All Things Woompty

I’m a harsh judge

May 8, 2012 at 7:26 pm (Family, General Gobbledygook)
Tags: Me Me Me, MishMashy Goodness

Tonight I am drinking a white wine spritzer. Granted, it’s made with a very lovely Sauvignon Blanc from Sonoma that I very much enjoy drinking on its own, but that does not change the fact that I am drinking a white wine spritzer. I used to make jokes about white wine spritzers, about how they were what older women drink to make white zinfandel tolerable and how it was the preferred drink of the dieting women that I never saw eat actual food. And yet, here I am, on a Tuesday night, drinking a white wine spritzer. And that is for one simple reason: I’m too damn old to be drinking normal wine on a Tuesday night.

My birthday was on Saturday, a fact that had me pondering life and death and my rapid descent into middle age. It was a lovely day, full of sunshine and laughter and good tequila and an AMAZING pinata and yes, cupcakes. Howsomever, the week leading up to it I was a little grumptastic and introspective and shit because honestly, I was a little disappointed in myself leading up[ to this birthday. I’m three years away from turning 40 and I thought I would have my shit more together than I do. Read the rest of this entry »

1 Comment

Things That Are Pissing Me Off

April 26, 2012 at 1:31 pm (Absurdity, General Gobbledygook, Pets)
Tags: Me Me Me, Whinerrific

I am unusually cranky today, and I was unusually cranky yesterday. Maybe it is my impending birthday, or maybe it’s just that I keep encountering assholes all the damn time. But here are things that have pissed me off over the past week. They are petty and my complaining is SO FIRST WORLD and probably is going to piss someone else off but I really don’t care. Read the rest of this entry »

1 Comment

The Thing I Am Doing

April 18, 2012 at 9:27 pm (Friends, General Gobbledygook, Weightastic, Working It Out)

It seems like everyone I know is doing some new form of exercise. My dear friend Jeni is trying P90X. Shawn is skating her heart out in roller derby. Jane has started running. My friend Angela? Is doing a race every single month this year, including three half-marathons for the Triple Crown and convinced me to run a half marathon with her. (TIP: Always run charity runs and you can write off all your registration fees on your taxes!)

That half-marathon was an eye opener for me. It made me realize that I am not cut out for doing just one thing over and over and over. I mean, I love being able to say “Yeah bitches, 13.1 miles WHATTA WHAT!” but on the other hand: dude, I’ve been in physical therapy since the end of March because of the damn bursitis that race gave my hip. So I decided to go back to the exercise program that never bored me and never injured me but always, ALWAYS exhausted me.

I started Crossfitting again.

Read the rest of this entry »

1 Comment

Good skin

April 16, 2012 at 8:15 pm (General Gobbledygook)
Tags: Me Me Me, Pretty Pretty

A few weeks ago, I was at a charity luncheon with a bunch of my coworkers, a very “ladies who lunch” kind of event….silent auction, vendors selling shiny baubles and fancy olive oil, champagne being passed. I was surrounded by women who probably spend more on their face creams and dermatology appointments than I spend on my entire wardrobe. Imagine my surprise when one of these women, a well turned out 70ish lady, stopped me and said “You have such beautiful skin! What do you put on it?”

“Very little!” I replied. She laughed and did that “Oh, you!” arm pat that 70ish ladies do, obviously thinking I was just being coy until I followed it up with “No, really! I just have really good genes!”

And then she told me she hated me just a little, but she was chuckling when she said it so I knew she didn’t really.

But it got me to thinking about beauty routine, because she’s not the first woman to act so disbelieving when I shared my “secrets” with her. So look, here’s a peek behind the curtain to prove that really! It’s my mother and my grandmother and my great-grandmother and their fantastic genes that are responsible for this skin because I hardly do anything to it! Read the rest of this entry »

2 Comments

Style is Eternal

April 11, 2012 at 8:10 pm (General Gobbledygook)
Tags: Pretty Pretty

“Dress shabbily and they remember the dress;
dress impeccably and they remember the woman.”
― Coco Chanel

Remember last year when IGIGI gave us pretty dresses to wear at Weetacon and then review them? And it was so much fun and people got gift certificates and in general, it was awesome? Well, they stepped up again this year and asked the Weetacon ladies to test out and review parts of their spring line.

