Owwwww, my ass

I always fall during weave drills, and I think I figured out why last night; I think I'm not picking up my feet enough. So anyway I was doing the racing part of the drill and totally fell on my ass.

There are two ways to fall on your ass: one where your coccyx (or "ass bone" as the so-called medical establishment terms it) slams into the floor, and the impact goes all the way up your spine, radiating out through your arms and to the top of your head. This is the worst kind of ass fall because it's like a whole-body fall.

Then there's the fall where you actually land as if you're sitting in a chair, and the impact is absorbed by your (if you're zaftig like me) chubbly cheeks. That's the kind I had last night. Unfortunately, while I was able to get up and keep skating, I have sustained a bruise on the left tock. Said bruise is making it very difficult for me to move sans wincing. OWWWW.

I made it to le gym!

I totally made it to the gym at 6pm after work yesterday, which I was tres proud about. Unfortunately, I'd wanted to take a spinning class, and I thought well of course there'll be one at 6, but I got there and learned that the Tuesday Thursday classes are 5:30-6:30. So lame! So I did 30 minutes of elliptical and 10 minutes of treadmill. I wanted to do more than 10 minutes of treadmill but I got really tired. I think I thinkI'm still awesomely fit but in fact have become less awesomely fit in the last month of slacking and eating crap. Go figure.

Then I went to Starbucks for knittin' and totally had a chocolate chip cookie that I kind of didn't even want. Starbucks is hard.

Today's challenge: free doughnuts. It figures. But I will be strong.

First Tuesday, first challenge

So, Mondays are no problem for me in terms of starting with healthy eatin' and working out, because Mondays are roller derby nights. I can't eat like crap because if I do I'll get really sick while I'm skating, and I skate a lot, so I can eat more during the day.

But then the down side is, I end up working out really late because practice is from 9:30 to 10:30, so I don't sleep as well, and then working out on Tuesday is kind o' difficult.

Also, Tuesday is knitting night, which happens at Starbucks, and I get hungry, and well, enough said.

So the goal for today is to get to the gym before going to Starbucks. Must... not... give in... to crappy 6pm sitcoms....!

aaaarg - weight

So, Mind by Mattel and I are gettin' back on the weight watchers train after slacking for a few weeks. My goal is to lose 4-6 by Christmas. I also want to add a couple of gym days to my work out schedule, which right now consists only of rollerskatin' and running.
The first big challenge was actually getting on the scale this morning - I really really really didn't want to. But, the damage wasn't tooooo bad- 164. So if I can get to 158 or 160 in the next couple o' weeks, that'd be super-aweresome.
Anyways, I'm glad M.B.M. agreed to do this with me, so yay!
I have rollerbskating tonight and then I'm going to the gym tomorrow no matter what. No matter what, I say.

Awesometastic Pinchloaf Weekend!

So yes, Mrs. Pinchloaf visited me this weekend, and it RULED! I was ever so happy that she came up.
I totally got lost on the way to Newark Penn Station to pick her up, but ever since getting lost on my way to the roller rink I'm never in Newark without my handy map. I stared at it until I found it and then paid 8 bucks for 15 minutes o' parking.
Our first meal was at Church Street Cafe. Mrs. P. had the house burger, which had bleu cheese and bacon on it, and I had the pumpkin pierogies. They sat in a pool of clarified butter and were delish.
Then we retired to watch half of Super Size Me. And then we got up and raced the race, which Mrs. P. already described. I finished before Mrs. P. and stood there for like, 10 minutes waiting for her, not realizing she had already finished until she found me staring at the runners like a doofus. Yaaay!
Then we went to Raymond's for omelettes. Mrs. P. had a straight-up cheddar cheese one and I had a bacon, avocado and chives one. Raymond's has really awesome whole grain toast with jam, too. Then we went ice skatin'.
Then we had a Christopher Guest moviethon! Yay! Then the next day we ran AGAIN cuz we are hardcore like that, and had bagel sandwiches at Sunrise Cafe. Say what you will about Montclair, you'll never go brunch-less.
And then I had to say goodbye, puttin' Mrs. P. on a train back to NorVa and Mr. P. Twas an amazingly awesome weekend all 'round!

I'm really glad this year is almost over

I'm usually not that excited about the new year. I'm not exactly excited about this one either, but I am kind of glad to say goodbye to 2006. Looking back on it, it kinda sucked. Lots of good things came out of it, but still, the thought that comes up most when I look back on it is, "Whoa. Glad THAT'S over."
Here's a recap of the suckitude that was 2006:
-head start suckitude: 2005 two-days-before Thanksgiving breakup by email that ruined my holidays. Was still crying about it in the car on my birthday in February.
-Promotion leading to evil bitch other supervisor feeling threatened and being evil bitch to me, leading to many work-place headaches that could have been avoided if she'd kindly jumped of a f*cking bridge
-Fave boss left for life-changing sabbatical, leaving dumbass boss in her place. I tried to use him as a human shield between me and evil bitch supervisor, when he wasn't in his office trading stocks with his door shut.
-Entire group got laid off, but we still had to work for three months after we got the news
-Decided to move to New Jersey. Stressed so hard about it that I gained back 10 pounds I'd lost on Jenny Craig
-Moved to New Jersey, cried for two months straight because I missed my friends, missed my family, and everything seemed weird. And I couldn't eat any of the awesome food cuz I was still dieting.
-Zero luv axxxion for 12 months. Good golly Miss Molly, I think I've been re-virginized.

Now, the good news is, all is now ice cream and puppies and sunshine. The shock and awe of the last year has led to lots o' surprises: cool new peeps, actually liking New Jersey, actually liking NEWARK of all places, roller derby, and all kinds of other tasty goodness. Also, the bright spot in the madness was the Pinchloaf nuptuals, so Pinchloaves, don't think I'm disparaging your blessed union - it was the light at the end of a dark tunnel for me. I wish you could get married every year.
So yay 2007! I look forward to rocking it Skarzipan style.

Leh-gi-sla-tive

So I went to get a manicure last night after work and my new fave strip mall place, Angel Tips. The name makes me laugh and it's two minutes from work, (it's next to the Baja Fresh and Pantera that I go to almost every day now, ah lunch-laziness) and they have 12 dollar 10 minute massages, and get this, a manicure's 10 dollars, holy wow! Anyroo, I went there, and it was a Chinese place, and one of the ladies asked me for help pronouncing the word 'legislative.' We said it together a few times, and then I asked my manicurist (her name-tag said 'Anna'. I wonder if they get to pick their own American names or if they get given them by their boss.) if she was studing for citizenship, and she said, "No, she study become American."
This follows closely on a conversation I had with a guy who moved here with his family from Portugal when he was seven. His folks had just taken the citizenship test, and he was telling me various and sundry facts about American history that I as a lazy spoiled born-here American didn't know or forgot. Like, we only sing the first stanza of the National Anthem, turns out the damn thing has three more. And the one I felt stupid for, I forgot why John Hancock means signature, I mean I knew he was a signer but I forgot that he signed it largest. Portuguese guy then guilted me about being a lazy slack American who doesn't appreciate my country. Which is so not true, but you know. It's the privilege of the more recent immigrant to guilt-trip the less recent one.
Breakfast time!