The hubster and I went out to a dinner and movie last night. We saw “Little Miss Sunshine” at the Bay Street theaters. I must say, it’s been quite some time since I’ve seen a movie where I laughed out loud. I loved it, and we both fell in love with the characters.

Today, we loaded the Windows platform onto my Mac Mini. It was definitely strange to see Windows on my MAC!! But successfully, it downloaded and we are stoked. I almost feel like my Mac has been violated, but everything is working fine. I’m pretty happy with my Mac Mini, and even more stoked that I can run all the programs I need on it. Including Windows programs!!

I’ve started up my Pilates kick again. I worked with Pilates when I was getting geared up for my wedding, and lost 15 pounds. Three years later, my body has not gained weight in pounds, but it has lost what I worked on and now is in flab mode. So, I started this week, and promised myself that I would do this at least 5 times a week. I did start a power walk/light jog thing, but then my coughing came back. ACK! gotta keep that damn pneumonia at bay, man. I really didn’t realize that it was as bad as it was until now. Oh well, live and learn. At any rate, my body aches, my butt, stomach, arms, and thighs are hurtin’. It feels pretty damn good.

Last night, we went to bed at 11:00pm. I thought that I was tired, but my eyes were wide open. I felt like I had ten freakin’ cups of coffee right before bed, and my mind was running a million miles a minute. This was surely a night where I could not stop thinking. Suddenly, at about midnight, I heard this awesome figure in my head. I played around with it to see where it could go, and then realized that it was something I could grab on to. I got out of bed as quietly as I could, and went downstairs to my piano. Too bad I wasn’t in my own studio (a dream I will have some day!!), but I wrote down the motives and ideas down. I had the soft pedal down and tinkered around a little while trying to play as quietly as I could. Didn’t go to bed until 2:00am, but damn well worth it!

My birthday was last week, and for the first time, it lasted the entire week. Funny thing is, is that I really hated celebrating my birthday in the past. My parents had graciously left a bad taste in my mouth about my birthday when they claimed that I was too old to have birthday parties. I was seven years old at that time. Since then , birthdays and holidays were just plain BAD. There were many X-mas holidays where I was at home alone while the parents were gone on vacation. There were many birthdays where I would play at home alone in the back yard with imaginary friends… mostly dirt. All in all, they weren’t that great. The bad taste festered into a truly hateful cynicism towards my birthday. When I confronted my mother about the fact that we did not need to celebrate her upcoming birthday, she replied, “Kids aren’t supposed to have birthdays….adults are.” Oh, tis, tis, tat, tat, bullshit, bullshit. But, I had to laugh and just shrug if off by thinking, “that’s just her. Always need to play it in her favor.”

Over the years, (especially being with the hubster), the negative affiliation towards birthdays and holidays has slowly subsided. This year, it was really quite special. It started with dinner with friends, then another dinner, and another dinner, a day at the Nob Hill Spa, and ended with a brunch. I know that all birthdays won’t be like this one, but it was pretty damn nice. A fantastic week indeed, and was even more special since this has been a challenging year. It’s a feeling of rejuvenation and all things new. Time to get my ass back on the train and get a move on.