Heading out ...

Training walk this morning -- should be right around seven miles, I think.

I'll be walking to the park on Polly Drummond by the Unitarian church & back. Check out the route here ... 

Should be a nice walk -- sidewalks all the way, and lots of stuff to look at. I'll be home around 11:ish, hopefully without any appreciable damage. :)

To do next weekend (as this weekend is almost over):

- buy backpack/camelback/hip-pack thing for walking (there are not enough pockets for all the stuff you need to carry!)

- check out shoes

- buy socks -- the breathable, wicking, padded, won't-cause-any-blisters kind

Yup. It's serious walking time, kids. Don't forget to click on the widget at right to donate.

Apropos

My Storypeople "pick one for me" today was:

I've always liked directing. It's the only time I can get people to do exactly what I want without having to pretend I don't care whether they do or not

This is fitting.

Happy Amy's birthday and Administrative Professionals' Day!

Happy birthday to Amy!

Happy Administrative Professionals' Day to anyone who is inclined to celebrate said holiday. I'll be taking flowers and some small treats to some of the very wonderful ladies at work who make my job a heck of a lot less unpleasant than it might be otherwise.

Especially Sue Ellen, who saves me from phone conversations that I really don't want to have, and tells me I'm great when I'm just being cooperative and doing my job, and as Miss Diane would say, is always a "ray of sunshine." And she's on my bowling team, starting Monday.

While I don't usually cotton to celebrating commercially invented holidays, every day should probably be Administrative Professionals' Day. Seriously. I wouldn't last for a minute at the switchboard.

On a side note, every now and again, just when I think I've seen it all, people surprise me. I had two such surprises yesterday -- completely different, but both were net positive -- though again, with radically different results. Yay for surprises.

More happiness ...

because that, of course, is my favorite stuff to post. There's more than enough misery in the world without my whining, thank you very much.

- congratulations to e. on finishing her very first triathlon this morning. This is spectacular. You rock!

- congratulations to Cynthia on her fabulous Greek Easter feast. Yum-o. 

- congratulations to NOM for making us all giggle at just how ignorant they are ... Seriously? This is your big plan to convince us that same-sex marriage is scary? There's a lot of scary stuff out there, folks, and this just ain't it. (Okay, this isn't really happiness, per se, as it's really about groups who don't respect the rights of others, but I have to give a nod to anyone who gives Rachel such entertaining material. I'm not above saying it -- the teabaggers are awesome ... awesomely hilarious.)

- a big thank-you to Deb at smittenkitchen for her Chocolate-Caramel Crack(ers) recipe; my friends & co-workers thank you in advance, as do future patrons of The Box. 

- love and kisses to Josh & Roger, for taking time out of their crazy pre-finals schedule to spend a fun evening eating great Greek Easter food & putting up with my ridiculous barking dog.

and last, but not least, some general happiness for great weather for walking, an afternoon to relax and get ready for the week ahead, and excellent dinner plans this evening, including seared ahi tuna, zucchini ribbons, a little saffron orzo and some more terrific company. 

Training walk #1

I went on my first "official" training walk with my team today -- yay! The weather was AMAZING, and we walked around Battery Park in Old New Castle, which is on the Delaware River, and it was just spectacular.

Fun times.

It was about 3.2 miles, which is low for me on a Saturday at this point, but it was very, very nice. 

That's gonna leave a mark ...

Just wanted to share that I somehow managed to whack myself in the face with a three-pronged plug today -- quite hard, I must say -- and it's left a lovely red mark (and likely a bruise) on the bridge of my nose.

It hurts.

(And I feel stupid.)

Gah.

Otherwise, a pretty good day, all in all.

The cat ... and some general happiness ...

There's no particular point to this, except to say that I think the cat has a drinking problem. 

Well, maybe not ... but Mousse has discovered the top of the refrigerator. In fact, he's sitting there now, staring up at the ceiling (which is one one giant fluorescent light panel), looking for *something.*

Yay for the sunshine that's coming our way (it's supposed to be 73 this weekend).

Yay for Greek Easter.

Yay for friends that know that holidays are important, even if they're not holidays that you've ever heard of before.

Yay for my fabulous staff, rocking the DYFS licensing review yesterday. Love you guys!

Yay for the first official training walk of the season with my 3-Day team.

And a last, final yay for sushi, documentaries and surprises. Hmm. Unexpectedly great.