Maybe I need to be an ladies athletic apparel designer

So here’s my most recent weightlifting incident: There’s a squat machine at the gym with pads that cushion the weight that will be carried by your shoulders. Ergonomically, the machine is very sound and takes you through a good range of motion. I did it for the first time on Friday and when I got home to take a shower, I realized the pads had forced the seams of my sports bra into my shoulder and now I have lines on top of my shoulders :-( So I guess I need to shop out a sports bra with better placed seams so that I can use the squat machine without leaving marks on my body.

There’s a security guard at work who doesn’t make me feel very secure. He scares me in a way that is creepy, rather than intimidating. I keep watching Dateline thinking that I’m going to see him arrested. I have absolutely no basis to make this judgment except from what my intuition tells me.

Yesterday, my old boss’s boss (who I adore) walks into our office and says, "Do you guys think that our security guard probably isn't playing with a full deck? He overheard me say that I have 6 kids and asked me if I ever lost any of them. It seemed like he was serious so to be silly, I said, 'Well, not since we started keeping them all on leashes.' And he replied, 'Oh, that's a good idea...' " We all had a good laugh about it. I feel validated that I'm not the only one who thinks he's odd.

I recently went through a stage of trying to get rid of things I found in my freezer and cupboards. I finally ran out of ideas about how to use up cans of diced chili peppers and bags of frozen oriental style veggies, so it’s back to real cooking for me. I went through a bunch of recipes last weekend and found some soups I wanted to try and bought the ingredients this weekend. White chili with ground turkey, white beans, and special seasonings was terrific. Curried sweet potato soup was tasty but I still felt hungry after I ate it. Tonight, I’m trying something with Swiss Chard and leeks…

A couple weeks ago, a girl from this summer's softball team had a housewarming party. A neighbor and her boyfriend were the last to leave and I guess they were making out on my friend’s couch and trying to get my friend and her boyfriend to join them. You talk about being made to feel uncomfortable in your own house…

I was listening to a rather manly morning show on D-town’s hard rock radio station and one of the hosts read an ad that started, "Are you interested in breast augmentation?" This got me thinking. My guess is that most of the morning show's audience is either male, or female like me (not interested in breast augmentation). So clearly, the ad's intended audience was to men who would want to buy breast augmentation for their significant other. I don't like that.