Jan 7, 2014

I worked at Lakeside today for an A/V class. I'm not really sure what they normally do, but today they did a word find in the computer lab. So many huge-screen iMacs and no way to log on to them. It was sad, but I did have a lot of free time throughout the day. I went to Shop Rite for Chinese at lunch and ran into Ryan there on his lunch break as well so we ate together.

I went to Brenda's later to look up possible trips for the Spring, focusing on eastern Canada and Newfoundland in particular. We found some pretty awesome things we could check out in that area and I hope it works out that we can go. We watched Lord of the Rings for a while after we finished looking things up, but it turns out that's a long movie, so we stopped somewhere in the middle.

Jan 6, 2014

I lucked into getting a job in the morning after I had almost given up on it altogether. I worked at Wood School and Mount Pleasant covering kindergarten classes for Child Study Team meetings. It was quite an easy day with a long break in between and not much for me to do while I was there. It was raining all day which melted all the snow and kept me inside again. My grandmom invited me to dinner at Red Lobster so I joined her in hope of finding something I might like there.

Jan 5, 2014

I didn't want to spend my whole day inside so I decided to go for a long walk around Parvin. I took the Long Trail, which was not quite as traveled as the main trail around the lake. There was plenty of snow still on the ground and I was enjoying zoning out and being by myself listening to Circa Survive. I could have spent the whole day walking around there, but Ryan suggested the gym so I left to meet him there for a workout. The rest of the night I did spend inside as it was too cold and wet to go out to do anything else.

Jan 4, 2014

I got up somewhat early in hopes of going to the gym, but I decided to stay home and work out since I had the house to myself. I did jump rope sets with push ups in between for twenty minutes while watching The Daily Show. I wish I had more time to myself at home so I could do that more often. Alas, it almost never happens.

Joanna came down for the day and brought my birthday presents. They were all the things I need to start brewing! There's a brew kettle, hops, malts, yeast, and all the other tools I will need. Now I just need to get started. I'm pretty excited to be able to start brewing soon. Hopefully I can find a suitable place to set up.

We went to Wildflower for buffalo seitan wraps and soup before heading over to Silver Run to walk to the trails in the snow. It was a nice long walk. We did all three loops and it seemed really quick. We were talking about the Appalachian Trail most of the time and ways I can possibly section hike at least parts of it this year. Hiking in the snow made me really want to get out to hike elsewhere soon. Always easier said than done.

We came back to my house and played Wii for a while and then moved on to cards. It was a lot of good snow day activities. After she left, Jamie invited me to go to Kawa with her and Kate. I got a hot tea to warm up and some great Pad Thai. We stayed there for a couple of hours talking and having a good time. I thought they were going to kick us out eventually, but they just kept walking by. A good end to a good day.

Jan 3, 2014

The snow kept coming down through the night. Definitely a good call to close schools around here. I got bundled and went for a walk along the river trail. I was the first to make footprints past a certain point. Everything looked cool undisturbed and pristine.

The little snow islands in the water looked really cool on the edge of the marsh area. I walked for a while and stood around taking in the scenes and enjoying the sun with the crisp air.

Chuck came over to play Wii for a few hours. We got in some Mario Kart and New Super Mario Bros. before Alex came to get him. We got pretty far through the latter. Ryan and I met up at the gym a bit later. We did pull up exercises and tried out using the hanging rings. The rest of the night was again spent inside.

Jan 2, 2014

I thought I'd be calling off work with how bad I felt overnight, but I woke up feeling good enough to go to work so I was at Lakeside showing a movie to 6th grade history classes all day. It was an easy, but really slow day. Later in the evening it started to snow as was predicted and school was quickly canceled for tomorrow. I went to the gym where it was pretty empty. I couldn't jump rope because it brought my headache back, so I did push ups, sit ups, and overhead presses. And then I cleaned my car off for the second time so I could go home.

Jan 1, 2014

If I spent yesterday mostly in bed then today somehow topped that. Between sleeping in because I was out until 3am, slightly feeling the three beers I had consumed over the 4 hours I was at the party, and feeling a bit sickly in general, I had no desire to leave the warmth of bed. Therefore, the day was spent watching White Collar and drifting to sleep sometimes. I went and got a coffee drink and Jen came over later to hang out and talk. It was a very inside day.