Ok, so someone needs to hold me accountable to post more often… anyone? Anyone? Bueller? Bueller?

Been awhile since I posted last. I see it’s been two months. Oops… sorry.

 

Let me see if I can catch you up…

 

The post about the friend I spoke with on the phone in July… well, that’s led to many new developments. That friend is Roe. We’d been talking as friends since early March of ‘08, but in July we began talking more often, and in August she moved to Houston (for those of you not in Tejas, that’s about 3 hours from me). After a couple of months of saying “Ya know, we really need to meet in person since we’re only 3 hours away”, we finally met in November.

 

Before the face to face meeting, we’d developed a serious interest in one another over the course of those many months of talking on the phone and sharing pictures. So… by the time we decided to finally bite the bullet, we were pretty sure the chemistry in person would be great as well. We were right. We’re dating seriously now, with visits back and forth between Austin and Houston.

 

We share so much in common and finish each other’s sentences, but have enough differences in our interests to keep things lively. I really can’t even begin to express how much of a good fit we are for one another. She’s truly awesome… as a friend, and a girlfriend. I’m thankful for her in my life.

 

I’ve got pics on my facebook and myspace pages. I’m working on getting some decent photo plugin for this site and when I do, I’ll post some pics here too.

 

Everything else in my life is pretty much as it was, except I’ve let the exercise slip. I’ve gained a few pounds. About 5, at last look (2 weeks ago). I need to kick it back into gear now that the eatfests are over.

 

That’s about it… now you’re caught up, I guess.

 

Stay tuned. I promise to do better at posting…

So, I’m doing my normal early morning walk around my apartment complex this morning, and something happened on the last leg of my journey. I come around from the back side of a driveway spur on the very end of the complex, and two police cars pull up.

An officer gets out of the car closest to me and asks me if I’m from building two. To which I promptly replied in my most respectful voice, “No sir. I’m in building 14.” He then asks me if I’d walked by building two. I again replied in my most respectful voice (as respectful as you can be when you’re halfway out of breath), “Yes sir. I’ve actually walked all the way around the complex. I do it nearly every day.”

He began to explain that someone saw a man walking around the area of building two with what appeared to be a gun… or… a water bottle.

Hold up a second… a gun or a water bottle? How is it that these two look remotely alike to someone? Seriously?

Ok, back to the story… I held up my water bottle so as to alleviate any fears the officer might have that it may still be a gun that I’m carrying. Although he’d seen me carrying it from a distance and didn’t seem all that worried, he took one last look at it and could not hide his annoyance at being called out in a rush for something so stupid.

He smiled at me and politely apologized for stopping me and reports back to dispatch on his radio, “We’re talking with the ’suspect’ now, and the water bottle is not loaded. We’re heading out.”

I’m a ’suspect’? But the water bottle wasn’t even loaded! I had already consumed most of the water by then.

I love this one…

 

Hope it makes you laugh…

 

 

I was up again this week when I weighed in on Monday. Partly due to water gain, and partly due to muscle building. Partly due to God only knows what else…

This week, I decided that I’m going to get up early to walk from now on, instead of doing it when I get home.

I’ve done it three days so far this week. Sunday, Tuesday, and this morning. I figured I didn’t need to do it every day, so skipped Monday. Monday I was dragging all day, it was like my body was telling me “I WANT THAT - GIMME!” to the walking every day… so… I’m going to try it.

Until I get the routine down and know how tired I am when I wake up at… get this… 4:30 ( ** !!! ** ) Yeah… 4:30… I’m going to go to bed early. Went to bed at 7 Monday (because I was dragging) and 8 last night. based on how early I woke up yesterday and today (eyes popped open well before 4:30), I think I can try 9 tonight and see how that works out in the morning tomorrow.

I gotta tell ya… right now, I’m feeling pretty good. The endorphines sure are nice.  Feels like a party’s going on inside my body right now.

Woohoo!