Sophie’s lying in bed with me babbling, playing, once in a while screeching. We’re listening to The Essential Bob Dylan and Sophie’s showing off the new dance she does up on hands and knees … let’s call it “The Sophie Hump.” Luna’s smiling at us from her corner armchair.
Tags:dylan luna music sophieI joined a gym several weeks ago (the Epicenter) but until today didn’t keep records. So I created a gym category where I will post my workout logs and observations.
I do high intensity cardio (the Master Trainer GXP protocol). Three times a week I use an elliptical trainer the way I did today.
Tags:cardio weightsFor days now I’ve felt like hell. I’m sitting at work and am so not having fun right now. Yet I’m not “sick” in the slightest nor have I quaffed a single beer.
It’s other things. Since Thanksgiving I have carelessly skipped my gym dates, shorted myself on vegetables and fresh fruit, and am bearing a monstrous huge sleep deficit. My body’s just paying me back for treating it like shit.
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On the road home we happened across our neighborhood in Federal Way. I made a U-turn because Luna wanted us to drive past the old house. For a year, early in our marriage, we’d lived out of a tiny bedroom above the garage. We drove past the Old Country Buffet where Luna’s first job in the United States was busing tables: “A five hour shift felt like you had worked ten.” Their food turned her stomach; she only ever ate the salad and apple pie. Oh, there was the Group Health parking lot where I showed Luna how to drive. Big chunks of memory falling from the sky.
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A squash! Like a toothless chipmunk, she’ll gnaw at the stem end with her gums, which causes a squeaking sound that’ll have you on the floor.
Tags:photograph sophie toysI was cradling Sophie in the kitchen, minding my business, when Luna, who was finishing up her breakfast, had a revelation. Where did the damn stickers come from? One clung to the edge of our fruit bowl. Another curled up at the edge of the sink. She’d wondered for weeks. Then she knew.
It was me, apple eater, peeling off stickers and blithely putting them wherever they wanted to be.
Tags:luna sophieLuna, Sophie and I dashed through our first BeatWalk and just got back. Turns out it’s a great excuse to pop into Columbia City’s shops and restaurants, despite it being 36°F out! We made sure that Sophie was snug as a bug in her patented Pink Astronaut Garb.
I entered Bookworm Exchange, got my hand stamped, and danced with Sophie on the shop’s periphery while a jazz sextet blared away. The bookshop looked better than I remembered (because more new books were on offer?), so I’ll drop by again.
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