Silentish Saturday the 49285th Edition.

love your new house! Looks so airy and bright
three things long walk been running to much lately and trying to stay ahead of any potential injuries
going to a wild life refuge to feed the birds before my son goes back to college tomorrow
getting much needed highlights at the salon later this afternoon

Run
Grocery shop
My mom’s b-day party.

I have totally been there with the breathing thing with Hope. It is scary. Hugs to both of you!!

Dang good for Andrew for taking your nephew out! Black Friday is no joke. I had to work at the running store for an 8 hour shift yesterday, and though a running store is more of a ‘specialty’ sort of thing that doesn’t attract every ol’ goober out there in the world, our store was pretty nuts. There was no break…a constant, steady stream of people. Tom worked at his store (he works part-time at Best Buy), and his shift was about as long as mine. We both got home SO EXHAUSTED and our whole bodies hurting. I had hoped to get some paper grading done yesterday (I am so behind!), but we both kept on laughing at each other because we were in SUCH brain fogs! SOMEHOW though I managed to get a blog post up. I fear it isn’t anything like the writing I CAN do, but I talked about my 5K from Thanksgiving morning and showed some big time love for some of my favorite running gear. :)

Today: I am teaching my Body Flow class in about 35 minutes, and in the afternoon I am covering a work shift at the store for one of my coworkers who has been incommunicado all week, so my bosses had no idea if he would even come today (and a weekend like this–everyone out in a busy outdoors mall with lots of foot-traffic and a ton of people wanting every possible deal–you can’t just “skate by” with one or two less people). And tonight, I need to grade SOME stack of papers.

On another note, Tom had a coupon on air fryers from Best Buy (sometimes employees get coupons for deep discounts on popular products…it’s how we got our robot vacuum!!!), and so far we love it! Check out the GOURMIA brand that they sell at Best Buy–apparently it’s better than the “bella” brand at Macy’s (and the price points are relatively equal). I think we will be using this thing a lot. I tried a package of the cauliflower gnocchi yesterday night and it was so good.

Snow is coming! We need it so I’m trying to stay positive that it’s that cold. But really, we’ve had a really nice fall. So I’m really ok with it mostly.

We have our second thanksgiving today, I made pie and potatoes. I’m going to sneak in a little run before hand sometime.

Glad Brooke is handling croup as well as you can!

So glad Brooke is feeling better! Sending healing vibes for continued wellness! (and that noone else gets sick!)

Last night I cleaned the pantry-no small feat-so today I went to the sort facility with all the cardboard/plastic/garbage!
Run
Procrastinate

Oh I wanted to give you a tip that I found helpful while I trained for an ultra. Practice sooner than later with a hydration vest. Why now before the really long runs? Because it’s nice to feel how the vest is at different levels of capacity-testing out the bounce factor when the bladder and pockets aren’t as full. Also, it preps your body for carrying one. This is, of course, assuming you’ll be using a hydration vest! The more you become one with the vest, the easier it is on race day.