I don’t know WHAT was going on, but I woke up to the loud voices of the people who live downstairs. I never heard them so loud before – and I’ve been year a year! (It’s actually exactly a year that we moved in on the 26th, which – last year – was the Monday after Thanksgiving).
Anyway, I kept my eyes closed and refused to look at the clock, trying to fall back to sleep. They were SO noisy, so loud, talking and laughing. Finally, when I realized it wasn’t going to stop and I wasn’t going to fall back to sleep, I looked at the clock. It was 6:58am! What? Are you kidding me? What the hell are they doing up so early on a Sunday? What are they being so noisy about at 6:30am on a Sunday?
I decided to call Eric. He was just leaving to go on a ride, so we hung up quickly. He said it’s been raining a lot, so he couldn’t ride the woods, but he was going out for a nice long road ride. I was so happy. He’s really back, my Eric. He’s got the fire again – riding whenever he can. I guess he needed the New York weather and the New York woods to get him back, but he’s finally there!
I decided it was much too early to get out of bed, so I watched SNL again. I watched the whole thing last night (Oh, I forgot to mention – I didn’t shut the TV off until 2:00am, so I only got about 5 hours sleep). Last night’s show was SO funny that I had to watch certain parts again. It was also great because Beyonce did two numbers and I LOVE her. She is SUCH a great performer, with a fabulous stage presence, a gorgeous body, beautiful clothes, and an amazing voice.
Her band is all women and they’re fantastic. Justin Timberlake made a guest appearance on the show. He was supposed to host next Saturday, but he had to cancel, and I guess he was available this week (along with the real host – Paul Rudd), so he was in two sketches.
Paul Rudd was funny, too. I really enjoyed the show and still didn’t delete it, because I just might watch it again!
I finally got out of bed, but I just did some stuff around the apartment, including folding clothes from my clean laundry and putting stuff away. I wanted to go food shopping, but I wasn’t motivated to get out of the apartment. I just hung around and then decided to start working on my special decoupage project for the Greenberg Soirée. I worked for a few hours and then felt tired, so I decided to lie down and take a nap. Unfortunately, it was the middle of a hot afternoon in San Diego and everyone and their brother was out and about, so it was pretty noisy.
When I got up I finally took a shower and went food shopping. It was 83 degrees out, which is unusually warm for this time of year. It’s usually around 70 degrees in the fall. It really didn’t feel bad, even though I walked to the supermarket with my old lady cart. I wore my pedometer and I am happy to report that walking there, going up and down the aisles and walking back was over 2,000 steps.
I guess it’s not as hard as I thought to do 10,000 steps, but 2,187 steps only burned 48 calories (are you kidding me?) and was only .79 miles. I knew I wasn’t walking MILES, but I honestly thought I burned more than 48 calories doing that. Anyway, at least I’m aware of how many steps, how many miles and how many calories, so I can work on increasing that and decreasing my caloric intake.
I spoke to Eric a few times today – after his ride, while he was at his sister’s house for dinner, and then when he got home. He’s such a pleasure to talk to these days. His attitude is positive, he’s in a great mood, he’s excited about my visit, and he’s looking forward to the party, too. It’s all good!
I had some organic vegetable broth with some rice and almond cracker snacks (which are a healthy alternative to potato chips). They’re from Blue Diamond and they’re really good. They’re pretty low calorie, too, because a serving is 16 crackers and it’s only 130 calories, with only 35 calories from fat. They’re called Nut-Thins, which of course I was saying out loud to myself all afternoon. I love plays on words – like the restaurant Eric and I used to go to called the Garden of Eating. I used to love to say it – The Garden of Eating.
Anyway, I worked for many more hours, but still have about 10 of my decoupage projects left. I put in another 5 CDs and listened to a lot of them, then turned it off to go food shopping and then listened to them all over again until they stopped. This time I had all groups, but with female lead singers – The Pretenders (the singles), Fleetwood Mac (greatest hits), Dixie Chicks, and a double Blondie Greatest Hits.
I stopped to eat dinner (more organic vegetable broth with some tuna) and watched EXTREME MAKEOVER: HOME EDITION. It was a particularly touching story about a mother and father with three boys who adopted 8 more boys – 5 brothers from Haiti and three more at-risk kids from the inner city of their neighborhood – Toledo, Ohio. They were all squished into this little house. The father is a hero firefighter and the mother is fighting a serious illness, which could end up killing her.
These boys were all so close – from such different backgrounds, different countries even, different colors, but they all loved each other and were so close. It was a beautiful thing to see.
After EM I worked on the project some more. I had been varnishing each one as they were finished and kept varnishing into the night. I hope to complete them tomorrow night, and get crackin’ on some packin’! I really haven’t done more than make some piles of clothes on my bed, on a chair, and on the couch in the living room. It’s funny, because having the borrowed big black suitcase gives me the freedom to overpack, which I will definitely do. If I have to take this thing to NY, I might as well take it full!
I know this week is going to fly by. I only have tomorrow and Wednesday to get things done at home, because Tuesday I’m getting my hair cut and colored and then going to yoga and Thursday I have my regular appointment, although I do get home at 6:30pm. I also need to fit in a manicure and pedicure (after I’m done with the decoupage!). If I don’t get a chance to do it this week, I’ll have to do it Saturday in New York and I’d rather not waste the time, if I can avoid it.
I’m a little worried about work. Things have slowed down considerably and I know they may not be able to keep me in HR much longer. If they can find another position in which to place me, that would be great. Otherwise, they’ll have to let me go and I’ll have to let the agency know that I am looking for work again. That would stink, but – hey – I have to be grateful that I had this steady gig for 10 months – and I am!