Weekend: some rest, maybe not enough

Friday night was noteworthy mostly for an impressive lightning storm: pouring rain, at least an hour of frequent lightning*, and a thunder crack loud enough that cattitude heard it over the phone from Iowa.

I took yesterday easy, and kept to myself except for minimal commercial transactions, letting Heather hand me a bowl of apples, and IM'ing with my mother (briefly) and with adrian_turtle. And then didn't get to bed until midnight, I'm guessing in part because of Cattitude's absence. Slept all the way until 8:30 this morning; I may have managed 9 yesterday morning. That would have been enough sleep for the weekend if I hadn't gone into it feeling sleep-deprived. Northwest has been doing unkind things to Cattitude, and instead of landing at LaGuardia in about twenty minutes, he is in Minneapolis and scheduled to land at JFK at 11. I will not stay up until he comes in (or, at least, I intend to go to bed and turn the light out), but will wait up until he calls to say he's in New York.

This afternoon, I had a pleasant conversation with roadnotes at La Lanterna, a cafe in the Village that we've been going to for a long time. Usually I just get sweets; this time I felt the need of something restorative, and got a "bruschetta" consisting of pate (truffled, according to the menu) and chopped red onions on toast. Quite nice. Then I had strawberry-peach pie and vanilla gelato. And then, after brief stops at Porto Rico for tea, CVS for boring useful things, and Varsano's for chocolate, I went to the gym.

I've had better workouts. A bit of that was that I never remember until too late that the branch of my gym on Seventh Avenue South (which stays open later on Sundays than my usual) does have exercise bikes, but hides them two levels up from the other cardio gear, so wind up doing treadmill or such; another piece was that whoever washes the towels for that branch isn't using hot enough water; and a piece was that I shouldn't fill up that much before exercising. A brief amble doesn't take long enough to prepare me to work out. Ah, well. I did some exercise, then stopped what I was doing, skipped to my yoga balance exercise, and finished with stretches.

*at least because it was still going when I fell asleep

Weekend: some rest, maybe not enough

Friday night was noteworthy mostly for an impressive lightning storm: pouring rain, at least an hour of frequent lightning*, and a thunder crack loud enough that cattitude heard it over the phone from Iowa.

I took yesterday easy, and kept to myself except for minimal commercial transactions, letting Heather hand me a bowl of apples, and IM'ing with my mother (briefly) and with adrian_turtle. And then didn't get to bed until midnight, I'm guessing in part because of Cattitude's absence. Slept all the way until 8:30 this morning; I may have managed 9 yesterday morning. That would have been enough sleep for the weekend if I hadn't gone into it feeling sleep-deprived. Northwest has been doing unkind things to Cattitude, and instead of landing at LaGuardia in about twenty minutes, he is in Minneapolis and scheduled to land at JFK at 11. I will not stay up until he comes in (or, at least, I intend to go to bed and turn the light out), but will wait up until he calls to say he's in New York.

This afternoon, I had a pleasant conversation with roadnotes at La Lanterna, a cafe in the Village that we've been going to for a long time. Usually I just get sweets; this time I felt the need of something restorative, and got a "bruschetta" consisting of pate (truffled, according to the menu) and chopped red onions on toast. Quite nice. Then I had strawberry-peach pie and vanilla gelato. And then, after brief stops at Porto Rico for tea, CVS for boring useful things, and Varsano's for chocolate, I went to the gym.

I've had better workouts. A bit of that was that I never remember until too late that the branch of my gym on Seventh Avenue South (which stays open later on Sundays than my usual) does have exercise bikes, but hides them two levels up from the other cardio gear, so wind up doing treadmill or such; another piece was that whoever washes the towels for that branch isn't using hot enough water; and a piece was that I shouldn't fill up that much before exercising. A brief amble doesn't take long enough to prepare me to work out. Ah, well. I did some exercise, then stopped what I was doing, skipped to my yoga balance exercise, and finished with stretches.

*at least because it was still going when I fell asleep