black friday

I'm here at work burning back-up CDs, and listening to the new album by the Decemberists. It's taking me a little longer to fall in love with this new album, as opposed to the more immediate reaction I had to every other Decemberists album...but nonetheless, I really am enjoying it.

I'm enjoying life a lot more lately, and I'm not sure why I'm able to wake up every day now in a good mood and feeling well. It could be because of all the exercise I've been getting lately. It also could be that I've gotten a little older, and I'm able to appreciate things and how far I have come. Some of this might have to do with where I was exactly one year ago, and thinking about how terrible that time was. Some things are very much the same in my life. But, for the most part I feel stronger and more able to deal with things. Good lord, I use way too many words.

So, it's the Friday after Thanksgiving and as usual I ate way too much yesterday. I've been very healthy lately, and it made me feel guilty...but once you get yourself into the over-eating Thanksgiving mind set...it's hard to stop. Along with eating too much yesterday, I went running in the morning, and then walked over 2 miles through the course of the day. So, the crushing guilt of eating too much, and the near tryptophan coma I was in...was off set by these healthy things I did.

And I walked into work this morning, which is really something I enjoy more and more every time I do it. I take basically the same route everyday, two blocks up Avondale, left on Virginia, and then right on Mt. Vernon until I reach Main Street, and then a little less than a half mile to work. I've become very familiar with all the houses and cats and dogs, and the various neighborhood happenings on my route. I have one cat friend, and their is one fenced in dog I like to antagonize on a daily basis. The dog has become a little more friendly, but he doesn't like it too much...when I pretend to be a dog and start barking at him.

Well I need finish up with these back-up CDs and pick some new music to listen to, maybe more later.