Thursday, December 22, 2005

tonight Hugsband went to a personal training session at our gym. it was one of those free-with-membership deals. he really wasn't interested, but I booked sessions for both of us when I was working out last week. when he walked in tonight, he was assigned to a tan, buff lady named Tammy. she was clearly unprepared to deal with a man who lacks gym savvy. during each commercial break of the melrose place rerun I watched on the treadmill, I watched Tammy kick Hugsband's ass. she told him "you have very broad shoulders" and had him curling Popeye-sized barbells. those broad shoulders must have misled her into thinking that Hugsband is actually a strong man. oh no, Tammy. underneath strong-looking Hugsband is a fragile, possibly anemic, definitely pale and squishy underbelly of pure geek.

about half way through their session, I noticed Hugsband walk into the locker room. several minutes later, he sheepishly emerged and returned to Tammy. afterwards, he admitted that he nearly fainted and had to sit on a locker room bench for several minutes to gather the nerve to face Tammy again. on our way out of the gym, I thought I would make a joke of it, so I smiled at Tammy and said "hey! what did you do to my husband?" she looked at me with complete unsmiling seriousness and said "I worked him hard". we barely made it of the building and into the parking lot before we dissolved into giggles.

birthday boat


birthday boat
Originally uploaded by loftindupuis.


Tuesday, December 20, 2005

Hugsband is 30 today

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, HUGSBAND!!!! I bought him 2 books and will take him out for sushi tonight. I am terribly impulsive about giving him gifts. when the books arrived last week, I made him open them right away. now there's no gift for today. I think he's already finished both. he was very disappointed and angry after reading 'the zombie survival guide' (that may not be the exact title). apparently, the author knows little about zombies. Hugsband was especially disconcerted by the assertion that one should not hide in a boat when avoiding the undead because zombies can climb up the anchor and its chain to attack. he screamed, "if they don't have the gross motor skills to climb a fence, how are they going to scale an anchor chain?" he hurled the book at my head and I had to duck out of the way to avoid it. I think the guide was meant to be a humorous work of fiction, rather than the bible Hugsband was looking for.

speaking of which, we got in trouble at a screening of narnia because when they showed Aslan dead on the stone, I whispered, "don't worry. he'll come back as a zombie and then this movie will get good." and we giggled too loudly and it never did get good.

Sunday, December 18, 2005


time-warner
Originally uploaded by loftindupuis.
Hugsband is reading Stephen Hawking again and keeps saying things to me like "do you want to hear something that will totally blow your mind? the universe is expanding 5-10% every billion years. now here's the wacky part: that's 5-10% of infinity!!" thoughts like that give me a headache.

Tracy and I went into manhattan yesterday and ate chocolate and did not talk much about the universe, though she did tell me about her interesting, independently developed religious beliefs. that was kind of mind blowing. her beliefs are an interesting cross of gnosticism and some book she read that may or may not be entirely fictional. she wasn't sure. nevertheless, her beliefs were thoughtful and well reconciled with science. also, we had red and white sangria in a tapas restaurant.

Hugsband spent 3 hours playing ping-pong while I was gone. he and a friend are planning to join a table tennis league and are looking into special gear, like table tennis shoes. I am not even making that up.

Friday, December 09, 2005

west rock snow


west rock snow
Originally uploaded by loftindupuis.
what's not apparent in this picture is that the road is a solid sheet of ice and I may be in trouble for not going into the office.

we walked to the local grill, where Hugsband ate bbq brisket and I had sweet potato fries and coffee. we played hangman on the paper tablecloth, and I totally stumped him with "dizzy". it was everything a snow day should be.

nap time! then, we're building our gingerbread house.

teacher's first snow day


snowday
Originally uploaded by loftindupuis.
my office doesn't believe in snow days, but somehow I can't seem to get to work. please notice Hugsband's empty waffle plate, normally a weekend-only treat! if only I hadn't brought my coffeemaker to work.

well, yesterday WAS bring your coffeemaker to work day.


update 9:30- we're both staying home all day!! yippee!!

This page is powered by Blogger. Isn't yours?