random thoughts parte ocho

Currently listening to: LO$ER=LO♡ER – TXT (투모로우바이투게더)

• When Detroit Richards wrote, “Fine Dining in Mismatched Holey Socks“,  I found it captivating.  Line after line, I was picturing in my head what she must have gone through.  I felt all her words as I was reading sentence after sentence.  I won’t spoil it for you for those who want to read.  To think that she wrote a comment on one of my posts about chawanmushi…
  TW: abuse, domestic violence.
• Dodgers won the World Series.  They’re having a parade Friday morning in LA.  Just in case anyone was thinking of driving to Los Angeles.
• Tomorrow is Halloween.  I was supposed to go on my trip but I had to cancel it unfortunately. I don’t have time to buy a costume this late in the game but I’m thinking of just wearing my Gengar beanie and calling it a day.  BTW, Gengar is my fav Pokémon.
• My Chicago friends are going to Vegas in mid-December and invited me, unfortunately, I won’t be able to partake in the debauchery because of work.  Work is always ruining my fun.  Adulting sucks smegma.
• Tell me why I got a text tonight about a work party for tomorrow?  I had to go to the grocery store and buy a cheese platter and crackers.
• Yesterday, while I was sitting in the courtroom, I felt extremely fatigued. The elevators in the courthouse was barely functioning and I had to get to the eighth floor so I schlepped it up to the third floor via the escalator and took the stairs the rest of the way.
  Also, parking was half a mile from the courthouse, so the mornings that I was doing jury duty, I’ve already had thousands of steps in.  I only had one not-so-strong cup of coffee in the morning and by 1355, I had hit a wall.  I tried to get coffee at the cafe earlier during our lunch break but they ran out.  I looked down at my watch and it said that my heart rate was 44 beats per minute.  I mean I’m active but I’m by no means a superstar athlete where my heart rate should be this low.  It’s just a side effect I have every now and then due to having anemia (despite taking supplements).
  I’ve dealt with this my whole life and I’ve learned that when this happens I need to move slower, take a break, and find coffee.  Luckily, I had a little bit of coffee leftover from the morning in my car.  I guzzled that down and then went straight to the gym to work out after we were cut loose from jury duty.
  #anemialife #needcoffeetosurvive #bradycardia #fuckme

• At the gym today, I saw this guy riding a stationary bike in front of me.  For a split second, I thought he was my first boyfriend, from the backside.  My heart almost jumped out of my chest.  6′, athletic build, black short hair, and the way he moved seemed all so familiar.  I caught his side profile and I let out a sigh.  It wasn’t him but he looked so attractive.  I realized he was also a Hapa, AmeriAsian.
  I didn’t notice him initially because I was too busy watching the World Series on the screen.  It wasn’t until I went to look at my watch that I saw his silhouette from my peripheral view.  NGL, but I was having unholy thoughts about him and there goes my imagination again.  When I realized what I was doing, I looked up again and our eyes locked.  He moved from the stationary bike to doing pull ups, facing me.  It was as if time stood still.  What was happening?
  I avoided his eye contact afterward but I could sense that he was still looking at me.  After five minutes, I left the gym.  OMG, I’m shy…plus I’ve already hit my mark and I needed to go home and shower.  Before I showered though I had a quick DD2 sesh….I could still picture his face.  He was strikingly handsome.

• Scheduling posts have been a lifesaver for me.  Just set it and forget it.
• My beloved friend dropped of a pistachio croissant for me at work from a local bakery which she swears is her top 3.  She fancies herself as a croissant aficionado.  Even though I tell her that I’m on a gluten-free diet all the time, she chooses to ignore it.  She will be the death of me.  I ate half of it and gave the other half to my assistant who also loves croissants.
  I will say that this was pretty damn good.  It’s in the top 3 for the best croissant in SoCal for me.  I haven’t had a proper croissant since Paris.
  And because I ate this deliciousness, I had to workout even longer than I wanted to…to offset the calories of what I inhaled today.  Le sigh.