Busy Sunday
I got up late, around 11:30am, since i didn’t acutally get to bed til almost 6am, I actually didn’t get much sleep. But for some reason my body felt rejuvinated and much more restful than most of last week, when I think I got too much sleep. I did a load of laundry and clean up the apartment a bit. Didn’t get around to vacuuming the place, but did clean counters and such and gather the trash. Went to get the oil changed on my car yesterday after work and the guy said i need to replace my timing belt and since its a VW jetta, on VW dealerships have those specific belts, so I’m stuck paying the dealers. That’s the only thing I hate about my car, the jacked up service and parts that it needs and are only available at the VW dealerships. Well that and it doesn’t have very good cupholders. But hey, I love everything else about it so I’m sure I will still have that car for a long time. Its only at 55,000 miles and its a 1998 model, so there’s several good years left in it and I plan to keep it until at least 100,000 miles. By then I might have some money saved up for a new car. The new 2005 Ford Mustangs look very nice so my favs right now are that, subaru sportswagon, audi A4 or another VW Jetta. One of these four will be my next car.
Had some fish and chips for lunch while watching college basketball and filling out my brackets. Its going to be a good march madness as not team looks like they’re a lock for the national championship. I playing in a pool at work so that will be interesting. Everyone is putting in 5 bucks and the winner takes 70%, second 20%, third 10% of the pot. I think about 15-20 people are going to play so it should be interesting. Then I went out to Lake Elizabeth and started my new workout routine. I plan to jog/walk around the perimeter of the lake every weekend. This is the first weekend and it took me about 30 minutes to cover a little over 3 miles. Hopefully by next month I can cut that down to 25 minutes. In high school I ran a sub 7 minute mile. So to be in that kind of shape I would need to cut the time down to about 22-23 minutes. Its a nice place to jog and always seem to be pretty crowded, there are also distance markers for every 1/2 mile marked along the trail, which is nice since I don’t have a pedometer. I should look into buying one of those. After the jog I went to get my car washed, stopped by Fry’s to look around and got dinner.
Just finish watching Ned Kelly, which was a really good film, decent actors and action, pretty simple storyline and message. Too bad I can’t seem to get it to burn since I wouldn’t mind having a copy of it. Also got a couple movies from Blockbuster online, Spirited Away and Tadpole.
Well I should get really for bed and hopefully with all this exercise, I will tire myself to sleep instead of stay up all night like yesterday. Work calls in the morning at 8am.
