It’s hard to believe that another decade is already starting. It seems like it was just yesterday that it was 2000! I always thought grownups were crazy when I was a kid, saying that time was moving so fast. Too me it felt like everything took an eternity, but now I’m old, and I suppose I’m technically a grownup, and it feels like time is just flying by now.
24:03
I have a hard time remembering what I ate for dinner last night, but 24:03 is still hanging around there in my subconscious. It’s my 5K PR from my high school cross country days. I even remember it was junior year, at an away meet at Alvirne HS in Hudson, NH. I really feel like I would have been able to bring that down another few minutes my senior year. Maybe even become a scoring runner! But unfortunately, I tore my ACL during basketball season of my junior year. My knee rehab didn’t even end until June, and cross country started in August. To top it off, I had to run the whole year with a giant carbon fiber knee brace. To say that my times never approached 24:03 in my senior year would be an understatement.
Back from Vacation
Well, technically we’ve been back for almost two months now! It’s been a pretty irritating summer overall, although we had a great time on our road trip. I started getting sick with a cold just as we were heading home, and then that just would not go away. I had an awful cough for about a month, and that really threw a wrench in my grand workout plans, which I’d been doing pretty good on before we left!
On top of that, the weather has been mostly crappy all summer, we’ve had some really LOUD and annoying painters working on our building for the past two weeks (which makes it hard to get work done!), our friend has been living with us for the past month until he moves to Phoenix, and our furnace needs to be put out to pasture.
Thankfully, the painters finished on our building on Friday (although they’re now sanding the one next door, but at least it’s not as loud as when it’s your building). Our friend will be moving out in a few days, too. It hasn’t been that bad with him living here. We really hardly ever see him, but our place is kinda small and it’s just weird having another person living in it. Hopefully the weather improves so we can turn off the AC and open up the windows! Between the insane heat and humidity the past two weeks, plus the painters needing us to keep the screens out of the windows, we’ve had the house all shut up with the AC running. Ben and I both hate AC for the most part, but it’s been really necessary.
I started back on my Couch to 5K plan two weeks ago, and I’m going to start Week 2 again today. I usually end up doing several iterations of Week 1. This is my fourth attempt now to do this plan! The first two times, I never made it past Week 1. Back in June, before we left for vacation, I made it to Week 2, and was hoping to be able to do it a few more times when we got back, but since I was sick for so long, I really got out of the gym habit. As in not going at all, so I had to start over again. I had hoped to do the Great Bay 5K at the end of October, but I just don’t know if I will be ready by then.
Vacation!
I‘ve been doing pretty well lately with working out more consistently, but that’s about to be interrupted again. But this time it’s a good thing! Ben and I are going on vacation!
This is the first time we’ve ever gone on an extended vacation, just the two of us. The closest we’ve come is a long weekend trip to Nova Scotia, which was 5 days long, but we were traveling for 11+ hours 2 of those days. We’ve been on long weekend trips to my parents in Florida and several long trips to Walt Disney World, but never alone. My parents have always joined us, since they only live about 2-3 hours away, and one time we went with a group of our friends in addition to my parents.
We were thinking about going to Disney World again, but Ben has been talking about wanting to see the Grand Canyon for a long time, so we decided in April to make our vacation a cross country road trip. Work has been slow lately (boo), so it seemed like the perfect time to take 2 weeks off. I’ve never felt like we could take off much more than a week in the past. I’ve been getting super burned out lately, as we’ve not been on vacation for over 2 years now, so the timing for an extra long vacation is perfect. Although my co-workers might not agree, as some stuff just came up this week that needs to be done in the next few weeks. Sorry, guys!
We’ll be gone for 2.5 weeks. I’m going to miss the cats so much! This is the longest we’ve ever been away from them. The longest before was 10 days, and we’ll be gone 17 this time. We leave tomorrow morning at 5:00 AM!
Theming
I have literally gone through hundreds of themes trying to find one that I like. I’m not really thrilled with a few features of this one or the colors, but it does have some things I like. I figured I needed to pick something though, so that I didn’t keep using the excuse that I didn’t have a theme to put off writing.
One of these days, I’ll have time to combine the best things I like about several themes I found into a single theme that I’m happy with.
Overcoming Inertia
I‘ve always been a pretty lazy person.
Case in point: I decided that I was going to blog more. I picked this great domain name to chronicle my efforts training for the Danskin triathlon in Webster, MA. I was also going to just write about the stuff going on in my life in general and my efforts to improve so many things in my life that I have been lazy or slacking on. Maybe someone would read it, maybe not. It was really just for myself.
Over two years ago.