Tuesday, June 9, 2009

Endorphins Rock

I meant to update yesterday whilst at work but got too tired so I'm doing it now before i get too tired. Not that much happened today but, barring the inability to find body wash (I don't know where Target hides it) and abandonment by good internet, today was a pretty awesome day. It all began when I slept for 2-3 hours at work (shh don't tell), not all in one shot though, I'm not that bad. Finished all my work with about fifteen minutes to spare so I dawdled a bit and washed the back sliding door until nine. Sat and talked to my mom for a half hour while she got snack and then peaced out to go sleep at home (I have ear plugs now so instead I can just disappear downstairs and not waste gas). I set my alarm for 12:15 so I could go pick up my mom on time for once and was quite surprised when it was my internal alarm clock that woke me up at 12:52 and not DC101. Turns out the sound on my clock was turned all the way down, when did that happen? Anyways, after stealing some lumber from work and getting more sleep, I declared that we (Mom, Darwin and I) would be going to the park. Not only would Darwin get a walk, but Mom and I would take turns riding the bike like it was intended, instead of the cobweb magnet it has been for the past year. Thus began our modern epic: "Getting the Tires Blown Up". Seriously should not have been as difficult as it was but it turns out that car tires and bike tires have different sized nozzles, who knew. Such was the reason for the trip to target where they only seemed to have Schwinn brand air pumps which I chalked up to fate (my mom has a Schwinn bike). Returning bike pump in hand and earplugs in purse, we quickly blew up the tires and then set to the task of loading that big ass bike into the back of the car; we have a bike rack (unattached at the moment) but by now it was already 6 pm and we wanted to get moving. Upon getting to the park my mom decided that she was too tired to ride the bike so exercising the Schwinn was left all up to me, someone who hasn't really ridden a bike in about.....nine years? Somewhere in there. I felt like a kid for about the first lap around the park just with better balance, I could stay up but for the life of me, could not ride in a straight line. I must have looked pretty funny but I got better the more I went around, nothing fancy but I never fell down, quite proud of that. But definitely the best part of the day was after we got home, when I got a nice rush of endorphins for my trouble. I just felt so happy. For the first time this week it didn't matter that I don't have an internship, that I'm probably going to be graduating with little to no work experience in a career field with little to no job openings ever, that I should have gone with a Management major instead of Film minor, that the house was a mess, I just wondered if I thought I could make it to the sidewalk up the street near 7-11 without getting run over tomorrow. I'm also going to try and go visit the Curves gym in Kentlands after I get off work tomorrow and figure how much it's going to cost for my Mom and I to join. Time for more water.

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