I've been busy continuing my job search, beginning my spring cleaning, starting the slow changing over of winter to spring clothes, and the packing away of all the winter stuff (coats, sweaters, hats, gloves, linens, etc.) and accumulating stuff in the donation pile. I've been working so hard my workouts at the gym seem tame by comparison.

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1 *ring* *ring*

Posted by: _Jon at May 01, 2005 10:38 AM (E69MM)

2 http://www.lsc.org/visiting/exhibits/traveling/robotsandus/robotsus.html That looks COOL :-)

Posted by: Harvey at May 01, 2005 12:29 PM (ubhj8)

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And not just any kind of love, but a deep incredible, first time kind of love. Sigh!
IÂ’m trying really hard not to obsess and to take things slow, but without a doubt itÂ’s true love at first sight. The kind of love that youÂ’ll remember where you were and what you were doing when you first met. A forever love! I could hardly walk, let alone tear myself away afterwards. And no, it's not my endorphins talking here! I believe this is truly the real thing!! Let me fill you in.

There I was, minding my own business, fixing my shoe laces when my trainer decides to introduce us so that we could work out together. It seems he felt bad about my injury when I was last at the gym, and decided to turn me over to someone else for awhile. At first I thought, why is he doing this to me, I just want to get on the treadmill and get on with my workout. But when I looked up and straight aheadÂ…POW, WOW, just like on a Batman episode. My mouth dropped open! What beauty, what figure, what strength? [Okay, breathe MicheleÂ….Focus] Sigh! [Big Silly Grin]

My trainer tried talking to me but I was mesmerized. Somewhere through the foggy haze in my brain I heard my trainer’s voice saying “has great experience, an excellent memory, will always be available to me”…my mind goes wandering off again into an incredible visual of how things can be between us. [I nod to pretend I’m listening] I still have the biggest, stupidest grin on my face you’ve ever seen. My trainer asks another question and I just respond with “ahuh!”. He just laughs, shakes his head and starts walking away.

Then as I slowly come back to earth he says, “I’ll leave you to your workout and I'll check back with you in an hour.” I barely got a “Bye” out of my mouth and just stumbled forward in a half daze and we decided to work on all my problem areas - instensely. Oooooooh!

My breath was taken away, I was made to feel feverish all over, and shortly after we started, I found myself to be all hot and sweaty. It was an incredible workout and time just seemed to fly by. I didn’t want to stop, I didn’t want to go, but my trainer forced me. He leaned into my ear and said I couldn’t hog him. “NOT FAIR” I thought, don’t the others know I’m in love. Can’t they see it in my eyes, my face, my soul?

Now I sit here counting the minutes, dreaming in fantasy landÂ…I canÂ’t wait until we see each other again tomorrow. In fact, IÂ’ve begun to obsess. ThatÂ’s it, IÂ’m done for! [Big Sigh] IÂ’ve never felt like this before. Yes there were times that I thought this was it, but no, this IS really IT!

WhatÂ’s my latest loveÂ’s name? Precor!

Posted by: Michele at 01:39 PM | Comments (7) | Add Comment
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1 You deserve to be shot! Wish I had one of those to work with!

Posted by: vw bug at April 27, 2005 02:26 PM (IHRU4)

2 The one I have in the basement isn't quite as fancy, but it gets me worked up and sweaty.

Posted by: _Jon at April 27, 2005 07:39 PM (E69MM)

3 LOL! They are good, aren't they? I want one of my own, we's does my precious.... *G*

Posted by: Laughing Wolf at April 28, 2005 08:47 AM (zI0Ey)

4 For a second there, I thought I'd been replaced as the love of your life :-)

Posted by: Harvey at April 28, 2005 10:21 AM (tJfh1)

5 I LOVE the precor. LOVE IT. It's the main focus of my work out.

Posted by: Boudicca at April 28, 2005 10:55 PM (z7nbM)

6 GRIN Nicely done!

Posted by: That 1 Guy at April 29, 2005 12:42 AM (HoSBk)

7 love huh? Ah yes the love and the endorphins, and the sweetness that follow....enjoy!

Posted by: ArmyWifeToddlerMom at April 29, 2005 09:36 AM (jHFmI)

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My aunt was always an unusual woman. She always skirted the edge of what women in her family were supposed to do, without outright defying convention. She came from a world where there was one cardinal, 2 monsignors and 2 bishops. People used to tell her, it was as close to heaven as she would ever get, because of her dangerous dance on that edge. She belonged to a world where women listened, and obeyed the spirit and letter of everything their wise husbands told them to do. Widows and divorcees were to wear black, the color of mourning, forever.

I was never a part of that world. In fact, I was so far from it, having left home at 17, to seek knowledge and adventure, that to this day IÂ’m still a woman under scrutiny and judgment. For some people, all IÂ’m missing is my scarlet letter. more...

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Today was a day I don't care to repeat any time soon. Thank you very much!

It started off like any other Monday. Everything went almost according to schedule until I got home and opened the mailbox to find a letter from:

- the Internal Revenue Service
- my employer
- two of my attorney's - one of them working on my divorce - Sigh!
- mortgage company
- Empire Blue Cross

It turns out they all had issues with paperwork I had fax/mailed to them over a month ago documents which I was required to file. My reaction: NOW you write to me? As I made the obligatory phone calls to straighten everything out I was told in every instance to make piddly minor modifications and refile all the paperwork I submitted in the first place. Now mind you, I had just returned from waiting over an hour on line at the post office. OK deep breath.... I say to myself, I'll get everything done tomorrow. Let's stay positive.
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