• TheBoyfriend™ and I are thinking about getting a membership to the Y and meeting up during the day at lunch to work out. The membership prices are kinda steep, but we just recently got rid of cable TV which cost more than a Y membership. On the other hand, we got rid of cable, largely to save money. Aside from the money, the downsides are that the only time we cold really do it together is during lunchtime. To get a good work out in at lunch I’d probably need to bump my lunch break to 2 hours which I’m fortunate enough to be able to do, but it would mean that on workout days (which would be Monday, Wednesday, and Friday) I’d need to work until 6 instead of getting off at 5. I hate getting home from work and feeling that my evenings already gone, and alot of times an hour can be enough to do that to you. Working out at separate times isn’t really an option, because I’m all to well aware that if I had to motivate myself to do it alone, the membership would go to waste, because I’d never go. Even if I could get motivated to do it, I probably wouldn’t because it’s not really safe to work out alone anyways, and especially when you have no idea what your doing.

  Of course, that brings up the first of the pluses. TheBoyfriend™ used to teach a body-sculpting course at a gym when he lived out in Arizona, so I’d be getting “professional” instruction without having to hire a personal trainer. It’d also mean that TheBoyfriend™ and I would get to spend more time together. Since he took his new job, his hours are largely scheduled per his clients availability. Since his clients are school-aged kids, that means he doesn’t head off to work until about 2 hours before I get home, and typically doesn’t arrive back home til 8 or 9 at night (at least during the school year). We get to spend Tuesday and Thursday nights (when we take our jiu-jitsu class), Saturday evenings (he usually works Sat morning through early afternoon), and most Sundays together, but it would be nice to have a little more time on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays too. Also, having a 2 hour break in which I do something physical may well make the work day go by faster despite tacking an hour on to the end of it. Taking a big break like that kinda makes the day feel like two short days instead of one long day. Last but not least, I’d be getting a healthier (and sexier) me, and a healthier (and sexier) boyfriend. Of course, we’ve got to make the decision and actually do it and we “decided” to get rid of cable about 3 months before we actually did it so we’ll see…

• I think I’m going to officially endorse Barrack Obama for President. The more I think think about, I’ve realized he probably fits my ideal policy positions at least as well as any other candidate running (which is to say not all that well), and the country really needs someone who can somewhat bridge the increasingly deep and wide split in the political population. Now I don’t buy into the notion that there ever was some “united country,” but I think it’s not so much that the gap has gotten deeper, but wider. I’ve read a few people saying “what exactly has Obama done to earn him this ‘uniter’ image.” I guess I’d have to say he probably hasn’t done much of anything, but it doesn’t matter. I’ve heard numerous conservatives say either they wouldn’t mind it too bad if he was president or that they might even vote for him depending on who wins the GOP nomination (at which point I tend to think, ‘have you even looked at what his positions are on the issues??’). It likely comes down to the fact that he’s young and charismatic, and that might not be enough to hold together this perception of a uniter once he’s actually in office, but I’d say his chances of being a uniter are infinitely better than, say, Clinton’s.

• I was thinking the other day: When did my life get so busy? Not more than a year ago, I regularly thought I’d die of boredom. Now I have to stop and remember to breathe every once in awhile. Last weekend, two parties to attend then Monday - I finished a website I was working as a freelance project, last night - jiu-jitsu, tonight - a chiropractor appointment, tomorrow night jiu-jitsu, Friday - get my car inspected (a day late, oops, by the time I called it was their earliest time slot), then Saturday - another party that i don’t know much about and didn’t even know existed until last weekend (TheBoyfriend™ agreed to go without letting me know). I think I like being busy better than being bored, but some days I’m not so sure.

Ok, so now that I’ve typed it, I guess any one of those could have been its own post. Oh well.