ich bin ein auslander

Blowing off Jon and Heather who are happily drinking away at Sharkeez tonight to stick with my program and hit the gym. Lower body weightlifting tonight…

back from piano class, which was fun…

had a great hermit lunch, with nearly everyone showing up for once. Even ye olde Dave made it, which means we’re driving to bfe next week since it’ll be his pick.

Noticing how much my new diet / exercise program is killing the social life. Blowing everybody off and saving it all up for Friday nights at Finns. So hopefully everyone will make it this week so I can see them and drink with them.

was actually pretty damn good. matt damon was bearable, and i loved that there weren’t big fuck off explosions for no real reason every five minutes. nice. i mean, it’s not a great movie, but it didn’t suck.

just got back from a meeting which went well but wasn’t quite the homerun i was hoping for.

hermit lunch soon. will be difficult to keep on the diet, but i’ll do my best.

Got a late night start on a new piece of music last night.. it was pretty but i didn’t know where to go with it. Wanted to get back to it today but work got in the way and now I’m too tired of staring at a monitor to go back. Tomorrow…

Seriously low on money. Had to do the estimated tax thing and didn’t plan vacation cash too well. The coffers… all of them… are empty and two clients are way late in paying me. Regular infusion coming at the end of the month but I’m already wondering how I’m going to pay cash for parking tomorrow. Sad but true. Knocked out three serious proposals and have a huge meeting tomorrow so long term cash situation is good, it’s just the short term that has me freaking out.

Diet / exercise program is going well. Woke up at 8am and biked for a half hour before even a cup of coffee. Damn. Did all my small meals as planned… including those lovely nutrient shakes… yes, they’re really good for you, and they have some groovy flavors… banana cream pie, pina colada, double dutch chocolate… sadly, they taste 99% like chalk and only 1% like the flavor. Also did yoga then hit the gym late night for another 30 minutes on the elliptical. Damn, that thing is fun. Wish I could afford a home version of one of those. It would take up an entire room but it kicks ass over a bike.

Now I’m off to watch the Bourne Identity. Hate, hate, hate that little Damon Buggerwhatever his name is. But a few friends have sworn it’s a good flick…

forgot that this was also day #1 of the new exercise / diet program i’m doing. So far, so good… eating 6 meals a day, which is pretty bizarre for more but apparently it works (they’re small meals, keeps your metabolism up and burnin’ or some such crap like that). Also, a new exercise program which is considerably less time-consuming than what I was doing (which worries me) but is apparently smarter and better designed and actually effective. Time will tell. Apparently, I should be seeing results in the first week and the whole program runs only 3 months… so if it works, we’ll know pretty quickly.

could have been better, could have been worse. won’t be quitting the day job anytime soon but some avenues have opened up that were previously closed.

Back to real life. Room is complete. Most of the house has come together; practicing my piano for my class, getting some mixes together, calling clients and sorting out work and start dates. yippie.