RIP Prisim

Saturday Pat borrowed my car. He went to a rock show in Franklyn. My car started acting a little funny on the way up and very bad on the way home. For the record this is the 2nd car Pat has blown on me (only the first was truly his fault). We are taking it to a shop recommended by a friend to have them check it out (hoping it may be fixable).

fingers crossed.

More Football

My Team (the Saints) took on Pat's team (the Bills). We have been talking trash all week. It has been a very interesting week in our apartment.

But today it all came to an end.

Poor Pat. But he must have been a little delusional thinking that the Bills could beat the Saints. The did tie the game at one point. I was never worried. It was a great game and not just because my team won (I swear).

Completely off topic;

Pat borrowed my car yesterday and when he brought it back it was really acting up. I didn't drive it yesterday, maybe I was hoping it would miraculously recover from what ever Pat did to it. Today I was going to take it to the drugstore to see how bad it is acting up and if it goes away after driving a little while. It does not. So tomorrow I need to find a good place to take it to get it fixed as we can not drive it up to Rochester (really unfortunate).

Hopefully it will not cost allot as I do not want to buy a new (to me) car.

Purdue

Twice this season I have been able to watch Purdue play football. Twice they have lost. Heartbreaking games where the first quarter they seemed to out match the other team and for some reason they lost the edge they had. The games were heart-breakingly close.

Against Oregon they missed a touchdown pass by being pushed out of bounds. This was with seconds left in the game. To rub salt in my wounds they lost really late at night.

Today they lost when Notre Dame achieved a touchdown with 28 seconds left in the game. Lucky for me I was unable to stay up for the whole game. I found out the next day.

I hope we have some winning games on TV. It may be that I just watched the only games of the season and we lost.

Tattoo Part II

Pat and I awoke early today (6:30). I was still waking up when he pulled up my sleeve and asked if the tattoo was real (I'm shocked so many people fell for it, you should try it some time). I said it was.

He asked me how much it was.

I asked if it mattered.

He asked when I got it.

I said Thursday.

He said 'it's fake isn't it'

We got a good laugh. then he said that he should have known earlier because I said if I did get a tattoo it would be a teddy bear. I'm shocked he remembered. (which he took pride in).

Don't worry dad the whole tattoo process skives me out it is very unlikely to happen.

Tatoo

I impressed all of my gym friends with my new tattoo. It is a pretty rose on my shoulder. Coach was the first to notice and comment on it. Then the other regular who apparently did not hear my rather loud conversation with coach. (who rents from Enterprise and gave me a hard time for 'raising the prices').

You see it is customer service week at Palisades. This means LOTS of food and some random fun. This year every department decorated their area as a county in NJ. One of the coastal counties went today and part of their decoration was a tattoo parlor. (If you have not guessed already the tattoo was fake).

Everyone seemed impressed with my new skin art. On the way out M noticed it and commented once again that she had not noticed it before. Then we got into a conversation about tattoos. Apparently her mother had always wanted to get one but refused because of the old stigma. Turns out they bought her a gift certificate to a parlor because she would not stop talking about the tattoo that she wanted but refused to get. So at 60 she got the tattoo that she always wanted.

We came upon a conversation about the meaning of tattoos when I was telling them about Pat's tattoo. Coach asked what my new tattoo meant. So I will tell you all. I got this tattoo to represent. . . . .

A great day at work. (really it is FAKE).

A Good Pair

This week is customer service week at work. This means their are lots of distractions and even more food.

One of my co workers is my partner in crime when it comes to enjoying the festivities. Whenever new food comes out she tells me, if she misses something and I find it I immediately go get her. It is sad that it only lasts one week as I could eat like this everyday (though I would gain lots of weight, so I will refrain).

It is a good way to open up the eating season, next up Haloween!

Speed work

Yesterday I was reading on Active.com that speed work was the best way to get faster. They mentioned short 15 second, 30 second, and 1 minute intervals. It seemed like a worthy idea.

As luck would have it my MP3 player was left on and I did not have the long run distraction of music. This made it the perfect day to try out something new that would make it bearable to run for an hour with out music (the radio at the gym does not count). Anyway sub one minute intervals don't work for me and probably would not work on the treadmill anyway. I divided my time into 5 minute intervals. 5 minute warm up, 5 minute hard, 5 minute walk, 2.5 minute insanely hard (it was not fun) 2.5 hard minute jog repeated 2x. Then to finish up the hour I started at the hard pace and decreased the effort .5 mph every 5 minutes. I have never enjoyed a cool down so much.

