Still not running.
But! The last two mornings I've gotten up for sunrise and gone walking.
One of the biggest side effects / impacts of not running regularly (for me anyway) is the depth and quality of my sleep. I'm generally a pretty good sleeper if I'm running. If I'm stressed out or not getting enough exercise though, my body has a tendency to decide to wake up around 4. Sunrise right now is around 4:55 or so, so yesterday morning I got myself outside in time to see it, but it was cloudy. So today I tried again and got to see a very pretty sunrise, and some folks doing tai chi (I think? I am not actually 100% certain what they were doing, but something that could have been tai chi, slow moving and peaceful looking) and possibly a wedding...a lot of people all dressed up and standing in a gazebo in a park near my house all laughing and taking pictures of each other. Interesting early morning activities in my neighborhood, huh?
Today is solstice. I really like the idea, to get married at sunrise on solstice. It would certainly make people think twice about rsvp'ing yes, for sure, having to get up early early early that way.
My leg is still giving me random fits of achy pain, but nothing sharp. By the calendar (6 weeks!) I can try running at the end of this week...though we're supposed to go hiking this weekend, so perhaps I should wait for next week?
My mother thinks I should be taking all sorts of supplements to attempt to strengthen my bones (calcium and vitamin D got mentioned several times this week) probably she is right, but I have no interest in dropping $50-100 on things that might-possibly-but-not-definitely do something that has not been evaluated by the FDA*.
I am hoping I can continue to get up super early and go outside all of this week and make it sort of a habit, then once I can run again use the extra morning time to run some. I'd like to be one of those early morning runners again I think. In my non-running dreams anyway.
*okay, so mostly I don't have the $50-100 to spend on extraneous vitamins right now. I had to pay for car insurance last week and I need to get a stupid dress to go to a stupid wedding ( actually 3 weddings, hopefully only 1 dress) and buy presents for those to be wed as well. argh. The wedding season is upon us. Generally I like weddings, I think it is a cool thing, to celebrate people's love for one another. But I'm living with a guy who hates them rather vocally, and that makes it way less fun.
21 June 2010
11 June 2010
raise the sails or the roof?
Since I am not running currently, some other things:
* I'm getting a raise this year! It isn't much (1.5%) but its the first time in awhile. I'm excited to recalculate all of my various percentages and spending categories, because I am a geek like that.
* I bought a car--this was a while ago, and I don't think I mentioned it here because I totally did it wrong. I financed a fair chunk of it because I couldn't take my smelly old less-than-reliable beige crapmobile any longer, which was a stupid way to do things, looking back on it. So now I am playing catch up on that and obsessing over driving the balance down as fast as possible and paying as little interest as I can. Best case scenario I have it paid off by January, worst case is some time next summer. Other worst case is I play Glenda the Good Witch and drop my house fund on it to eradicate it and at the same time kill any chance of buying a house in the near future. I am still toying with that idea, it has its pluses (namely I could sing "ding dong the debt is dead" so much more quickly).
* I am watching Firefly again (via streaming netflix--its all there! love the streaming netflix!). Why aren't there more space westerns? It sounds ridiculous, but man, that show is so much better than you think it is going to be every time! trust me!
* I have two cats. In our new neighborhood / apartment (that isn't really new, we've been there almost a year) they get to go outside --they have a cat door and everything-- and one of them has been wandering into other houses in the neighborhood on a pretty regular basis to check out the kibble situation. She is just about the friendliest cat on the planet, but I really don't want her to re-home herself, so I've been trying to limit her outside time to when I am around. JLB thinks I am nuts and over-protective of my cats. He could be right, but when I'm not around I often get phone calls from folks who are hanging out with my cat inside their houses which is kind of embarrassing. She has no manners at all! She is just after their love / kibble!
