more interview, exercise, and family

[derien]

I may have mentioned that the doctor told me I have "anxious bladder" - that's why, supposedly, with the Zoloft I'm able to sleep through the night and not get up to go to the bathroom (unless I've drunk quite a lot). Can you imagine what "anxious bladder" means when faced with an interview? I had to pee a half hour before the interview, I had to pee right before the interview, and even so I felt as though I had to pee DURING the interview. Yeah. :)

This morning, in total contravention of all my intentions re the 'spare' room (between the bathroom and the hall) becoming the exercise room (you can see my weights and foam roller stacked behind the chair), I did my stretching in the kitchen. Mostly because I wanted to start out with dancing to get my blood moving, and that's where there's the most space. I chose "The Great Curve," by the Talking Heads, as it was the first really long song I found that I thought would be good to dance to, and it did serve the purpose of moving my blood. :) I'm still sweating. I read the other day that itchy legs when out in the cold is caused by capillaries in the skin being unused to working, therefore if you do aerobic exercise more often you won't get that as much. Weird. Not that I should really need more reason to get aerobic exercise than that it's good for the heart and lungs.

Tomorrow is my Uncle's memorial service, so I'll be getting up early and taking a long drive. I was hoping to convince myself to do some baking today so I'd have something to take with me as an offering for the family get-together and also so I would have something I could eat. However... yeah. For some reason I could not get myself to bake. OH! I just remembered someone told me about a new gluten free bakery in Portland, on Forest Ave. I wonder if I'd be able to find that this morning before work if I left right away? I guess I'll be going! Erm, anyhow, will be good to see family and especially Florida Auntie, who I called the other day. Man, can she talk. I was on the phone at least an hour and barely got twenty words in. :)

Comments

[acanthaster.livejournal.com]

Your new place is so pretty and airy looking! And I love that cool "hidden" door in the spare room... is that a closet?

[derien.livejournal.com]

That's a closet that runs the whole length of that wall, but is only a foot deep, with only that one door to get into - picture how hard it is to reach anything in the ends of it. Very annoying, actually! Because it's so cool, because it's really old and authentic, and yet it's so dusty and dirty and inconvenient. We're going to ruin it's authenticity by cleaning it up inside and painting, then putting in shelves so that we can actually make some use fo that space, and I feel badly about that, but right now all we can use it for is storage for a vaccuum cleaner, a step-stool, those sorts of odds and ends.

[acanthaster.livejournal.com]

What a crazy closet!! I bet someone could write a really cool children's story about it...