pov

I knew this last week at work would be full and possibly hairy and harried. It actually went well AND I feel that since I decided to be good with whatever, my attitude about it was much better. It was a definite choice that I made on Sunday. It made it so much better.

travel

This last week was a big week at work. We were training people from all over the country at our LA studio. This week, we are moving offices. This weekend I am off to NYC to complete their upper level training. The next weekend, I am off to SF to begin their upper level training. The NYC group is 3 people. The SF group is 7. Very different. Also in SF, my dad is having his 75th birthday party. This will be fun (except for the part that I have to go and train directly afterwards, but that will work out).

I am not quite sure why I am writing this but I am.

spanish class

Just got the email from my teacher saying she'd posted our quiz grades - tee hee hee - I got 100% on my first quiz. I am very excited. I hope I do as well this tuesday night. I have a lot to study before then. I am doing well on the homework, but I can check if I am correct and reference things before I complete it. So there are things to memorize before tuesday. We will see how studying goes with traveling these next two weekends. Oh my goodness.

new glasses

See them on flickr. I wore them today and granted I actually accessorized my outfit. But everyone complimented me on my the color of my sweater or necklace or my earrings, but not my glasses. Only the people I mentioned I had gotten new glasses to, complimented me on my glasses. funny. I really like these as they have more peripheral vison that my old ones (the lenses are wider).

No Gloves Required

Last year, when I was in NYC for all of February, I had to get completely bundled to go outside. This trip, no gloves are required. Sometimes you might want them, but you don't have to have them, and sometimes you don't even want to wear them.

Yesterday when I arrived, the hotel told me there were no rooms available for early check in, but I could use the sauna or the pool if I wanted. I asked if there were couches down by the sauna or the pool. "No" was my answer. Granted, at that point I started eyeing the couches in the lobby. And I just stood there and waited. (I didn't sleep well on the red eye - due to turbulence and stress). I was too tired to figure out anything else to do. The woman helping me had walked away, when she came back, she had a room for me. They had upgraded me to a suite so that they could give me a room right away.

According the weatherpeople, we were supposed to have snow flurries today. We got rain. I even saw lightning on my walk home and heard thunder (they were very far apart, so very far away).

I will take some pix this trip and post them on flickr. I have yet to take any. But there are some interesting buildings.

Super Bowl Sunday and the anti-social weekend

The Pats lost. Which I think was a surprise to everyone (even the Giants, although they won't admit it.). I went to a local bar at the end of half time to watch the the rest of the game with other people - a friend of mine was either working or would have been there - anyway, they wouldn't let me in as they were full up. I could have pulled the "is so& so working?" but I just didn't have it in me. So my big social outing was given the ole heave ho.

I have had the anti-social weekend. Not that I was trying to be anti-social. I did go to the farmer's market in the rain and I did try to go to a bar.

I stayed home sick on friday. I just slept most of the day. Saturday, I made to knitting class, it was our last one. Then I knit and napped the rest of the day.

Next weekend I will be in NYC. I hope I am a little more lively.

I did cook today. So I have food for the week - or at least a portion of the week.

I think this is the most boring post ever. There is more to say and yet I am not sure how to say it.

I am happy for the Peytons. And I am unhappy that the Pats didn't complete their perfect season.

I didn't do anything specific to honor my mom's memory on Friday. I was sick. I did think about her and how I used to call her from college and talk for an hour or so with her when I was sick. I will go walk down to the ocean tomorrow morning on my walk. She has been gone 19 years. And as of this next Friday she would have been 73 years old.