Out of curiosity, as well as a desire to NOT work on my proposal, I just added up how many miles I will have run from the time I started training until the day I finish the marathon.
I'll have run all but 16 miles of the distance from my old house to my Aunt Ann's house, where we used to go to visit every summer. It was a looooooooong drive with four little kids, but we loved seeing her, her husband and girls SO much. I miss them a lot, and I think I'll always associate the ocean with memories of them and their house.
So maybe the weekend after the marathon I'll have to do a 16 miler, just to finish it out and remember and be glad.
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Tuesday, November 9, 2010
I love to grade....
"Me encantan los papas que mi madre cocina. Para el postre, comemos los gallitos."
I think I'd like to see this menu, really. :-)
I think I'd like to see this menu, really. :-)
Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Balancing act
I feel like I'm balancing well these days. Sometimes my life overwhelms me...I feel like I'm doing a really good job at one of my roles but none of the others, or a passable job at most of my roles with one seriously neglected, or any variation on combinations of those.
Lately I've had time to run, kept up with my house, done my visiting teaching, read my scriptures, made cupcakes for Bee's class, taken J to all sorts of museum-y places, written on my proposal, had great talks with Ben, run a race together (well, sort of), and managed to do all of my teaching stuff on time or early.
I feel so different than I did at this point last year, when I was drowning in lists and exams and dying for a house and hating teaching because the classes were mediocre and sleep-deprived because I was nursing a baby and hating myself because I felt overweight and unattractive and angry that I couldn't help Bee work through her anger issues any faster....etc etc etc.
I'm thinking that the ebb and flow of life is a good thing, because if I didn't have years like last year (that are horrific), I wouldn't enjoy the moment I'm in right now NEARLY as much. I'm grateful for the pendulum swinging. Hope it never gets stuck in an "I hate my life" phase.
Lately I've had time to run, kept up with my house, done my visiting teaching, read my scriptures, made cupcakes for Bee's class, taken J to all sorts of museum-y places, written on my proposal, had great talks with Ben, run a race together (well, sort of), and managed to do all of my teaching stuff on time or early.
I feel so different than I did at this point last year, when I was drowning in lists and exams and dying for a house and hating teaching because the classes were mediocre and sleep-deprived because I was nursing a baby and hating myself because I felt overweight and unattractive and angry that I couldn't help Bee work through her anger issues any faster....etc etc etc.
I'm thinking that the ebb and flow of life is a good thing, because if I didn't have years like last year (that are horrific), I wouldn't enjoy the moment I'm in right now NEARLY as much. I'm grateful for the pendulum swinging. Hope it never gets stuck in an "I hate my life" phase.
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