Hello, you beautiful people! How're my precious buddies doin' tonight?? Yes, as you can tell, I'm in a nice, fuzzy place (and no, I'm not drunk--haven't had a drop of vino in ages in fact!)....but tonight, I just have this calm, peaceful feeling (may disappear by the morning, but I'm just enjoying it right now!).
After being up until the wee hours of the morning (4.30 am or so, obsessing about today and too stressed to sleep), today turned out to be surprisingly GOOD! The usual drill, 3 classes, ie., 6 hours of lecturing, being articulate, funny, and un-boring to a brand new batch of students..normally daunting especially after a night of minimal sleep (sometimes that feels like early stages of dementia!), but today it was good! The students were interested, participating, and managed to even stay a few extra minutes past 5.30 pm after a long day of classes!! Guess we're all suckers for work! Or, perhaps I'm that GOOD! ;) haha!
The meetings interspersed with the classes, the evening reception and networking with colleagues (typically a forced schmooze and face-time!), but was actually quite nice today--short and sweet. The provost surprised me my coming up and HUGGING me! o..kay..this honeymoon period can only last for so long, i know!
My colleague took me out to dinner to celebrate my b'day on Sunday, and I got three other b'day cards in the mail---all on a day when I was quite apprehensive, and in a week when I'm not looking forward to a milestone b'day!! But it did feel good to be remembered and appreciated---very touching indeed!
In the food-department, I sorta did ok. I did have my morning cereal, but went with the fiber one cereal, which has low net carbs (9 g or so), with soy milk. For lunch, I had my pre-made tofu stir fry (low in carbs)...at the reception, I managed to skip most appetizers, desserts, wine, and beer (damn! how are you supposed to drink and then go teach?!!), but did have a couple of slices of melon and a small bunch of grapes, and 1.5 little artichoke fritters (fried!).
At dinner, we went to an Irish place (couldn't really say no to the place as it was my colleague's idea and a sweet gesture!). Well, they were seriously lacking in anything vegetarian. My entree option was a pasta dish, which I skipped. Instead, ordered a salad and an appetizer (brie en croute with a side of little BREAD pieces!!)...the salad had a rich blue cheese dressing, so I'm sure that's bad on points and carbs...didn't drink any wine or other drinks, and had coffee instead of dessert. Oh! and the company was GREAT !! So many laughs! And we closed the place down! Like we always do! We're gonna start doing this on a regular basis...I feel guilty about all the time spent, but what the heck, one can't always be productive---time spent chilling is time spent healing! Life's too short!
Oh, no workout today either. Don't ask why. And I don't want to berate myself either. I'm just gonna sit here and enjoy my little warm, fuzzy feeling :)
P.S: Now I'm so wired! And none of you are here to chat with!!! I must be still on west-coast time! Just had an epiphany! I should permanently move to west coast time-zone, and communicate/work only with east-coast people! That way I'll always have 3 hours and long late nights!!!!!!!!!
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HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY LAST SUNDAY!! Are you going to tell us which milestone birthday this is???? Hmmmmmmm??????? :) So glad you're in that warm, fuzzy place and HAPPY tonight! :) I really don't know how in the world you functioned today after going to sleep at 4:30 am! This might explain the warm, fuzzy feeling...LOL Looks like you did pretty well in the food department and had a wonderful time too! You are so right....you gotta chill SOME time!! I don't know how you could have fit in a workout after the busy day you had. There's always tomorrow! Stay happy my friend! Love and Hugs! :D
04 set 08 por membro: mbhpro
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Thanks, Mary Beth!!!!! You're the FIRST to wish me online--coz, dude, my birthday hasn't happened YET!! It's THIS SUNDAY!! And you can only guess which milestone it is! I'm in my 30s..and firmly ENTRENCHED in my 30s! So you can easily guess! I'm gonna be a LADY and not reveal my age (well, if it matters, in my HEART, I'm 25!!!!). Yeah, the warm fuzzy feeling could be the LACK OF SLEEP! Isn't insomnia GREAT?! "Sleep is for people without social lives"! LOL!!
04 set 08 por membro: 08willbegreat
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Oh geez......I think I'm a little fuzzy tonight too. I saw on Facebook that your birthday is on Sep. 7th and I STILL thought it was last Sunday as you will see by my comment there....LOL. At least I got to be the FIRST ONE to wish you a Happy Birthday! :D
04 set 08 por membro: mbhpro
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LOL! No worries, mate! Better early than late! (hey! that rhymes! :))
04 set 08 por membro: 08willbegreat
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hee hee hee......are you sure you haven't had any wine???? :)
04 set 08 por membro: mbhpro
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no, i SWEAR!!! This is all me, just me, babe! LOL!
04 set 08 por membro: 08willbegreat
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hey...if you like outlet shopping, you should come down my way and we'll go to the Grove City outlets and you can do some birthday shopping!
04 set 08 por membro: mbhpro
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you deserve it since it's such a BIG birthday!! ;)
04 set 08 por membro: mbhpro
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awww....that's SWEET!!! I'll wait, though, until I lose another 10 pounds, and then I'm gonna do some SERIOUS Shopping damage!!! But you can come down this weekend and hang out with me! It'd be great to see ya! And our nice weather is still here--but won't be for too long!!!
04 set 08 por membro: 08willbegreat
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hey! was that a DIG at my MILESTONE??! ;) It's not THAT big!
04 set 08 por membro: 08willbegreat
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You're right about that, and it really gets NASTY cold up by the Lake! I have to go to Pgh tomorrow to pick up Sarah, and I don't know what's going to happen after that. So I'd have to get back to you on that. But we definitely need to get together SOON.
05 set 08 por membro: mbhpro
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cool, I'll HOLD you to that!!!!
05 set 08 por membro: 08willbegreat
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LOL.....you said it was big so I assumed it was BIG!!!
05 set 08 por membro: mbhpro
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hey! when did I say BIG??! In no shape or form do I want this one to be BIG!! Get it? ;)
05 set 08 por membro: 08willbegreat
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05 set 08 por membro: mbhpro
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hey sweetie, I have an early morning tomorrow. I hate to break up this warm and fuzzy time we're having, but I better get some sleep :( I'm sure I'll catch you tomorrow some time! Love ya!
05 set 08 por membro: mbhpro
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hey, yeah! we better knock this off! Yeah, fun catching up with ya...see ya tomorrow! Have a GREAT DAY!!!! Love ya too!!!
05 set 08 por membro: 08willbegreat
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Happy Birthday on Sunday! (in case I forget, I have a lot on my mind) Have a great Friday!
05 set 08 por membro: sararay
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08! you're just yuckin' it up over here!! I just wanted to say that you need to check your email! LOL Hey! it's important!! dang it! HAPPY EARLY BIRTHDAY!!!
05 set 08 por membro: BadAndee
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<singing> "On the day that you were born the angels got together, and decided to create a dream come truu-uue!" Happy early birthday! I was going to guess the big 2-0, thinking you were a child prodigy. So glad you're feeling warm and fuzzy today. Your students are lucky to have you for a teacher!
05 set 08 por membro: amryk
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