I had a good day yesterday. <\/p>\n
When I came into work there was a confetti explosion on my desk, and my boss had left a card and a gift, aww! How sweet! The gift was a very nice cat picture frame (I have a half dozen pictures of Caligula hanging around my cubicle). I got cards from a few other co-workers, overwhelmingly cat-themed – oh dear, am I that cat lady? Another co-worker has a husband who works for one of the big pharmaceutical companies in the area and she’s always giving everyone company advertising stuff – pens, pads of paper, tissues, lotion and the most fun one yet, a pedometer! She gave me one of the pedometers because she “knows how much I like gadgets” *glee* She also gave me another picture frame (I’ll put a picture of Michael in that one) and a candle. So nice!<\/p>\n
At lunch my boss took me and the other woman in our department out for lunch at Applebees to celebrate my birthday, it was yummy.<\/p>\n
After work Michael made dinner and then we headed down to Malvern for the Shamanic drum circle. On the way down we stopped for gas and I got out of the car to pull a leaf out that was stuck to a windshield wiper since we left the house. For some reason I didn’t just toss it aside, I kept it and decided to bring it with us to Malvern.<\/p>\n
The drum circle was interesting, there were a lot of new people, and only 4 of us were there because we needed to do the drum making too. I had a nice time, when we finally got to pick out the elk skins for our drums it was about 9pm, we put them all in a large bucket of water and them Jim asked if we had any herbs or anything we wanted to put in. We didn’t have anything… except that leaf! So I went to the car and looked on the ground to find where I had tossed that leaf, I found it and put it in the water with the drum skins.<\/p>\n
We got home around 10pm. I was tired, but took a few minutes to check my email and drop into IRC. I went to bed soon after.<\/p>\n
I’m still tired. This morning I didn’t want to get out of bed, less than usual sleep and the fact that it was so cold<\/i> outside of the snuggly covers of the bed made getting up difficult. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not complaining about the cold, it’s a very refreshing feeling after this summer. It just makes getting out of bed much less appealing. And it was colder than I thought, 41F outside when I got up, and we had the windows open! No wonder Caligula invaded our bed last night! (Wow, “Caligula invaded our bed” sounds really freaky o_o we’ll have to name our next cat “Fluffy” or something with less perverted associations).<\/p>\n
And now it’s Friday. I’m wearing the pedometer, it’s fun, counting all my steps. The only problem is that it talks o_o Talks when I set it, talks if I hit a button on the side. I’ve managed to hit it twice today, d’oh. But so far I’ve walked .79 mile, woo! I can see this silly thing becoming quite an addiction – creating websites! graphs! fun statistics about how much I walk on workdays and weekends! Or, more likely, the novelty will wear off by tomorrow and I’ll let it die.<\/p>\n
It’s beautiful out, I’m going for a walk now.<\/p>\n
[EDIT] Of course I go for said walk, it’s so nice out<\/i>, and the pedometer falls off and hits the ground. It didn’t hit that<\/i> hard, I don’t think much of it, put it back on. About 20 minutes later I look at it and realize it hasn’t changed at all. It’s broken! Arrg! Stupid cheap thing! Oh well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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