And that is how I ended up getting to wear one of the dresses I had seen and right away thought I needed in my work wardrobe IMMEDIATELY: the Cheryl Color Block dress. I am a sucker for anything that screams classic or vintage that I can wear season after season, and the Cheryl is one of those pieces. It’s a true wrap dress a la DVF, which is a silhouette that I swear is universally flattering. I already owned another one of IGIGI’s wrap dresses, a gorgeous swirly thing of emerald green jersey with interesting tucks and gathers along the neckline. The Cheryl is a bit more business like, with a simple straight neckline.

Read the rest of this entry »

47 Comments

Boring update (now with cute dog!)

April 9, 2012 at 3:22 pm (General Gobbledygook, Pets, Working It Out)

At the beginning of the year, I made this spreadsheet in Google that was titled “Things I Want To Do in 2012″. It wasn’t a very ambitious list; there’s a lot of cleaning projects on there, because honestly, our apartment’s storage areas are disgracefully unorganized and stuffed full of crap that we don’t need. And there’s a shelf that fell down at least a year ago in the spare room (aka The Cats’ Room) (yes, my cats have their own room and don’t even start with me because two of them are OLD and GETTING SICKLY and deserve their own room so there) (also, this way their cat boxes are somewhere not in front of me at all times, hooray!) that still needs to be hung back up.

For Q1, my goals were “File Taxes” (done, and I won’t even tell you how simple our taxes are to do because you might very well hate me), “Finish budget for 2012″ (done, and woo, we can afford our ten zillion vacations this year!), “Scarves for Weetacon” (did 1, and it was gorgeous!), “check out CrossFit Sun” (done, signed up, drank the Kool-Aid, lifting things up and putting them down and doing things like ACTUAL PUSH UPS on a regular basis), “Weetacon stuff” (done, and oh that sounds so deceptively simple! I just didn’t want to list everything out because I was too lazy and also, skeered). Undone: Reading and commenting on a friend’s spec scripts, cleaning out and reorganizing my kitchen, cleaning out and reorganizing my closet. I’ma call that a win, because DID I MENTION I RAN A HALF MARATHON IN JANUARY? Read the rest of this entry »

Well That’s Just Stupid

March 6, 2012 at 2:16 pm (Uncategorized)

The other day I was listening to this morning show on my drive to work, and I was reminded of why I do not listen to morning shows anymore. Because the hosts are morons! Gah. Luckily I have satellite radio so usually, it’s Book Radio (shaddup, I like radio plays and audio books in) or whatever random music I feel like listening to. ANYWAY. I happened to find like…the one stupid morning show available on satellite radio and they were talking about how OMG Jessica Biel wasn’t wearing her engagement ring!! THEY TOTALLY BROKE UP!!!!!!

Now granted, the one chick on the show is engaged so to her it’s like…the world is in that ring and if she takes it off then the world will END. She was absolutely shocked that one of her cohosts takes his ring off as soon as he gets home every night.

Right about then was when my eyes starting rolling around in my head spasmodically so I changed the channel because I didn’t want to crash my car. But come on, people. A ring is just a ring. Taking it off or hell, not wearing one at all does not make one suddenly be UnMarried. For crying out loud, my “wedding ring” that I’m wearing right now is the third or fourth version I’ve worn, and my original band gets worn on the middle finger of my right hand now since it’s too big and I don’t want to size it down because that would mess up the engraving.

But I walk around without my ring on all the time. I’m sorry, but I’m not going to go workout and lift dumbbells and do pull ups and shit with my ring on, because what if I drop a weight on my hand? Also, rings mess with my grip and that’s just annoying. Kevin takes his off every morning when he’s doing his hair since he doesn’t want to get hair gel all over it. Maybe Jessica Biel just wanted to go out without being paranoid about losing the big giant stone in the ring. Or maybe she was making meatloaf and decided to take it off so it wouldn’t get dirty and forgot to put it back on. Sheesh.

1 Comment

Love, hate, ow

January 19, 2012 at 9:01 pm (General Gobbledygook, Working It Out)

Remember back when I was all “Oh running is so awesome and I am loving it and WOO ENDORPHIN CRAZYTALK!”?

Yeah. Well. Now it’s more like “I like running, if it’s not too hot, and I got enough sleep, and my legs don’t hurt and also, I don’t run more than 6 miles anymore okay?” because it turns out that running long distances does not agree with my legs. Seriously, I ended up with these crazy ass shin splints that hurt all the damn time and I hated running with every fiber of my being. So I stopped running for a couple weeks and my legs stopped hurting and then I liked it again.

