Weekend plans

[stef_tm]

I had a lovely breakfast with Hez this morning. Somehow I managed to lose my prescription sunglasses between the car and the restaurant. We hung out at her clinic afterward where I gave her a tour of http://www.mint.com and our friend Brian stopped by to have one of his dogs adjusted (Hez is a chiropractor.) Max got to hangout with his cousin Frank in the front yard of the clinic and there was much barking at the people walking to the Santa Clara farmer's market.

Santa Clara's trees are sending pollen *everywhere* and my allergies got hit hard; I can only imagine how iceblink is doing - hope you're okay! Sunnyvale is nearly as bad; I saw a neighbor sweeping up the pollen from in front of his house. He was wearing a mask and was covered in a fine, green dust. I just did the nasal irrigation thing and will repeat as necessary. It's not pretty, but it's affective.

I'm donating blood in an hour and beginning enrollment as an apheresis donor. If you're local and type O, A-, B- Stanford blood center needs you. I'm B+ but they'll take my blood, too.

This evening I hope to get some of B's insurance reimbursement started, work on my lecture for Monday, and will go to the lab to do some microscopy. Tomorrow we're attending the UU church and I'm going to meet with my friends Brenda and Ruth. More lecture writing and microscopy work. Also need to write two final exams. Both exams will be conceptual - muhahahahaha.

The best part of the weekend? The gym. Yep, going back after a 2 week break. I can barely wait.
The short-bursts that take place during strength training are very useful for mood management. I'd prefer cardio to be a nice hike with my heart rate monitor, but I fear I'd sneeze off the top of my head. Thank you modern science for air conditioning and HEPA filters. If things get very bad, I'll go take a nap in the cleanroom at work.

What's your weekend look like?

Comments

[wintersweet.livejournal.com]

Ah, I'm A- but the third time in a row the local center stuck me and decided I was a little too low on iron (within normal limits for a woman, but too low for blood donation), I gave up.

I got dental work today, hurrah...I wanted to go poke around the wildlife refuge near the Dumbarton Bridge but C. needs to grade, so perhaps I will sit on the couch and look at the trees outside and play with the DS Lite. :P

[hopeforyou.livejournal.com]

I went to Whole Foods with luna_torquill, and we had a nice talk and did two tarot readings this afternoon. I'm supposed to head to Trader Joe's after a nap/rest, and then at 7 or so, head to the local theatre with a huge pile of people from cohousing to see the new Star Trek movie.

In other words, despite a lot of crap happening to me, today is turning out to be a decent day.

Tomorrow I'm going to try adding a new antibiotic to my diet, and as my body may respond violently to it, I don't have plans to leave home. If I'm up to it, I'll do more garden work and bake a gluten-free loaf of bread. And I may just power sleep.

[peters67.livejournal.com]

Aside from the usual food shopping, am making support blocks out of foam so I can do on inversion despite my neck problems (blocks go under shoulders). Also cleaning up & archiving stuff from my hard drive. Annnd weeding and general cleaning (such as it is!)

FYI my blood type is A+. :-)

[cjhm.livejournal.com]

yes,yes - we have our appointment with the vampires in a couple of weeks. They are always after us (I'm 0-, catdragon_ is 0+ )

[nokomisjeff.livejournal.com]

the best weekend of my life

jeff

[stef-tm.livejournal.com]

Sadly, this is one of my worst for details I won't expound on in lj.

However, I am *very happy* for you :-D