randomly chaotic and frequently mundane

A Wii and a Wii fit.  Nice, since I’m attempting to lose some weight.  Definitely some fun and active games on that thing.  Did some of the exercises on the Wii fit when I set it up yesterday, and again today.  Holy god I could feel the muscles really working.  Indeed it was worth the money.  Then I was playing the sports games that came with the console.  Tennis, good.  Bowling, really good.  Baseball… ok, I suck at it, but fun.  Golf, not interested.  Boxing… OH MY GOD I LOVE THE BOXING GAME.  After doing the fit exercises, my lower body was a little sore (ok, I was already sore since C and I’d had a good time the night before)… after doing a few boxing matches, my back, shoulders and arms were killing me.  Not that any of this stopped me from doing it all again today.  The Wii… not C (although I certainly wouldn’t have objected to that, either).

If I keep it up, this will definitely help me lose some weight and get back into better shape.

So, valentines day.  Or… VD as my friends and I used to call it.  After all, what day of the year do you think more VDs are spread?  Gotta be Valentines day.  Cheerful thought, isn’t it?  Makes you feel all kinds of sexy, LOL.

Anyhoo… I’ve got big plans.  I’m thinking of taking my little Valentine out for dinner.  It’ll be a real bank buster of a dinner, too.  A happy meal at McDonalds and maybe an extra small fry for him, since he loves them so.  He’ll be over the moon.  He loves “trench tries.”  It would be worth spending a million bucks to see his smile, after all.  But if I can get away with only spending $5… I’m not complaining.  LOL 

There were a lot of flower sales today at work… and a lot of flower returns.  Apparently people noticed after leaving that they were charged $24.99 for the bouquet marked $19.99 and had to come back to get a refund of the difference.  Can’t say I blame them… I just thought it was really funny.  The guy in the floral department was stressed out and frustrated.  Which also cracked me up.  I know, I’m so mean.  Valentine’s day (and the days preceeding) can’t be all that great for folks who work in flower shops or floral departments.

I was giving out Valentines at work today.  Just to random co-workers (and their children if they brought them in)… nothing special.  I made 30 candy/card bundles for Gage’s class because I wasn’t sure how many were needed.  Only needed 17, so I just figured I’d pass the extras out.  It was fun, and cute the way some of my co-workers reacted when I handed them to them.

So, at about 11, I decided to take a brisk walk.  Nothing too lengthy, just up and down the street a few times, nice and brisk.  Get my heart rate going a bit and all that jazz.  After all, a little cardio never hurts when you wanna lose weight and get back into shape, no?  So… mom looks at me funny.  A walk?  Now?  Yep.  Just letting you know in case I’m not here when you get up… send the police looking for me, kind of thing.  So I put on the holster (aka: bra) and grab my license — in case cops stop and say “excuse me… WTF are you doing????”  And mom says “are you sure you’re going for a walk?”  Nope, I’m off for a clandestine meeting with a very hot young gentleman who’s going to do me in the woods till I can’t walk.  Yeah.  Don’t I wish.  Much as I love that manner of cardio… it really was just a walk.  Listened to the Cruxshadows while I walked, set a nice brisk tempo.  I feel good.  Tomorrow… probably not so much.

There’s really not much going on at the moment.  Work is alright.  Which is better than “work sucks.”  I like my job, but there are times I’m SO over it.  But with so many people out of work these days, at least I have one.  Would I like to get something a little more “grown up?”  Absolutely.  I’d love to have a job where I can actually take a lunch break, not a quick 15 minutes to grab a bite to sustain my blood sugar for another couple of hours and suck down a cigarette as fast as humanly possible.

I’m thinking I need to figure out a way to regularly work a good workout routine into my schedule.  The only problem is that if Gage is home while I’m doing it, he’s going to think it’s a game and want to play.  It wouldn’t be so bad if he’d actually do the exercises with me, but he wants to change things around to spinning in circles and stuff like that.  While fun… not exactly conducive to weight loss, getting in shape or toning up.

Listening to the Avs game online this evening.  I’m missing NCIS while I’m doing it… but it’s a small price to pay to get an Avalanche fix.

Went out with C again last night.  It was so nice.  Things have gotten quite… physical.  Not that this is a bad thing.  Indeed, he’s outstanding in that regard.  But it’s also nice that we can just sit and talk about anything that comes up.  Our kids are a frequent topic of conversation, along with past relationship woes, work and just about anything else that pops into our heads to discuss.  We have good conversations, laugh a lot and it’s so very comfortable to be around him.  I can definitely see a long lasting and strong friendship coming of this.  This is a good thing.

One of my co-workers had the thrill of ringing someone up today who had (I swear to god) a 4 inch line of snot hanging off the end of his nose.  Just dangling there, waiting to be wiped or to get to the point that it just dropped.  I felt so bad for my co-worker, but I was so glad the guy wasn’t in my line.  Frankly, I had to walk away because I was laughing so hard at the look on my co-workers face.  It’s times like these you wish you could offer a tissue with a persons change.

Gage lost his first tooth tonight.  I’m probably more excited than I should be.  What’s the going rate for the tooth fairy these days?  Anyone got change for a 20?  It was so cute though, cause he was trying to put it back in.  When I asked for it, he handed it right over and opened wide so I could put it back in for him.  Sorry little… it just doesn’t work that way.  The new tooth is already cutting through though, so he’ll probably forget about the first one in a day or so.  Of course, who knows when the second one is coming out…

Well, I saw it for the second time yesterday.  It was just as good as the first time.  Ok, so I knew a few things were going to happen, but it was well worth the price of admission… twice.  I couldn’t resist.  I really liked the movie the first time and when C called and asked if I wanted to catch it with him before he went to work I thought “why not?”  I’m actually thinking I might buy it when it comes out, even though I’ve never had any desire to see the other Underworld movies.  I’m told I should at least watch the first one.  I might rent it sometime or borrow it if a friend owns it or something.

I was responsible for the sneaking in of beverages.  Having the oversized sweatshirt and the large boobage to hide the bulges from them, I was best suited.  I must say though, stuffing cold beverages down tight pants, even for a short while, is not a comfortable sensation.  LOL

I don’t really have a lot to say, but I feel the urge to say something.  The question is… What?

Work was pleasant yesterday.  If you didn’t feel the sarcasm in that, please re-read it as if it were dripping with sarcasm.  Busy as hell, let me tell you.  In addition to people who had to run out and get super bowl food, there were the standard “I must only shop on Saturdays” people.  Lovely.  The usual suspects when it came to making stupid requests of cashiers, which is always worth a head shake, a WTF and an occasional laugh.  I let one of the baggers know that I was coming off of a long night out and asked him to just keep an eye out if I had a long line or a lot of big orders and come help me if he could.  He did, which  was so nice of him.  He’s a good kid.  Going to be a cashier soon.  Maybe I’ll get him a $5 gift card or something to thank him for helping me out so much Saturday.  Or would that be weird?

So, a bunch of peole kept telling me that they added me to their facebook friends, but I hadn’t responded.  To be honest, I hadn’t logged into facebook in like a year.  I created the account originally to see if I could find Jared when I hadn’t been able to contact him awhile back.  So I logged in and added the people and I’ve been playing around on facebook.  It’s amusing.  Particularly so, since I got an add from my first real boyfriend and from the guy I lost my virginity to.  Which was weird in an amusing kind of way.  So… I have facebook, and I’m willing to bet you know what my username is if you’re looking to add me.  If I don’t actually know who you are… add a note that you read my blog or something.