Shanghai Yummy

M commented to me yesterday that I've been really busy these last few weeks, but that I seem really happy lately. This is true.

I've noticed that since the beginning of the year, it seems like I've filled every hour of every day with some purposeful activity. There's just been so much going on! I'm already making great progress on a bunch of the "resolutions" I wrote about a few weeks ago. The challenge has been balancing it all with sleep and keeping myself from burning out.

When I first moved into my apartment, I didn't have anything. I slept on the floor in my sleeping bag and my lone piece of "furniture" was a milk crate. I may have been too lazy to get real furniture at the time, but the reason I tell everyone that I took so long to get furniture was that it forced me to go out and not just squander the good years of my life in front of a TV or computer screen (because goodness knows I do enough of that anyway). These days, even with furniture and all, I don't spend all that much time in the apartment because I feel I've gotten into a good routine of avoiding routine.

Yes, I play volleyball every Tuesday (and sometimes on Monday and Wednesday too), and soccer on every Sunday, and go to dinner with my friends every Thursday, play poker every Friday, and have been hiking almost every Saturday... etc... but what's really amazed me about the past few weeks is how I've managed to squeeze even more out of the time than I thought I could. For instance, Monday, I had an eight hour long conversation with J - I guess you could say it was a heart to heart - that spanned dinner over sushi, coming home for a quick stop, taking pictures of an unusually clear night scene with the new camera, dessert at yummy chocolate decadence place, and Driving (yes that's with a capital D). All this after work, of course. And I used to just come home and bum after volleyball on Tuesday. Yesterday, I picked up wings and went over to J's for a late dinner instead. I'm actually pretty amazed at how much one can do in a single day.

I do think right now I'm on the edge of being too active, because I haven't been getting quite as much sleep as I should. But I'm thinking if I can just be a little more efficient with boring things like laundry and such, I should be okay. Like writing this on the tail end of a lunch break instead of when I could be working or spending time with friends.

Anyhoo... that's the one month into 2005 update. Is it crazy that this is the first time in 14 years that I've ended January with zero Premier-qualifying miles? That's okay... I'll have 18,000 by Valentine's Day.

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