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Monday, October 8, 2012

Stability

Hubb made plans to fish today.  So this became a work from home day.  He was up and out at the crack of dawn so the dogs were also up.  They aren't used to him being gone and the panic of who was going to feed them breakfast set in.  That and the general panic of their routine being messed with they were up and at 'em and I was going to be too, well ok.  The first panic to deal with was, yes I am qualified to serve dog breakfast and it won't turn into a 'dogs breakfast'.  They were pretty persistent and the whining and carrying on is intense, seriously guys I am not going to forget.  In any event, I got the right amounts in the right bowls and they seemed satisfied and were settled in for their morning nap before 8 a.m.   What a life they have.

Meanwhile I get myself all booted up on the work computer and my inbox was exploding.  Lovely.  One thing I forget is sitting all day at work is different than sitting all day at home.  There is no one here but me and 4 dogs.  Well considering my co-workers, there isn't much difference, other than they can carry on a conversation, most days.  By the end of the day I was more tired (even though I had a nap) than I was in the a.m.  I contemplated bagging TRX; no, Beth, you made this commitment, stick to it, suck it up and go, you will feel better. 

Hubb had been home from fishing for a bit over an hour and was peacefully snoozing on the couch with our girl, Sage, in his lap.  Well as much as a 70 lb boxer is a lap dog.  They looked quite content.  I wished him well with his nap and I'd be home in a couple hours for poached Tautog.

TRX was just two of us, the quiet ones, and the instructor. We ran through our workout, caught up on the gossip, I found out the participants in the bar crawl I was hosting in a few weeks had increased from 5 to 20!  Yikes and the more the merrier!  It was a good workout   I couldn't keep my feet in the straps for the side plank rolls.  I put them on the floor.  Just too shaky and off balance, I guess.  I will master that move.  I think it is more a feeling of instability than strength?  Or being able to feel secure in instability is a big part of strength? Some Mondays I do it other Mondays, not so much.  You'll have that right?

When I arrived home I realized I had started feeling better, I must have needed that human interaction and some activity?  Could it be I was worn out from an extremely busy and active weekend and the sedentariness of working from home made me feel more lethargic?

Sincerely,
Beth, looking forward to the adventures of this week.

Wednesday, July 4, 2012

Rest Day Take II

Yeah yeah, 5 miles were on the schedule.  I didn't do 'em.  I did:

  • read several books
  • stretch, stretch, stretch
  • get to the bottom of the snail mail, who knew my co-pay went up $5
  • get to one screen of eMail, crap my corporate card payment may be late
  • take my hubb out to lunch
  • go grocery shopping
So there, it was an action packed productive day.  I will say my PF feels much better and I will be ready to hit the asphalt tomorrow!  Rest is not the enemy, rest is necessary.  Although my streaker of a BIL would most likely disagree with me.  I have no idea how he does it.  A minimum of 5K a day and he is probably way faster than my 10 min/mile pace.  Yeah I should translate that all to either English or Metric, I'm not going to...  you do the math.  It is 30 minutes of running, phttt...

Currently the boy pups are freaked out by the fireworks and the girl pup is annoyed with them for being freaked out.  Growing up in BFE afforded us the luxury of truck loads of 'shoots flaming balls' smuggled over the state line to shoot off in our back yard, which was 1/2 mile or more from anyone's back yard / barn / house.  We live in a teeny tiny cramped area, houses on top of houses, lovely old New England town, don't get me wrong.  Just not the place for 'shoots flaming balls' to be going off in a back yard where you are feet from your neighbors.

One of my neighbors threatened to run down the street yelling "The British are coming the British are coming."  That would have been great!

Happy Independence Day!