quiet Sunday
Nov. 14th, 2010 08:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
winterbadgerI had tickets for another concert tonight, but I decided not to go.
Well, I had *a* ticket, and that's kind of the thing. As much as I enjoyed last night, I'm getting fed up going to stuff by myself. Tried to lasso in some friends for last night or tonight, but they were busy with other folks. I'm sorely missing having a GF to do things with. An awful lot of things that seem like fun in prospect seem like much less fun when it comes down to rousting myself out, making preparations, and driving some long time (as you pretty much have to in DC--inevitably, everything you want to do is somewhere else, and even if it isn't far, it will take forever to get there, with traffic and parking &c.) just to do it by myself.
So I stayed home. Washed some dishes. Washed the shower curtain. Cleaned the humidifier*, for which filters finally arrived yesterday, so I can use it tonight. Made dinner. Watched the last ep of the last season of The Wire again.** I did stir myself far enough to go get some things for the cats (crunchy food, litter, and some water bowls that will hopefully be harder to tip over).
I'm going to make (another) effort to get started next week on getting regular exercise, 30-60 minutes a day. And before the holidays even start, I'm going to try to cut out pretty much all the remaining sweet stuff in my diet that isn't fruit. I've never been much into candy, and I've almost stopped eating ice cream entirely, but too many people bring baked goods into the office. And I'm going to cut further back on alcohol. I've been maintaining my current weight for a long time (most of this year I've been 5-10 down from where I was last year), but that's about where I was after the disastrous (in so many ways) 2008. To be healthy, I really need to lose about 50-60 pounds, and while that will probably take years, it won't happen at all if I don't get a start.
* The bitter irony of needing a humidifier in DC is not lost on me, but with the heat (old radiator steam heat) coming on late at night, and totally out of my control, if I don't do something to mitigate it, my sinuses get completely dried out while I sleep, my sleep is so crappy that I don't wake up rested, and I'm much more prone to sinus infections. I think it's tipped Finn back into overgrooming too, because it dries his out his ultrasensitive skin.
** Such a wonderful show--great writing, great acting, great directing. The characters really make the show, and I'm so fond of them I love seeing them grow and I hate to say goodbye to them. I certainly do identify with McNulty, even though I've never been (I think) quite as self-destructive as he is (nor ever had a quarter of his charisma).
Well, I had *a* ticket, and that's kind of the thing. As much as I enjoyed last night, I'm getting fed up going to stuff by myself. Tried to lasso in some friends for last night or tonight, but they were busy with other folks. I'm sorely missing having a GF to do things with. An awful lot of things that seem like fun in prospect seem like much less fun when it comes down to rousting myself out, making preparations, and driving some long time (as you pretty much have to in DC--inevitably, everything you want to do is somewhere else, and even if it isn't far, it will take forever to get there, with traffic and parking &c.) just to do it by myself.
So I stayed home. Washed some dishes. Washed the shower curtain. Cleaned the humidifier*, for which filters finally arrived yesterday, so I can use it tonight. Made dinner. Watched the last ep of the last season of The Wire again.** I did stir myself far enough to go get some things for the cats (crunchy food, litter, and some water bowls that will hopefully be harder to tip over).
I'm going to make (another) effort to get started next week on getting regular exercise, 30-60 minutes a day. And before the holidays even start, I'm going to try to cut out pretty much all the remaining sweet stuff in my diet that isn't fruit. I've never been much into candy, and I've almost stopped eating ice cream entirely, but too many people bring baked goods into the office. And I'm going to cut further back on alcohol. I've been maintaining my current weight for a long time (most of this year I've been 5-10 down from where I was last year), but that's about where I was after the disastrous (in so many ways) 2008. To be healthy, I really need to lose about 50-60 pounds, and while that will probably take years, it won't happen at all if I don't get a start.
* The bitter irony of needing a humidifier in DC is not lost on me, but with the heat (old radiator steam heat) coming on late at night, and totally out of my control, if I don't do something to mitigate it, my sinuses get completely dried out while I sleep, my sleep is so crappy that I don't wake up rested, and I'm much more prone to sinus infections. I think it's tipped Finn back into overgrooming too, because it dries his out his ultrasensitive skin.
** Such a wonderful show--great writing, great acting, great directing. The characters really make the show, and I'm so fond of them I love seeing them grow and I hate to say goodbye to them. I certainly do identify with McNulty, even though I've never been (I think) quite as self-destructive as he is (nor ever had a quarter of his charisma).
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