my evening with OnDemand and some other crap

I am the worst little quitter. I was scrolling through the free on demand stuff tonight and came across some aerobic exercise shows. I can do that fer sure, I thought. I don't know why I thought that seeing as how moments before I had given up on singing "Natural Woman" on Oxygen's airKaraoke. So I stood up and the exercise lady started jumping around and I started jumping around and she started jumping and doing something with her arm and I started doing, uh, something weird and uncoordinated and not at all pretty to look at with my arm. I kept trying though, for a few minutes, until she did some rolling your shoulders thing and then I just said screw that and I quit. Because if we're just going to jump from one foot to the other, great. If we're going to throw in arm movements, forget it. I can't do both. Sorry.

So then I watched some House Hunters on HGTV ondemand. I love House Hunters except for the times I want to walk up to whoever edits these shows and punch them in the face.

I walked 2.5 miles tonight. I was supposed to walk 3 but 1) I ran some of it so it all works out the same in my mind and 2) I had no idea it was going to be so difficult to walk without my music. because I forgot my earbuds. wow, what the hell? It's those deafening nature sounds! So hard to walk to. Nah, I think I just have a rhythm when I walk with music so without it I feel like I will never actually finish walking or that I'm walking weird. Or something irrational and nonsensical like that.

The other night my husband went to bed early and I sat up and watched a whole lot of "Marie Antoinette" (the one directed by Sofia Coppola). I didn't want to watch it. I liked "Lost in Translation" a lot but I never really had a desire to see this one - maybe because I am just not a big Kirsten Dunst fan. At all. But anyway, I somehow got to watching it around the part where she goes to a masked ball and they play Siouxsie and the Banshees. It really wasn't all that great a movie (what I saw) but that's not the point. The point is immediately after it was over I ran to the computer and looked up Marie Antoinette on wikipedia and spent two hours reading the details of her life and about the French Revolution and so on and so forth because I barely remembered most of what I had learned about it in school.

I remember a time when I just watched a movie and then went to bed. Now I give myself a history lesson until 1 in the morning.

Oh yeah. So, it's that special lady time of the month you see. And the other night I wandered into the kitchen and helped myself to a (small, insignificant really) handful of rolos because that's what I had chosen to be my special lady time snack. And I returned to the living room and my husband saw my handful of rolos and told me I should make better decisions about snacks. "There's some almonds in the cabinet," he suggested innocently (during my special lady time of the month). I turned to look at him and I'm thinking maybe there was something, just some small, deranged, possibly a little unhinged something in the expression on my face that made him announce that he was just kidding, really just kidding, ha ha haaaaaaa. "Fine," I snapped, with virtually no exaggerated sensitivity and precious little heightened defensiveness. Then I proceeded to eat my handful of rolos and when I was done with those I went and got the can of almonds and I ate all of those, too.