In My Wildest Dreams

News from Sta. Cruz

This morning it is pretty cloudy which makes it very conducive to sleeping in, which Dante and I have been doing a lot of these days. We're getting ready to go for a run along the beach. Hopefully it won't rain on us, but the typical pattern seems to be cool and cloudy in the morning, warm and sunny in the afternoon, and pretty chilly at night. Yesterday I had a lot of things to get done online and over the phone, so Dante's activities were postponed and he was not happy about it. He's become quite accustomed to waking up and going for a run on the trails at Pogonip, which is some sort of state park near our sublet. I've been trying to branch out a bit lately so we've been exploring some different areas. Yesterday we went to another state park near Aptos, CA, and Dante practiced walking next to me off-leash. We had a really nice time. I took a picnic lunch. The trails are beautiful and not all that populated save a few mountain bikers who came pretty close to running us over. Dante was fine for most of the walk until something snapped in him and he started acting a little crazy and nervous on the way back. That kid is such a weirdo.

I finally found a boxing gym, I think. It's not the one where I'd originally planned to train. The trainer at that gym and I had been emailing back and forth since February, but when I arrived in CA he got kind of flaky on me and never called back. Plus, I get the feeling that I would be the only boxer over 16 (and well over 16...) at his gym, which is not exactly my idea of fun. The downside is his gym is pretty close to where I will be living, 'bout 10 miles away. I found another gym in San Jose, which is 27 miles (thank you, MapQuest) door to door from my new place in Capitola. It'll probably take me 45 minutes or so to get there, but I would try to train just 3 times a week there and do the rest on my own at the UCSC rec center, so I'm hoping I can manage it. The reason I hadn't even considered this gym is b/c membership appeared to be $100+/month, but I decided to go ahead and email those in charge, anyway, and was pleasantly surprised to discover that for registered boxers dues are only $50/month. Nice. Well, I'm registered in NZ, so I need to transfer my registration...

In the meantime, I've gotten my CA license, voter registration, car registration, etc. The only problem is my motorcycle, which can't be registered in CA 'til it has 7500 miles on it due to some sort of bizarre emissions regulations or something. Now, I'm all for emissions regulations, but I mean, it's a motorcycle. Emissions have got to be relatively insignificant. Whatever, though. Trying to convince the DMV of that was unproductive. So now, I can't ride it, technically, but yet I need to put another 2000 miles on it before I can register it. Problem is that the GA plates are also expired.... Hm....... Dilemma. A friend of mine has tags that I can just throw on it and ride the hell out of it til I get 7500 but that's obviously risky. In the meantime, I've parked it in her garage so that at the very least I know it's safe and sound.

Well, that's all for now. I'm feelin' that my GoLean has digested so I guess I can take Dante out for a run, although he's snoring next to me.

Love,
Me

posted by Sara @ 10:24 AM