Please Leave Me Alone to Carb-Load... Friday, March 27

On days like this it's nice to have a particular four-legged, extra furry friend I can curl up to -- Pyen Chi.  She made counting down the hours to Wow's departure this morning a little more bearable because she flopped her long legs over my chest, as if she was trying to hug me, and the weight of them pinned me down.  I laid there with my face buried in her beautiful fur and listened to her heartbeat.

On this day two years ago, we were signing for the legal rights for the building Hulk's Boxing now resides in. Wow was so proud of us.  On this day one year ago, Snickers was one day away from returning from his business trip. Wow was so happy for us. Today wasn't like it was in previous years though.  It wasn't a day of celebrating and happy smiles, well at least not for 90% of it.  I did get some smiles in when I met up with a friend later on in the evening.

The only thing good I was looking forward to all this week regarding today was indulging in some carb-loading because of tomorrow's anticipated run. I was a no-go on the 32kms last week and am definitely the pressure to make it happen this week and make it a very successful run, so carb-loading was just as much as a want as it was a need.

In the morning I actually headed downtown to the bus terminal, hoping I'd catch Wow before he left for the airport. I sat there long enough to see two airport buses come into the terminal, load up on patrons and then leave. No sight of Wow.

I returned to the club rather bummed out that I hadn't "accidentally" ran into Wow and was greeted by a friend.  And while most guys give girls flowers or chocolate,...not my friends.  I got three ping-pong tables.

The strangest thing happened to me tonight, some random Korean guy walked by me while I was at the bus stop and said "hey girl" to me in English.  I don't really respond to young guys trying to get my attention by flaunting their English so I acted like I wasn't listening.  I had my earphones on and was listening to music so I was convincing but then he brushed back past me and busted out in spontaneous dancing right in front of me.  Everyone was starring at him and when he continually said "hey girl" everyone started to look at me.  I've never felt so happy to NOT be single again because if embarrassing yourself in public to get the attention of someone is what you feel you've got to do, wow, that's exhausting.

I was hoping to close the club a bit early today.  I had a taste of life outside of the club when I met up with a friend for coffee and was itching to perhaps get a few more hours of it so I stayed in my good clothes and hung out while members trained.  Members weren't exactly training though.  I had left the club around 6:30pm and returned around 10pm but many of the members who were there when I left were still there when I returned.

More random dancing in front of me, second time today but this time it was at my club and it wasn't exactly just a random guy.  It was one of our newer Hulkies.  I've been having a bit of a problem with him actually but I can't quite pin-point the problem.  He's the same guy that just the other day jokingly asked me if he could sleep at the club with me.  Snickers has seen just how out of this way this guy goes to try to grab my attention.  He literally does cartwheels to get my attention, as in cartwheels and flying karate kicks across the training floor.  Tonight he started dancing when I blurted out "Oh I love this song" and then he tried to sing part of the chorus.  I now will never ever play that song again!

Dancing dudes and singing men, two guys I would never date even if I were single. And a guy that does both, wow, double NO with due capitalization on that!

Anyways, by the time all the members, including the dancing karate-kicking dude left, it was coming up to midnight and I decided it best to call it a night.  I didn't want to possibly run into a third dancing dude.