Whirling, whirling towards freedom!

[trinityvixen]

Some more updates on the fly:
-My dearest former roommate, Ms. Lisa Beans got married. It's been a long time since I've seen any bride both so incandescently beautiful. My friends have all been gorgeous brides, viridian and jethrien this means you (keep on keeping on, you fabulous ladies). Lisa was just striking in white, with her darker skin, and the dress she chose made her look like a model--dye it another color, it could have been a Oscar dress on a movie star. This is where I wish that any of my pictures had come out so I could show you all. Alas, the venue didn't have the best lighting in the world. I've seen some of the professional photos online, and she DOES look like a model. I'm a lousy photographer, so I'm easily impressed by good photo work, but even still! I will totally buy some prints to show people. The photographer got both pretty and emotional shots that captures Lisa and her husband (!) to a T.

-In the interest of saving money and getting back into exercising again, I took a trial bike ride to work. The trip is just about perfect. It's the right length, about 30 minutes, challenging but not impossible. It even starts off easy, scaling up in difficulty before ramping back down, so I get a good work out--warm-up, heavy exercise, and a cool down period. So I went ahead and bought a bike so I can do it every day. It's a full-sized folding bike, which is expensive but ideal--I don't have to leave outside where it might get ripped off and it stores neatly inside my room. As soon as it arrives, I'm going to be riding it all over the place. So excited!!

-In other purchasing news, I am also swapping out mattresses on my loft. The queen is manageable, but a full really fits my platform bed better. Without the mattress hanging off the edge of the platform, I get about 5-10 inches of space back. It's not much, but it would open up the space enough so that it's less of a squeeze. I also won't have to grope blindly around for the ladder I can't see nor risk banging my head on the ceiling (the new bed is less deep, too). I also bought cute sheets for it, which was fun because there are almost no fun sheets for bigger beds. Bah-humbug to that.

-With those last two purchases in hand, and with feiran gone now for longer than a week, it's finally settling for me that I'm in my new place for good. Through no fault of my excellent new roommates, I've felt almost like I was still a guest in the place. It's not easy to shake the idea of home being uptown, after living there for four years. I'm having the same trouble with work, actually. My boss left for a week, and I was anticipating her return, but I was still taken aback when she did come back and wasn't my old boss. It was like I'd forgotten whom I was expecting. It didn't help that she left so soon after I started. I think I repressed a little to my mindset of the last year where my old boss was gone more than she was around. But I'm starting to come around.

Doesn't mean I'm not still working for the weekend, as the song goes.(Point of fact, I made that my ringtone for my lab members.)

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Comments

[bigscary.livejournal.com]

I think it's "Twirling", and where you live is still considered "uptown", even nowadays.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

God, it's been too long since I goofed off on the internet all day if I can't get a simple Simpsons quote right. Jeeeze.

[gryphonrose.livejournal.com]

Mazel Tov to the happy couple! And cool about the mattresses, the sheets, and the bike. One of my co-workers has a folding bike and loves it.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I am looking forward to having the bike like you wouldn't believe. Biking is one of very few activities that I can do for exercise that doesn't feel like work, even when it's very strenuous.

[shell524.livejournal.com]

I wish I weren't terrified of biking in the city. It's 3.5 miles to work from my apartment, and should be easy enough. But about half of that is in Queens, which is... well... even more frightening than Manhattan. Cars are mean.

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

Queens isn't so bad so long as you stay off certain roads. Like biking on Queens Blvd, Northern Blvd or Roosevelt Ave would be just plain nuts!

[shell524.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, therein lies the problem. I'd have to cross the Queensboro Bridge and come down that section where Northern and Queens Blvd split to cross the train yard. Then I could ride down Skillman or Queens Blvd. to work. Joy. Not.

[arcane-the-sage.livejournal.com]

Safer to walk it then ^.^ *flashbacks*

[shell524.livejournal.com]

Yeah, and THAT doesn't look very safe EITHER.

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I know what you mean, though the stress for me with biking isn't from fear but from anger. I'm, like, constantly hating on anyone who isn't me when I bike--drivers, pedestrians, other bikers. It's like they're all out to make your trip as hard as possible.

[ecmyers.livejournal.com]

I still haven't deleted the "Kaeleer" wireless network profile from my laptops, out of some silly sentimentality for the old place...

[fairest.livejournal.com]

Still don't! It's alive and strong at TP, and I think I deleted the password file before I realized I'd be setting it up here. :P

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I haven't deleted it either, though I confess that that is more because I hadn't thought to than out of affection. But I think I'll keep it now. :)

[fairest.livejournal.com]

I have the same sense of disorientation. I keep thinking that I'm going to get to go home any day now, like the dedicated little mars rover. I think it's partially because I'm so used to TP being a weekend or holiday destination; my internal clock is telling me that Christmas vacation should really be wrapping up by now, and why am I still here when I should be returning to real life?

Yay for bike and mattress, though! Where did you end up ordering the bike from?

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

I got the bike online. I'll have to put it together myself and take it in for a tune-up, but I'll still have saved close to $100 for all that. It was just so much cheaper, and I found a site without taxes, to buy online than having it sent to a store to buy there.

[viridian.livejournal.com]

You're still uptown! You're just more easily reachable by one train ride instead of train + subway + walk.

[six-demon-bag.livejournal.com]

Glad the wedding went well, if not with the best lighting in the world.

Awesome. I think it's great that you're going to try riding your bike to work. It's great exercise and a friend's roommate lost a TON of weight in one summer just by doing that. Of course, he put it back on at an alarming rate over the winter, but that was due to some other extreme factors I won't go into.

Well, have a good weekend and I hope working through it doesn't suck too bad (and thanks for getting that song stuck in my head, by the way -- sadly, I own the Loverboy's greatest hits on CD haha).

[trinityvixen.livejournal.com]

It's also fun! Biking is just fun. I went on 8-mile bike rides on my vacation because I wanted to. I'm so looking forward to riding every day. Especially when I get a seat that won't kill my tailbone.

Loverboy, truly an underappreciated band. :P

[six-demon-bag.livejournal.com]

True. Biking is pretty fun as well. I haven't had a bike in over ten years. I might check into it myself, seeing as how I only live about a mile and a half from where I work.

Haha yes they are. I made a quick dinner run right after I replied and ended up taking an 80s compilation disc I bought a looong time ago to listen to on my way there and back. I would have just grabbed Loverboy, but another song that was on the mix worked its way into my head along with "Working For The Weekend" and both are on that disc. Good stuff. : )