Sunday, July 22, 2007

Another weekend...without running.

It's been a good, busy weekend. We ended up staying home on Friday night catching up on the past couple of episodes of "Rescue Me" that we've missed. The alarm clock went off at 5am on Saturday...and I hit snooze 3 times before finally turning it off. I was tired. I didn't want to run 16 or 18 miles...so I didn't. K got up shortly before 6 and got the run in. Good for him. Not so good for me. I cried in bed after he got home. I want to enjoy running again. I want to be running as well as I have in the past. Neither of those things are happening right now. I don't want to give up on my goal (again), but I know that things aren't looking good (again).

I opted for some retail therapy on Saturday afternoon. K and I had lunch at La Madeline then went to check out The Domain, the new upscale shopping center up North. To be honest, I wasn't super impressed. Yes, it's nice to have a Neiman's in Austin and a Tiffany's if K ever wants to surprise me with another little blue box, but that's about all that's worth driving up there for. It's still not quite Dallas shopping. But, I did manage to walk away with a very good find from Neiman's...Gucci sunglasses at a very reasonable (for Gucci) price. After our shopping excursion, I went to the gym for a couple of hours and had a good workout - weights, elliptical, and swimming. I enjoyed it much more than I would have enjoyed the run that morning. K and I had dinner at Habana, a Cuban restaurant downtown. We finished off the night with a round of miniature golf. The weather was perfect for it, and we really enjoyed ourselves. K won...by one stroke.

Most of today was spent running errands and doing things around the house. We had a lovely dinner at Roy's, a Hawaiian fusion restaurant downtown, to celebrate K's old roommate's birthday. I would have sushi every day if I could (K doesn't like it though). Yum.

Unfortunately, the Sunday night dread of having to go back to work tomorrow is starting to build up again. I hate this feeling.

Oh, I finished reading Gilbert's book yesterday. Very moving and powerful. I highly recommend it.

1 comment:

holly said...

Don't worry about the running. It will come in time. I always think that when I want it bad enough and the time is right it will happen. This goes for things that you can control. I don't have anything for things you can't.

You'll get to Boston one day. It's not going anywhere and your BQ is only going to get easier :) You'll get there, I know you will.