RANDOM THOUGHTS

1. "The world is my oyster"
I was feeling that way one night during the week when I stopped and actually started thinking about the saying. Why oyster? What is in an oyster that when you feel like you're on top of the world (another misleading saying), you feel like it's an oyster? I mean, oysters sure are yummy, but that doesn't mean that I'd equate a really good moment with something that lives in the sea; has no vital organs; clamps shut at the slightest movement; creates pearls out of its saliva; and stinks to high heaven when dead. Whoever makes these things up?

2. Ina Call!! :D :D
Calling Ina may be the last thing I'll be able to do with my cell (since I'll be 6 feet under after my parents get the bill), and I can say that it was definitely worth it! I missed her loads and just being able to sit in the dark and laugh loads at the shallowest reasons... or no reason at all (hey, I was drunk)... and talking to her was just great. And there are just times in my life when it dawns on me just how much of the definition of "friendship" applies to us both. My gosh, we were best friends since senior prep! Alongside Sieg and Kris. Sieg went one way... Kris went the other, but we met up at some point LOL but Ina and I stuck after a 5-year hiatus. We're 10000 miles away and yet we're still best buds :D that's just great.

3. Exercise
Ye gods... it is so very sad that I am soooo out of shape! Kem and I brisked walked once this week and that was just fine and rejuvinating. But then I swam today and it was just - ugh - my muscles were protesting during the first lap. My gosh. How sad is that? Although I never professed to be a fitness expert, I certainly didn't start to catch my breath while on the first lap! After, maybe, yes, but during? No. And it's really very hard to be out of breath when your under water! Dang. Must get into shape. Stat.