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Wide awake

I love being up before seven on my days off. No sarcasm, I really do love it. Mornings are my favorite. I love the lighting in my apartment. I love stepping outside and seeing all the animals prepping for their days. The squirrels running about. All the birds chirping and flapping. The turtles swimming here and there. I love that the clamor of humans has yet to get going. And now that it's (unofficially) summer in Texas, I love how cool the mornings are.

I should have gone for a run this morning, but I'm too busy taking the morning in. Soon, it will be too late (because it's too hot) for me to go. It's all right, though. Tonight, I'm running at least three miles with a running club I just joined. It will be my first time running with them. They formed last year so I am sure other members are already familiar with one another. That's okay, though. I'm just going to fit myself in!

We are already almost three weekends into June, which should be a wake-up call to me. I cannot let this summer pass me by without doing everything I want to do! This happens every year: I have high hopes for the summer, but then it passes me by without me even realizing it! No excuses this year. I am only on-call once this summer and as far as I know, I will not be working any weekends. Gotta make things happen.

Okay. I need to go enjoy the fact that I am up this early. Toodles!

Sunday night

Every night, I procrastinate. I wait and wait and wait to walk my dog because there always seems to be so much else to do. Then, when I can wait no longer, I drag myself to do it and complain a little in my mind. Once I'm out there walking him, though... I love every second. I love being outdoors. I love that it's just me and him. I love the sounds and the feel of being out there.

The property that we live on is very well kept. There is a pond in the middle of it, which we cross during every walk we take. There's a natural spring with a soft little roar and lily pads growing from its depths. There are trees, there are turtles, there is thriving grass. It's all so perfect.

During our walk tonight, it started to rain. I didn't expect it, but I didn't mind it because it felt cool and refreshing. Sprinklers also went off on us. Definitely didn't expect those. Canelo seemed aloof to it all so if he wasn't bothered by it, there was no reason for me to be either.

I don't feel ready to start another work week. It's ridiculous because the past two weekends have been long weekends. There was Memorial Day weekend and last weekend, I went to Denver. I guess I just haven't done enough unwinding and relaxing. I unwind best by writing or creating or running. I haven't been doing much of any.

Here's to a better week!

Lost and found

I lost my camera's memory card. Why am I always losing things?

I realized it was missing last Thursday night. Yes, almost an entire week ago. The reason I noticed was because I was packing for my trip to Colorado (more on that later) and was considering taking Bon Qui Qui (my camera) with me. I checked the battery and then checked for her memory card, but the latter was gone. Dang it.

It wasn't in its usual places. I take my camera to work almost daily and sometimes upload photos while I'm there. I figured I must have left it in one of the computers there. Oh well. No time to go look for it. It was late Thursday night, I had an early flight the next morning, and wouldn't be back to work until Tuesday. Guess I'd have to wait until then to look for it and Bon Qui Qui wouldn't be making the trip after all. Probably a good thing since I was already on the verge of overpacking.

As soon as I got to work on Tuesday (early, as usual due to the train schedule), I looked in all the computers. Nope. I asked around for it. Negative. I got down on myself because I figured that I had really lost it. Sometimes when I'm in a hurry and I have time to take my memory card out of a computer but not enough time to place it back in my camera, I'll just tuck it in my pocket and go on with my day. My fear was that I had left it in a jacket pocket and as a result, it was lost forever.

Our company gave the entire staff, fifty or so employees, jackets last winter. They're all the same color and have the company logo embroidered on them. We all wear each other's jackets at work because unless you bother to look for a name on the tag (who has time for that?), you can't tell whose is whose. Your jacket can end up in a different department and you won't see it for months. You'll just go on wearing someone else's jacket and that's fine.

I know winter is over and I shouldn't be wearing jackets, but boy, that hospital gets cold! Especially in the CT room because we like to keep the CT machine from overheating. So I do wear jackets in the summer and I may have left the memory card in one of its pockets and it could be lost forever. Sadness.

Well, this morning I was digging around my backpack, the one I took to Colorado, searching for lip gloss, and I found it! I found the stinkin' memory card! Oh my goodness, my day was made. Then... Then I dug through the bag I carried yesterday in search of my Kindle and I found Dustin's headphones!

I love love love his headphones. They stay in place while I run, unlike my own. I hadn't seen them in a few weeks, though, so I figured that I had left them on my desk and that Dustin had taken them back to work with him. I didn't dare ask him. I didn't want him to feel obligated to bring them back to me. They're his headphones, after all. But now I have them back and I'm excited to be able to use them again! What a lucky morning!

I will be getting Dustin new headphones, by the way. Really good ones. His half-birthday is coming up at the end of the month and that would be the perfect little gift.

All right. My day has already been made. Time to jump on this train and get to work!