it's a good day

I have just come in from a whole day of me-time, and I feel so good right now I can almost ignore the slight twinge in my lower back. And then I try to sit up and things change a bit.

This morning I was up and out the door by 6 AM to hit the St Lawrence Market, then I came home to drop off my purchases before heading back out to Wal Mart at the Dufferin Mall. I came home via the Bay and Dundas Canadian Tire and the Yonge-Eglinton Centre, then I was back out again to do Queen Street West (well, Silver Snail) and parts of Yonge Street (I bought The Howling on DVD at Sunrise). All this and I stayed on budget! Feeling amused and optimistic, I even bought me a Lotto 6/49 ticket for tonight's $39 million jackpot. Yes, I dare to dream. And then I read my horoscope in Eye Weekly, which made me guffaw on the subway:

A nice thing about Pisces is how much appears
to be brewing deeply inside your sensitive soul.
That the majority of your thoughts are about nap
time and cheese sandwiches is information not
everybody needs to know.

I think that's just plain brilliant. Not that I eat cheese sandwiches. I've actually been very good today, seeing as I weighed in at 187 lbs yesterday. Here, I'll share:

1 large double-double at Tim Horton's (6.10 AM)
1 apple danish from the Market (6.55 AM on the subway coming home)
1 cup of tea (10 AM or so, home at last)
1 banana with strawberry yogurt (10.30 AM, still at home)
1 meuslix bagel with butter (10.40 AM, still at home)
1 more large double-double at Time Horton's (2.00 PM)

That's it so far. Maybe some cottage cheese with red pepper hummous on flatbreads for a snack in a bit, for it's pizza with friends in an hour or so and Blakes 7 and beer with Jay later on.

Simple pleasures all around for me today. And why not. Thoughts for improvement? Well it could be a bit cooler in here. My apartment thinks its the tropics and I don't even have any of my radiators on. Hot water heating be damned. The autumn air is starting to dry me out as well so on with the humidifier soon and on with more moisturizer as well. Oh and I need new cologne.

Professionally I feel good things going on around me. I'm at Canada Post still and I actually feel as if I am making a material difference to what goes on around my depots. There are changes happening all around in the Corporation and I am getting a lot of experience. So far I've worked on restructures, I've helped move locations, I've had intensive supervisor training, I've worked a unique and challenging position, I've met with the legal department as lead-up to an arbitration hearing next week ... yes, I've seen a lot. And there's more to do still. And it gets noticed, let me tell you. Looks like an interesting future ahead of me there.

And to close. Heidi and I were out last weekend all day on Saturday doing photos for her digital photography course, and I was her model. Today I bumped into her on the street and she had a complete CD ROM of all the shots we took, and I am really impressed with them. I've cycled a few through on my MSN profile today and gotten good response, so I'll share some here.






That is all.