Our company, as one of the benefits, sponsors one of those boot camp fitness programs at the office. An instructor shows up at 5:15 three days a week, and whoever wants to go can go. I decided to give it a try today. All I do is run, and I haven’t been very good about incorporating any other sort of exercise into my routine on my own. Anyway, it was hard, and it was hot, and I think I’m going to be sore tomorrow, but I also think I’m going to go back tomorrow and try again. We’ll see.
I finished The Shell Seekers yesterday morning. I really like Rosamunde Pilcher, but I think I’m going to have to space out her books. That one made me cry twice. And when I wasn’t crying, I was hating two of the characters. I’m still kind of looking for what to read next. I’m not quite ready to re-read The Time Traveler’s Wife, although that will probably be next, after whatever I choose now. I picked up A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, by Dave Eggers, but I’m having a hard time getting into it. John just finished it, and I think he liked it, but I was ready to give up on it about 100 pages in. He gave me a hard time (just a little), so I’m still trying. And it’s getting better, I think, but I’m not really involved in it. I’m not hurrying to finish typing so I can get back to it or anything. I should be hurrying so I can go throw away almost everything stored under the bathroom sink in the hall upstairs. That stuff goes in the category of it’s-been-there-and-I-haven’t-used-it-since-we-moved-in-almost-four-years-ago-so-throw-it-away-already. There’s a lot of stuff all over the house in that category. But I may not get to that tonight. Back to the subject of picking a new book. I have several books that are the first in a series. I deliberately only bought the first ones, thinking I’d try them out and if I like them, I’ll buy the rest. But since I don’t have the rest yet, I’ve been putting off reading the first books. What if I love them and I don’t have the others? So I’ve backed myself into a corner. Just read one of them! It’s not like I don’t know where or how to get the next book quickly.