Which is good, because yo, I’m “running” a half marathon on Sunday. Emphasis on those quotes there, because I am still super duper slow. I mean, I can run a whole mile without stopping in like 13 minutes which is AWESOME, but I can’t run 13.1 of them. So I’ll be doing the Galloway/interval thing, running 3 minutes and then walking for 1. And when I’m done with that half marathon, I will never again run another double digit run ever again amen.

I have very, very modest goals for this race. Finish in less than 3 1/2 hours. Average a sub 15 minute mile. Don’t get hurt. Don’t be last. Don’t cry. Get that goddamn medal around my neck. Honestly, the only things keeping me from NOT doing the half on Sunday are the medal and the fact that I have spent a ton of freaking money on shoes and gear and registration and training group stuff and I need to see a return on my investment.

It won’t be the last time I run a race; I am one third of the way to my goal of running an entire 5K so I’ll keep doing those. And 10K seems to be my just right long distance so I’ll do a few more of those. But those half and full marathons? I am not enough woman for those, and kudos to people who are.

But hey, on the good side, all this running has made me realize one thing: I fucking miss the hell out of Crossfit. So I’m going to get back into THAT next month. Jumping out of one crazy into another. Yep, that’s me.

Blarghity blargh (and also blargh)

January 10, 2012 at 12:08 pm (Uncategorized)
Tags: life, work

The holidays may be over everywhere else in the world but not at my house. This is depite being off for the entire week between Christmas and New Year’s, because I have enver taken my lights down before New Year’s Day. And this year I had a champagne hangover on New Year’s Day so quite frankly, it was a victory to even put on pants, much less put away decorations. And then I got back to work and it was all “OMG INSANEPANTS CRAZYBUSYWOOOOOO” and then I ahd to go to Palm Springs for this management retreat we had and then I got sick and laid on the couch for two days with fever driven hot flashes.

So yeah, this may very well be the year when Kevin and I become “those people”, the ones who leave their Christmas lights up all year round. Hell, the tree is a tiny pink one that will be easy enough to redecorate with each passing season. Hearts for Valentine’s Day! Shamrocks! Easter Eggs! Etc and so forth!

Oh god, just the thought of that is making me itch. That shit is coming down this week if it kills me.

In other news, I am supposed to be writing my performance review right now, instead of writing this entry. It was actually due last Friday so I guess I’m already going to be dinged 5 points or something for that but hey, you pull me out of the office to sit and take notes for you for 4 days, you get my review from me late. On the good side, they (I) actually revamped the evaluation form this year so it’s not a worthless piece of crap. Our old version basically made employees justify themselves and their jobs and encouraged supervisors to be hypercritical of their employees. Oh, and there was absolutely no measurement of goal completion or even a MENTION of goals. Basically, it was the exact opposite of everything my Compensation professor said a good review form looked like.

I am supposedly being put up for a promotion since my current title doesn’t really convey my current position as well as it could. And also, Office Manager/IT/Facilities/Project Coordinator/Contracts Administrator/Webmaster doesn’t fit on my business cards AT ALL. We’ll see how that goes.

On Running

October 19, 2011 at 2:38 pm (Weightastic)
Tags: Me Me Me, Workin' On My Fitness

When I drive home from work in the evenings, there are always people on the trails and sidewalks in my neighborhood running and jogging. Older people, younger people, pairs and singles and groups, people with dogs, people with strollers. We are a very active suburban neighborhood is what I’m saying.

I like seeing the runners and joggers. Some of them are graceful and gazelleish in their running shorts; they are beautiful to watch, and I am always jealous of how easily they run. But others of them are like me: middle aged, a little pudgy, a little jiggly, not fast, but stubborn. Stubborn, and out there running.

I started running for reals in July, because in June my friend asked me if I wanted to run a half marathon with her in January. Before, I had done a few 5K runs that involved more walking than running, things I didn’t train for and attacked without any strategy or training. But a half marathon is Serious Stuff, so I signed up with a training group and told everyone I was doing it and then I registered because if I already paid for it, I’m more likely to do it. And then I started running.

And oh my lord it sucked at first. It hurt and I couldn’t breathe and I thought my head might explode. But it was exactly what I needed when I started up at the end of July, because I was not fit for group exercise since I was still angry and sorrowful and by and large just had no patience for people. But running was something I could do all by myself. It’s me versus me.

Read the rest of this entry »

1 Comment

« Older entries