Actually, many of these holidays lose their positive quality once you're not doing an 8-5, M-F job. What normally is a good day to shop or go to the gym or the park or the beach or whatever becomes more like a Saturday with the crowds.
Regardless I did go to the gym this morning and had a good workout; something like 4 miles and 430 calories burned. Tomorrow I meet my trainer again. I have mixed feelings about this because I know working with him is really good for me but it's also very hard on me, makes me push myself beyond what I would do on my own. And sometimes it's painful, for days after. My biceps are just now recovering from last Thursday.
I had an up and down and up weekend. Friday I got to see a very dear friend who was visiting from Florida but then I got into a very down place emotionally. Saturday morning, after spending time with some different friends, I felt much better. Maybe sharing a little piece of chocolate with another dear friend helped: I think I was suffering from chocolate deprivation.
Part of my funk was undoubtedly the whole Valentine's Day thing and being single with my major relationship with a male being Charlie. But my brother did stop by and brought me some really pretty flowers. In return I made him dinner and, in rummaging around in my freezer, found the last of the Christmas fudge! YES!! More chocolate. But I have to hoard it carefully so no ODing.
Then on Saturday afternoon I got an email invitation to join Facebook. Well, I did and it sucked up most of the rest of my weekend but was fun and pretty uplifting. I am reconnected with some people I haven't talked with for awhile and able to keep in touch with them easily. In just over 48 hours I have 51 friends connected so that's fun! Though small potatoes compared to some of my friends. Some are good networking contacts, folks I met when I worked for the Senator. Others are relatives: in-laws, nephews, cousins, etc. And then, of course, just my friends from the parish, from high school, etc.
This is also a tool that was highly recommended at a workshop I attended last summer at the Willamette Writers conference, part of building a platform to market your work. That's partly what this blog does, too, but Facebook will probably reach many more people and more quickly. My friends and probably many of their friends, as well.
So whatever negative parts of my mood remained by mid-afternoon Saturday were gone within a few hours. Probably it was partly just the distraction of learning something new and focusing on it instead of my own disappointments in life.
Charlie has been acting quite naughty lately. I'm not sure what it is. He's been getting plenty of walks but he's really into finding paper to shred, sometimes pulling it out of the garbage can along with other garbage. So I clean up after him and then he goes and finds more things to make messes with. It's like having a two-year-old! So I'm not sure what's up with him; I think he needs a friend. Probably I haven't been paying enough attention to him. Spending too much time on the computer, perhaps.
Maybe Charlie needs his own Facebook account. My nephew's cat has one: Cuthbert. Why not Charlie?
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I occasionally use the "Post Link" feature on Facebook when I update my blogs. This helps let your friends know when you've updated it.
Funny thought--Facebook for our furry people! :D
Interesting that Charlie has been acting up lately. You're probably right about his need to socialize more--they are such complex beings!
I have to frisbee my canines every day, or the older one starts to pick on the younger one for fun; she will also sometimes "lose her lunch" because she's too tightly wound up without the exercise.
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