A Smorgus Board
I wrote a blog about our half marathon on our work blog. You can see it at www.responsivebydesign.com (actually Elliott hasn’t posted it yet but it will be up this week he says). Now Elliott and I have two outlets for blogging. So anyway I won’t rehash the run here since I already captured the story, although I did set the story to a business analogy. I really enjoy doing things like that, I did a lot more thinking and evaluating of experiences when I was in Toastmasters. I do miss Toastmasters. After the wedding I will go check out a few more clubs here and see if one is a good fit for me.
I do have a few random things that I have thought of lately that I will share. First is I am working to get the word ‘try’ out of my vocabulary. We all know what ‘try’ means. I am going to try to eat better. I am going to try to go the gym more often. I am going to try to leave work earlier. It means I am not really going to do it, because for one reason or another I am not fully committed to the idea, but if I say I will try to do it, at least that shows effort and I don’t have to feel bad when I don’t succeed, well at least I tried.
The other funny word in my life is ‘just’. Elliott and I use this one all the time. I am just giving you a hard time. I am just asking. I am just saying. These statements usually follow an otherwise rude comment that then is washed away by saying I am just giving you a hard time. Now that we are aware of it we are both trying to stop…
Other than that I feel like crap today and I look like I got hit by a bus, not really sure whats up with that. My eyes are all puffy. And I slept for almost 14 hours! We had some early PF Chang’s for dinner, I gorged myself with chow mien and crab wontons! And I had to drink this crappy beer that Elliott accidentally ordered. It is an inside joke between us that I like the heavier beers. Normally our servers will hand the light colored beer to me and the dark colored beer to Elliott and we will switch. So last night I order a Fat Tire, a darker but not real dark beer. And Elliott orders some beer I have never heard of, think it was called Chimay, he says its some fancy light Belgium beer he has had before. Well he sees the bartender pouring it and says oops thats not what I thought it was. It was darker than my Fat Tire and had some strange particulate matter in it that kept fizzing till the end. So I took one for the team and said I would drink the darker beer. But I think those particulates did something funny to me. Anyway I was out like a light when we got home, first asleep on the couch and later moved into the bedroom. But seriously I look like I stayed up all night crying to Steel Magnolias not like I slept a lovely and well deserved 14 hours. And I feel like crap. Oh I forgot to tell you I have an eye twitch! Thankfully it is my left eye which Irene says in Chinese culture is the lucky eye to twitch, apparently the right eye twitch is unlucky. So the eye twitch is back this morning too. Last night the beer made it go away. Perhaps a bloody marry is in order…
May 26th, 2008 at 11:44 pm
Teresa,
You really are hysterical! First, let’s think about all you wrote about the word try and removing it from your vocabulary…good idea, good points. Then you wrote about the justs, just kidding, just saying, just mentioning, just pointing out, just remembering, just reminding. Hmmm….I think I’m guilty of that, well, I was until about two months ago. The problem here is that after summing up the justs, you said you and Elliott were TRYing to stop…Does that mean you really are going to stop it, or you’re just indicating effort? Gotcha on that one! Sorry you’re not feeling great on this gorgeous Memorial Day, but I appreciate your tip on the eye twitch. I recently had that; and, if you had nothing else to do, you could actually watch it twitch in the mirror. It was my left eye, too, so I’m glad to hear about the Chinese luck. Stay away from dark beers for awhile, and life will seem better.
Can’t wait for the wedding!
Love, Mom.