This week, my brain was far too productive. I apologize, because this means you will get a few entries in one slightly unsightly package; just slightly.
To start, you may have glanced at your calendar at some point this week and, much like me, exclaimed "Oh shit, Christmas is in like 20 days! Shit and double shit!"
Your exclamation might not have been quite as profane as mine.
I have, despite the doubts that profanity may have stirred, come up this year's fool-proof Christmas presents. Maybe not fool-proof, but at least thoughtful. I get points for thoughtful right? Thank goodness Santa only asks that I be nice, not wealthy.
Regardless of my own frugal Christmas plans, I realize that some of you may wish to take a different route. For this reason (mostly because I've been asked, not because I'm a money monger) I have compiled a list of useful gift cards of places that I know are in both Oregon and California (except one... sorry). If you weren't planning on getting me a gift, I totally understand. If you've already bought one, I'm sure I'll love it! If you still want to and have no clue what would be useful, its your lucky day!
Groceries:
Trader Joes (this is my primary shopping locale currently)
Costco (also a biggie on the list of places I acquire the necessary calories to live on (and some of the unnecessary ones too))
Safeway (Emergency shopping, because its across the street from work)
Treats/Eating out:
Starbucks, duh.
Quiznos (also across the street from work and makes for easy lunches or dinners when I got up too late to make one)
Chevy's (the first choice to eat out for my coworkers and I)
Books: (because we all know what my vices are)
Barnes & Noble (close to work... though apparently a Powell's is too. Why do people tell me these things?!)
Non-Gift Card Items
WARM SOCKS! (self explanatory)
Okay. Christmas. Check.
Now, I'll tell you a secret if you promise not to tell anyone.
Promise?
I joined Curves this week.
Now, wait just a minute before you assault me with all of your claims of my great shape. You may like to believe that this sassy little red head you love and adore is too beautiful to worry about such trivial things as her thighs, but that's where you're wrong. Its not my thighs I'm worried about.
You know those annoying questionnaires the doctor's give you when you become a new patient (and anywhere that does medical exams, mind you) and that long list of medical problems you have to wade through and try to remember if Grandpa has the cataracts or Auntie May had the hemorrhoids? See, my thighs, they'll always be there when I look in the mirror, and no amount of working out is going to change the way my body is structured. I came to terms with that a long time ago. But Auntie May's hemorrhoids?! Those worry me. No, not literally hemorrhoids, but my family's medical history.
It would worry you too if you saw it.
Promise?
I joined Curves this week.
Now, wait just a minute before you assault me with all of your claims of my great shape. You may like to believe that this sassy little red head you love and adore is too beautiful to worry about such trivial things as her thighs, but that's where you're wrong. Its not my thighs I'm worried about.
You know those annoying questionnaires the doctor's give you when you become a new patient (and anywhere that does medical exams, mind you) and that long list of medical problems you have to wade through and try to remember if Grandpa has the cataracts or Auntie May had the hemorrhoids? See, my thighs, they'll always be there when I look in the mirror, and no amount of working out is going to change the way my body is structured. I came to terms with that a long time ago. But Auntie May's hemorrhoids?! Those worry me. No, not literally hemorrhoids, but my family's medical history.
It would worry you too if you saw it.
I decided months ago that living a healthy lifestyle was important, I just didn't realize how hard it was to be consistent about it. I've always worked out in bursts and starts, taking off seasons off, and only working out outside of practice because I felt like it. And then, of course, once I stopped practicing all together, working out was just simply out of the question. I tried a few times to take running up again, but I was too busy flirting and getting A's then. So sue me.
Now that I'm not "chasing tail" as they say, anymore, my life has become a little sedentary. Working at a desk: the pitfall of an adult job! Ah teaching, how I wish for you to come sooner. But, while I wait for the day I can spend all day on my feet (....woot?) I should probably get used to doing it on my own. And Curves is very low on the pressure and high on the cheerleading. I like feeling good for doing very little. Baby steps, baby steps.
Curves is covered then. That concludes my whirlwind assault on your senses (including your good sense).
Considering the way my week is turning out, I'll probably post again on Sunday. I'm sure you're thrilled.
Tootles!
2 comments:
I will have a nice lean Christmas this year too. Honestly, with everything going on in my life, I can do without gifts myself. I'd like to just move past that this year.
I tried giving up gifts, but there are somethings that are more hurtful than productive (to my family that is). I would take away a huge joy in their lives if I went crazy anti-presents on them, and I simply can't always be the one that has to ruin special things for them (trust me, I've done it a few times).
I totally get where you're coming from though.
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