An actual social life

[redbird]

Last night, cattitude and I had dinner with womzilla, supergee, nellorat, and their friend Charles who I don't think is on DW or LJ. Womzilla emailed us last week and basically said "meet us for dinner" and we said yes. We went to the Ollie's Chinese restaurant near Lincoln Center. Friendly conversation about a variety of things; nothing major seems to be going on in any of our lives, which is just as well. I kvetched a bit about work, and talked about having just come from the gym. I don't normally work out on Sundays, but if I was going to spend the time on the subway anyway, combining the two made sense, and meant I didn't spend more time traveling to/from dinner than I did with my friends.

The chicken with yellow leeks wasn't quite as good as I'd remembered, but the sticky rice was fine (if over-priced, I'm used to getting it at dim sum prices) and the asparagus was excellent. It had been too long since I'd had a really good cooked green vegetable. Decent salads, yes. Cooked squash and root vegetables, yes. Some green pepper in things, but not as the whole dish, or the center of it. I think I would have thought well of the asparagus even in May, but right now it was especially good.

Around lunchtime today, my phone at work rang, and Desiree, the office manager, said "You have a package." I went over, and she handed me a long cardboard box labeled as containing flowers. I now have a very nice mix of red roses and purple somethings (composites, a bit larger than the roses) on my desk, and a very nice card from adrian_turtle tucked into my paper journal. We don't usually do much about Valentine's Day (or any holiday except Thanksgiving), and this was a nice surprise. A coworker looked at them and said something and I smiled and said "I am a very lucky woman," which I am. (I took a couple of photos with the iPod camera, but "sync" here seems to mean "put photos on the iPod," not "download your photos to your computer.")

Workout notes:
I went to a different branch than usual. This one turned out to involve more stairs than my usual branch, and had nothing special from my viewpoint; I don't think I'll be going back unless I need to work out after six o'clock on a Sunday again. Still, I did okay.

Row, sitting on physio ball, 40 pounds, 3 sets of 15
Biceps curls (on ball), 7.5 pounds each hand, 20; 12 pounds each hand, 10, 8
Chest press, 50 pounds, 2 sets of 12
Cardio bike, 12 minutes, top heart rate 144
Squats with ball, 2 sets of 15
Calf raise with ball, 2 sets of 15

Ab work (on ball, feet against wall), 2 sets of 10, and my shoulder didn't tense up on either set
Hamstring bridge, 4 sets of 7
Balance work standing on foam roller (had a little trouble getting on at first, so went to someplace with a bar in reach to grab, and used it only briefly to mount)
Balance lateral raise standing on roller, 2.5 pounds each hand, 7, 8 (the pause being when I lost balance enough that I had to step off)
"Hug", 20 pounds, 11, 12
Triceps curl (not my usual machine), 25 pounds, 3; 20 pounds, 9, 11
Rolled out the IT band and the inner thighs
Stretches

Comments

[daharyn.livejournal.com]

I've always avoided that Ollie's (because I had bad experiences at the one up near Columbia), but it's 2 blocks from work, and I really like asparagus, so I may have to check that out! :)