Happy Monday!

[threadwalker]

I worked from 6:45 am to 7:20pm on Friday. Kiddos who work long days don't have to go to the following daily 7:30 am meeting. They get to go to work a little late. Yay! I'm going running. I plan to roll in around 9:30am with a Diet Coke, a Banana and a smile. Hurrah for lounging in bed past 4am!

In other bits of commentary, men are definitely wired differently:

Him: When do you plan on having that project done?
Me: 12th Night.
Him: There's no way that's going to happen. You're going to fail.
Me *pause with direct eye contact*: Don't undermine me.
Him: I'm not undermining you, I'm telling you how it is.
Me: By telling me I'm going to "fail", you undermine me.
Him: No, I'm not. There are X number of weekends between now and then, I watched you work on the first part and you don't have enough time.

And there begins a conversation about how men communicate, how women communicate, who thinks context matters, and what we mean when we string certain words together. It wasn't a fight (there was no report of an earthquake in Contra Costa County last night). There was a lot of "what I mean", a dash of fake-pontification and a healthy dose of staged humor. It ended in laughing and I promptly cancelled a day of running errands to scurry into my workshop (how did I lose 2 weekends in November? I have to get cracking!!!) We finally agreed that the other was weird and 'weird' spelled differently is "wired".

I'm going to miss Investiture. Drat! I made other plans without looking at the SCA calendar. I'm bummed - I'd sure like to see Gillian step up as Princess. And I'd like to see Princess Leticia again, as well, before she steps down.

See... If I had an iPhone this wouldn't have happened. Clearly I need unblocked internet access 24-7 otherwise my social calendar is just a mess. I lust for a PDA that has internet access... They are too far out of my ball park and for the same money I'm also eye-balling the Garmin Forerunner, which is a fitness GPS that monitors heart-rate, calories burned, etc. So many goodies, so little money! If I wait a few years maybe Garmin and Apple or whomever will get together and come up with the Forerunner that links to the PDA.

Well, I'm off to go running. I didn't run yesterday - the portion of my legs between calf and heal was on strike. But right now I feel like a rock star because I'm not at work yet.

Comments

[ermine-rat.livejournal.com]

I think we're looking at some kind of smart-phone or iTouch next year....I think it's time.

No investiture? drat, I was hoping to see you.

I did send you a race suggestion earlier today...interested?

[thread-walker.livejournal.com]

email? text? where is race suggestion?

[ermine-rat.livejournal.com]

http://www.muddybuddy.com/events.php?id=2


I used to do something like this with horses a long time ago…


---rat

You are Doomed!

[stealth-1066.livejournal.com]

When you are planning to do a project always schedule three time the amount of time you think the project will take! That way when you have delays, unscheduled events, life, and reworking parts of the project, (and you know you will)you will have enough time. If you end up ahead of schedule then you have some free time to do other things! If you don't then "You are Doomed!"

[misagillian.livejournal.com]

I'm sorry you won't be there! I understand the multiple-booking problem though. I do want to talk to you about arts stuff sometime soon, tho. :)