mish-mash, Anchorage, snow, blah, blah, blah

Thursday steps: 8497
Friday steps: 3503 Saturday Steps 5867 Week Total: 50192

Okay - so there's a reason for the lower steps on Friday and Saturday. I sat on my bum for most of the day - Friday, driving up to Anchorage, and Saturday driving back. But it was worth it. I got to visit with my friend. Not only did I get to visit with her, but her twin was visiting her as well. What a riot! They did their own little twin speak thing and all I could do was sit on the sofa and giggle at them. They told me they were going to charge me for the entertainment value.

My friend and I had dinner at the Glacier Brewhouse which was, as usual, excellent. It was all the moreso because it was on the house. She had received a letter from the managment which included a free meal. V had pork chops and I had roasted chicken. Yum. And, bread pudding split between us for dessert. I'm telling you, I ate more this weekend than I have since I have been doing the 10000 steps program! (but it was sooooooo good)

Did a bit of shopping on Friday - found some nice things a size smaller than I am currently wearing. Not many, though. Penney's had plenty of my former size and lots of the next one down, but not so many of mine. That's okay - I hope to sail past it in quick time anyway.

Saturday while the car was being serviced (we took it over Friday night) we slept in until 9:30! I was in shock when I finally got up - my normal wake-up time, even on weekends, is 6:00. Oh, but it felt good. We had breakfast at the Snow City Cafe and then went over to get the car and said our good-byes. ;-( I always miss her like crazy when we are not together. She is a good friend - she listens, sets me straight (all too often) and gives great hugs. I need all three of those and feel blessed to get them.

Had heard from down home that it had snowed overnight, and was still snowing, so I decided that I would not do much shopping on Saturday. Went to Toys R Us and got the crib and mattress and some newborn diapers for the Ladybug family. Did a quick walk-about at Wally's and got some socks and my exchange gift for the office party - and, then I hit the road.

Didn't run into any weather until just past Girdwood, when it began to spit snain at me. What's snain, you ask? Well, it's snow and rain mixed, of course. I didn't really see flakes until Cooper Landing. And, none of them were sticking on the road, just melting on contact. I was finally able to see the snow when I got closer to Kenai (Soldotna had a bit, too).

It has all melted off today - and it looks like it might get warmer later this week. That's good - we have a storage unit rented and paid for, but haven't had the chance to get the bikes over there yet. First sunny day with clear roads - well, it doesn't even have to be sunny, just no ice and snow on the roads - and the bikes go into storage. ;-(

Everything happens on the same night - at least this Saturday it was like that. (next Friday will be the same way) I had to pick and choose between a Writers Night performance in Soldotna, an adult toy party in Soldotna (and, after talking with the hostess today I will never be able to think or say or read "hoo-ha" again and not blush) and the Ladybug's scrapbooking party. For many reasons the scrapbooking party won out - but I didn't stay longer than it took to drop the crib and mattress, and drop $100 on supplies. I was road weary and saddle sore. I needed to get onto the treadmill in a bad way.

So, I think you are all caught up now.

Tomorrow is the first day of our semi-annual community awareness workshop on domestic violence & sexual assault. I help facilitate it - that is, I reserve the room (we'll be so happy when our conference room is completed), send out the announcements, accept the registrations, arrange for the continuing education credit, arrange for the police ride-alongs, purchase food stuffs for the participants, set up the room, OH, and do the opening spiel on the first day, and clean up duties on the last day. Woo-hoo. So, I need to get off here and get myself to bed.

And that reminds me - Linda asked if we were really three hours time difference. I'm not sure, Linda, because of the daylight saving time and all. I know that AZ doesn't recognize that, but you are in NV. We are one hour different than CA, if that helps. I think that we may have the time zones set up weird here at the purplemoose site. It seems to me that the times are off, too. (I physically changed it on this entry - so it reads Alaska current time - looks like it was 2 hours off!)

Okay, peeps. Have a great Monday - and an even better week. Type atcha later.
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Posted by Purplemoose at October 19, 2003 10:33 PM