Morning's at Seven

I have a confession.

I am a morning person. I am one of those happy and alert people who smile before 8am without coffee. (I know, it's utterly obnoxious.)

I once spent an incredibly boring vacation with two non-morning people. I would get up, at 8:30 (which is sleeping in for me) have breakfast, go see something near the hotel and then park myself in the lobby with a book until they woke up (noon). Then we would all have lunch. This is a way to really annoy your fellow-travellers, because not only are you alert and happy, but you've gone sight-seeing without them.

But now I'm being punished for all my morning smugness. Since moving to the far edge of the continent (California) I have to take part in international conference calls, that are always on Paris time. Today I had to get up at 5am to listen to a hour long presentation on safety procedures.

Safety Procedures are good. I am all for safety - but 5am is not morning. 5am is still night. Morning starts at 7. 6:30 if you stretch it. but 5 is too early, even for me. So I am yawning my way through the day, and hope to get through my workout without falling asleep on the treadmill (Which would be very unsafe, maybe I can say making me get up at 5am is inherently unsafe and they should reschedule the meeting for a more civilized hour, like 7.)

In other news, I have completed #96: Update my Career Networking Profile. This is essentially a resume, and I hate writing my resume. I find resume's painful to write (unlike rambling blog entries) and put them off as long as humanly possible. I've been meaning to update mine since 2003. I know, not the move of an upwardly mobile career-woman is it? But it is done, which means I don't have to do it again for at least a year! Yippee!

A wild weekend

I had an eventful weekend. My friend Laura introduced me to her friends Sonya and Kirby, who were visiting from out of town. Sonya had a list of places she just had to go, so we went to a few of those and a few she hadn’t heard of and a good time was had by all.

I’m a bit tired from being out so late, but it was worth it. (I usually start nodding off around 10:30, so getting home at 2-3 am was a big change for me.) The only thing I’d change is I wouldn’t eat so much. I simply cannot eat that way anymore, and I think the oil/butter content at Crustacean could easily have been cut in half without any adverse affect on the food. It’s not that it wasn’t good, but it was greasy. I felt heavy and ill after eating it.

For me, the highlight of the evening was Café Cocomo, a salsa club. I love to dance, I love salsa, and I love live music. I have to go back, maybe regularly. As a way to burn calories, it would be a lot more fun than the treadmill.

I also spent some time taking photos, as you can see. The frog just fell out of my screen door when I went out on the patio to water my plants. He may be tiny, but he’s fast. I tried to move him to get a better shot, and he just took off.

Spring Fever

Successes

• I brought lunch to work 4 out 5 days
• I have not bitten my nails (but I going through an alarming amount of gum)
• I cleaned out my filing cabinet
• I have taken my vitamins for 5 days straight.
• I have a plan for my vacation in May
• I paid 300 dollars on my credit card debt

Failures

• I only biked to work once this week.
• I have only done 1 out of my 3 scheduled running workouts
• There are still 3 overflowing boxes of books in my living room

I always thought I had stumpy fingers, but with nails on them, they look slimmer, more tapered and feminine. It's amazing what a tiny little change can do. There may be something to this nail business.

I am proud of myself for getting more organized. Clearing out old things so there is room for the new to grow.

Maybe it’s Spring Fever, but I feel itchy, jumpy, I have a need to go do something. Something different. Something active. Something creative. But I have no idea what.

Things that have crossed my mind:

• Glass blowing
• Learn to paint
• Climb Mount Tamalpais
• Tango lessons in Buenos Aires
• Quitting my job

I don’t know. I haven't found anything that really fires my imagination. Something that screams "You must do this!" to me. I'm open to suggestions.