Awesomeness

Ok...this is going to be a short blog but here are a few of the awesome things I have done in the past week:
1) Went to see X-Men Origins: Wolverine - Hugh Jackman, albeit missing his trademark hairdo, was very enjoyable to watch ;-)
2) Got a haircut/color - curly, layered, angled bob of sorts...with sideswept bangs. I definitely look younger, perhaps around the late teens/early 20s mark again, which was proved as I got carded at a martini bar tonight. Awesome!
3) Started using Proactiv face cleaning system, to see if it lived up to all the hype. My face reacted badly to something in Kyrgyzstan, and I wanted to stop looking like my face had been chewed up by a wild animal. So far, a week in, I am seeing marked improvement!
4) Ran the Spokane Bloomsday 2009 12K race...well, ran/walked - and despite all the unexpected issues with cramping achilles tendons and a sore right knee, we still managed to finish 5 minutes faster than last year! Now to start training for a half marathon, wait I have to find out where/when there is going to be a half marathon...
5) Demonstrated to Ben that although a long way away from winning, I am well on my way to learning to eat sensibly - not eating so much that I feel sick afterwards, and earn stupified looks from family and friends as they don't understand where I put it all...so yay for portion control!
6) Bought a new sofa - dark brown leather with a left-facing chaise! We have been looking for a while, and saw this one a week or so ago. We were going to wait but it was on a really good sale this weekend, we figured we can better afford it now rather than later when we have kids, and it's a leather sofa! :-D It should get delivered next week...
7) Went to see Star Trek - AWESOMELY AWESOME!! So good...and fun to see such a great cast of actors - the guy who played the villain on Heroes as Spock, Eric Bana as the villain Nero, Karl Urban as Dr McCoy, and Simon Pegg as Scotty (my favorite bit of casting!). Definitely will be looking to buy it when it comes out on dvd. Don't think I'll ever be a Trekky though...

And that's about all I can think of to write about right now. Other than that we're having to discuss options on how to deal with Maggie, our cat, who has, in the past few days, decided to start peeing everywhere but the litter box - first in one of our houseplants, then on one of our recliner chairs, then just tonight on the carpet by one of the windows. I don't get it...we haven't changed anything around the house (added a new pet, moved furniture, etc), and she only started doing this a few days ago. I don't think she has a bladder infection because its like she is deliberately choosing where to pee. I don't want to make her an outside cat because Frankie (our other cat) will lose his buddy, she is declawed and won't be able to defend herself, and will get dirty and I will miss her. But I don't know how to modify her behavior or figure out what she's doing...cats are notoriously difficult to train and we're baffled as to why this has happened all of a sudden.

But I will end there for tonight...

Live long and prosper!!