, including writing a brand new scene with elements of two of the old scenes.
  
• Rediscovered my recliner.

And now I'm off to bed by 10:30!  One of these days I'll manage to get my bedtime moved back to 9:30 on work nights, but 10:30 is pretty good!  G'night, all!

I honestly can't believe everything I've accomplished this weekend. I think either the Zoloft kicked in or I kicked my own ass into gear. Things I've done since Friday evening:

• Went through both closets and four of my five dresser drawers and got rid of three trashbags full of clothes. Dad dropped them off at Trinity Mission for me yesterday.
  
• Three loads of laundry
  
• Got all my exercise clothes washed and loaded into my gym bag.
  
• Biked several miles on the West Lafayette park system's bike trails with Mom.
  
• Hiked at Celery Bog and saw a green heron, a kingfisher, and lots of the usual waterfowl.
  
• Got my night-elf warrior up to level 37 and fished in the Stranglethorn Fishing Extravaganza. Didn't win though.
  
• Started working on new graphics for this year's cm_exchange--which will be opening for sign-ups this month!
  
• Cleaned off my desk.
  
• Found DVD #1 of North and South (BBC one) and the padlock I spent 20 minutes looking for yesterday.
  
• Balanced my checkbook and paid all my bills--and even had money left over!
  
• Revised 1500 words of my original novel, including writing a brand new scene with elements of two of the old scenes.
  
• Rediscovered my recliner.

And now I'm off to bed by 10:30! One of these days I'll manage to get my bedtime moved back to 9:30 on work nights, but 10:30 is pretty good! G'night, all!

Even though the weather has been gorgeous all day and there's been no wind, we had a random power outage for several hours today. Which wouldn't have been a problem except that I was planning to finish betaing a fic today and getting edits made to the original novel today, and maybe ordering some photos online to be printed. Not to mention the fact that the toilet only flushes once in a power outage. Yippee.

But I did get a lot of cleaning done, and I did some strength training with my little hand weights, sealed the seams on the tent, and walked a mile with Mom.

This following a five-mile hike yesterday at Shades. But I figured since I was sore as all get-out from the hike, I might as well build on that and start getting in shape again. Go me.

Am in a crappy mood tonight though, so I imagine I'll be signing off early.