I guess that was water weight that I lost last week.

I must surrender to my right shin and not run for a week or two. *sigh* Back to the elliptical trainer. I can't run for more than 10 minutes without my shin acting up. I think it's also time for a new pair of runners. *siiiigh*

I guess I am not in a huge rush to meet some sort of goal. I just want get lean. It's be great if I was looking really lean by August :) I should focus more on cardio anyway. I know my muscles are hidden away.

Oh! Yesterday, we went bowling. It was a thank you get together for our efforts on our last software release. I couldn't say "balls" with a straight face for the life of me. "Stop touching my balls!"

My best friend is going to have a lot of free time for the next 5 months, and she's offered to come to Vegas with me. I couldn't really say no. It'd be great to hang out since she's going to be a mother later this year. However, when I think back to our trip to England...I am not sure that us going away somewhere would be the greatest idea. BWAHAHA She does not party anymore. Not that I am a partier, but I don't like sitting around in a hotel room if I'm traveling somewhere.

She'll hang out by herself while I'm doing work stuff for the day (which will be fine...one thing we have in common is that we can be alone just fine), but I won't have that much time in the evening. And I've also booked myself a show ticket for the last night. So....I don't know how good of a time she'll have there. It'll be as if she's going alone, too!

And ugh...today I called in to my dad's work to tell them he was "sick." I was supposed to do it yesterday but I forgot. He is retiring next month. Why does he still need to cheat his work?? All his life, he's been all about cheating systems. When I was a kid, I'd come home from school, and he'd be hanging out at home for a few hours. He'd work until lunch time, come home (maybe after doing some grocery shopping), and then go back to the office for about an hour.

And now he wants the government to think he and my mom are still married even though they're legally divorced. He instructed my mom to say that they were cohabitating if anyone asked. My mom is pissed off about that. His sisters had advised him to just not get legally divorced to take advantage of the tax benefits, but he wanted to get the papers signed ASAP to prove something to his mistress. But now that his mistress decided to stay with her husband, he still doesn't want the government to benefit.

Often, my mom and I will bend for my father because he is a scary man. He's scary in that he is not mentally stable, and the last thing we want is for him to fly off the handle. It would not surprise me if someone pissed him off one day and he got violent. Which reminds me, I saw this cool thing on the news this morning about people getting pacemakers in their brain to solve their depression. Crazy!