Exercise Date Night

I looked all over the web and I can't seem to find any good fitness "Date Nights", so I thought I'd put together one of my own. Here goes...

- go rock climbing
- go for a hike
- go for a run on the beach (followed by a picnic!)
- race each other around the high school track
- find a "fitness course" and time each other
- play a game of H-O-R-S-E
- hire a yoga instructor for a night and do couple's yoga
- take a dance class
- design a plyometrics routine for each other (see: http://sportsmedicine.about.com/od/sampleworkouts/a/Plyometrics.htm)
- have a dance party at your house!
- go for a bike ride
- go horseback riding
- have a visual treasure hunt at the mall and see who's faster (start at opposite ends)
- go bowling
- go golfing
- take a karate/kickboxing class
- play together on a softball team (or find enough friends for one evening and make it a group date)
- go kayaking
- go whitewater rafting
- play tennis
- play tag, hide-and-seek and frisbee a park
- get up early and take a tai-chi class at a local park

Switzerland

Can you imagine living here??

Unbelievable!

As if a new job for me wasn't enough...

My husband just got invited to be flown to Switzerland for a job interview! Unbelievable! Exciting! Scary!

We've been daydreaming for the past two days about what it would be like to live in Switzerland. Especially in this particular city. Its right on the border to Italy so they speak Italian, German and English. Its on a lake and its a well-known tourist destination! Its a little overwhelming and yet, I am trying NOT to get overwhelmed because maybe it won't even work out.

I'd be sad to leave the SF Bay Area and my friends. And its not like you can just UP and fly to Switzerland whenever you want. So I'm sure if we go, I won't see many of them for years or maybe even ever again. But the adventurer in me just can't help herself. I WANT to move. I'm DESPERATE to do something new! I hate hate HATE being bored. :)

This might just be my ticket...

This has been an interesting week...

Since my last post, I've been elated for a getting a job interview for a job I wanted. Frustrated for not getting that job. Annoyed about having to go to another job interview that I didn't really think I wanted. And finally elated that I got the job I didn't think I wanted. Whew! Roller Coaster!

I am excited about my new job as it means new beginnings: new people, new environment, fresh, clean slate. But as with any "newness", there's also the old stuff that I have to clean up. Looking back in my life, this is one area that I'm really not that good at. I have a tendency to just stop. Not close, just stop. Stop going, stop talking, stop seeing, just stop.

I'm sure that this has frustrated MANY people in my past (especially boyfriends), but I just don't seem to have the patience for "dealing" with the clean up or maybe its I just don't have the nerve for it. I'm more of a ride-off-into-the-sunset-never-to-be-heard-from-again kinda gal. Be done with the old and EMBRACE the new (ASAP if possible)!

The most challenging thing about this current job change is that I not only have to "deal" with the old stuff that I've been keeping in, but I also have to do it in a tactful way because I would like to stay there on a very limited part-time basis.

The idea of me trying to be tactful is just scary...not so much for me, but for everyone who has to see me try to be tactful. I get so nervous that I just blurt shit out. I get defensive and just try to get it over with as quick as possible which is definitely not the most diplomatic way to handle the situation.

So, sigh, what to do? How do I tell my boss that I've found a new job because I didn't like the way she was treating me or running the business without ACTUALLY telling her this and salvaging a part time spot?

I guess at this point I should explain why I actually would like to stay on at all. There are several reasons. First, I really like my clients. I don't have that many so being able to stay on part-time will allow me to keep working with them. Secondly, I like the people I work with. They are fun and I don't want to "desert" them. And lastly, for money. The new job, as great as it is, is also only part time...for now.

So there you go...glad about new job, worried about closure on old job, REALLY ready to hop on my horse and get the hell out of here.

Hahaha...

....I just realized that my blog title is misleading.

This isn't a blog dedicated to the 80s band "Blondie". For those of you out there who had high hopes, I apologize. I can almost certainly guarantee that there will be no mention of "One Way or Another" or any other "Blondie" tidbits (although, I may use "Blondie tidbits" as a title to my next blog :)) ever again.

Good luck with your fantatical devotion to an aging pop band!

About me

I am a 29 year old female. One who half-heartedly believes in Chinese Astrology (I'm a sheep) and half-heartedly thinks I'm an idiot for doing so.

I live in the San Francisco Bay Area and have so for the past 5 years. Before that...well, for now, let's just say its in the past. I love living here: the weather's perfect 330 days of out of the year, the options for food, going out, even jobs are amazing, and there is no end to the amount of irritation I cause my family for living "outside the real world" (apparently, California doesn't count as the "real world").

I am happy most of the time...usually when I'm not thinking about my job or what I'm going to do with the rest of my life, but I have a wonderful husband and good friends and almost enough money.

I love to travel and eat, especially dessert...oh! to be able to have coconut cake EVERYDAY would be heaven! I do my best to be healthy: I'm a "pescaterian" (a vegetarian who eats fish), I exercise when I can, I don't smoke and I try not to drink TOO much. :)

For the most part, I think I'm just bored with my life. I think I spend too much of my time day dreaming about how I'd like things to be rather than just making them that way. I think to myself "I should take a creative writing class", "I should learn Spanish", "I should read more 'serious' books" and "I wish my job was more fulfilling".

But isn't that why so few of us are happy? Because we spend all of our time thinking the grass is greener rather than just enjoying what we already have? already can do? Or having the guts to take action when, in fact, the grass IS greener?

I guess that is the hope for my blog...to be able to record all the good things so that I can focus on those instead of all the not-so-perfect things. And to take action, show myself that I CAN do.

Well, here's to turning a new leaf and focusing on the positives! In fact, here is a SHORT list of all the fabulous things in my life.

- I have a job (just think of all those people out there who just got laid off!)
- I have a wonderful husband
- I have smart, caring, fun friends who love me
- I have my health

I'm sure more will come to me. :) As for now, I guess I should get back to work.