Hello darkness, my old friend

[listersgirl]

Happy late birthday meganberrieh! I hope it was a wonderful day. :)

So, due to the crazy conversation sarcasma and I had a while back, I decided to attempt going to the gym before work. Therefore, when my alarm went off (earlier than normal, boo) this morning, I threw myself out of bed, made some bad fashion choices, grabbed my stuff, ran out the door, and got to the subway station...where I sat for 10 minutes, because the first train doesn't come until 6 am. Evil! (Also, as sarcasma said, No one should be up before the subway!)

Anyway, I went, I lifted, I yawned, I showered, and now I am wobbly and sleepy, but at least I get to go home right after work without feeling guilty.

It did bring up a few issues, though, namely food (I will now have to bring breakfast and lunch, and everything is going to be unrefrigerated for a couple of hours). I feel like I now need my own personal fridge at work. This is why I want to live across the street from work.

Speaking of food, this weekend only confirmed what I have long believed: every day is made better by brunch. Even the snowstorms and thunder (!!) could not keep me from having not one, but two brunches this weekend. Yum.

Sin City: I really didn't like this movie. Which totally surprised me, because I'm very good at knowing what I'll like, and usually I like (to greater or lesser extent) everything that I choose to see. And I mean, I thought it was visually stunning and I loved how you could clearly see how the comic book frames had been translated on to film. But it was so fucking gratuitously, needlessly, over-the-top violent and gory. I am not someone who is easily freaked out or disgusted, but I felt like I was going to throw up by the end of the first story. And then I got really depressed, because I started to wonder why this is considered entertainment, and why we need to see this, and what this says about society. Hey, I had my eyes closed to control the nausea, I had to think of something. Plus I thought some of the acting was terrible, and the dialogue didn't translate well to film. Whatever.

(PS. Was Gilmore Girls new this week? I thought it was, but what I taped turned out to be a repeat.)

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[orionnebula.livejournal.com]

No, Gilmore Girls was not new. Soon, hopefully.

[listersgirl]

Thank you. I was wondering if maybe I'd grabbed the wrong tape.

[jeejeen.livejournal.com]

I hated this stupid weekend and the stupid thunder/snow storms!!!! And of COURSE it's nice today!

Anyway, congrats on the pre-work gym. Something I like about not refrigerating food for a couple of hours is that you don't have to put it in the microwave and render it globby and tasteless! The food should be fine if it's left out for a few hours! I do it all the time.

Personally, though, I"m having a sub for lunch, because I didn't bring my lunch and am stupid.

[listersgirl]

Heh, I didn't bring my lunch either, not after expending all my brain power trying to figure out how to bring cereal and soy milk to work.

[canirl.livejournal.com]

Ooh, Ooh, I went to the gym before work today too. And met a trainer. Who tried to kill me only I resisted and was triumphant. Actually she just tried to get me to be on the elliptical thingie for 15 minutes, increasing the resistance every minute, but keeping the same pace. Yeah, like that's going to happen.

Aren't we virtuous?

[listersgirl]

Eeee! I hate the elliptical. Although now my trainer is trying to get me to use the stairclimber, to which I say, pffft.

Go us!

[protoainsley.livejournal.com]

Thank you so much, dear!

And I worked out this morning, too! Whee!

[listersgirl]

Yay!

Of course now it's lunchtime, and I'm still feeling it. Oh well - at least I can eat my post-bloodgiving cookies with enthusiasm.

[protoainsley.livejournal.com]

I just feel really good.

And I'm starting this whole program-thing today, so I'm limited in what and when I can eat. So I'm feeling a little hungry right now, after lunch. So it goes. I'm not very limited, at least.

[listersgirl]

Is this the Body for Life?

[protoainsley.livejournal.com]

Yup. Whee. I had the before photos taken yesterday, to have developed tomorrow (after I take photos tonight of other stuff, to use up more of the roll). I expect they'll be scary. Me, pale and in a bikini.

*flees in terror*

[listersgirl]

Aieee! I did the photo thing once. We forgot the flash so they were extremely dark and I did not have to kill myself. :D

[protoainsley.livejournal.com]

Flash was on for these. You'll see the proof of that soon enough ('cause I'm totally sharing this experience).

[sarcasma.livejournal.com]

I had to comment just to raise the non-working-out-schlub quotient of this entry.

[listersgirl]

You were too busy exercising your ability to distinguish actual wearable clothing from that which could cause spontaneous combustion of all makeover show hosts everywhere.

[sarcasma.livejournal.com]

It's true, I'm actually kind of cute today. Still invisible when in the concourse, though, as evidenced by being literally crushed against a wall by a suit busy chatting with his buddies while I tried to get my lunch. :p