Could it be an upswing?

Or should we just blame the improvement on Insaniquarium?

I have been seeing these past few days an increase in energy and motivation. Could just be spring. Might be a minor upturn. Like the economy, we'll take a wait-and-see approach.

But things that I was bored with, or unexcited about - I'm suddenly feeling revived interest in.

I'm excited to buy a home with Monte. And start a debt reduction/retirement plan. And pursue a teaching certificate and eventual new career.

I'm suddenly excited about CONvergence again.

And I'm itching to start a new nutrition/activity phase in my life. I want to feel good and strong again. I decry our society's "nutritional" choices, and yet I lazily snack upon them. I had an amazing body in college (as I took dance classes 5 days a week and rarely ate, being a poor college student). I remember my first Minicon when I thought nothing of trotting up 20 flights of stairs to the Consuite.

I want that again.

So, Monte and I are talking about new paths and ideas for food and exercise.

It must be spring. I'm engaging Plans in every area of my life.

I have free time this Saturday! I will sew and clean! And maybe watch a movie! And read! And do laundry! (Okay, that's ambitious, and I won't do all of it. But I want to do it, which is a nice change.)

Quick evening recap: Evening Out with The Girls. Moneygod and Cheb and I had dinnera the News Room (which is very odd. It is a Theme Restaurant...like a Planet Hollywood or something even more Disneyfied with it's large prop pieces and themed rooms). The food was terrific and the chatter fun and mostly light. Gossip was had, but it was mostly a passing of social information and a wishing for better things for friends. We then went to see Cybill Shepherd speak. An engaging speaker, hosted with a lame-ass interviewer. I couldn't help but thing what stories I would tell if I were given an auditorium full of people and a general instruction to "uplift and educate women".
It's been nice spending more small social group time with Cheb. And it's good to see Moneygod get out (although the medical tales can get icky!). And I got to play with a stuffed octopus on the drive home. Always a plus.

Tonight: MISFITS Officer Meeting

Not my day to get home quick

First, they re-routed the Nicollet Avenue busses (indefinitely) over to Hennepin. No prior notice on that, by the way. Or at least, none I saw. (I'm guessing it's for the LRT, but who knows anymore?)

Then I finally get to my car and commence the rest of the drive home. I stop and get gas. I get to 38th & Nicollet and it's cordoned off by policemen. All the way down to 40th. I turn and try to go down the alley - also blockaded. Finally go around the long way, but I can't get into my garage cuz MY alley is blockaded.

I walk over to the officer and ask what's the what. Somebody got shot and they haven't apprehended the shooter.

Well - that's real comforting.