Ten Things for Thursday in These Foolish Things

1. Birthday was yesterday and it was pretty uneventful by design. I knew I was going to have a super stressful day at work with all of the stuff going on (and now I only have half a staff). Much to my surprise, however, my team and Best Bud and others took me to lunch. That was the highlight of my day! It was full of laughter and cheer. I actually almost ordered a glass of wine at lunch but I knew that I’d be useless in the afternoon and I needed to stay focused. The other fun part of yesterday were all of the greetings on Facebook. It has become an amazing phenomenon to hear from so many people on my birthday, though it takes forever to acknowledge everyone and, of course, I want to do that! I also got a lot of LinkedIn birthday wishes and I spent a bit of time this morning thanking business folks - need to keep networking. After work yesterday, I took the dog for a walk last night, texted a few peeps (NOT Sexy Pants! NOT The Tree! NOT anyone like that!) and was in bed by 9:30. Glorious.

2. Updates in the dude department: there are no updates. I never texted SP back after his Happy Birthday bullshit text, and I hope that sent him a clear message. I never heard from anyone else…except a guy I used to see when I lived in the Great Midwest. He’s a brilliant writer and I have always been sort of in awe of him. He also has the largest you-know-what I’ve ever experienced, and I couldn’t help but think of that as we texted back and forth last night. I had a chance with him a couple of years ago when I went to visit some friends (I got to see Parliament during that trip…hi!), but I didn’t feel right because I was seeing The Bulldog. Uggghhh. I shoulda had that while I had the chance.

3. I miss sex. A lot.

4. Oh! I do want to tell you about a Tinder match from a couple of days ago. He is a soldier stationed in Afghanistan. My guess is, he JUST got deployed and we matched right before he left, otherwise we never would have matched. Anyway, he’s VERY handsome and caught my attention when we started writing, but it escalated quickly into him asking if I could fall in love with him by the time he got back from his tour. I asked him how long he’d be gone and he said he didn’t know. I then told him that perhaps I could like him very much through texting/emailing, but that I couldn’t fall in love with someone I’ve never met. I’m a HUGE believer in chemistry. And he disappeared.

5. And I’m seriously done with Tinder for a while - with the exception of one last straggler who’s just a few texts away from being deleted, I’m sure. ;)

6. Regarding weight/workout/health situation, let’s put it this way - it took me 5 months earlier this year to lose 9 pounds, and only took me three months to gain allllll of that back, plus 1/2 pound! This week, I signed back up at the gym that I don’t really like, but at least they have group classes that are decent. My only concern is that I pre-paid for a year and the club could potentially close at any moment now, though there were a LOT of people there on Monday evening when I went to check out a class. The good news is that this is a chain and there’s another club fairly close that I can use as well. I have also resumed my early morning routine (25 minutes of cardo/weights after I first wake up). You guys, every day that I actually do this early morning routine I feel like a complete person! I have skipped and skipped for months now and it feels gross to skip my workout in the morning. To me, skipping that workout is like leaving the apartment with an unmade bed…it just doesn’t feel right. And I’ve been incomplete for months now. So, all the more reason to keep it up.

7. My brother and I are not close. He lives in China with his wife and their baby and we rarely exchange emails except for on our birthdays. This year he sent me an email, but this one was different. It was filled with lots and lots of updates on his life and his wife and baby and how he’s doing teaching at a university. And then he wrote about how he wants us to have a better relationship and that it’s never too late to start fresh. He signed it, “with love to my smarter, stronger sister” and I just about broke down in tears. I wrote him back and told him that it takes a lot of strength and courage to write a letter like that and look at all that he’s accomplished! I ended it with who’s the smarter, stronger one now? I hope it works out between us. It’s no fun to have a bad relationship with a sibling. I’m willing to work on this as long as he is.

8. Had my review at work. It was actually really good and I could tell that my boss spent a lot of time working on good, honest and constructive feedback. I appreciated it. It’s not going to keep me from looking for something else, that’s for sure, but it was probably the best review from a feedback standpoint I’ve ever gotten…and then he sent me texts well into the evening last night - on my birthday. No good review is even worth having to answer to the boss on the night of my birthday. Just, no.

9. I need to start planning my vacations for the upcoming year…this is the countdown to 50, folks. Let’s think of something AH-MAY-ZING!

10. My horoscope says I’m going to be super busy this year. Yep, it’s already starting that way and I need to get back to work, though I’m also planning on filling my social calendar up just as much!

xo,
GS