It makes me happy to see the tiny buds and petals of pink and white flowers pushing forth from their pods on the city trees. They are still small, like moths clinging to a branch, but their presence speaks volumes — spring approaches.

Poor Sasha kitty — he couldn’t or wouldn’t sleep last night, and instead opted to spend hours and hours just lazily grooming himself next to us in bed, which of course got him kicked out of the room. He doesn’t know any better, poor guy, but there’s only so much I can take of that grody licking noise. So then he cried at the door awhile and was let in later, which made him meow happily and jump up on the bed all excited, while Brian and I just grumbled. Finally Sasha got tired around 4 or 5 in the morning, I don’t know. Tonight that kitty is getting a playtime workout. No napping on the sofa all evening for him.

My new cellphone got here today and it is very shiny and sweet. I skimmed the manual and will play with all the features tonight. I’ll be sure to select my ringtone when I get home, so as not to irritate people around me. But I do feel like taking some secret spy pictures on the train, heheh.

This morning at the gym I did 25 minutes of various weight machines, and 15 minutes of intense/interval cardio. Yar. And last night did 45 minutes of cardio. Trying to follow Shannon’s advice, which I probably should have written down. But I am planning to do more reading on this program tonight, too.

This dude was on the arm curls apparatus this morning and totally doing it wrong. I almost started laughing. He had all this weight on there, like 90 pounds or something. Then he would do the reps SUPERFAST, which is a waste of time. Then when he was coming out of the rep, he had generated so much momentum from his speed, his ass would lift off the seat, then plunk back down. His whole body was bouncing around on the equipment, so I imagine the muscles he thought he was targeting weren’t getting that much of a workout. Anyway, I thought it was amusing.

Around that time of day (between 8:30 and 9:30am), my gym is sparsely populated — mostly by older guys. This one man was in the stretch room doing pilates for like an hour. He looked maybe 60-65 and had washboard abs.