Alcohol & Salsa = NOGO
Yesterday…
Another jam packed day from beginning to end. I woke up slightly later as I slept next to nil the night before. Half an hour of browsing through the online news I got Sebastian and myself ready for the gym. I had a great work out, which was needed as the scale pointed to 54.5 after the Christmas holidays. When will I ever achieve the magical 52 kg?
Yesterday I read about Hollywood diets, and the one that really impressed me was from Christian Bale (who is known to both loose and gained weight dramatically). It consisted of an apple and a can of tuna for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Now that’s what I call will power. I’m even considering trying it myself as I am going out salsa dancing at Cantinero next week and would like to get into a tight pencil skirt number.
After a 50 min work out, I was home, showered and ready to go. Worked until sometime after 6 pm, then dashed to the stove to make a couple of steaks for me and Victoria. Salsa lesson started at 7 pm and stress mingled with nerves, taking a firm hold of me. I downed a glass of wine whilst cooking, but this resulted in the first half hour dancing completely off balance. I had to take my shoes off and dance barefoot.
The first gentleman I was dancing with came from a dance school in Amsterdam, Extremos. I must say his level far exceeded mine, and I was thrown and spinned in all kind of directions. The wine certainly didn’t help and I both looked and felt flush. The next dance went better, and when I finally danced with some of the regular guys, the alcohol had worn off. A clear lesson NEVER to drink alcohol whilst salsa. When will I ever learn!
After lesson I dashed off to be home for Victoria’s bedtime. We played some games an the she went to bed. I on the other hand had a nasty fall on the staircase, and feeling sore and bruised I oped for a hot bath.
10 pm and work started. I was buys with some designs for OnlineSalsa.com until 1 am. Needless to say I couldn’t sleep. I took a sleeping pill, which had no effect. An hour later another, and at 5 am I finally fell asleep. At least I was relaxed, no panic attacks. But dreams were all work related, as twitter mixed with excel.
…and now? Woke up an hour ago. Beautiful day. Will jump into the shower and start work. At lunch a time gym session is awaiting me followed sales list of some hundreds of prospects. A challenge but a lot of fun!
Still have those horrendous excel sheet dreams? Think that is one of the most bizarre dreams somone has told me about. Sounds like the futuristic version of the Kafkan Metamorphosis. However, having a living excel sheet as the protagonist in a story does not sound like a selling concept. Or???
The memoires of an Excel sheet….
“It was Monday the 8th of January, I had been left untouched in doldrums behind a black monitor screen for days. Or was it weeks even? I can’t recall.. as if time mattered… Christmas holidays i suppose…one of those aspects of ‘life’ that forever will remain embedded in my blissful ignorance. On this day however, the powerbutton to the monitor suddenly switched on and I was flooded by a blinding light. There it was..the face, stone cold, serious and pale… His name was Raul, a pale spanjard with thin lips and pointy nose.
I was somewhere in Spain placed in a computer that stood on Rauls desk in an Accouting Firm. It was a booring environment, an ugly office with brown masonite desks and orange curtains, and Raul himself sure looked like a booring accountant.
Although, I had seen him…all those little things he do in his office when he think no one else is watching… Yes, for sure. One could never believe that this bone-dry accountant could swing his hips the way he did on the night before he left me standing here alone in the darkness, untouched with empty cells for weeks…
Ah… I wish I was human as in my human flesh I would learn the Salsa so I could dance into the night with Raul, the love of my life….”
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reply to this commentC, absolutely brilliant. And how could I forget that excel sheets have feelings too? It’s indeed a blissful ignorance, for if my powerpoint presentations, my wordpress account, and application servers have a life of their own I believe the conclusion is they are sorely neglected.