The spider beside her

Hey hey!

My blogging has been seriously slacking lately.  I blame lack of interesting things to share topped with being really busy at work and also in a bit of a funk.

Anyway, I’m looking forward to getting back into the workweek.  Weird, right?  Zach and I have midweek plans with some friends to see The Gypsy Kings at Mountain Winery.  It’s our first concert here and the venue is absolutely gorgeous.  I did do a day-of wedding coordination there and am happy to be more of a guest this time around

So the weekend…

Well I went back to blonde:

It’s been forever and a day since I’ve got my hair done.  When I go dark, I just do it myself, but it started to look really brassy and knew it was time to get in for some professional polish.  I went somewhere new since I’ve yet to find a great stylist in the Bay Area (that doesn’t charge $400 for highlights/cut).  Anyway, she was very nice and did what I explained but it still ended up much lighter than I expected or wanted.  Sigh.  Maybe after a few washes, the blonde will fade a bit.  Orrrr, I can always make it darker again, right?

That takes care of Saturday day (after Spin of course), which was followed by copious amounts of vino and a veggie tagine at a friend’s dinner party.  Good company and good food is always a win.

What’s not a win?  The unpleasant occurrence that happened when I got home.

We returned at 11p-ish and I got ready for bed and had planned on reading a chapter in my book in bed.  I got all settled and felt my hair tickle the back of my neck.  Then I felt something on my back.  Then on my neck.  After about a minute, I finally sat up and pulled my shirt out and there was a freakin’ spider in.my.shirt.  No lie.  I screamed.  Zach came running upstairs thinking I was murdered.  Close enough if you ask me.  I  threw my shirt off and started clawing at my skin furiously.  Luckily we found the spider and it met a very certain death.  Gaaaaah!  That was honestly one of my worst nightmares come true.  Ick!

I seriously feel like things are crawling all over me all the time now.  {Shudders}

So yeah, those were the high and low points of my weekend.

What were your high and low points?

Any frightening spider stories you care to share?

The spider beside me

This morning before my second all day weekend work day, I wanted to get in a nice sweaty workout before sitting on my bootay for the rest of the day.

Before lacing up, I took Naava out to do her business and noticed a spider (big, huge, and hairy, of course) building its web on the overhang of our front door.  I quickly scurried past and went inside to feed the beasts before hitting our apartment gym.

When I opened the front door to leave, the spider had moved! EEEK!  Where did it move?  Right in front of the door about 1 ft above my head.  I literally slammed the door and whimpered.  I watched the creepy arachnid through the glass at the top of the door.  I think it was mocking at me…or flipping me off (can I spider do that?).

After standing there for a few minutes and contemplating spraying it with Windex (to kill it), I slipped out the sliding doors and broke  snapdragon stem off to thwart away my nemesis.  Then I remembered that the tensile strength of a spider web is ridiculously high and my flower twig would only enrage the spider.

A few more minutes of fretting and I finally decided to buck up and race through the door: mouth closed, body hunched, hands over head, and mentally praying the little bugger wouldn’t land on me.

That’s how my day started.  How did yours start?

Today’s eats started with this:

 

Chobani maple pumpkin goodness

Seriously, so amazing.  I only wish I remembered to add some dry cereal flakes for crunch.  Ahh well, next time.

 

Today’s Eats:

• 845a–2.5 cups maple nut coffee with 1 tbsp creamer each
• 930a–Chobani non-fat plain yogurt with 1 heaping tbsp of maple pumpkin butter and a dash of cinnamon
• 1245p–last bit of tofu broccoli slaw and a banana
• 4p–Nature’s Valley maple cinn granola bar

Today’s Exercises:

• 45 minutes on treadmill — alternating 5 minutes walking on incline, 5 minutes running
• Ab work (1 minute planks, both sides and front)

Saturday Eats:

• 9a–2.5 cups maple nut coffee with 1 tbsp creamer each
• 945a–1 TJ’s apple-cinn oatmeal packet with 1 tbsp maple pumpkin butter (beyond tasty)
• 1245p–leftover tofu slaw
• 4p–Diet Mt Dew and a banana (power snack, no?)
• 6p–very small glass of Pinot
• 745p–Dinner at Mantra where I had 1/3 rd of a too-sweet girly  martini, 2 pieces of wheat roti, 1 piece of garlic naan, and a fabulous entree Nawabi Murg (Saffron Breast of Chicken, Roasted Cashew and Onion Sauce, Dry Ginger Bok Choy, Jalapeno Peppers) – super light (not saucy)…sadly the restaurant was too dark for photos.
• 1 bag of smart pop popcorn while watching Dinner for Schmucks

Saturday Exercise:

• 30+ sweaty minutes on elliptical
• Weights: 3 sets (20 bicep curls, 20 lateral raises, 20 tricep kickbacks, 20 lunges, 20 curtsey squats) and 20 rollups for abs and 30 each side cross overs
• 20 minute walk with Naava

Question:  Are you afraid of spiders? If not, what are you afraid of?