Monday, September 19, 2011

I Should Shut the Computer Down by 8:00pm

Why the heck am I awake right now?? I’m insanely tired but the internet is an easy place to get lost in. Also, I HATE ending sentences in prepositions but if I said, “The internet is an easy place in which to get lost,” my dad would stop reading my blog because I’m too uncool sounding. I’m one grammatically correct sentence away from losing half of my readers.

Anyway. I’m married now but that’s not what I want to talk about. I just wanted to say that I have had a husband for less than two weeks and the abuse has already started. Today. At soccer practice. He kicked me in the ankle. And now it hurts really bad. I will play in Wednesday’s game regardless of how it feels (soccer naturally numbs all pain for me, remember) but I’m terrified I won’t be able to run tomorrow. Not really a big deal except I was planning on making my debut run since running the half marathon. And I’ve been REALLY excited about it! Especially because now it’s cold in Maryland and I can take advantage of my unemployment by running in the middle of the day without worrying about the heat!

Okay, going back to the being awake at 1:30 in the morning on a school night…I think something’s wrong with me. I have no job, no kids, no real responsibilities right now, and yet I still feel the need to be in bed by ten-eleven if I’m feeling crazy-and get up by seven thirty. Maybe it’s my own way of making myself feel less like a waste of space. Hey, maybe I didn’t spend all day at work but I didn’t spend all day sleeping either!

Alrignt. Now I’m going to bed. And I will probably be up before eight for no real reason. Hopefully a run will be happening.

Sunday, September 18, 2011

I’m Back!

John and I are finally back home in Maryland after spending two weeks in Texas getting hitched and various other things. Maryland was not welcoming in the least. The temperatures are in the 60s, our hot water heater was broken, a trip to the grocery store was desperately in order (I HATE grocery shopping) and we had tons of packages to deal with. Don’t get me wrong, I love and appreciate every single wedding gift we got. But I don’t deal well with mess like this…

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Still a lot of organizing that needs to be done with all our new stuff, but we’ll get there. I did my first workout in exactly 2 weeks and 2 days (unless you count the .3 miles I ran on the hotel treadmill in my wedding dress…) and it kicked my butt. P90X Core Synergistics.

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‘Before’ picture from the first and last round of P90X I did (My afters look the same). Such a strict program with no running is not for me, but as individual workouts, its great.

After my workout, a hot shower thanks to our fixed water heater, and homemade chili for dinner, I think I’m pretty much invincible. I’m sad that I had to leave Texas behind but its going to be go to get back to my regular workout and eating habits. Not to mention I missed Hamlet and soccer like crazy!

I’ll leave you with the video I took as we entered Texas from Louisiana on our drive down…