Today is a chilly day (as opposed to a chili day… although homemade soup sounds fantastic today… I need to check to see if I have soup meat in the freezer still anywhere… or any I can use for soup). It’s funny (not funny ha ha so much… but funny) that ‘home’ was 5 degrees warmer yesterday than it was here. I pass a sign with the temperature on it every day on my way home. 4:00 pm it was 42 degrees.
Went running this morning. I had to pull my long sleeves down over my hands at the beginning of the run because it was so chilly. Chilly as in… it was in the upper 30s last night… some of the cars that I passed actually looked like they had ice on them. It was a fantastic end to a pager week when I ran myself ragged in a whole different way. Today’s running almost ragged (partly because of the cold that I caught from squirrel) actually felt great. I’ve gotten to where I can finish every single run in the Podrunner Intervals Day 1 to 5K at a run (some of them around run 5 or 6 I feel like I’m going to die by the end of, but I know that is because I’m running faster than I probably ought to be).
It is spring break. The kids are thrilled to have a whole week off from school… then they decide that they are going to be totally bored… then they are excited to be off anyway. It is fabulous to watch them go through the adventure that is life. Squirrel is trying to plan her week so she can remain social during the school-less week. She is so much fun to sit back and watch… life plays itself out in her. MPOG… he is looking at a week of sitting in front of the computer, watching commedy on TV and playing on computers. I would feel better if he got outside once in a while, but he has an awesomely social life through the computer. He has friends all over the world that he really talks to about stuff… about current events, about history, about social issue… it is awesome. He has his group of friends that he interacts with day to day, face to face. They aren’t people that he ‘hangs’ with… they don’t go to the mall, to anywhere… but they talk and they laugh. It is great. They are so different and it is okay.
Bear is… bear. He watches CNN and stresses… he watches the stock market and the news about people getting laid off and he stresses. He keeps telling me that he’s glad that I never got a job in the financial sector now becuase of all of the uncertainty in the market and in the banking industry. Woudn’t necessarily be so bad being in the acquireing bank… but if you are in the acquired bank… ick.
Me? I’m feeling fantastic. Was in the bathroom at work yesterday and Kalpna (who I haven’t run into in a few months) commented that I lost weight. Not only am I feeling better in general (cold, alergies and sometimes achey spots aside) people are occasionally actually noticing that I’ve lost some weight. I haven’t lost as much as I want, and I think some of what I have lost is just not fat but now muscle, and I still look at pictures from when I was 18 and when I was 38 and shudder… I wonder if, by this time next year, I will be able to run a half marathon… if I will be down to the weight I would like to be at and finding running much easier. Post run banana this morning made me smile becuase it is something squirrel and I are sharing… bananas for being healthy… and now, tea and the beginning (it is daylight) of the day.
Let’s see what Saturday brings… a whole saturday doing nothing for work… YES.
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Whatever works, as long as people don’t go about it in the wrong and unhealthy way just to win.