Up and Down

The last few days have been full of contradictions. On Thursday night I attended the worst yoga class ever. The regular teacher got sick at the last minute, and the replacement teacher was just awful. A large portion of the class, including Amy and me, got up and left early. It was supposed to be a flow yoga class, where you move from pose to pose quickly. Instead she had us holding poses for far longer than I’ve ever had to hold them in any yoga class, while she lounged on her mat studying her fingernails. It was truly terrible. But then on Saturday I went to a yoga class at the gym up here and had one of those great classes where everything came together perfectly. I walked out of there feeling loose and limber and ready to take on the world.

Friday brought more of the same, all wrapped up in one day. Laila was in town ever so briefly and we were trying to get together for dinner, but obstacles kept cropping up. First one problem, and then another and another and then yet another which made my day kind of stressful. One long boring story (which I’ll spare you) later (you’re welcome) I ended up having a lovely dinner with Jules and Michael and Laila and her new/old boyfriend John, but alas, not my John. Laila’s John was her boyfriend high school, and again for a while in college, and he has come back into her life recently. He seems to be making her very happy, which makes me happy. It was fun to see him after all this time, although the restaurant was so loud we had a hard time having any real conversation. We were tucked into a corner, which I thought would be good, but it didn’t really help with the noise level. The food was delicious – I had an amazing panzanella salad and fresh whole wheat pasta with asparagus, squash and carrots in an arugula pesto sauce – but the service was agonizingly slow. See? Up and down

And then there’s Best Buy. John and I have been talking about getting a video camera forever, and I finally decided to take part of our income tax refund and just buy one. So, we are now the proud owners of a little Sony mini-DVD handycam. The world should get ready for lots of little movies of Seamus doing things I think are particularly cute. That purchase went smoothly. The Best Buy people were uncharacteristically knowledgeable and helpful and so far I am excited and delighted with my video camera. And then we come to my laptop. I love my laptop. With the exception of being resistant to getting networked with my desktop, it has done everything I wanted it to. Until the CD/DVD player popped out the other day. Not the whole thing, because that I could probably fix on my own. Just the part that slides out so you can put the CD or DVD in and use it. You tap it to open it, and this time, it opened and just kept on going. Now I bought the extended warranty on the laptop figuring I’d fall down the stairs while carrying it or something, so I knew I could get it fixed for free. But what I didn’t know is that they don’t fix it at Best Buy. No, they are shipping it back to Toshiba, and it will take three to four WEEKS to get it fixed and returned.

The biggest up by far was having my big weigh-in today and discovering that I have lost 15 pounds! Yay! I've still got a long way to go, but it is nice to see some progress. I'm a little worried about what the downside could be, but I've decided to hope there isn't one.