Sex, Crack, and Other Rigamarole

Okay, no sex, but my other title wasn't working. I'm not sure this one is either, but life goes on. Well well, much has happened and not happened. I've been sick, I've been busy...and sick of being busy! I planned to catch up and blog this week, but I had a seminar in downtown DC yesterday and today (Time Management - don't all cheer at once if you know I needed this). So, I got home late. After eating and what not, there just wasn't a lot of time for online stuff. Especially today because Ted and I went right from the metro to eat out and shop...but that's for later. Anyway, I go online in cycles it seems. Some weeks, I'm online all day every day, even while eating, watching tv, etc. But at other times, I'm not on at all and the thought of going through my regular online routine is exhausting.

I think the advent of the Palm Treo in my life has actually brought on my current Internet lull. Besides the issue of my incessant text messaging, I have it set up to check my Yahoo! email and my Gmail account at like 30 minute intervals. A little excessive? Yes. Am I trying to imitate people with "Crackberrys"? Yes. Is it fun and does it make me feel important? Yes. Do I need to do it? No. Would I set it up to check my work email if I could? No (it would just be imitation crack). Are Treo's awesomer than Blackberry's? Hell yes because I said so. I love electronics...gadgets...things that are supposed to make me more productive but do the opposite. Or things that are put on the earth purely to allow me to waste hours at a time playing on or with them.

On a completely different note, I love idea jumping. That's what I do. I love to try things out. Even if it costs a little more to do so. The latest idea is bike riding. After dinner at Applebee's, Ted and I went to look at bikes. We then proceeded to buy two bikes. Do we have anywhere to put them in the house right now? No. At least I'm not giving up on finding ways to exercise. I haven't given up completely on running...it got a little cold, and there were several setbacks...blah blah. So no marathons in my immediate future. Shocker. I do plan to take it up again now that it's getting warmer in the morning. However, I want to try the bike thing first. The idea is to build stamina, etc. on the bike, therefore facilitating the running, which will facilitate the use of the expensive treadmill I own, which will facilitate weight loss, which will facilitate me sticking to one of the many diets I have tried out because I am more motivated, therefore facilitating all the other things I want to accomplish in life, therefore securing a peaceful and unregretful death bed experience!

So, that's the plan. But for now, I'm just going to pick up my newly assembled bike in two days and ride around my neighborhood in a dorky bike helmet. I miss the days of not caring about safety measures. Back when I was a child and rode in a car with my head on the floor and my feet in the air instead of wearing a seatbelt...the days of riding my bike without a helmet...the days of careening down a steep hill on my bike for the hell of it and hoping not to flip over because of a rock or smash into the building in front of it...all without a helmet or pads of any kind. That was the life. Luckily I survived.