Early days kick my butt. Up at 5 a.m. (or close to it), full day at job #1 (until 4 p.m.) then a full night at job #2 (until 12:30 a.m.). Sigh. No wonder one of my coworkers at job #2 told me I looked tired the other night. I really wasn't, but the large black and blue marks under my eyes are not cool. Perhaps if I wore a little make up the marks wouldn't be so bad. But that would mean I would need to get up even earlier. I'll live with them until I get a half decent job that allows me to only work 9-5 on a regular basis. They almost seem like badges of honor to me. Little medals for bravery in dealing with all of the crap I do in the course of my day.

Speaking of dealing with crap, found this interesting article on MSN. See, we singletons don't have it as easy as everyone thinks we do. Far from it. As soon as I was finished reading the piece I sent it on to some of my other single buds. They feel my pain. One sidebar though, as much as I enjoy my single life and the freedom that goes with it, I do find my thoughts constantly drifiting to what it would be like to finally settle down. Start a family. Not necessarily have the big wedding (I'll leave that up to my sister), a run to Vegas is more my style, but move into married life as seemlessly as most of my friends appear to have. As I get older though I find myself getting more skeptical about the whole thing. This morning while I was eating my breakfast and watching the news a piece ran about people adopting from China. I thought wow, I could do that in a couple of years. Be a single mom. It wouldn't be easy, but I think I could handle it. Granted, the whole thing would need to wait until after I finished my schooling and got settled in somewhere. But I think I could handle it. Lol, could you see me as a mom?! Hey, stranger things have happened.

Last night I started taking a kickboxing class. Talk about a workout! My shoulders and arms hurt this morning, not a bad thing. My abs were screaming at me too. We did some hellacious (is that a word? it is now.) ab work. Maybe I'll actually have a flat stomach at some point. Giggle, jeez, I almost said that with a straight face! The main reason for signing up was so I could stay in shape once hockey stops for July. It's going to be weird not having anything to do on Wednesday's. I'm going to have to keep going to the open skates on Saturday and Sunday. The old backwards skating isn't all that good yet. It's getting better but I still need work on getting up to speed from a dead stop. Let's just say Cammi Granato should not worry about her position on the Olympic team.