work product?

I just learned that someone outside our office may be taking over a juicy case of mine. I was ready to file a pretty significant, highly original, painstakingly researched, time intensively written document. The word came down that I have to give the document away and the outside person can use it as his own. I was told it was in the best interest in the client.
I was almost ready to finish the case up - I never figured it would end this way.

Hawaii v. Mexico

I'm going to have to figure out how to work the mexico angle with Cowboy. With him, you kind of need to approach an idea from the side - so that he starts to think it's his idea or at least somehow a novel one that we came up with together. Today I checked out a video from the library on Hawaii. I know that once he sees the pictures, he'll get so into it. If I can plan a similar approach to mexico...he might bite! Sounds manipulative, but it's more like I'm managing my crew (of one) on an individualized basis. I know what makes him tick and I'm just pitching an idea in a way that will have a greater chance in him responding positively. He's not a good traveler, so I have to make it look easy and worth it.
In the meantime, I went swimming and biking this morning. Not bad. I'm liking the sport combo more and more. I started a group in PEERtrainer.com. Hopefully I will be able to hook up with others interested in trying a triathlon. It's good to touch base with RoadRunner about that, and hopefully there are more like us who want to try and are interested in talking about it. We'll see.

lemons - 2/22/06

I am happy to report that a new Dunkin' Donuts is coming to the neighborhood. This means there will be 4 places within 2 1/2 blocks where I can get a lemon donut! There's also a place along that same block that sells Krispy Kreme donuts, but there's no lemon...so I only stop in when I'm in the mood for a raspberry.

On a lighter note, I got into a spat with someone at work. I asked her a simple question about where a certain document could be found. She smiled, gave the answer, but as soon as I walked away, I heard her comment about me. I was a little too slow to react, but I was furious. I don't care if she talks about me behind my back, but this wasn't - and it was loud enough for everyone in the hall to hear. I went to her and quietly said, you know if you're going to do that, you might want to make sure that a) it's justified (I needed to fix the document before it went out so there was a reason I asked about it) and b) the person can't hear you. She got embarrassed but tried to weasel out of it by saying - what do you mean? I said, I heard you. You said... She knew she was busted and said, no - you misunderstood, I was talking about something else. I looked at her like I was clearly not buying it and let her flounder a little as she repeated her excuse. Finally I said (still in a little bit hard tone), if I misunderstood - I apologize. She apologized. I said, okay - so we're fine - and I walked away.
Ugh. I don't like confrontation, but I feel like I couldn't let that one go. If I'm not going to stick up for myself, who will?

hiatus

After way too long of a hiatus, I'm back. Sorry to the 2 or 3 people who check in from time to time. I am now caught up on all of you. After the long break - you'd think I'd have more to say. Here's the update.
I went home to CA for xmas then stayed for my brother's wedding on new year's eve. Even though that part of CA was completely under water, I managed to get in 1 run. I also tried on my wedding dress only to find out that i need to lose 5 lbs. It's probably 10 by now, though. That winter weight may also account for the fact that before xmas, I was running longer and faster than I am now.
My swimming and biking workouts are going fairly well, but when I do them consistently, I am so tired by the end of the week. I don't know what's going on there - I'm guessing it's some combo of not getting enough iron, sleep, and not quite being used to doing 3 sports as consistently as I've been trying.
Work has also been busy. We just switched supervisors and - maybe i'm the only one who feels this way, but it seems like every 6 months we have to prove ourselves all over again while getting used to their style of supervising. It gets old.
I'm trying to get the wedding stuff down. I still have to finalize the florist. I can't believe I'm having such a hard time with that one. That is the last big thing to get in place, though. Well, that and the honeymoon. Cowboy doesn't fly, so we were originally going to drive down the CA coast. Now, he's thinking about flying - so we may go to hawaii. I tried to get him to consider Mexico or Costa Rica, but he has less of the explorer in him than I do. I think he wants to go to nice resort and relax. That's fine with me. My trip to Belize went pretty far in satisfying my inner explorer, and I'm hoping to plan another trip sometime fairly soon. I'm looking into the Panama Canal or Turkey. Anyway, anyone with pointers on Hawaii - let me know!

a no go

Inflammation back in both eyes this time. Apparently we caught it early, so I think that's good news. Still a little frustrating. I thought I was on the mend. I was hoping to be in good shape by now, but I can tell the difference in my sight, so I guess not. No real flare-up anywhere else.
I'm still trying to work out without overdoing it and over-stressing my body. I ran yesterday but didn't do much today. I am going to play with doing longer but easier workouts and add a lot more lifting. Maybe that combo will be less stressful. ?
My wedding is almost planned, so hopefully that will also help.

who knows anymore

so I got an all-clear from the eye doctor, but my L eye is starting to feel strange again. It might be something else - changing hormones or a touch of the flu. I am going to rest it for the next couple of days and see if it gets better. If not, back I go.
Working out is going well, though the past couple of nights I have been having fevers. I rode the bike for an hour and it seemed to be fine but I took a tylenol just in case. There's nothing worse than waking up in the middle of the night with a fever too cold to get out of bed and take something for it. Tonight, I am not doing anything. I wanted to go to for a run today, but I felt a little feverish and my stomach hurt like I was getting the flu. The flu would be better than a flare-up. We'll see.

Yikes...too long without an update

Almost a month since my last update. I went home to california for a while - it was underwater. I got to run 1x, and the rest of the time it rained. Still, if I had really wanted to get my workouts in - I suppose I could have gotten it done. Unfortunately, once you stop - it's easier to maintain the couch potato role than the exerciser role. Now, I have a cold. It's been almost 2 weeks though so I might do a few easy work outs.
I think my eyes have been okay through this, b ut the other day my knee was swollen to the size of a nerf ball. It was really hard. I have no idea what I did to bug it, but I had to take some prednisone for it to go down. It might have been too much sugar - sometimes that's a trigger - b/c over the holidays I had too many christmas goodies. Sugar is another one of those momentum things - once I start eating sugar, it's hard to stop. I don't want to do the whole knee thing again, so I will have to give up the sugar.

workout progress

Yesterday I did not work out. Today, I did a pretty big workout. I lifted, ran, swam, and did a small amount of yoga to stretch after all of that. It was going pretty well until the run (which was 3rd in line). My stomach started hurting again for no apparent reason. This has been going on - off and on - for about a month. As much as I hate to admit it - I may have to make a trip to the doctor. I thought it was just a mild but long-lasting version of the flu...now I don't know. The only real symptom is a stomachache. Very odd.

training sessions

I took last week off. I was glad to do it, and I could almost imagine myself being content to slip back into the ranks of the couch-potatos. Surprisingly, though, I was looking forwardto working out again. I've revamped my training schedule and am ready to go. So far so good. It felt good to get back into it.