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i'm really looking forward to exercising again. my back's been pretty decent the last day or two, but i wanted to wait a bit longer... i had visions of going overboard in hoop practice and having it seize up again, which would not be good. tonight's my salsa class, so i'll see how i feel afterwards... maybe thursday will be a good hoop night. i've got my lesson plan for the workshop, now i'm looking forward to running through it live over the next few weeks and making some tweaks.

philly peeps -- if any of you want a free private lesson in november, i'd love some guinea pigs. my place or yours.

last night was a really nice night, exactly what i wanted out of my birthday. i came home a bit early from work, took a bubble bath and read some magazines, and made a WW-friendly baked ziti for me and jack... watched anthony bourdain reruns on TV and then fell asleep in front of the rained-out phillies game. bliss. jack got me the best card ever -- the cover has a girl hooping, and you turn a teeny crank and the hoop moves around her waist. i am saving that forever.

november and december are looking pretty sweet. i have a bunch of unused vacation time, so yesterday i mapped it all out and now have a day or two blocked off every couple of weeks... including almost the entire week of thanksgiving. w00t!

choices, choices.

looking out my window, it's storming like crazy outside. windy as hell, and it keeps going from pouring rain to giant floofy snowflakes to rain again. definitely one of those days where i'd love to be home on the couch watching it out the window, rather than watching it form my office and knowing i'm going to have to go out in that at the end of the day.

which brings me to my quandary. tonight is salsa class, and i was going to go tonight to see if the ouchy back's truly finished. but the thought of driving 90 minutes round-trip in this cold, slippery crap is less than appealing. if i were boutell, i'd walk there if i had to, without an umbrella, barefoot. but i want to be warm and dry and cozy, dammit. i want to stay home, throw in a load of laundry, heat up some sugar-free cocoa and do some angus snugglin'.

sigh.