*I calculated my net worth the other day for the first time in awhile, and even though I screwed up frugality-wise on the whole car deal, my net worth is positive! I know that isn't really a huge accomplishment compared to pretty much any PF blogger going, but it has taken me a long time to surpass the $30,000 + I (still! damn it!) have in student debt, so I was pleased as punch to see that I am no longer in the red. I've been out of school for six years, and nearly all of my debt is from my graduate program. I don't regret it exactly, my graduate degree has definitely helped me to have a "career" rather than just a "job" but sometimes I wonder what I could have done if I hadn't been saddled with so much debt at graduation.
It is a general dream/ goal/ ambition of mine to get to a place where I don't "need" a job, and having a smaller debt load could have made that happen faster. Or not, given the increased job prospects an advanced degree will get you.
* I'm getting a raise this year! It isn't much (1.5%) but its the first time in awhile. I'm excited to recalculate all of my various percentages and spending categories, because I am a geek like that.
* I bought a car--this was a while ago, and I don't think I mentioned it here because I totally did it wrong. I financed a fair chunk of it because I couldn't take my smelly old less-than-reliable beige crapmobile any longer, which was a stupid way to do things, looking back on it. So now I am playing catch up on that and obsessing over driving the balance down as fast as possible and paying as little interest as I can. Best case scenario I have it paid off by January, worst case is some time next summer. Other worst case is I play Glenda the Good Witch and drop my house fund on it to eradicate it and at the same time kill any chance of buying a house in the near future. I am still toying with that idea, it has its pluses (namely I could sing "ding dong the debt is dead" so much more quickly).
* I am watching Firefly again (via streaming netflix--its all there! love the streaming netflix!). Why aren't there more space westerns? It sounds ridiculous, but man, that show is so much better than you think it is going to be every time! trust me!
* I have two cats. In our new neighborhood / apartment (that isn't really new, we've been there almost a year) they get to go outside --they have a cat door and everything-- and one of them has been wandering into other houses in the neighborhood on a pretty regular basis to check out the kibble situation. She is just about the friendliest cat on the planet, but I really don't want her to re-home herself, so I've been trying to limit her outside time to when I am around. JLB thinks I am nuts and over-protective of my cats. He could be right, but when I'm not around I often get phone calls from folks who are hanging out with my cat inside their houses which is kind of embarrassing. She has no manners at all! She is just after their love / kibble!
*I calculated my net worth the other day for the first time in awhile, and even though I screwed up frugality-wise on the whole car deal, my net worth is positive! I know that isn't really a huge accomplishment compared to pretty much any PF blogger going, but it has taken me a long time to surpass the $30,000 + I (still! damn it!) have in student debt, so I was pleased as punch to see that I am no longer in the red. I've been out of school for six years, and nearly all of my debt is from my graduate program. I don't regret it exactly, my graduate degree has definitely helped me to have a "career" rather than just a "job" but sometimes I wonder what I could have done if I hadn't been saddled with so much debt at graduation.
It is a general dream/ goal/ ambition of mine to get to a place where I don't "need" a job, and having a smaller debt load could have made that happen faster. Or not, given the increased job prospects an advanced degree will get you.
10 June 2010
liquid paper cucumbers
I think I have a stress fracture. That weird calf pain that has dogged me pretty much all year? Yeah, turns out it might not be muscle related at all.
I was talking to a friend who is a for real speedy (Boston Qualifying) runner and said something like "I think I might have shin splints but only in one leg? Does that happen?" and she (it should be mentioned she is also in nursing school. Important detail) poked and prodded my calf until she made me yell "ouch!" and pronounced that the pain was in the completely wrong place for shin splints.
So I went to see my Doctor and we talked it over and I am resting it to be on the safe side.
So I last ran four weeks ago.
Some people seem to think that running is tough. Let me tell you, not running is even tougher.
I was talking to a friend who is a for real speedy (Boston Qualifying) runner and said something like "I think I might have shin splints but only in one leg? Does that happen?" and she (it should be mentioned she is also in nursing school. Important detail) poked and prodded my calf until she made me yell "ouch!" and pronounced that the pain was in the completely wrong place for shin splints.
So I went to see my Doctor and we talked it over and I am resting it to be on the safe side.
So I last ran four weeks ago.
Some people seem to think that running is tough. Let me tell you, not running is even tougher.
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