ow.

i am soooo sore this morning. i went to aerobics yesterday, it was the first time i've been in my gym in about 6 months (and my 1st aerobics class in years). the class was fantastic, it was a hip-hop aerobics class they'd just started and had a bunch of cool dance moves. i picked the moves up easily, but it was a lot of hopping and stuff which i'm paying for today. it also sucked that i came out of the gym, red-faced and drenched wirth sweat, and got walloped with the 95-degree heat index outside. ugh. but i'm SO looking forward to next week's class! yay!

i also decided yesterday to take up a new activity... knitting. don't laugh. i figure it's a bit creative, it's something i can do if i'm watching tv (i still haven't turned it on, thankyouverymuch), and i'll have something to show for it when i'm done. i went to my local craft store and bought a how-to book, knitting needles, and some pretty pale green yarn to do a winter scarf. almost immediately, people were stopping me as they saw the knitting needles sticking out of my bag... "oh, you knit??? so do i!!!!" it's like i joined a club. so i explained how i was a beginner and was trying to keep from zoning in front of the tv... i explained my tv turn-off experiment, which people thought was cool. but i had no idea, as i ran my other errands, that i'd meet so many other knitters. who knew.

a-a-afternoon deliiight...

i have to say, this "no tv" thing is working out really well. it's freed up so much time in my life... even for silly things, like doing the dishes (instead of letting them pile up) or running errands (instead of putting them off for weeks). i'd always let things slide because i'd be vegged out in front of the tube all night... now the evenings feel so much fuller, so productive.

tonight it's been blazing hot in my apartment. i'm on the 4th floor, and i'm only allowed one 5000BTU air conditioner because it's an old building. so i've been roasting. by 7pm i couldn't take it anymore, and walked into the square to run some errands. i was literally drenched with sweat, the back of my head was soaked and my shirt was stuck to me. ugh. on the walk home, i was dreading facing the sauna that was my apartment... then i walked by my tiny local movie theatre, and saw that "anchorman" was playing in 15 minutes. hmmm... movie i wanted to see? air conditioning? concession food? considering that i wasn't married to the tv anymore, i had the night free... so hell yeah! i bought myself a ticket and a big-assed twizzlers, and laughed my butt off for 2 hours. great, GREAT movie... and by the time i left the theater, the heat had calmed down. aaahhhhh.

off to bed now. gonna try to hit the gym tomorrow at 5:30am. eek.