Cheryl on the Web

A colleague said to me on Friday that summer is his favorite season. I replied that spring is my favorite season. “Why?” he asked. “Anticipation”, I answered.

January might be the month to make new resolutions, but to me spring is the beginning of the year. The taste of the good weather to come, the smell of grass in the air and the sound of the first birds of the spring fill me with fresh resolution. What do I want to accomplish this year?

I ran into this wisdom in one of my favorite books, I think it makes a good if lofty goal for what I want to accomplish this year:
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That was Tim’s answer to me the other morning when I asked him how he was doing. I had to laugh; I mean, how many of us really would answer that having just climbed out of bed? Granted, it was a Saturday.

Tonight I cooked so Tim had to do the cleanup (or start on it, I did the dishes). I laughed myself to tears when he wrapped the leftover, unused tortilla wraps in a small garbage sack instead of putting them in the original sack they came in or in a Ziplock before putting them in the refrigerator. Being married sure brings different perspectives to the house sometimes!

This weekend I decided to expand my proverbial Internet horizons by exploring two hip and huge sites on the Internet: wikipedia.org and digg.com.

Wikipedia is an online encyclopedia. I couldn’t help but feel a twinge of jealously while browsing the site at how easy kids have it nowadays, with so much information right at their fingers. I spent most of last night reading about World War I and World War II, and the bits in between.

Digg.com represents the latest of online sites whose content is driven by its audience. People browsing the Internet submit popular news stories to digg.com, and the stories submitted are displayed on the digg.com site as a list of links, with the most popular ones at the top.

After exercising three days in a row at the beginning of this week, I found myself dazed and confused on Thursday night. Every time I got up the room would spin and I was completely disoriented in my own livingroom. It suddenly occurred to me that I might be dehydrated after all that exercise, I have a tendency to dry out easily. Looked online, and sure enough, both those symptoms can be associated with dehydration. Talk about scary! Also had pretty much every other symptom on the list, including pronounced circles under my eyes (never knew that was a symptom). Sent Tim to the gas station across the street to stock up on Gatorade and proceeded to lie on the couch and drink Gatorade for the next 24 hours. Thankfully the dizziness and confusion subsided on Friday.

Will have to title my next post “Life on the couch”…

Today Tim and I both worked until around 7pm, then he got on our exercise machine and I took the car to the grocery store. While Tim was running 3 miles in our livingroom to a DVD of Motley Crue, I planned and bought 5 days worth of food in 30 minutes flat. When I got home, I got on the exercise machine and Tim unpacked the groceries and cooked dinner while I showered. We ate dinner at around 8:15pm and still had the whole evening before us! That’s what I call life on the run.

So what, you might ask, do people who work 50 hours a week cook in the evening? (more…)

I know a number of people who have started their own companies or who work as freelance and have a lot of success doing it. I used to do quite a bit of freelance work before I graduated from the university - first as musician and then as techie - but the last few years I’ve gone the steady job route. (Not that “steady” jobs have meant I always got paid - I worked almost 3 years for a company that paid me irregularly or not at all for the last 2 1/2 years I worked there.) Steady jobs have their advantages in theory, particularly when you’re the only working partner.

My personality tests in school always showed me as a risk-taker, and at the moment I’m not the only working partner.. so what if I were going to do something else, something as an entrepreneur? What would it be? (more…)

Heat - water - sun - fun - beach balls - suntan lotion - picknicking - sunglasses - skin.

Bikini season.

Exercised today and yesterday. Still curious how long I keep this up.