An Exercise in Futility….

oakland, originally uploaded by plumagemour.

We have settled back into our routine now that husband is home. Trips to the gym. 5 AM walks with the dogs. Never ending laundry. Et cetera. Et cetera.

From an outsider’s perspective, I am sure my life sounds boring. It even sounds boring to me sometimes. That being said, there is a balance that must be struck between all things. Husband and I work to make sure that we don’t’ end up in a rut of going to the bar every Thursday night. This is not as easy as it sounds because we are both homebodies that enjoy each other’s company and hanging out with the boys. Stability and routine are easy. One does not have to think too hard about what it going to happen next. Sometimes one has to shake things up a bit…

With husband home, I’ve started back to the gym.

Gym, originally uploaded by ca27251.

I’m already discouraged (yes, I know it takes a LONG TIME to see results with the break I’ve taken) and I’m exhausted. I had problems staying alert at work today and had to keep reminding myself that coffee doesn’t solve that problem, only sleep does. I also need to let my body heal a bit since I feel like I’m coming down with a cold right now. One nice thing I did for myself last night was take a warm bath after dinner. My body was like silly putty when I exited and I went straight to bed with my book. I’m taking tonight off from the gym so that I can go to knitting group and laugh with the ladies. I’m thinking that three days on and one day off is a good plan. We’ll see how it works in practice.
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Camelz, originally uploaded by weasello.

For the past three days, I have been guzzling water. I feel like something is wrong with me, but I know that this is just my body’s way of getting me ready for the summer heat - especially since I’ll be running (outside) a lot this summer.

I forgot to turn my alarm clock off last night and the boys wouldn’t let me go back to sleep this morning. Thus, I’ve been awake since 6:20 and am now sitting on the patio enjoying my coffee, my water, and the chirping birds. If I can keep this up for the next three weekends, I can cross a goal off my list.

Speaking of the goal list, I feel like I’m failing because I haven’t gotten more done. When I step back and look at the list though, I realize that a lot of it is food related and it isn’t fun to cook for one person. The knitting related ones have been started (except for Hanami). I keep having to remind myself that I don’t need to rush through things.

Knitting group meets today. As much as I would love to work on Clapotis, I think I need to work on my submission to the Nipple Project. Knitting pasties (which I don’t think I discussed here, but certainly discussed in rl) was lots of fun and this will be a nice warm up for Pasties Swap, Version 2.0.

Off to refill the water bottle and then off to the gym in a bit. I just remembered I’m running a 5k in 8 days. Um. I think that is going to suck.