Well, that was fun.

Bachelorette party weekend is over. Am just about recovered. Ate a lot. Drank a lot. Sang a little.

Now I’m going to spend the next four weekends training my replacement at Delta Queen. Make some extra moolah. Nice.

Tonight’s dance class! Yay!

Wish Ren would have her baby already. I’m ready to see her!

This is why I don’t do subject lines for my blog entries. I can’t think of good ones. Must go back and edit these emailed entries to take out the subjects and also the line breaks. What’s up with that? Must be setting on mail. Anyway…

Tonight Nick and Annie are coming for dinner! Yay! I still haven’t decided whether I’d rather order pizza or cook. If we order pizza, I can have maybe one or two slices. But it would be easy. And I would have time to go to Curves after work. If I cook (I found some good WW recipes on the WW site) I can eat more, but won’t have time to go to Curves. But then I’ll have to cook. (Am lazy.)

Decisions, decisions…

I think I want to see if my sister wants to get pedicures tomorrow. That’d be fun.

I’ve never done subject lines before, but when I email my post in, it makes the subject be the, um, subject. I suppose I could just not put a subject, but, well, whatever.

Anyway, my subject line is what it is because I just took the stairs from the second floor to the seventh floor. I’m trying to avoid using the elevator as much as possible, but I am just not in stair-climbing shape. So my stair-climbing goal is to make it to my office without breathing heavily. Might take a while, but if I do it at least twice a day, it might not be too long. I already told my colleagues that if they can’t find me, to look for my body in the stairwell, somewhere between floors six and seven.

So about dance class last night…it was great! I was very nervous going in, but as soon as I walked in, I saw one of the girls from the week before who had seemed friendly and sympathetic to my beginner status. So she gave me advice about my tap shoes (get different ones) and I bought some raffle tickets from her friend (yes, I’ll buy friendship or at least friendliness) and after that I wasn’t really nervous.

We did tap, we did jazz, and I didn’t do too badly. I’m very unflexible, so I think I will work on my stretching during the week. Must break out the exercise ball. Anyway, it was a lot of fun (even dancing to Christian rock was amusing) and now I’m more excited than nervous about next week.

(One dumb thing I did, though, was leave my driver’s license, social security card, blockbuster card, etc. strewn on the floor by the desk. I’d dropped my wallet at some point and all of that slid out. Fortunately, the owner was nice enough to call me and I went to her house and picked everything up.)

Onto other things…excited about Friday night. Nick and Annie are coming over for dinner. Haven’t decided if I’m going to cook or buy something. I was thinking of making vegetarian lasagne, but that’s so time consuming. I might look on the WW site for an easy vegetarian meal to make. (Annie’s a vegetarian.)

And keep your fingers crossed that Hurricane Frances doesn’t hit Miami. Unlikely, according to the forecasted track, but we all know how unreliable those are (hello Georges!) One of the bridesmaids is supposed to be flying in from there on Saturday morning. It’s not looking good. Well, regardless, it’ll be fun.

About to go to dance class. Eeep! Nervous, but excited. Mostly nervous. The worst part will be getting out of my car and walking in the door. The rest is cake, so all I need to do is walk through the door. Actually, the worst part is the wall of mirrors, but who’s counting?

This weekend is my sister’s bachelorette party and there has already been bridesmaid in-fighting. Isn’t that the most fun? So I told the annoying one to shut up, and I magically found a very inexpensive hotel room at a very fancy hotel. Well, I think it’s very fancy. Hotwire tells me so. Anyway, it was a great deal, it’s very close to the Quarter, and you can’t beat that three days before Southern Decadence starts. So I’m excited about it, and I hope my sister is too. (Comments will tell, I’m sure.) It’s got a rooftop pool, too, so I might just pull out my bathing suit (from last year – no, make that 4 years ago) that might be slightly baggy now and get an unhealthy tan and swim in the pool. Oooh, and we should definitely sip margaritas or pina coladas or some sort of frozen beverage. Hmm..

I know, I know, I haven’t written in a while. It’s the whole thing where I don’t feel like getting on my computer after I’ve been on it all day at work. But it was a good week. I like my new job, a lot. It’s a very small department, just four of us, and I’m the only female. And the guys I work with are very gentlemanly, so they do all the chivalrous things like holding doors open, letting me sit in the front seat when we went to lunch, and that sort of thing. It’s actually pretty nice. Of course, I can’t gossip with them like I could with the girls at Delta Queen, and they won’t care to hear about the details of my love life (particularly since one of my coworkers is a friend of George’s) but so far I like them, and I like the job. It seems as if I have more freedom to do what needs to be done, there’s less corporate bull-malarky, and my position is respected now. So overall, good.

Today I went to get some jazz shoes for my dance class. The one I’m definitely sticking to, seeing as the ugly shoes cost me $50. Sheesh. Wish I would have just ordered them online last week like I meant to do. Would’ve saved $30. Sigh. But I did buy some other fun things today. There was a Rite-Aid that is closing down, and when that happens – great clearance stuff. They don’t bother sending their inventory to other stores, they just sell it cheap. So brand-new make-up, toiletries, hair dye, that sort of thing, on sale. Love that. Also I bought a few plants for the porch. Hope they don’t die. I think they might do okay since summer is winding down.

