From an "I" to a "We".

This summer when I was spending the majority of my time alone, I really began to appreciate what it is like to have alone time. I spend so much of my time with other people that I forget to take time just for myself. I've had a busy week this week, but wanted to make sure I went to the Walker to see the annual British Television Ad Awards show. They show them for about a month, during the busiest month of the year- December. I've learned in the past that I just need to get a ticket and go early just so I ensure that I actually make it to the show. So I booked one ticket for last night knowing that the the museum is free Thursday nights and I would have some time to walk around. I was looking forward to some relaxing alone time with art and advertising. I could have asked others to go with me, but I made a conscious choice not to. It was going to be my night.

Apparently when one is married/coupled up, this is an odd concept. Adam didn't understand that I was content going alone and told me he would come with me. I decided that it could be a fun date and bought a second ticket for him.

My original plan was:
Grab some dinner downtown, get to the walker around 6:30 to walk around and then go to the show at 8pm.

This is what happened:
Adam and I planned to meet in Uptown for dinner at 6. We both got there at 6:30. We got to the Walker around 7:25, leaving us with a couple minutes to wait in line before the theater opened for the 8pm show. No relaxing and no art was involved. Normally, this would have not bothered me, but I just kept thinking about my relaxing alone time and got frustrated how the night unfolded.

I made a comment to Adam that I want to try to come back next Thursday to see the galleries and he said that we should. I have no idea how to tell him that I just might want to go alone...

Off she goes

My sister came into town for the weekend for an art show at the soap factory. She had 8 pieces in the show, one of which was an original slide show. It is always interesting to see what pieces she chooses to put in shows and what she takes pictures of in general. We have such different tastes in general, but I always like seeing things from her perspective. It was nice to get the chance to catch up with her since I didn't get to spend much time with her before she moved. She ended up staying over at our place last night since she had an early morning flight and we only live 15 minutes from the airport. I told her I had a few things that she left in my car (really my dad's) when she moved. I found a towel in the backseat that I knew was hears, but since it was only a towel, I didn't feel the need to let her know I had it. It's a towel. Little did I know, it was her only one. She has been looking for it since she moved. She was getting ready to reach out to a few of us that helped her clean out her apartment to see if any of us had seen said towel. It was just washed and sitting in my linen closet, while she was wondering what happened to her one towel.

Last week my dad took his car back. I've been using it since May, so it was fair for him to take it back. When Heidi came into town, she needed to borrow it, so now I've got the car again. I was just gearing up to be totally bus bound, then I have access to a car again. I dropped Heidi off at the airport at 5am this morning and was debating on weather to go for a run and go into work early, or go back to sleep for a couple hours. Yeah, I opted for the sleep and then drove into work after hitting snooze for about an hour. All of my self control of last week was lost in a few moments of huddling under the covers and swatting the snooze button, again and again. I'm hoping this does not repeat again tomorrow morning.

The last couple of days of getting up and exercising in the morning, I've noticed this whole other world that happens in the mornings. Active people outside. This morning I saw a woman running with her dog at 5:30 in the morning. On Saturday when I was biking around lakes there were so many people out and it wasn't even that nice of a day. It was a bit cold and rainy. This "healthy" world is fascinating to me and I'm going to do my best in infiltrate it. We'll see how successful I am, I may just stay in bed and hit snooze until it is so late I have to drive to work.