i like tredmills

so i have a confession to make. i have this job where all i do is think of things to make me not fall asleep from 3-9 pm. and today it was reading my dear cousin katy's blog. and not just some of it, i read the entire blog from june 2003 to march 2007. WOW! i can't believe i really did it. now, i know what i've been missing out on! i do feel like i know her better though and i like it! in her last entry she shared a funny story, so i thought i'd share mine.

i was at the gym on the tredmill and i was wiping the sweat off my face so my rhythm got a little off sync and i totally tripped. i barely caught myself as the belt on the tredmill kept flying by. i then started laughing so if anyone saw me (cause there weren't like 30 other people around me or anything) they would know that i thought i was an idiot too. well just as i was about to let out my first nervous bit of laughter, the girl on the tredmill next to me did the exact same thing. that totally made my night better. we both laughed. all i could think of was, "what if a guy had just walked by and we both tripped...he would have totally thought we were googeling over him". and then i thought what would be so great about that is that he'd be the one looking stupid because we weren't googeling over him at all...we're just clumsy. we would have given him a false sense of confidence.

i guess that's okay though...we all need that sometimes. i think i need it today. earlier this afternoon a coworker said to me,

"well alyse, now today you look more like yourself" (i'm wearing a teeshirt, jeans, tennis shoes, and glasses with my hair pulled up in a pony tail). then she followed that by, "you looked nice yesterday" (i left my hair curly and wore a skirt...nothing super fancy).
now please tell me this...she said "i lookED nice", so does that mean i look bad on a regular basis?

oh well, i'm blaming it on the fact that she's going home sick today so she obviously doesn't feel well. so friends and family, i think you're great, and katyo, you made my day go by more quickly today, so for that i am very appreciative.

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