On Friday we went to Houston’s for lunch. I’ve been there for a week, and already my boss is retiring. Which means out of four people, two of us are new. But we all went to lunch, and I had this delicious chicken salad. A massive mound of grilled chicken that was shaved or something yummy and lettuce and these tortilla strips and then some peanutty dressing. I don’t know how bad it was for me, but it was very tasty. I’m sure I underestimated the points for it. I’ve only got 12 flex points left to last through Tuesday, so I have to take it easy tonight. Tomorrow is George’s mom’s birthday, and there will be cake, and very likely pizza involved. Which is kind of sad for his mom, as she has celiac disease, which means she can’t eat cake nor pizza, nor can she drink beer. We will be meeting at the pub. Hmm.

Alright, alright, sister dear. Sooo sorry if my blog is booorrring now that I have a new job. Don’t you have a wedding to plan? Sheesh.

Am sore today from being a dancer yesterday. Went to Curves after work today and am now even more sore. Sigh.

Actually, it’s not just my blog that is boring, I’m boring too! Well, let me think…

Yeah, really there’s nothing. Tomorrow night George is taking me to dinner for no reason whatsoever…that’s always nice. Maybe I’ll have something exciting to say after that.

Oh wait, I thought of something. At Curves today I answered the question right and got a manicure set. That was sorta exciting. (When it’s busy they’ll ask trivia-type questions and if you answer correctly, you get a prize. I was rather hoping for a sweatband for my head – tee hee – because my bangs make my forehead sweat, but alas.)

I think I’m going to have a frozen cherry bar now. Must go back to Whole Foods and get some more. Sunday afternoon, I bought two boxes. That’s eight cherry bars. I think I have two left. I am addicted. I suppose it could be worse. At least it’s real fruit. Chunks of cherries. Yum.

Testing this emailing in my blog stuff…

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Pam Mather
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Woo! Lost 1.6! Yay me.

Had my first dance class tonight. I felt pretty dumb because a) Janice and I were the only true beginners there (lots of the women have been taking for a long time, but I guess since there’s only one adult women’s dance class, they have to take it over and over and over again) and b) I was the only one with shiny Mary Jane-style tap shoes and c) I was the only one who messed up and d) I looked fat in the mirrors and etc etc, I could go on forever. Sounds like I hated it, eh? Well, I didn’t. All of the other people in the class seemed nice. I certainly wasn’t the heaviest one there. And even if Janice decides not to keep going with it, I’m really think I’m going to keep taking it. This week and next week are free trial classes anyway. Next week, Janice will be on vacation anyway so I’ll have to go alone. Must be brave. Must remember how much I want to learn how to dance. Heck, we’re even going to be doing a little ballet, and you know how much I have always wanted to be a ballerina…

Today was my first day at work. I liked it, everyone was nice, the department has good camaraderie, I have a huge window office…what more can a girl ask for?

Had a fun weekend. George and I took the streetcar on Saturday to the cemeteries and found our grandparents’ graves. Interesting. Yesterday I got a new cell phone. Yay!

Would write more, but am tired from day at work. Not really, just lazy.

Today’s my last day. Already got some fun presents. Lots of Delta Queen paraphernalia to put in my new office. Note cards, pens, coasters, etc. Fun! Also a box of Honey Nut Cheerios, some animal crackers, a makeup bag, a lighted mirror, some tweezers, some floss and other stuff that I usually borrow from one of my co-workers. (She’s the person whose desk is stocked with items for any conceivable emergency or non-emergency. Now I guess I’ll be that person.)

Later we’ll have pizza and cake. Yum! Am planning on using all of my flex points today. Yah! (Though I’ll probably go to Curves just to get a few more precious points.)

Yesterday was my measurement at Curves. Lost 4.25 inches (so they say – I’m pretty the 2.25 inches I lost in my bust were because of sports bra squishage, not boob loss), 3.25 lbs (not sure how this compares with my WW loss, will have to check my stats for the past month), and most excitingly, even if these machines are notoriously unreliable, 1.7% body fat. I know they’re unreliable because my body fat percentage is now 31.8%, which according to the old Surgeon General, I am now in the healthy range. Hahahahahahahhahahahahaha! Not hardly! Have ya seen my gut?

Tomorrow is my last day at the Delta Queen Steamboat Company. Very sad, but on the bright side, there is going to be a pizza party. Woo! And I think we’re going to have pizza for dinner tomorrow night at the pub, too. Yum! I am already planning to use every single flex point for the week tomorrow. Totally worth it.

Last night I went to the grocery store after work to get, well, groceries. Splurged on something I’ve been wanting to get for a long time, but have always hesitated because of the cost. Yes, that’s right, I now have a box of Multi-Grain Cheerios in my pantry. Why can’t they make a generic version of these? Sigh. They’re yummy. Slightly less pointy than Honey Nut Cheerios. But I can’t afford to get addicted to these so I will have to ration.