Holdouttrout

Yesterday I was trying to think about something, anything, to say about my life the last few days. Really, I've felt like there hasn't been anything much going on--I've felt under the weather, but not terribly, and I've been resting and watching bazillions of episodes of West Wing, which has been pretty amazing. I hear that people didn't like it so much after season 4, but please don't tell me why, since apparently I'm immune to whatever it is that made people dislike it so much. After I finish watching the whole thing, or until I do see whatever it is and can't watch anymore, then I will go looking for opinions. (I'm currently in season 5.)

Also, I'm totally Donna, only not blonde.

I am, however, a redhead.

I dyed my hair for Halloween and went as my alternate universe evil twin. This may have been partially due to Fringe, which is my favoritest show on TV right now. I want to have its plot babies, though I haven't (yet) written fic for it. I'm in total love with the Red Universe storylines and was literally gripping the coffee table last night at the end of the episode.

I still have faith in the Blue Universe storylines, despite my worries.

(There may be spoilers in the comments, if anyone else is around to obsessively talk about this season with me.)

Anyway, TV aside, I was writing an email yesterday that made me realize that actually I'm not as much of a lazy, unmotivated loser as I thought--it just seems that way because I've cut back on a couple of obligations at church, which has done wonders for my schedule. And also because it was probably the time of month where my self-worth takes a dive.

You'd think the Unsuccessful and Grueling Shopping Expedition to find a blue dress for a wedding I'm sorta-in in April of next year would have further depressed me, considering that most of the dresses I tried on didn't fit, didn't look right on me, weren't the right color or level of formality, or were too immodest. You'd be wrong, however, because I didn't expect to find ANY dresses to try on at all.

( more detail about retail )

What else? Oh! I've been working out in the mornings--walking/attempting to jog M/W/F, weightlifting T/TH, and swimming (with my bro!) Saturday mornings. Swimming is hard, y'all. I used to be on swim team, and man, am I out of shape. I didn't realize how good of shape I was in until I tried to swim 100 yards without stopping. Eesh.

( sharing lanes )

The most exciting thing to me is that my gym has one of those pull-up machines that takes some of your weight so even a really heavy wimp like me can pretend to be in awesome shape and do pull-ups. I have to use the very highest weight setting (120 pounds), and so far I can only do three, but it's awfully fun and, according to my mom, impressive-looking.

:-)

Anyway, that's probably enough for this poor, overloaded post. I should also say, however, that I am theoretically doing NaNo. Which might tell you all you need to know about how well that's going.