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Topics covered in today’s musing:

1. Fitness and Weight Loss Update
2. Five more random facts
3. And….. a surprise topic! (Aren’t you excited??)

Fitness & Weight Loss Update

Let’s get the boring topic out of the way, shall we?… Down 32 pounds (woo) and back to running after a little incident involving the knee area (hoo). I’m finding that I’m starting to look forward to exercise these days – which is a shocker… as I do enjoy my couch/laptop/tv time. 

Current issue: Running reeeeeeeeeeeally slow – feel like a snail. Pretty sure what I’m doing is called jogging and not running, but I refuse to put on a sweat band and striped short shorts, so screw you Richard Simmons! I’m a runner!

Five More Random Facts

1. When I was 24 I accepted a job in Seattle (I lived in CA) and didn’t tell my boyfriend at the time until a few days before I was scheduled to leave. Actually, I didn’t even tell him. We were at a party and my friend Peter said something like “we’ll miss you when you leave!”… I had to come clean at the party that I was leaving and one of the reasons was because I wanted to break up with him – good thing there was alcohol!
2. The movie ET still scares me… that thing is shiny and wrinkly and it speaks in a scary “i’m gonna eeeeeaaat you — loooook how bigggg myyyy beeeeeeeeeeellly is!!” voice. *Shudder*
3. I love the band Chicago.
4. I dated a guy who was in the Coast Guard and we broke up when he was in Antarctica……….. that’s cold. Get it?
5. I strolled down Castro Street at 2am with a 2 foot tall pink bouffant wig. From what I’m told… there were martini’s involved earlier in the evening.

Numero 3 – The Surpise!

Two stories about how much of a dork I am:

1. When I was about 7 years old I decided that the best way to make some serious money was to sell my artwork. Since it was approximately 1983 at the time – my artwork consisted of a variety of Spirograph masterpieces.  Big ones, little ones… these priceless multi-colored extravaganzas smelled to me of the sweet spiralling scent of financial success!  So I carefully chose the peices I was going to display in my show from my rather varied collection, ever so carefully cut them out, and placed them neatly on a folding card table on the corner of our street. With a sign that said “Art – $0.25. I made no sales.

2. I danced to “It’s Getting Hot in Here” by Nelly. In public.