Blue Ball

Yesterday in the post I received a large blue ball. At the time of course it wasn't inflated or anything. I spent about 15 minutes using the extremely squeaky provided air pump to inflate the ball to the recommended 65 cm. Which, may I note, is a lot larger than it sounds. I spent an hour yesterday sitting on it and an hour this morning.
Fairly sedentary activity, and my thighs are KILLING me. Shows how much physical activity I usually get. I'm going to begin to incorporate a slight amount of sitting with good posture, we'll see how that goes. I'll have to work up to sitting on it all day.
I may have to get one to sit/exercise on when I'm watching TV.
Maybe in my future house the only furniture in the TV room will be bouncy balls and treadmills. Yeah. That sounds fun.

Like butta.

I'm going to attempt to make butter chicken tonight. I really hope it works, as I love butter chicken. For those of you who don't know what it is, it's actually an Indian tomato/cream based chicken dish. Super tasty.
Do you know what else is butter?

Garret Hedlund's voice. Her voice is okay. But his? BUTTER.
I think it's going to be a good day.

relaxed

I had a pretty successful weekend. So successful, I'm still convince it's monday. So... I wish more holidays happened on fridays, instead of on mondays. Yeah. Let's move some holidays people!!

blech

It's all gray outside today.
I'm feeling flab and chubby. So I'm buying an exercise ball to sit on at work. I'm not sure if I'll really use this or not, but I'm going to give it a try. Besides, it sounds like fun. And it's blue! Hopefully it will help me keep moving every day, even just a little bit.
In other news, my sister made it out here! YAY! She's not dead on the road! I'm glad she's here, and I hope that lasts... Hear that dear sister of mine? Lets make sure I'm still glad you're here in a few months. :)
Ah family.

Family

My sister should get here today. I hope the weather cooperates.
Also, I think I get to go see a play tonight.
I hope.
It's finally warm in our office... I'm no longer shivering and typing. Thanks engineering dudes for fixing our heaters! We really appreciate it.
I finally have a coat rack. Guess what... I love it!
Also, I'm craving sirloin on a bed of goat cheese and garlic risotto....mmmmm....

Finding light

I don't know if you have all noticed...but I've been mentioning the early morning light a lot here on this little ole' blog. As each morning brightens, my spirit lifts just a bit. This encapsulated the way I feel most days. There's the part that you present to the world that you're comfortable with. It's a nice version of you. It's clean, and presentable. The kind of person your mother wants you to be. And you are that person most of the time.
But some days that part of you that you don't share with too many people just pops out. And you're snarky, rude, generally unhelpful, and quite a bit condescending. Though to be honest that doesn't last too long usually. The dark side recedes and voila! You're a nice person again.
I have to admit that my dark side amuses me and is generally funnier than the nice side.

Riding the bus

So it's finally getting light enough in the mornings that I'm not waiting for the bus in the dark. But with school starting today the bus is crammed full of students and normal people just trying to get to work. So as I sat down this morning on the bus, I ended up by a group of about 5 very young girls who as their very loud conversation would state, were all nursing students. And one of them commenced complaining about how long their school day was. A whole 6 1/2 hours. OH NO! I mean, I'm not technically in the medical field. I'm administrative. And I'm at work for 9 hours a day. Most people are, unless they're working part time, or they have some other excuse. Girl on the bus will have a very rude awakening when she realizes that the profession she's studying usually has 12 hour shifts. OMG. That's like ... Double? Right. Anyway, it just reminded me how sheltered and isolated the life of a student can be. It's also focused with clear cut goals and deadlines. I kind of miss that.