Neighborhood News

Tonight there was a knock on the door and Caritas went and answered since I was without pants. About 10 minutes later I was wondering where she was since she had not come back in yet. I put on some shorts and went downstairs to find her on the front porch talking to this woman, Ae, holding a puppy. Come to find out that the dog is our next door neighbor's new dog that the woman had found the night before. The puppy had escaped. So the 3 of us stood there chit chatting away as the dog was held by each one of us. We got to learn a bunch of neighborhood gossip as we talked. She was going to head home with the dog since Oz wasn't answering her door when her grandson TN showed up. Confirmed that it is their new puppy. Caritas and I continued to chit chat now with TN and Ae to find out some even more gossip. Next Ae's son Dy came up around the corner looking for her. He told her to only be out 10 minutes. Now the fun comes with more talking. We ended up being outside for about a hour.

THE NEWS
-Sad: someone has been killing cats in the neighborhood in a very bad way
-Interesting: One guy in a duplex went to jail for drugs. We thought that there was some drugs over there but never really had it confirmed till now.
-It seems all the little dogs in the area are named Little Bit. :)
-Was able to find out who is who living over with Oz and that TN is probably the best person to talk to when wanting to know anything about next door.
-Oz's other dog has been missing for about 2 weeks now. Everyone thinks that someone now has a new pet.
-Oh and damn Dy is CUTE, in a redneck sorta way.

Guess that is all the news from the Neighborhood.

In other News

I rejoined the Y on Dec 29th. I have been 5 times since then. Today I was there at 6:30am for a weight training class. It is on Tues/Thurs from 6:30-7:15 and I think it is something that I could really enjoy. The other days I used the cardio machines for 20-30 minutes. I am slowly going to work my way up to other things. They still have my favorite machine: The Precor Elliptical Trainer (see icon). They also have a new Precor machine that I tried out this morning. It is different and will take some getting use to because of the way it can move. It has various ways that it can move so that one minute you could be doing more a stairstepping routine, and the next minute more of an elliptical movement. I think it is the one here: http://www.precor.com/comm/en/amt/amt100i/

I also bought a new dance pad for DDR to see about starting that back up. It will all depend on my knees and ankles at the moment. I did do 8 songs on it last night on light. I so sucked since I have not done it in so long. It will get better though.