After a shower I relaxed with dinner and Monk. The hardest part of Pat being away is figuring out the shower & dinner timing. I have been eating late because I am compelled to shower before cooking and refuse to leave the oven on unattended.

Discovery

Pat is gone for the week. I am thrilled to have a week to veg on all of my favorite TV shows (which also happen to be his least favorite). I get to stretch my workout a little longer and watch junk TV.

Tonight is night one. The workout went well but was not as long as I wanted. Coach was talking to me so much doing weights that I missed the treadmill by 2 minutes! ( I told him that too, he laughed at me). Still 30 minutes of cardio and close to that in weights is good enough.

Upon returning home I went to see what TV shows were on and was very disappointed. Not one of Pat's least favorite shows. A few that on a normal night I may have watched but not tonight. So I switched over to on demand to see what shows were listed. To my surprise both Monk and Psych were available. Pats least favorite shows. They are so silly and off beat. I had missed a few episodes when we were in the mountains as well as me not wanting to stay up for them (they are on late). It is so exciting to get caught up and have a few days of Monk (and psych).

Hope Pat's trip is going as well.

Cabin Day 2

I slept in until 8:30!!! This is an accomplishment. It is very hard to sleep much past 7am. I credit the relaxing quiet nature of the cabin. It seems when we go out there I have

Flipped off

Today I was flipped off by an Amish kid.

I went to the store today while pat and his siblings were off to John's friends house. (I wanted to rest for the day). On the way back I had to pass a horse pulled buggy, the country is fun! anyway I really like horses I think they are pretty but because we were on main street I passed them and went on my way. I did not want to cause a traffic jam in this small town.

I turned off of the main road only to see another horse and buggy. I slowed a little to get a good look at the horse (not too much though) and glanced a the girl (pre-teen to young teen) that was sitting in the buggy waiting on someone at the garage sale. I glanced back after i was a little distance away and noticed her hand out of the buggy. I could not see the hand well enough but she held it long enough that she was not signaling that she was pulling into traffic. I realized that I was flipped off by an Amish girl in the country.

What tops that?

New Plan

We always drove the same way to get to the cabin as we did to get to Rochester. The traffic going into PA was always atrocious. This time we took 287 to the through way (through Albany). Smooth sailing the whole way, it was lovely.

If only the rental went as smooth. Pat tried to pick it up early but they had no cars. Finally just after 5 they were to come out and pick him up. 6:00 I get home and he is still waiting. We had just given up when she pulled into the complex. I jumped out of pats car and into the car they were supposed to pick him up in.

At the branch they offered me the corolla, unfortunately it's check engine light was on. Normally this does not matter today it did and she wouldn't rent it to me. So the Accent I got. A nice free downgrade for me.

It got us to where we were going but I was pretty uncomfortable.

Interesting and Exciting

When pat told me his day would be interesting and exciting I had no Idea how exciting it would be.

Pat's coworker picked him up around 6AM. Normally I would still be cocooned in bed and sleeping but not today. I was awake to give him a second kiss good-bye. (wow that sounds silly) anyway. He left with out a problem and I got ready for work. As I was finishing up some cleaning (of which their is always plenty to do around here) I get an urgent call from Pat. It seems that he and his coworker were too busy talking and missed a turn, they called me for directions.

After I finished laughing at Pat for calling me for directions (i can get anyone lost), I went over to good ol' google. they gave me a town name and I looked up where they were. It took a long time for me to find them. Poor Pat was having a heart attack as he hates to be lost. When I finally found them I told them where to turn.

But Pat was not satisfied. Here is a shortened snippet of the rest of the conversation, it did not go well.

How long are they on 42 (or whatever the highway is)? asks Pat
I'm not sure you have to drive all the way across the state. - Me
I know but how far to the ac express way? says Pat
I don't see it but 42 goes all the way to ac. - Me
Is 42 the ac express way? continues Pat
I have no idea the only label is 42 and i do not see the ac express way. - Me

He called back as I was on my way to work to let me know that he finally reached his destination. I told him he was a jerk for getting frustrated with me and that he gets what he deserves when asking me for directions. He at least had the grace to laugh and agree with me.

Maybe the rest of his day will be more interesting then exciting.

When you can't beat them. . .

Run from them.

Pat and I have been playing my favorite video game lately. their is a board that we were stuck on. Pat being the better fighter was getting frustrated and I was not helping much. After a few rounds when he was ready to go to bed for the night I asked that he get me past the big bad guy in the beginning so I could try.

He laughed and agreed.

I ran through all of the bad guys instead of fighting. It worked and got us to the 2nd big bad guy.

He was ecstatic that we got through but mad that I had made it through with out fighting. It was great.