So this is what it's like to be back

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.

birthdays, birthdays everywhere

I forgot - happy birthday to alchemi, and special birthday wishes to everyone who had birthdays in the last week: goovie, tinkerer, edwud and sensational. I hope you all had spectacular days, full of fun and friends!

saucy maids all in a row

Pardon me while I channel my mother for a moment, but how the hell* did it get to be October already? Where is the time going? I swear it goes faster the older I get. Sigh.

All of this being a lead-in to tell you that I failed miserably at my September resolution of brushing up my German, due to unexpected expenses and, well, laziness. And now it's October, and for October I told myself I'd learn how to flirt.


How YOU doin'?

*wink*

No, you're right, my mother would not say "the hell". Now bugger off and leave me to my mild expletives.