Pre-weekend news
Exciting news: The rest of Danny’s immediate family is coming to visit before the end of September. This is so cool! His mom and younger brother are coming for a week in August and then his older brother and sister-in-law will be here Labor Day weekend.
Also, I got a really cheap plane ticket to come back to Austin in September. I won’t be there for very long (3 days) but I’ll have enough time to visit my family, go swimming at Barton Springs or Deep Eddy pool, eat at Polvo’s, and meet some of my old work buddies for lunch or happy hour. It will probably be super hot and humid, but can handle it if I take time to dip in the pool and sip a frozen drink.
I talked to my good buddy Cody yesterday for the first time in months. I gave him a call on his birthday and we chatted for a while before he got an incoming call from his mom. He is doing well. He says the weather where he lives in AZ is perfect and he’s been rockclimbing a lot lately. Cody is TEH rockclimber man. He took me bouldering with him once at McKinney park east of Austin. I had fun but found out later that I had gotten a horrible case of poison ivy. What I discovered two doctor appointments later is that when you get poison ivy for the first time, it takes over a week for it to show up on your skin. When it finally did, holy shit I thought the backs of my legs were going to rot off. I got some ointment from my MD and that did NOTHING, so I drove to Kerrville to see a dermatologist I hadn’t been to since 1996 because I couldn’t find any other one in Austin that would accept me as a new patient. This guy was good though. He gave me steroids to reduce the swelling and some super cooling ointment. My rash went away in two weeks thank GOD. I sincerely apologize to anyone who had to look at my legs during that time.
Anyway….rockclimbing is another thing on the “things I’ve always wanted to try” list that I can check off and never think about again. To this list I have added spelunking (tunneling), softball, soccer, and sweaty yoga.
Question of the day: Is it better to try something new just for the experience or better to know yourself well enough so as to avoid things you seriously doubt you will enjoy?
Friday 08 Jul 2005 | sarah | Cool
2 Responses to “Pre-weekend news”
I’m just now catching up on your blog, and I love your question here. I’d definitely say that it’s better to try something new, even if you’re unsure about it. For example, I went skydiving once… and I’ll never need to do that again! But I feel lucky to have had the real experience of jumping out of a plane. I love the concept of stretching ourselves, and plan to start doing more of it.
I might try skydiving but I don’t think I’ll try things, like tunneling, that the mere thought of cause me to hyperventilate. What off-beat things have I tried and truly ended up enjoying? Hmmmm…Jumping off a cliff into Lake Travis over and over and over again.