The Visible Woman...February 19, 2004

Thursday, February 19, 2004

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A Journal from Austin, Texas.
A Project of LBFFP Stealth Publishing.

health and mood

slipping everything in

When the day starts, I'm tired from a sleepless night and I realize that I'm going to be squeezed for time. But I just move along and it's okay.

I want to go see Triplettes de Bellville with some girl friends this afternoon. And I want to work out. We have an event at 5:30 in the evenign. I don't want to get up early because I had another sleepless night and I've barely slept. We have several promised workmen showing up. And then I find out that FFP has two meetings. It doesn't look promising. But, while FFP is gone to his first meeting, I hear from the contractor and figure out that no one will be here for a couple of hours. So I get my work out. Then I manage to supervise the workmen and then get a shower and go to the movies. I even find time to drop by Borders and get Thirteen and Whale Rider so I can watch those next week. I'm really getting into this business of trying to see as many nominees as possible. If I just see "'Lord' and 'Master'" next week, I'll have done pretty well covering a lot of the categories.

FFP is really stressed out when I get home and I go for copies of West Austin News for him and then he is more stressed out because his story ran incorrenctly. We finally go downtown to the reception. Afterward we go to the Driskill Grill and have a meal, too. I have to do laundry and pack at home, but it all seems fine.

Everything got slipped in, somehow.

Me, scruffy from my workout, reflected in the mirror in our new bathrrom.

JUST TYPING

It seems hard.
To do everything.
Finally you just do it, perhaps not well.

Food Diary.

breakfast
toast with butter and jelly

lunch

four slices turkey bacon
boiled egg
Clementine

snacks

slice American cheese
a few bites of Milky Way popables at the movie
a bunch of dumplings, little chicken pieces and baked brie
several glasses white wine

dinner

tiny foie gras dish
carpaccio with fried oysters
two small rolls and butter
part of a cheese plate
glass of red wine

Today I
- really ate too much at the Driskill. Sigh.

Time flies....

I got up late, fielded phone calls about the remodel and then went to the club. Got home and the wood floor guy came and then some people to clean up. Finally got a shower and SuRu came and got me and we went to the movies. We met another friend there (a Nancy) and there were only about three other people in the movie. We all loved Triplettes of Belleville. I don't know how someone came up with this movie but it is very cool, sending up just about everything about France, the U.S., animated features and dogs. That dog is hilarious. Good old Bruno. I hope this flick beats Finding Nemo.

We went by Borders and then FFP and I finally got off to downtown. Got home and packed a bit and folded laundry and it was soon midnight.

Reading.

Newspapers.

The Conquerers by Michael Beschloss.

Voices of D-Day. ed. Ronald Drez.

A DVD course on WWII. (Didn't watch today.)

nothing

Exercise

recumbent bike	31 min
treadmill
ergonomic rower
water aerobics
chest, shoulder, triceps
leg, back, bicep	x
lower back
ab exercises
stretches
walking
tennis

Again today...I would have done a bit more but I was a little rushed. Getting the remodel done should help me do my gym time in a more relaxed manner.

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Someone I prevailed over my demons today. Well, a little anyway.

It's a Tangled
Web we weave...these
days of our lives.

One year ago
"Heck, some of the recountings of actual events in this journal seem foreign later, as if I wasn't actually there. Does this mean that I live in the moment? I don't know. Maybe it means I'm old and forgetful. Suffice to say that when Reagan said he didn't remember, I believed him."

Two years ago
"One of those days when the right words wouldn't come. I didn't get upset though and stumbled right on through. It didn't keep me from wishing I had the floor when others were speaking, to say something different or in a different way."

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