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Three sweaty things and some clowns
Aug. 7th, 2012 01:26 amThis whole week has been stupidly hot. Day after day of 90 degree heat with high humidity. SO OF COURSE I spent a lot of time outside. Got some free Red Sox tickets from work for Friday night, so I took Patrick. He isn't a baseball fan, but he loves to go to Fenway. I see his point. Games are much more fun in person. The game was pretty interesting up until the end when we lost in extra innings. I haven't been following baseball at all this year so I knew about four players on the field. Still, it was a pretty good time. I had a couple of hot dogs and a couple of ice creams (I counted it as my cheat day). I was pleasantly surprised to find that, while the seats are still TINY, I am not taking up more than my share anymore. So that was a nice discovery.
Saturday was the memorial for my good friend Dan's mother. They had it at the family home, and it wasn't air conditioned so we hovered in the areas with fans and some of us migrated outside. Sweaty! I wore a dress, which I almost never do. It was sleeveless, but since my upper arms are not fit for public consumption, I wore a short-sleeved shrug over it. Yikes! I was running with sweat. It was so nice to see Dan and meet his wife, finally (even under such sad circumstances). They live in NY, so I never see them, and even when they still lived here Dan and I mostly corresponded instead of visited. I don't know how these things happen, how you go from seeing someone to never seeing them, but I still felt the old connection the minute I saw him, so I'm going to have to change that. Face time. That's the ticket.
I had tickets to see Cirque du Soleil ("TOTEM") on Sunday afternoon, so I got up fairly early to get a few things done beforehand. Mom needed a prescription filled for some eyedrops that she needs to take before her surgery on Wednesday, so I walked into town, placed the order, then went over to the Y to get in some bike time. The walk there was just oppressive. So humid out you could taste it in the air. Sun was beating down, too, and every step felt like walking through sand. Man! It was probably a good workout, though. Did 30 minutes on the bike, got the prescription, walked back. DIVED into the shower. Slacked for a bit, then realized I should eat before I went to the show, so out into the heat again for some lunch. Jenn picked me up a bit later and we decided that if the tent that the show was held in wasn't air conditioned, we'd just leave. Because yes the tickets cost $100, but a girl can only take so much.
It was actually chilly inside the tent (and what does THAT cost? I mean, it's a tent. It's not exactly insulated) so that was awesome. I'd never seen a Cirque show in person before, just some stuff on TV, so it was really fun. I kept comparing it in my head to the Olympics, because it seems like the Cirque circuit might be where failed Olympic wannabes end up. Then again, their synchronized stuff is probably way more precise than the Olympians are...anyway, with the exception of some Native Americans on roller skates and some...ugh...CLOWNS, the whole thing was delightfully strange and incomprehensible and fun. The plot is supposedly about evolution, but there was something with aliens and something with more aliens later, and there was a speed boat and some monkeys and frog-people and a starman and I dunno. But it was eye-candy, that's for sure. I posted a location update on Facebook and oddly one of my FB friends was also there. We waved at each other across the tent (I waved my phone so they'd spot us), so that was cute. We didn't discover our mutual presence until almost the end of the 30 minute intermission, or I'd have gone over to visit.
Today was much less hot, so I managed to get the shopping done and so forth without any stress. I was pretty tired by the end of the day, though, so I didn't manage to get to the Y for weights class. Ah well, it'll be there next time.
So that's my latest. I am ignoring thinking about my training thing until work tomorrow, because tomorrow Theresa is back from her two week vacation, and she's the Laurie-whisperer in the department. If anyone can calm me down, it's Theresa.
Saturday was the memorial for my good friend Dan's mother. They had it at the family home, and it wasn't air conditioned so we hovered in the areas with fans and some of us migrated outside. Sweaty! I wore a dress, which I almost never do. It was sleeveless, but since my upper arms are not fit for public consumption, I wore a short-sleeved shrug over it. Yikes! I was running with sweat. It was so nice to see Dan and meet his wife, finally (even under such sad circumstances). They live in NY, so I never see them, and even when they still lived here Dan and I mostly corresponded instead of visited. I don't know how these things happen, how you go from seeing someone to never seeing them, but I still felt the old connection the minute I saw him, so I'm going to have to change that. Face time. That's the ticket.
I had tickets to see Cirque du Soleil ("TOTEM") on Sunday afternoon, so I got up fairly early to get a few things done beforehand. Mom needed a prescription filled for some eyedrops that she needs to take before her surgery on Wednesday, so I walked into town, placed the order, then went over to the Y to get in some bike time. The walk there was just oppressive. So humid out you could taste it in the air. Sun was beating down, too, and every step felt like walking through sand. Man! It was probably a good workout, though. Did 30 minutes on the bike, got the prescription, walked back. DIVED into the shower. Slacked for a bit, then realized I should eat before I went to the show, so out into the heat again for some lunch. Jenn picked me up a bit later and we decided that if the tent that the show was held in wasn't air conditioned, we'd just leave. Because yes the tickets cost $100, but a girl can only take so much.
It was actually chilly inside the tent (and what does THAT cost? I mean, it's a tent. It's not exactly insulated) so that was awesome. I'd never seen a Cirque show in person before, just some stuff on TV, so it was really fun. I kept comparing it in my head to the Olympics, because it seems like the Cirque circuit might be where failed Olympic wannabes end up. Then again, their synchronized stuff is probably way more precise than the Olympians are...anyway, with the exception of some Native Americans on roller skates and some...ugh...CLOWNS, the whole thing was delightfully strange and incomprehensible and fun. The plot is supposedly about evolution, but there was something with aliens and something with more aliens later, and there was a speed boat and some monkeys and frog-people and a starman and I dunno. But it was eye-candy, that's for sure. I posted a location update on Facebook and oddly one of my FB friends was also there. We waved at each other across the tent (I waved my phone so they'd spot us), so that was cute. We didn't discover our mutual presence until almost the end of the 30 minute intermission, or I'd have gone over to visit.
Today was much less hot, so I managed to get the shopping done and so forth without any stress. I was pretty tired by the end of the day, though, so I didn't manage to get to the Y for weights class. Ah well, it'll be there next time.
So that's my latest. I am ignoring thinking about my training thing until work tomorrow, because tomorrow Theresa is back from her two week vacation, and she's the Laurie-whisperer in the department. If anyone can calm me down, it's Theresa.
