This is turning out to be a summer that is totally out of character for me. First, I received the parting gift from the school year of a raucous respiratory infection that took me literally the entire month of June to get over. Then, because I was so sick, I didn't get much accomplished on the knitting front. I finished the yellow Swing on the last day of June--and then the buttons I had picked out before I knit it don't match now that it's done. Frick Frack! Then, I didn't run the Peachtree Road Race (but Rocket and I had a great breakfast curbside and watched while my two sons and Honey ran--Scout #1--the 14 year-old--ran the 10K in 60 minutes and Scout #2--the 11 year-old--with my Honey by his side to make sure he finishe--go Honey!--ran it in 90 minutes). They are awesome! And the trophy T-shirt was kinda blah. And I haven't really been into keeping up the garden, either. And forget about yard work. Starting to wonder who I am these days.
Well, I'm hoping to get my butt (literally) and everything else in gear this month. Honey, Scout #1, and I re-worked the garden on Sunday (7 hours in the blistering heat and humidity; so some new things had better grow!) I put my butt back on the treadmill after a little check-up at the doctor revealed that my butt had gained 8 lbs during the month of June while I was sitting on it. I would like to fit into my work clothes when school is back in session in August; so it's back to the frick frack treadmill. I haven't been on it since, uhhh, LAST July. I figure 2 miles in under 30 minutes every other day should do the trick. I did 2.05 miles in 30 minutes on Friday, took Saturday off, worked my self into exhaustion on Sunday, took Monday off (good thing, too, because I strained the muscles in my lower back during garden duty), and did 2.25 miles today. I hit the 2-mile mark 1.5 minutes sooner today than on Friday, so that's progress. I run in the garage with the garage door up, so the local area temperature was 84 degreed F. with a relative humidity of 69%. You can't run in Georgia if you don't like to sweat, that's for sure. The scale, however, this morning said--pre workout--that I had gained another 5 lbs since frickin Saturday, though. Apparently, I need a more user-friendly scale.
Fireworks last night were awesome! Talk about leading a charmed life ... we sat in the back of the truck and they exploded right above our heads. Directly above us. It was totally amazing--like having our own private fireworks show. And Mother Nature held off the really big storms until after the show was over, which was much appreciated. I tried to load a video of the fireworks onto Facebook; but it didn't work and I don't understand enough about Facebook to be able to figure out why. Facebook and I are like this:
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With that thought in mind, there are errands to run as usual; so off I go.
Well, I'm hoping to get my butt (literally) and everything else in gear this month. Honey, Scout #1, and I re-worked the garden on Sunday (7 hours in the blistering heat and humidity; so some new things had better grow!) I put my butt back on the treadmill after a little check-up at the doctor revealed that my butt had gained 8 lbs during the month of June while I was sitting on it. I would like to fit into my work clothes when school is back in session in August; so it's back to the frick frack treadmill. I haven't been on it since, uhhh, LAST July. I figure 2 miles in under 30 minutes every other day should do the trick. I did 2.05 miles in 30 minutes on Friday, took Saturday off, worked my self into exhaustion on Sunday, took Monday off (good thing, too, because I strained the muscles in my lower back during garden duty), and did 2.25 miles today. I hit the 2-mile mark 1.5 minutes sooner today than on Friday, so that's progress. I run in the garage with the garage door up, so the local area temperature was 84 degreed F. with a relative humidity of 69%. You can't run in Georgia if you don't like to sweat, that's for sure. The scale, however, this morning said--pre workout--that I had gained another 5 lbs since frickin Saturday, though. Apparently, I need a more user-friendly scale.
Fireworks last night were awesome! Talk about leading a charmed life ... we sat in the back of the truck and they exploded right above our heads. Directly above us. It was totally amazing--like having our own private fireworks show. And Mother Nature held off the really big storms until after the show was over, which was much appreciated. I tried to load a video of the fireworks onto Facebook; but it didn't work and I don't understand enough about Facebook to be able to figure out why. Facebook and I are like this:
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With that thought in mind, there are errands to run as usual; so off I go.
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