palace of winds

03/11 Sun: gym
03/12 Mon: gym
03/13 Tue: gym
03/14 Wed: gym
03/15 Thu: nada (walking?)
03/16 Fri: nada
03/17 Sat: nada

I kind of don’t want to think about the amount of dessert I ate last week, so let me just say: chocolate treasure chest. Filled with chocolate mousse. And berries. With cheesecake. And that, folks, was just for one meal. The Hyatt has the food thing down. (The service thing is another story entirely; I don’t think there was a single lunch where someone didn’t try to serve me the non-vegetarian entree, despite my special little bright turquoise card.)

…and that was where my attempt at an entry ended over a week ago. So. F’ing. Busy.

03/18 Sun: rest
03/19 Mon: 50 min C+S
03/20 Tue: riding
03/21 Wed: fam dinner
03/22 Thu: riding (lesson)
03/23 Fri: scrapbooking weekend! (aka nothing)
03/24 Sat: scrapbooking weekend!

03/04 Sun: 30 min C+S (JF Arms) & 8 min abs
03/05 Mon: rest (sick :( )
03/06 Tue: riding! <3
03/07 Wed: rest (fam dinner)
03/08 Thu: 50 min C+S
03/09 Fri: riding (lesson)
03/10 Sat: ?

I’m posting this week’s early, ’cause next week? Next week I’m going to be in sunny Saaan Diego. I leave tomorrow morning and don’t return until the afternoon of Sunday the 18th. My boss keeps leaving weather print-outs on my desk for me, and they’re fabulous: sunny and 83, sunny and 82, sunny and 82, etc. So long snow!

02/25 Sun: rest
02/26 Mon: riding
02/27 Tue: 50 min C+S
02/28 Wed: riding
03/01 Thu: riding (lesson) 50 min C+S
03/02 Fri: rest
03/03 Sat: rest

I got up at 5:10 on Tuesday morning to do that hour of aerobics. That? Dedication. (Actually, I have to confess it’s just good [or maybe bad, depending whether you side with sleep or sweat] timing — I woke up spontaneously, had the thought that I should get up and work out, and instantly felt guilty about really, really wanting to go back to sleep instead.)

I spent Thursday hoping the snow would let up, but by early afternoon they were closing schools and though I actually contemplated the drive out to the barn, in the end I decided to cancel my lesson. Which was a good thing: my instructor said she could hardly see the barn from the house, and when I was driving home they’d already closed the interstate heading south. Alas.

I woke in the middle of last night laughing. My memory of the dream was scattered away by my surprise; I’d never woken up laughing before. I highly recommend it.

I also highly recommend free lunches at nice restaurants. It’s hours later and I’m still stuffed full of exquisite tomato basil soup, and a salad that included grapes someone had peeled and cut nickel-thin, and that glorious apple cobbler (which I last had two snowstorms ago, huh — apparently there’s something about picturesque winter weather that makes me want caramely cobbler). I really shouldn’t've had dessert since Jo and I are going out for Restaurant Week tonight, but — well, I did. And as long as I can get un-full in the next two and a half hours, I shan’t regret it. Fingers crossed.

Also, does anyone know where February went? I seem to have mislaid nearly all of mine. (Eight days to San Diego?! How did that happen?)