Puddles, tango, love and work, in that order

So yesterday was both very worky and filled with mood swings, clear through until evening. Then at 5:47 I started my run to tango class through the wildest downpour I've seen all summer. It was enjoyable in a completely-soaked-through way--running through puddles and things because it just didn't matter. My pants, though, went transparent; oopsie. Running and hearing the thunder was great, but I was so wet, wet, wet! Anyway, the teacher took pity on me and lent me some warmup pants, and we got on with the business of slogging through 45 minutes of review for the morons in the class who apparently had forgotten not only how to tango, but how to walk, while the teacher was sick. Sigh. But then toward the end of the class we did something new, and I was getting to do this slinky walking back and forth in front of the guy thing called ochos (figure eights). It's a bit showoffy... I liked it.

After that we put our wet socks back on and walked (as quickly as possible) to dinner with the kicky chicks. Something about seeing them made me giddy and I had a lot of fun... I used "twat" in a sentence and somehow that was the funniest thing ever--or at least RC's discussion of how she'd never heard it in a sentence before was--we all laughed like little kids. I like to expand people's horizons! :) Oh, and I spilled the beans about testing, just as I was afraid I would, because I was asked a direct question. It struck me again what a clean-running crowd the TKD folks really are... We're all very into sex, but not so much drinking/drugs as a regular thing, definitely not smoking, and amazingly enough, we were four for four on non-TV-owners last night. Really kind of strange. I didn't used to think I had that much in common with most people there, but these weird themes are starting to emerge among us mid-20s ones.

Went home and did feet rubs. I told HLM I loved him, because for some reason it had been a long time, and that's inappropriate--I kind of like how we don't say it all that often, but we're in the middle of planning to spend the rest of our lives together, after all. At some point we have to get over some of our fear of sappiness. So then we were snuggly and sleepy. My kitty wanted to be near me because of the thunder, but she wouldn't quite settle down, so she kept walking up by my head to be petted, and I would wake up and pet her. I love her, too.

Today--lots more working ahead. We had a telecon and it looks like I'll have three trips to NJ in the near future, with the demo hopefully the Weds before the wedding if it's okay with the big boss's even bigger boss. We'll find out about that soon. So far, I should only miss one of my Dale Carnegie classes, which is good, because it's always better not to flunk things if you can avoid it. Whew... and the corporate calendar says some of the interns are leaving soon, already! I don't even know all their names yet. The mind boggles, reels, returns to its cozy little office where it feels okay again. :b And underneath all of this the wedding planning goes on, like a little line of ants that never stops marching.

Something positive, and a question

(Yes... this really is something positive, or at least cute, and it relates to something positive).

I forgot to mention that, as a result of me whining that I no longer had a big floppy sleep-T, HLM bought me a huge pink Choo Choo Bear shirt earlier this week. It's very ummmmm, big and pink and silly and warm, and it says "MURR!". Never mind that it looks ridiculous. It's comfy and he bought it for me, so I'm going to wear it. :)

Now, fitness freaks: what do you think of this GlutaCell stuff? I need some more glutamine pretty soon and what this says sounds reasonable. I never have understood why I keep reading that L-glutamine degrades into ammonia when exposed to moisture, but the usual way of taking it is still to mix it up with water and drink it. (The supplements seem to say nothing about how long you can keep it in liquid form... I have been keeping it mixed for a few hours sometimes and definitely feeling results, so it can't be totally degrading, but I can't say I understand why). At any rate, this stuff sounds good, and it certainly would not be bright orange and sucralose-flavored, but I thought I'd beg for advice anyway.