I was so proud of myself yesterday. After writing I got up, showered, and ventured out into the world to do my shopping.

I went to Walmart first since there were some non-food items I needed to get, like a new water filter and other random stuff.

They already have the summer athletic stuff out, so I spent a little bit of time seeing if there was anything nifty. Nothing really caught my eye, and it would have been an impulse buy anyway.

After Walmart I went to Publix to finish off the shopping for the week. Yogurt was on sale, 10 for $10, so I’m pretty stocked on that. The containers don’t take up much space so I didn’t feel bad about it.

I did get a corned beef, so that will be cooked tonight with onions, carrots, and cabbage. I’m totally looking forward to it. It’s one of the things that will always remind me of home. I can remember when my mom would cook the meal for my brother and I, and how the house would smell amazing.

Chili is going to be the other main meal for this week.

Since it was a ‘market’ day, I got to have sushi for lunch from the Publix sushi bar. I even remembered to pick up news papers for my mom so she can have more coupons to clip through.

All in all, I made it back home before 10am. Which left me with literally no need to go back out, unless I chose to. /flex

I cleaned up my room, vacuumed, went through my ‘in box’ which I haven’t done for a few weeks now. I put away all of the threads I’m no longer using for my recently completed projects. I got caught up on all of the chores that have been sliding by.

Overall it was a pretty good, low key, yet productive day.

At 4pm I went running. There is a walking circuit near the mall I used to live near with Mother Earth and J. I’ve only been there once before, but it was a pretty circuit. Lots of grass and trees, and people since it’s in a nicer part of town. I would be ok with less humans, but overall it is nice and I enjoyed running there my time before.

I wanted to go somewhere outside of my normal run paths yesterday, sort of shake things up a bit, and because I’ve been thinking about Mother Earth and J so much recently it felt right to go there.

Still sitting around an 18 minute mile, but there were a bunch of people on the circuit with strollers and dogs… So I wasn’t able to really run without having to worry about running into people.

It wasn’t a bad run, just not as mindless and automatic as it normally is on my other trails.

When I was done with my running I stretched for a while. That was awesome because the sun was setting and the circuit surrounds a lake, so I got to stretch in the breeze and watch the birds as the sun set.

Mother Earth and J had been chatting in our Facebook conversation while I was running, so once I was done stretching I sat on one of the benches and got caught up on the conversation.

We all chatted for a little while. It was nice and made me feel connected in my own, weird, introverted way. It was as sort of like sharing the experience with them. Being out and enjoying the day, the sights, the sounds.

Eventually I got hungry and had to drive home.

I watched Jack the Giant Slayer last night. It was surprisingly a cute movie. There were things as a CG artist that I didn’t really approve of, but overall I felt it was well done, and the storyline made me smile.

Definitely geared more towards a younger audience, but worth the watch.

As the night wore on I started getting a headache even though I was trying to stay on top of drinking enough water. I’ve been really bad about that recently and I can tell. My lips are almost always dry, and the whole dehydration headache thing… It sucks.

Hopefully the new water filter will help. As a military brat I can honestly say that water does have a taste, and that Orlando is by far the worst tasting water I have ever had to drink.

I ended up taking Advil and Nyquil before going to sleep, that way I wouldn’t toss and turn through the night.

I’m still behind on my water intake, but I don’t have the headache right now, which is good. It’s lame to feel hungover without the awesome party time before hand. : /

Today is CRI1. After lab I have a meeting with Rhonda at 1pm.

I saw Huston this morning, which was a nice surprise. I haven’t seen him in a while. He’s getting close to being in finals, which means he’ll be graduating soon.

He wanted to meet to talk about interface creation. So we set up a meeting for Wednesday at 1pm, which works out well since that’s when I’ll be done with lab, much like today.

Aside from that I have Taekwondo at 6pm. I’ll most likely stay for the aikido class since I didn’t get to the gym this morning.

5am and I are not friends. : /

I have grading for project two that I’m going to try to power through on my break. And there’s the final assignments for my class that I need to stay on top of. Everything is due Friday this week. Not Monday. I need to keep that in mind.

I’m hoping to hear back from Tina about the freelance issues. But overall I think today will be an alright day.