So this is what it's like to be back

[listersgirl]

Hello! I can read again! Everybody do a little dance!

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Excellent. So let me tell you what I did during my week of not posting:

• On Saturday (both Saturdays, actually, but it's the first one I'm talking about here) I went to yoga and somehow managed to collapse my thumb during sun salutations. When you suddenly can't use it you realize exactly how useful a thumb really is.
  
• Sunday vestra and I walked into town to see Bright Young Things. It took us an hour and a half, and saying that we were happy to sit down in the movie theatre is, perhaps, an understatement. Also, the movie was great.
  
• We went to IKEA and I bought another bookcase, which we only barely managed to fit into mistress_wanda's car. I also managed to pick the communist cart*, which necessitated steering at a very bizarre angle, and in the epic battle between the cart, the bookcase and my hand, my hand was definitely the loser. Ouch.
  
• I went to a Blue Jays game (vs. the Yankees) with dramaqueen_23, starfishchick and S's co-worker, who has "a guy" and got us great tickets. This is not only the only baseball game of any sort (live or televised) I've ever seen, but my first professional sports event, and probably only the fourth live sporting event I've been to, the others being one softball game (that I mostly remember because the boy I had a crush on was playing) and a few cricket games. It was fun! And starfishchick didn't smack me for asking too many stupid questions. The announcer amused me because he kept saying "Orlandooooooooooooooo Hudson", and there were some squeeing teenage girls that were extremely loud in their admiration of someone we nicknamed "Junior", because he looked about 14**. Plus, we won. Sweet.
  
• I finally watched the second part of Lost. Whose stupid idea was it to split them up like that? Still pretty much hooked, though.
  
• I made myself stay up past midnight on Friday so that I could read. It was very exciting. I also tried numerous times to post here over the weekend, but vestra's computer hates me and kept shutting down IE every time I tried to access the update page.

*Very left-leaning. Seriously, this cart wouldn't do anything except go left.
**Okay, I feel very old now. There's like three people on that team who aren't younger than me. How does this happen?

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In more recent news, vestra and I have decided to become Runners. You can stop laughing now. vestra has a head start - she did some running this summer with mistress_wanda - but we've signed up for one of those "Learn to Run" clinics offered by the Running Room, and we're going to attempt to not fall over wheezing on our first night, which is tonight. I don't usually exercise outside, so I'm not entirely sure what to wear, especially since we've apparently skipped right from humidity index to windchill factor (hello, what happened to fall?!), but I guess if I'm underdressed I'll figure that out when my legs turn blue.

Anyway, if you're in the Beaches, and you see two people running along looking like complete dorks, please do stop and say hello.

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[dramaqueen-23.livejournal.com]

In more recent news, vestra and I have decided to become Runners. You can stop laughing now. vestra has a head start - she did some running this summer with mistress_wanda - but we've signed up for one of those "Learn to Run" clinics offered by the Running Room, and we're going to attempt to not fall over wheezing on our first night, which is tonight. I don't usually exercise outside, so I'm not entirely sure what to wear, especially since we've apparently skipped right from humidity index to windchill factor (hello, what happened to fall?!), but I guess if I'm underdressed I'll figure that out when my legs turn blue.

I did RR's Learn to Run. I had zero experience as a runner so I was beyond nervous walking into that first clinic. I was sure I'd be mocked for my un-sleek running clothes and lack of cool running gadgets. But it turned out to be a wonderful, educational, totally non-threatening environment. You guys will love it!

Some advice: Don't buy shoes until after the session on proper footwear. Proper shoes are the key and the RR staff know their shit, believe me!

[listersgirl]

Oh, that's good advice. I've been worrying about showing up with my self-destructing Zellers gym shoes. :)

[dramaqueen-23.livejournal.com]

The sales clerks at RR really are amazing! At first I figured it was all a big ploy to get me to spend cash at their store. But after three or four weeks running in trainers I was having terrible knee pain.
When I told the RR guy I was looking at shoes the first thing he told me to do was around the store in my sock feet. Then he looked at the runners I'd brought in. He said, "Let me guess. You've been having knee pain? Specifically on the right side." Seriously, I hadn't told him a thing about it! He helped my find amazing shoes that felt perfect the very first time I wore them.

[globetrotter1.livejournal.com]

Hurray! Welcome back!

[listersgirl]

Thanks! I'm never giving up reading again. :)

[globetrotter1.livejournal.com]

So, what are you reading now?

[listersgirl]

The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell, which I was halfway through when I had to stop reading. Evil! I'm anxious to finish reading it - I want to read the ChickLit thread.

[starfishchick]

Mwah ha ha ha ha.

[listersgirl]

I'm totally skipping the gym at lunch today in favour of reading. Totally.

[globetrotter1.livejournal.com]

Uh oh. Must. Look. It. Up. At. Amazon.

[starfishchick]

Totally one of the best books I've read in the past year or so.

But! It might eat your brain.

[sarcasma.livejournal.com]

Anyway, if you're in the Beaches, and you see two people running along looking like complete dorks, please do stop and say hello.

Dude, it's the Beaches. There are pairs of running dorks all over the place. Chances of them actually being you guys are about 3 in 50. :D

[listersgirl]

Ah, but we'll be the ones without dog or stroller. :)

[sarcasma.livejournal.com]

You should rent some -- or the others will know you don't belong and eat your brains.

[vestra.livejournal.com]

1-welcome back to the land of the reading!

2-you went to a baseball game????? Who are you and what have you done with my roommate??? Cool, though.

3-I'm sorry my computer hates you. It hates me a little bit too, but it seems to hate you much, much more.

4-Wee, running! Or, actually, oh dear god, running! Complete running dorkitude, here we come!

[listersgirl]

Didn't I tell you I was going undercover into the world of people who care about sports? It was quite the experience.

The funny thing was that even though it was live, the players were so far away they looked like wee little toy men. And then I crushed their heads (but only the opposing team).

[eanja]

Good luck w/ the running thing. I'm an ex-runner who keeps meaning to get back to it, and I think a clinic thing sounds like a good idea - running is geeky enough as a sport that most people who do it are just delighted (rather than snobbish) about finding others actually interested. And there is really is more technique to it than people realize- nothing difficult, but a really large number of the people I see jogging have clearly never had anyone take a few minutes to explain to them how much difference arm position and stride and such can make, and how much easier it makes it to run for more than a really short distance.

[listersgirl]

I know lots of people who have injured themselves by running wrong, and I really don't want to be those people.

Plus I always do better at things when I have a set time and I've paid for them in advance. :P

[idella]

Yay! You're back!

*twirls round and round and round until she tips over*

[listersgirl]

*offers cookies to raise blood sugar*