1-4-2010

It looks pretty darn weird to see "2010" in the date. I was telling Gregg and Giani the other day that I distinctly remember (hello math nerd) calculating how old I'd be in 2000 when I was in elementary school - 27 seemed old ("It is MOM" was the lovely retort from my 7.5 year old)...and here I am 10 years later, just having turned 36 and wondering how on earth that happened.

So I took my recently 36 year old body to the gym today, where I promptly got my newly instituted discount for being an AXA employee. How nice that we now get a real discount instead of the piddly $5 off we got before. That gym isn't cheap, but it's across the street from work thereby often preventing the "well I'm almost home...I'll go tomorrow" excuses I could readily conjure up.

This old body spent 35 minutes and just about 3 miles on the ellipitical. I'm not ready for the treadmill yet - hoping for by the end of the month, although I am already looking at a near week of not being able to goal to the gym next week thanks to Gregg's business trip - ah well. For now, I am happy that I did what I did today. It hurt like heck - ugh! - but I think I pushed myself a bit harder than I should have.

Tonight I am enduring Gregg watching yet another set of old "Buffy the Vampire Slayer" episodes, thereby reliving our glory days of being young, single, and child-free...

So instead of rotting my brain with that overly verbose teen and vampire angst-ridden show, I am working on my big knitting GOAL project of 2010 - a sock.

Here's my thing with socks - which I tried a couple of months ago.

The needles are like toothpicks. I'm not kidding. They are SO small.
But I am proud to report that I now have about 3/4 of an inch of cuff done. Hey, it's key to have goals, isn't it?

I can't just have one project, so I am also making a quick scarf for my friend Rachel - opposite extreme in terms of needles there.

Oh yeah, and this weekend, I banged out the top to a mantel scarf. I think that will be my first journey into machine quilting, which could be interesting with my now-10-years old bottom of the line sewing machine. LOL.

It's been a long and taxing day - nothing in life is simple and of course the return to school for Giani was met with a 2 hour snow delay, which meant my day at work started the very second I walked in the door...

...so I am off to my sock...wish me luck!