Jezebel

Today's BPAL is Jezebel. The official description: Biblical witch, priestess of Astarte, and general troublemaker. A true role model for today's upwardly mobile Modern Woman. A gloriously decadent blend of honey, roses, orange blossom and sandalwood. While I love the description, it's not quite right for me - I tend to prefer fruity/foody/spicy scents, I'm finding. This is a VERY aged imp, it came to me from someone who's had it for at least a couple years. I'm smelling mostly the roses and sandalwood, I think, and those two in combination just don't seem to do it for me.

As of this morning, I've shaved about five minutes off of my morning commute in under a week! I had a really good train connection - it was pulling up as I stepped off the elevator, but most of the time reduction was me walking faster.

I'm seeing a bit of blue sky out my window today, and I'm hoping that it clears up a bit more as the day goes on. That would be really nice. I'm quite looking forward to my evening tonight. Yesterday was crazy hectic, and I didn't get much time to actually relax. Tonight, I'm going straight home from work, and I have no raids tonight. My intent is to do a bit of tidying up when I get home, do a bit of piano practice or possibly pull out my harp, and then spend most of the evening either doing lampworking or sewing. I'm heading over to a friend's place on Sunday for sewing and movies, and I'd like to get the machine-sewn portion of my outfit out of the way so I don't have to drag my machine over to her house, and I can just sit and hand-stitch.

swimming

All of a sudden, I am having the urge to start swimming again. I had said I was going to wait until I could walk for a half hour without hurting before I started going to the gym again, but I'm just about there now, and swimming is easier on my back anyways. My only concern is now that I have a medical concern that might make that not such a good idea. I have a follow-up appointment with my doctor next Tuesday, so it can wait until after that, in any case. My gym has a pool, though it's so small that I can only swim on certain days - Tuesday/Thursday/Saturday - but 3 times a week would be perfect to start. And I can go before work and still have plenty of time to come home and shower before I have to get to work.

Now I just need to organize my bathing suit, etc. I have a brand new one I ordered online either last year or the year before that hasn't even been worn into a pool yet.