the last day and a half of this week, i’m taking vacation time off of work. i have no meetings, no programs, and life is about to turn really hectic for me. plus, i’m feeling like i have a lot of stuff to do at home and like i never have time to catch up. sooooooo….. this next stretch of days (add in the memorial day holiday and i’m looking at a 4.5 day off stretch, followed by one day of work, then another day off) is looking pretty sweet. who knows? maybe i’ll get far enough along on my to-do list that i can actually make the pidoodle items that people have specifically ordered from me. months ago. (sorry!)
my uber-long break from work began today around 11:00. i left work and went to campus to pick up my last graded papers from my class. i got very complimentary comments from my professor which made me glow a little inside. then, i went swimming at the rec center. i did 3/4 mile–about 45 minutes (i’m slow)–the longest i think i’ve ever done! woo hoo me! and not a bit dizzy. hopefully, that’s all done with. as i walked back to my car, i realized that i had completely forgotten to plug the meter. amazingly, i didn’t get a ticket! (shhhh…)
i came home, ate some lunch, then luxuriated in a 20 minute nap. sometimes, even if i don’t actually fall asleep, i just need those to remind me to drop my shoulders away from my ears and breathe deeply. i had a second reminder of that later in the day when this glorious rainstorm hit and i stepped outside (under my porch) to breathe in the rainy smells. mr. h-s biked to work today and when he saw the rain coming on the weather radar, left work early and barely made it back before the rain hit. he said it was probably the fastest he’d ever pushed himself on that bike (it’s a fixed gear) and he was breathing pretty hard. but he didn’t get rained on! (soggy bike shoes are miserable)
speaking of hard workouts–last night, i went for a run and learned how it feels when i run with a combination of low blood sugar and a few puffs of my asthma inhaler. the entire run i just wanted to stop and walk and when i got back, i was super shaky and just started bawling. especially when mr. happy stuff reminded me that i was supposed to be somewhere at 7:00 (it was 7:30. i had completely forgotten. my head is very much in the clouds.). the happy thing about this story is that i got a good, solid reminder that i need to eat a little something about an hour or two before i go for a run. since i’m hoping to run a 6k on sunday, this is a timely reminder.
now, on to finishing my could-do list*!
*a few years ago, i started making a “could-do” list instead of a “to-do” list. it seemed less demanding and i also tried to make an effort to add fun things on the list as well as necessary things. sometimes i remember this concept and pick it up again. especially when the to-do’s start getting too onerous.
