This month I had a few goals: get our budget under control, get our dirty house under control, give up chocolate, give up snapping at people I care about and participate in the 29 Days of Giving exercise I've mentioned before.
New goal: make it to May.
I've done well on some things, not so well on others (uh, such as The Snapping). It is entirely unnatural of me to push forward and try harder the next week/next month when I feel I haven't done my best on something. It's unnatural to dust myself off and start over. I call it my Pass the Cupcake pattern, which sounds delicious, but it is really just metaphorically indicative of how I get when I slip up: my instinct is to say "ah, fuck it, pass the cupcake."
If I've done anything this year that I am proud of, even more than that 5K, it's dusting myself off and trying harder the next day/week/month.
Instead of saying screw it, I'm going to try harder the rest of the month.
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Mike starts a new(ish) shift this week, and it's going to make running in the evenings nearly impossible. Unless I leave Kyle home alone, and although Molly is pretty attentive, I'm afraid she'd use that free time to exact her revenge for all the times he's stuck his finger in her eye.
So, I'm debating running in the mornings.
I'm not a morning person. I feel good after I work out in the mornings, and it sets me up for a great day, but getting out of bed and into running shoes at 6 a.m. (when I'd need to get up) is about 10x harder than going out for a run after work. I'm a night person, always have been, but the thought of only running weekends bums me out.
Not that you can provide much more than, "Just get your ass out of bed already," I know, but if you do have morning work-out advice, I'd gladly take it.
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Why does he look 15 here?
I think he was telling me about the unfairness of not having free access to Mike's fish tank. Or that he wanted more animal crackers. His tangents all sound the same.
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Happy week, kids. I'm making this Caesar spaghetti at some point, which looks delicious, and am having dinner at Taverna for a co-worker, which thrills me to no end because, check out that menu, and I'm not footing the bill. So, week's highlights are all about food. No one should be surprised.