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Realized that I haven't posted in ages, so doing the quick rundown.
Most of December was pretty non-descript. After a bunch of hemming and hawing (and came o so close to just flaking out), went to Ensenada for Xmas week to do a spanish immersion -- involving staying with a host family, going to daily classes, and the best part, hanging out with the other students and going around seeing sights, clubbing, etc. The best description I can give is that it was like summer camp for single 30-somethings. Craziness. Had a little bit of boy drama, but the best parts were spent hanging with the girls -- and I got a new local friend out of the deal (and in an interesting twist, some ongoing boy activity in the form of one of her friends) so thats even better.
So I've been kind of riding the social high from that experience, although I am beginning to come down a little bit. I got sick with major sinus infection while I was there, got laryngitis which kept me out of commission until the second week of January, was ok for a couple of days, and then came down with the respiratory hell that took out most of my department. And then went to Seattle for a little bit of family/friend time and conferencing. So for all intents and purposes, I was out of the office from 12/23-1/23, but I managed to pull my annual review together for work and submit it on time. So I'm actually feeling nice and lazy now -- brain is nice and clear and non-stressed. Had a nice lazy weekend of lolling around in bed, interrupted by conversating, reading, watching movies and walking around town. I'm actually going to attempt something like productivity today, although my list of things to actually accomplish is getting smaller and smaller -- I think if I manage to clear out the back of the van, wash the motorcycle, ride said motorcycle to the reptile store to get Rhee some miceketies, start assembling all the crap I have to return to various stores, and do laundry, that will be the mark of a successful day.
In anticipation of Lazy Bed Day, I did crazy levels of housecleaning on Friday, so the apartment is looking pretty good, barring the big pile of boxes in the corner. The goal for February is to empty the storage unit and get everything here so I can start working my way through it.
Activities for this quarter include continuing with Spanish (Spanish 5! Whoot! Although I appear to be completely failing it at this time. Hopefully I'll get it a little more together), and doing a wilderness course through the sierra club that involves weekly classes, and four different hiking/camping outings (including terrain navigation and snow camp, both of which I am very excited about). I've dropped the racewalking, at least temporarily. I may start up with yoga and kettlebell again as I need to work on my flexibility, and have been plotting and planning ways to get more hill walking in to prep for hiking and general endurance (parking at the base of Torrey or LJ shores and walking to work seems like the option of choice, and also allows for morning surfing if I can get that organized).
So yeah. Life is good in southern california. :> I really do like it. Please don't take my native Seattlite card away.
Most of December was pretty non-descript. After a bunch of hemming and hawing (and came o so close to just flaking out), went to Ensenada for Xmas week to do a spanish immersion -- involving staying with a host family, going to daily classes, and the best part, hanging out with the other students and going around seeing sights, clubbing, etc. The best description I can give is that it was like summer camp for single 30-somethings. Craziness. Had a little bit of boy drama, but the best parts were spent hanging with the girls -- and I got a new local friend out of the deal (and in an interesting twist, some ongoing boy activity in the form of one of her friends) so thats even better.
So I've been kind of riding the social high from that experience, although I am beginning to come down a little bit. I got sick with major sinus infection while I was there, got laryngitis which kept me out of commission until the second week of January, was ok for a couple of days, and then came down with the respiratory hell that took out most of my department. And then went to Seattle for a little bit of family/friend time and conferencing. So for all intents and purposes, I was out of the office from 12/23-1/23, but I managed to pull my annual review together for work and submit it on time. So I'm actually feeling nice and lazy now -- brain is nice and clear and non-stressed. Had a nice lazy weekend of lolling around in bed, interrupted by conversating, reading, watching movies and walking around town. I'm actually going to attempt something like productivity today, although my list of things to actually accomplish is getting smaller and smaller -- I think if I manage to clear out the back of the van, wash the motorcycle, ride said motorcycle to the reptile store to get Rhee some miceketies, start assembling all the crap I have to return to various stores, and do laundry, that will be the mark of a successful day.
In anticipation of Lazy Bed Day, I did crazy levels of housecleaning on Friday, so the apartment is looking pretty good, barring the big pile of boxes in the corner. The goal for February is to empty the storage unit and get everything here so I can start working my way through it.
Activities for this quarter include continuing with Spanish (Spanish 5! Whoot! Although I appear to be completely failing it at this time. Hopefully I'll get it a little more together), and doing a wilderness course through the sierra club that involves weekly classes, and four different hiking/camping outings (including terrain navigation and snow camp, both of which I am very excited about). I've dropped the racewalking, at least temporarily. I may start up with yoga and kettlebell again as I need to work on my flexibility, and have been plotting and planning ways to get more hill walking in to prep for hiking and general endurance (parking at the base of Torrey or LJ shores and walking to work seems like the option of choice, and also allows for morning surfing if I can get that organized).
So yeah. Life is good in southern california. :> I really do like it. Please don't take my native Seattlite card away.
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