Monday...skirt day

Yep, I broke down on Monday and wore a skirt. It was a long black one..that I've had since grade 10 or 11 in high school. I remember when I bought it. It was from Winners in Prince George. Anyway, the skirt was loud and swishy when I walked, and I found it distracting. And since it is from high school, I think I've graduated from wearing it again...
When I go to work in the morning, no matter what the temperature is outside, I'm always sweating, okay dripping with beads of sweat coming down in front of my ears, when I walk into work. It's not that the walk is hard or that my heart is pounding, I just get so hot. First of all on the train at first with all those bodies squished into a small space, and then walking at a fast pace. Maybe I won't wear such warm clothes on Thursday..or maybe I'll leave the apartment earlier so that I don't have to walk so fast.
We talked about how Christians are perceived at work in our room the other day. Ang mentioned that in her dutch reformed circles, this was the first time she had ever been looked down upon because of her faith. She said the ladies at work were bugging her because she didn't want to go out and drink for her birthday and that she'd probably go to church instead. Something along those lines. I've never been in that situation before either. She must have felt strange to be chastised for going to church.
I would say that according to what I've heard around work, there are many church-goers. There are three ladies at lunch that I'm always in the room with while I'm eating and they've gone on and on about their pastors and the different churches they've been to. They're all either non-denom or baptist, I'm going to assume, because they're black and evidently not dutch. Maybe they don't even know Dutch people. Another guy, Chris, goes to an Alliance church. He's the one that's just been awarded a national award at work. We're honoring him with an office party on either Friday or Monday, I can't remember. What makes me sad is that we're not very open about it. There are definitely people there who don't go to church or who aren't Christians, and I can tell by the way they talk. I'm sure it's VERY hard to incorporate sharing our faith at work...or even just proclaiming Christianity at a workplace, as Ang did. It's gotta be different than what I'm used to. Usually people have a high regard for church-goers or Christians, but it would take that one odd hard time for it to make us think twice about sharing our faith, I'm sure.
I find it really hard to focus at work. Maybe it's the lighting of the place. It feels darker in the office as the afternoon goes on and I get sidetracked very easily. That's when I need that little walk around the office or coffee to get me focused again.
Supper on Monday was made my me :) Spagetti whole wheat noodles with a Cheesy sauce and salad with cucumbers. It satisfied all of our hunger needs that night. We wanted to go to a car show that night, so it was a quick meal. We decided after about 40 minutes of deliberating and talking with Jeff upstairs that we'd go on Thursday with a few more people (so that we don't get mugged on the way to the show.) It sounds like we have to pass a rough section of the city to get there. hmm. Yep, we hafta bring the boys.
Anyway, instead of the car show, I went and worked out with Dave. This time I was so pumped to run and run, I did, as well as lift a few weights and work on balance. I could spend hours and hours in that place if I had time. I've only been in the hot tub once!
I came back all sweaty from working out only to find a wonderful looking cake on the table! It's Angela's birthday on the 14th so we celebrated it with some double layer cake with a few friends. Pam and Kate also had a photo shoot with the cake, I found out later. Crazy girls.
I managed once again to put off homework and do other stuff instead. I put some of the fabric that I got from the Bouma's on the wall in our bedroom to give it a bit of color. It's kinda messy-looking, but we all like the color in there.
We all went to bed around the same time in our red room.