Shower curtain, weather, lifting, blockbuster, and the saddest excuse for a fly

The planning, measuring, cutting, patch working, trimming, hemming, sewing button holes, and slicing holes finally culminated in the ceremonial hanging of my shower curtain this weekend. It is as gorgeous as it was labor intensive and brings me great joy.

On my walking trips between my place and my gym this week, I've noticed how nice the weather is. I think it was about 50 after the sun set and in my mind, I had not had enough of those great fall nights this year. It seems like it got really cold really fast. I'm actually pretty content with any evening temperature above 45. I love not having to wear a coat over my sweats when I'm outside.

In my mind, fall and spring time have distinct smells but rain, no matter what season smells the same. The other night, it smelled like rain and then I woke up the next morning to light showers.

Running intervals is really hard. My goal at the gym is to push myself hard enough and build up to a point towards the end of my 20 minutes on the treadmill where I feel like throwing up. Then I know I worked hard enough. It’ll make that 8:30 mile that much easier to come by. On Monday,after a decent run, I lifted not so great and it kinda got to me. I hate not being good. Every day is a good lifting day when you haven’t lifted in a long time but now that I’ve been lifting more consistently, my weights and reps aren’t progressing like I wish they were. The good news is that you always get a another chance to try to be better.

I subscribe to Blockbuster online and couldn’t rave enough about it until now. They just made the membership benefits even better. Now I can bring the DVDs they mail me to a store and the store checks in the online DVD, the online blockbuster sends me my next DVD, and I walk out of the store with a free rental. I’ll probably give it up once I get cable but for now, it’s more than adequate as a substitute. I’m trying to hold off on cable as long as I can. I won’t have to wait much longer now that my car is paid off though! Right now I'm cathing up on episodes of Life as We Know It, Mind of Mencia, and Da Ali G Show.

I made the awesomest salad for lunch: lettuce, dried cranberries, Vidalia onions, green peppers, walnuts, leftover salmon, and poppy seed dressing.

There was a fly buzzing around the office area yesterday afternoon. It was the most pathetic fly I’ve ever seen. It was flying really slowly and then landing, rolling over on its back, waving its legs around slowly and buzzing its wings but not going anywhere. Once he chose his ultimate resting place – my coffee cup, I covered it up with my hand and let him out outside.

My neck hurts :-( I hope I'm not getting sick.