Departure

Tonight I'm home with a stiff neck... go ahead and laugh it up. I'm 24 and it's Saturday and of course the obvious undertone. I am actually satisfied, aside from the pain. I went down to Jersey last night with the band and had a blast! Some of my girlfriends from up here were there and we all imbibed quite a bit of beer without being too ridiculous. Very good times! The band does 'Why can't we be Friends' now and I really enjoy that mixed in with their usual fun and danceable stuff.

This week the manfriend and I also joined a gym and went twice already! I was so afraid at first but I made sure not to overdo it while still feeling like I worked out. I doubled my time on the elyptical and hopefully I will be back up to an hour (just like senior year again >sigh<) We both also made reasonable weight loss goals and my friend Amy from up here is part of the same gym so she offered to go with me too. Double the motivators!

I am also determined that I am going to increase my cooking skills... he is really into food and we watch a lot of cooking shows (Yah Alton Brown) So I will be researching recipes fervently. I need to start simple, but I am not the most patient person in the world.. so we'll see.

I have also been reading... A LOT. My best buddy gave me like 13 books to read when we lived together in college and I am already halfway through the stack. It's nice to watch the return pile stack up. I am definitely going to package them in a fancy box and replace some of the more 'well-loved' copies. I think her naughty kitten got to the one I am reading now, Amy Tan's "The Kitchen God's Wife". Amy Tan and I are currently having a love affair, that's right I secretly love a middle-aged Chinese fiction writer, don't tell. This is all taking me back to when I was eleven... we had just moved to Fallston from Baltimore. It was summer and I had no friends and not a whole lot to do. I set up a little nook in the garage with my bean bag chair and some of my favorite knick-knacks, etc. and I would just read all day long. It seems really lame, but I really enjoyed it. It's actually one of my best memories from adolescence. Still innocent in some ways and just taking it all in, everything.

So I am going to keep enjoying. Especially the little moments when I find a great quote from a book, finding a really cool ad in a local store that I can use for a collage, or running errands with my him.. Home Goods can truly equal good times. 'Til next time...