Yesterday was a great day.  Dog park.  New Shrek fishing pole (to go along with my scooby dooby dooooo pole).  Ron and Karen fishing time. 

 Beautiful day.  Great views.  Good company.

And today we get to eat the fishes!  Yaaaay!

Was gonna spend all day working on my online psychology stuff, but as it turns out, the publisher's website, where I have to take all of my tests, happens to be down.  Now that's fantastic.  Means Karen can have fun instead of doing homework, but also means that homework's gonna have to find a home somewhere in the next week... less than a week.  Six days.  14 chapters.  Plus school.  Plus work.  Plus a final in my communication class.  Ugh.  Double ugh, even.

Interesting

So Ron's developing some jealous tendencies.  We'll have to work on that one.

Also, there's a guy I met less than a week ago who's trying to sell himself to me.  Unfortunately for him, what he's selling, I'm not buying.  I don't want to be a baby factory First he said ten, then five.  I say maybe none, but if so, never ever ever more than three--and that's only cuz I'd like one of each if I do have kids.  If I get that at 2, that's where I'll stop.  If I don't get that at three... I'm still stopping.  Again, this is assuming I have them at all.  Been doing a lot of LOGICAL thinking on the babies subject lately, and met a lot of horrible kids (this helps to keep me from wanting to run out and get knocked up) and the baby rabies I had for a while has died down to a whisper.

Anyway, there's your update.

I went for a hike with Ron at a place called Hanging Lake yesterday, near Glenwood Springs.  It was absolutely beautiful.  Clear turquoise water,  trout, beautiful mossy waterfall.  It was just hell getting there.  I looked at the website before I went, and I couldn't understand how a mile hike could possibly take an hour.  Now I know.  Trip down took maybe fifteen minutes   Stayed up at the lake for about half an hour--long enough to watch some kid fall in from a log that reached out into the middle.  *sigh*  There was still a lot of snow in some areas (we were in a canyon), so we went from no snow at the bottom of the hike by the Colorado River, up to some places where I sank down to my waist.  There were big chunks of snow below the waterfall still, too.  Was a gorgeous day, though, and maybe 70 degrees out in the sun.

Next time, I don't think we should eat lunch right before we go.  Was a very good meatball sandwich.

Guess the only downside is that I spent like nine hours in a car yesterday.  Worth it.  Especially since I'm not sore like I expected to be today.  Second day's always worse, though.  So I'm gonna try to keep moving today, and tomorrow, and hopefully I won't hurt too much.  I really need to get into better shape.  I'm on my way, but by no means there.

Have I told you guys that I've lost 10 pounds since the breakup?  Go Karen.  Imagine what I could do if I ate healthy.

Strange

Even though Ron is one of my newest friends, i think he's got potential to be one of the best.  Possibly up there with Leah, Rioness, and Jared.  It's funny because he feels almost the same way I do about darn near everything.  A hairier male counterpart to the oddity that's Karen.  Heck, his stepdad is who he considers his dad.  What's even better is that his stepdad happens to be a 5'6" dark Italian man (while Ron is 6'3" with dirty blond hair and blue eyes).  If anyone knows Harry, that might ring a bell.  The parallels are a little odd, actually.  This will be the fourth time I've seen Ron in nine days, which is fairly impressive since he lives in a different city.  We've talked every day since we first met.  This is a very strange yet ultimately exciting new experience for me.  I've got someone that I can tell about my day again, which definitely takes a lot off the stress load, without adding to it like it would in a boyfriend situation.

I know this isn't the most exciting entry, but I really am quite excited about the friendship that's developing here.  Not that I don't appreciate the friends I already have, but Leah's working and going to school so I won't see as much of her as I'd like, and my other friends that I consider closest emotionally are very far away physically.

Exhaustion is not my friend, though we are intimate.

This has been the week from hell, and it's not over yet.  I thought I was gonna have an easy day tomorrow, but I just kept piling more stuff onto my list of things to do.  Now it's looking daunting. 

Saturday if the weather's nice, Adam and I are probably gonna go for a hike or something.  Maybe I'll see Ron (the internet friend--I guess lunch went better than I first thought) sometime this weekend, too.  Be all social and stuff.  I have every intention of visiting my mother at some point as well.  I love my mom.

I think I'm gonna take this opportunity to spend some time bonding with my bed and a book.