LONG weekend.

Went to Aptos on Friday, where it was freezing and I had packed mainly shorts and tank tops, so I wore the same running pants and gym shirt for 48 hours. Watched "Night at the Museum" which was better than I expected. Drank a lot of wine. And then came home around noon today.

But no time for rest! Took a shower, went to gym, Bike sprinted 5 miles, ran 2.5 miles. Went home, took another shower. Drove to Morgan Hill for Scott's niece's graduation party from law school. Had a great time with the family, enjoyed myself very much (lots of wine too of course) and met Scott's father again. We met for the first time last Christmas but he didn't remember. That's okay, he's pretty up there in age, and I think I probably look a lot different now. But... it soon became clear that something, I'm not sure what, but something wasn't going right in his head, whether it was the drink or the age or what, but I'm not sure but I'm pretty sure that he thought he and I were together. That is, Scott's dad may have thought I was HIS girlfriend. Like, he even invited Scott to come visit us in Texas. And asked him if he was okay with... us. And I'm sitting there with a smile like, "Um, okay... Wait, What?"

Aside from that, when I first arrived, there was a big to-do about my weight. Scott's neice is my facebook friend, so she knew I had lost weight, but seemed surprised and pleased anyway. But her dad, my former boss, took one look at me outside and did a double take: "WOAH, did you lose a lot of weight???" And he was very proud of me. And everyone was very proud of the triathlon that I'll be doing in September. I invited Renee, but she'll be studying for the bar exam and doesn't think she'll have time to train. But Scott's aunt, in her 60's, was very excited about it. So she might join me.

It was a good party and a nice time with pseudo-family and friends.

I did have a surprise this weekend though. For the last year whenever Scott and I walk out of the Aptos Coffee Shop I would see my reflection in the window of the very cute little dress shop next door. And every single time I would cringe in horror at what I saw. So Saturday I saw myself and thought "How cute, the warped glass makes me look thin again," and then I thought, Wait, it never was warped before, and then I saw my reflection was holding my rain jacket closed around me - and that jacket never even closed before, it was always too small and never came close to meeting around my body. I looked down at myself, and sure enough, my jacket was overlapped across my body. I started laughing. "What?" said Scott. "LOOK!" I pointed at the window. "I have a WAIST!" He just laughed at me, but I couldn't help but look in amazement at the COMPLETELY DIFFERENT girl looking back at me. There was an actual waist on that girl. Instead of this completely round elephant who had been looking back at me, there was a regular, normal sized and shaped girl looking back at me.

And so I became best friends with the mirror this weekend. Every chance I could get I was back in front of the mirror making sure that there was indeed a waist on my reflection. And there was!

Ah now it's sleep time.

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