Monday, June 11, 2012

Beautiful Eyes Contest

I entered Brynlee in the Beautiful Eyes Contest through my Eye Clinic. If you have Facebook, please go here and LIKE Brynlee's photo! (You don't have to like the page. You just have to like her photo.) The one with the most likes wins a $50 gift card for being the most popular picture and then they're also giving a $50 gift card for Staff Pick!

Just in case that link doesn't work, this is the picture I entered of her:

Thanks!

Thursday, June 7, 2012

No trespassing!

So on Tuesday, I decided to use my lunch break to go for a run on the school track. It had rained that morning and the night before so I figured it would be a nice day for a mid-afternoon run. As I am entering the gate, I see this sign:

Haha! Just kidding. Could you imagine if this sign was posted on a school track? LOL There WAS a sign, but it wasn't that one. I didn't have my camera so I didn't take a picture, but it said something about: "WARNING, Track is being refinished. Please do not use." So what did I do? Did I turn around and think, "Aww bollicks, I don't get to run and now I have to sit in my car until my co-worker gets back from her doctor appointment so that she can let me back in the school."? Did I go ahead and run? Why yes, yes I did. I wanted to calibrate my foot pod because I STILL haven't done that. I have wanted to use an outdoor track for accurate calibration and haven't been able to use one. So I finally calibrated it on Tuesday. Now I can have my foot pod when I run in doors. :)

Boy was I wrong about it being a nice day for a mid-afternoon run. It was blazing hot and oh-so-humid! I was dying and I felt like my lungs were on fire. I am going to have to either run early in the morning before work (ha! like that'll happen) or run in the evenings (ha! like that'll happen). LOL I don't know what to do. I don't get off work until 5pm now so I feel drained and feel like I don't have enough time with Brynlee before she goes to bed between 7-7:30pm. I know that I have got to stop making excuses and just schedule it like I would schedule anything else. Granted, I am not that good at taking care of important things. I am horrible about going months upon months without so much as trimming my hair. I know some women are great about making their hair a priority, but I am not. Exercise (and my health) is much more important than hair, but that's just an example. Maybe I should use Brynlee's doctor appointments as my example since I always go to those no matter what's going on at work! Yeah, that's a better example than my lack of getting my hair done LOL

Yesterday I wasn't feeling up for exercise with the kids at school, but I am today. They better be ready! I obviously can't wear my Garmin while we're playing basketball, kickball, or wiffle ball since it's for running or biking so I can't keep up with my calories burned, but it still feels good to know that I'm at least being active. It's not the exercise that I NEED, but it's still exercise.

I know that if I do not get back to running 3 miles than there's no way I can do the 5k I signed up for in October. I planned to sign up for a 5k in September, but I haven't done it yet. I don't know anyone else who will be running it and I'd rather sign up for a race with other people even if we don't run together. Ya know?

Have a great day!