Hellooo!

Remember how I said last week that I was going to run a 5k on New Years? Guess what my time was? 0 minutes and 0 seconds! Okay! I didn't go. I planned on going. I wanted to go, but then I did a bit of math and decided that driving the hour from my place to GMU, running for 35 minutes and then driving back for an hour to my house was more of a time commitment then I was willing to expend. So instead, I put on my headphones, jumped on the treadmill and ran for 35 minutes. Then I stayed in on New Years Eve and had a fun time playing Clue and drinking assorted beverages. Just for fun, I stood out on the balcony and yelled at the passing drivers that they better not be driving drunk. This is did in honour of all those mothers that are against drunk drivers. It was the best I could think of at the time. I wasn't part of the solution, but I also wasn't part of the problem.

So that was my New Year's Eve. My New Year's Day was passed in my jammies with a "headache". I did get the house cleaned up (I even hoovered under the bed) and I made it through the last (I think) of the author request catalogs. -- I know, for a fact, that as soon as this is posted I will get another box of them in the post.

Here I am in my office chair, eating a tuna sandwich and listening to my new Tom Waits trying to figure out what sort of thing to tell you about this week. It is a particularly good tuna sandwich and I am enjoying it very much. I think I am enjoying it because it is tempering the caffeine buzz I had going on. I hit the coffee a little too hard this morning. Whew! Thought my head was going to pop for a bit.

Right. Event news. I told you all last week about the two big events on the 10th of January correct? I still haven't decided which event attend. My sister has started attending Kimberly's yoga class at the Bethesda Studio and is enjoying it very much. She (my sister, not Kimberly) has this idea that she is going to change her attitude this year. We are all very supportive of her and maybe more supportive of her husband who has been charged with assisting in this change. I was told that you get a spritz of lavender something-something as you lie prone in relaxation pose at the studio. That would be it for me. I love that stuff. If anyone is looking to change their attitude (like my sister) and can't seem to make it out to a studio, or if you are just a little unsure of how you look in yoga pants bent over in front of people, you could pop into the store and pick up one of the books and give it all a shot in your living room.

If you are like me and yoga maybe isn't your perfect cup of tea. You should make your way the other event and figure out a way to change your attitude with something that doesn't involve bending a flexing. Try the 'Take a Nap' speaking engagement. Sara Mednick is going to teach us all how we can overcome that slump we all feel in the afternoon when our two martinis we had for lunch catch up to us and the inbox is threatening to quit from the weight of papers stuffed in it. Perhaps you should take a chance on the big Wheel o' Naps and see if a little shut eye from 1 to 2 in the afternoon will raise your creativity and alertness enough to help you with that last minute proposal you were supposed to finish up last night. You know the one. The one you pushed to the back of the desk so you could join the rest of the office staff at Union Jacks for 2 dollar English Ales. 32 dollars and one burst bladder later, it is morning again and your proposal is still sitting on the desk untouched.

Okay, that last one ran a little too close to the truth for comfort.

Ultimately, I wanted to remind you all about the two events going on this week. Next week we have a slew of things going on that you can all get interested in. If I tell you about them now, I will have nothing to talk about then, so you will all have to wait a bit to see what they are. That is, unless you are very crafty and know how to look things up on the website. Or you could check in at your local store to see what is going on this week and next. You should all go out and visit the staff at the stores. We don't allow them to go home. They all live at the store. They sleep on the floor. Some people think that we use automatons, but we have actually imported the majority of our staff from Montana. They are used to sleeping on cold hard floors and fighting off rabid bison. That is why they are so good at what they do.

Until next week, I will be here at my desk wishing for the cafe next door to come up with a different soup.