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- I colored my hair the other day and I'm not a fan of how it turned out. A lot of the ladies at work have been telling me it looks really good, but I am not convinced. I'm gonna wait a few days to see if it grows on me and if not change it again. I can't remember the last time I colored my hair and am not a fan of all those chemicals, so the fact that I colored it in the first place is out of the norm for me.
- Steve & I normally walk together early in the morning but we both slept through our alarms and didn't wake up until 6:00 am yesterday. Since I didn't get any exercise in I decided to do what I could for the day and took the stairs from the ground floor all the way up to the tenth floor and back down and up again 3 times over my lunch break yesterday. Today I am really feeling it in my legs!I did the calculations with the amount of steps and all together I walked up and then back down 540 steps.
What is even more crazy is that when I spent a summer in Thailand back in 99 (yes, I realize this was 10 years ago) we lived on the top floor of the *hotel and taking stairs was our only option. I don't remember exactly how many stairs it was but it was somewhere in the 900 range and we went up and down several times a day (with heavy backpacks on too) and they never seemed to bother me that much. What an eye opener to how out of shape I am now - and I even work out at least 3 or 4 times a week!
- I have been reminded of just how grateful I am for the job that I have. When we were in St. Louis last weekend I was hanging out with Sommer (my old boss) and she told me that the company that I had been working for before we moved had been laying off a bunch of people and the girl that replaced me was one of them. Had I still been working there I would be out of a job. All that Sommer had to say was "you wouldn't have really cared anyway since you absolutely hated your job!" She couldn't have said it better. Seriously, my job now is a lot more stressful and I have a lot more responsibility, but I am so much happier here than I was at my last job and for that I am so grateful.
- Steve has been cracking me up this week. He's been skyping a lot with a friend of ours back in St. Louis that is going through a rough divorce. He just moved into his own apartment last weekend and has been pretty lonesome. They've been skyping all week and our friend is now wanting to have "movie nights" so the guys can watch movies at the same time with Skype on and crack funny jokes and add their commentaries just so it will seem like they're actually together watching the movie. I'm still not sure if that should make me sad or amused.
- We're going to check out the beer garden at Capital Brewery tonight with Chris & Tina and I'm so looking forward to it. I can't believe that we've been here in Madison for over 6 months and still haven't been there.
I still can't believe that this week has seemed to drag on forever and it was even a day shorter than normal. I'm so ready for the weekend! We've been going like crazy these past few weeks and as a result are both exhausted. Maple Bluffs is having a neighborhood garage sale tomorrow and I promised one of my friends that lives there and is participating that I'd stop by, so there will unfortunately be no sleeping in tomorrow, can't wait until Sunday though!
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* The above mentioned "hotel" had cold showers, squattie potties, lots of cockroaches, and our neighbor had a pet rat in a cage outside their door in the hallway - thus explaining why our 5 star (yeah right!) accommodations had no elevators.
- Steve & I normally walk together early in the morning but we both slept through our alarms and didn't wake up until 6:00 am yesterday. Since I didn't get any exercise in I decided to do what I could for the day and took the stairs from the ground floor all the way up to the tenth floor and back down and up again 3 times over my lunch break yesterday. Today I am really feeling it in my legs!I did the calculations with the amount of steps and all together I walked up and then back down 540 steps.
What is even more crazy is that when I spent a summer in Thailand back in 99 (yes, I realize this was 10 years ago) we lived on the top floor of the *hotel and taking stairs was our only option. I don't remember exactly how many stairs it was but it was somewhere in the 900 range and we went up and down several times a day (with heavy backpacks on too) and they never seemed to bother me that much. What an eye opener to how out of shape I am now - and I even work out at least 3 or 4 times a week!
- I have been reminded of just how grateful I am for the job that I have. When we were in St. Louis last weekend I was hanging out with Sommer (my old boss) and she told me that the company that I had been working for before we moved had been laying off a bunch of people and the girl that replaced me was one of them. Had I still been working there I would be out of a job. All that Sommer had to say was "you wouldn't have really cared anyway since you absolutely hated your job!" She couldn't have said it better. Seriously, my job now is a lot more stressful and I have a lot more responsibility, but I am so much happier here than I was at my last job and for that I am so grateful.
- Steve has been cracking me up this week. He's been skyping a lot with a friend of ours back in St. Louis that is going through a rough divorce. He just moved into his own apartment last weekend and has been pretty lonesome. They've been skyping all week and our friend is now wanting to have "movie nights" so the guys can watch movies at the same time with Skype on and crack funny jokes and add their commentaries just so it will seem like they're actually together watching the movie. I'm still not sure if that should make me sad or amused.
- We're going to check out the beer garden at Capital Brewery tonight with Chris & Tina and I'm so looking forward to it. I can't believe that we've been here in Madison for over 6 months and still haven't been there.
I still can't believe that this week has seemed to drag on forever and it was even a day shorter than normal. I'm so ready for the weekend! We've been going like crazy these past few weeks and as a result are both exhausted. Maple Bluffs is having a neighborhood garage sale tomorrow and I promised one of my friends that lives there and is participating that I'd stop by, so there will unfortunately be no sleeping in tomorrow, can't wait until Sunday though!
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* The above mentioned "hotel" had cold showers, squattie potties, lots of cockroaches, and our neighbor had a pet rat in a cage outside their door in the hallway - thus explaining why our 5 star (yeah right!) accommodations had no elevators.
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