Pastey white and wintry

Priscilla called me at 3:30 yesterday afternoon and asked if I wanted a hotel room close to the radio station with a few other peeps who had to be at work early in the morning, and I decided that would be smarter than waking up extra early and facing the icy road crapshoot. So I threw some stuff in a bag and hit the road, and a trip that should have taken me thirty minutes took about an hour and fifteen minutes. I was sweating by the time I got there because I had to have the defrost on 90 degrees to keep the sleet from freezing on my windshield. I'm sure the front desk gal at the hotel wondered what I had been doing to work up such a sweat out in the cold like that.

As soon as I checked in I hit the fitness room! Why not keep the sweat going I say. So I changed into black shorts and a black t-shirt so I looked extra pastey white and wintry, and walked fast through the ice cold hotel lobby to the fitness room. There was nobody in there. Just me and ESPN. Sweet! I don't usually like public workout places because I don't want people watching me sweat and pant, so I was thrilled that I was the only crazy nut working out at that moment. I was hoping I would make it all the way back up to my room without seeing anyone since I was sweating and in crappy clothes, but I had to share the elevator ride with a guy all bundled up in a hat and coat who had just gone out to pick up dinner. Of course I was starving too, so the Pei Wei fumes didn't help matters any. At least that's what I think he was eating. Could have been Jack in the Box for all I know. I made sure I kept wiping the sweat from my brow with a towel so he knew I had been working out, and that I wasn't just some disoriented loon in shorts who thought she was in the Bahamas. I said something uncreative like, "Brrrr" and he didn't say anything back so he might have thought I was a loon anyway.

I missed Angela and the pups somethin' fierce last night. But it's Thursday and that means it's home date-night so my life will be warm and cozy again. I'm done with winter!