Morning!
Do you ever look back a month or 6 months or a year and try to remember what was going on or how you were feeling or what you were looking forward to? I came across a very cool website yesterday; www.futureme.org You can write yourself (or anyone) an email that is then delivered anywhere from 30 days to far, far into the future. I wrote myself a one month letter and a one year letter. I think it’s kind of cool. I told Current Me what was going on, how I was feeling and what I hope that Future Me is going to have achieved by the time the email arrives. And the strangest thing happened. What Current Me hopes that Future Me has achieved actually motivated my workout at Body Combat. When I wanted to ease off a little, I thought of reading the email in 30 days and again in a year and having to acknowledge to myself that I didn’t try as hard as I could or do my very best in order to achieve the Future Me goals.
I worked Body Combat as hard as I could last night, Valerie has only one more Body Combat class before she moves away, and to be honest, I really hate that class. I am bad at it, it hurts and I look retarded. And if the new instructor to replace Valerie isn’t fantastic, I think I’m going to have a very hard time showing up to it. I know who they think it’s going to be…and if it is her, then great!
Last night when I got home from Combat, Ray had a roast and brocoli and steamed red potatoes all ready to go. Very nice to come home to! I cleaned up dinner while he went back to bed for night shift tonight. I packed my lunch, packed this morning’s gym bag and then made 4 dozen peanut butter cookies. While the cookies were baking, the fridge got cleaned out and a load of laundry done. Energy definitely does breed more energy!
Last night Ray also happened to inform me that the week before Christmas he’s supposed to be on dayshift. That won’t happen, senior guys to him will be on holidays so he’ll have to go to a different shift. He said he is goint to choose graveyards instead of afternoons. Unfortunately that didn’t make me very happy. My last vacation day of the year is on that first Monday…the day after my birthday. My original plan was to sleep in, get showered or bathed and then crawl back into bed and watch Sex & The City, Gilmore Girls and any other silly girlie show or movie that I feel like while munching on birthday cake. A day of complete luxury. Unfortunately now that’s ruined. If Ray works graveyards, I’ll have to get out of bed by 6:30am and fully showered and hair done so that he can go to sleep for the day. Obviously I don’t want him to work a shift he doesn’t want (afternoons sucks right before a lengthy shut down), but I don’t want my day of sinful laziness to be ruined either. It’s not the same to camp on the sofa and watch movies and it’s certainly not going to be nice to get up at my regular awake time and get ready like any normal day on my last day off. I had this all hammered out in my head and now it’s not going to work out. I’m sadder about it than is fully reasonable. I’m going to have to make an entirely new plan so that my last day off of the year, the day after my birthday, is not just any old day. Gr.
Love List ~ November 22, 2011
- early morning spinning and a hot shower
- tangerine flavoured lip gloss
- juicy kiwi (eaten with the skin ON!)
Fitty vs Fatty 
I love the idea of futureme.org! I’m sure that future you will be very happy with the progress you’re making as you’ve been kicking some serious ass at the gym from the sounds of it.
Too bad about Birthday plans being changed! It’s always disappointing when things don’t go according to plan. I hope that whatever revisions you have to make will still be fun.