you think i ain't worth a dollar but i feel like a millionaire

maybe it's the fact that i've reached one of my goals, or maybe it's the freezing weather, but i've actually felt skinny-ish for the first time since probably before high school. i don't know why, but it seems like the colder it gets, the thinner i feel... maybe it's because i'm not all hot and uncomfortable, but i wonder if other people get the same way? or maybe it's just because this recent cold spell has coincided with the fact that i now weigh about what i did when i started college. yay! this means that in the year and a half since i got "sick", i've lost about 35-40 pounds!

in an effort to "forcefully" curb my appetite (by ensuring that i don't have enough money to buy food, haha), i took advantage to circuit city's bankruptcy and stocked up on some necessities: dance dance revolution hottest party 2 for the wii, mario kart for the wii, a huge bundle of 100 cd-rs and a package of 50 dvd-rs. i realize that the sales will get better and better since they plan to close their doors in march, but i figured that the really good stuff like wii games will be gone asap. i spent about $120 on all that stuff, which was a savings of about $70 from regular-price.

after wasting february's food allowance on video games, i headed over to the gym for 65 minutes of cardio, lots of stretching, and some ab work. i was going to lift weights, but wasn't really feeling it. however, i did learn that saturday afternoon is a great time to go to the gym - lots of eye-candy. :)
friday night was not such a great gym time - it was a misogynistic sausage-fest. there's a belly-dancing class friday evenings, and though i was considering going to it, i'm glad i didn't - there were old and old-er men literally surrounding the studio room talking about the different girls. i'm not usually easily offended, but there was something about the openness with which they were talking about these girls that really got to me. it was really really disgusting. i don't mind if the gym is full of guys as long as they're doing their own thing and not being pigs. i don't know if i'll go back on a friday night. :(

at volleyball thursday night, it was evident that i need new shoes BADLY. there's zero tread on my shoes and i was all over the court - and not in a good way. i couldn't stop slipping no matter how hard i tried to plant myself in one spot. so, in the spirit of eliminating march's food allowance, i enjoyed a clearance sale at dsw and got a pair of asics running shoes for $47. i know some people say that you should have sport-specific shoes, but i can't afford both volleyball shoes AND running shoes... and let's face it, i run about 4-5 days a week while i play volleyball only 1 day a week (probably 2 days a week starting next season). i'm pretty excited about them... i was literally running through the store, testing them. :)
oh, and we won our volleyball game... but we lost 1 out of the 3 games in the match. so i'm wondering now - since we're 2-0 for matches, but 5-1 for games, can we say we're undefeated? i feel like losing that one game makes us defeated, but match-wise we're undefeated. it's confusing. it shouldn't matter, but i liked saying we were undefeated all last season...

i'm gonna head in to bed. 11 pm on a saturday and all i can think about is sleeping... sigh. i'm so 70 years old.