Happiness, or at least trying not to threaten folks with too much bodily harm at work. Seriously, I’ve threatened stabbing someone’s eye out, choking, brandished a knife at someone, and promised beatings. And that’s just today. No, I’m not a prison guard or FBI agent, but I AM a Producer… I guess it’s just a day in the life.
So yes. Busy. Out living, not writing about it. Here is a quick and dirty of my happs:
Foodie food food food:
Made myself track the last two weeks. Realized that DUH, I’m not losing because I’m eating like an asshole again. Working on rectifying that. Last two days have been pretty good, working on continuing that trend. Still going to see the nutritionist sometime next week, have to convince her that I don’t normally consume about a bag of chips over a weekend and enough alcohol to inebriate an army. Well, at least the first one… more on this of course as I meet and greet with the lady who will attempt to relive me of a major burden for the last two years and hopefully remove my head from the wall which I have been banging it upon.
Wake Up Sleepyhead!:
Have been attempting the morning workout thang. It’s being a little challenging, as now work is starting to encroach on the mornings some days (really? do you HAVE to schedule me a 9 am interview? my schedule is not THAT booked…), but I’m determined to make it work. While I REALLY hate getting up in the morning, it is REALLY nice to get it over with before work (though admittedly right now they’re both about the same amount of capital REALLY) and it gives me more time at night. Not sure how exactly that works but I like it. Also, it eliminates the uncertainty. No matter what happens during the day to make me stay late at work or I have ninja-insert-into-schedule-right-after-work plans, I can get down with it, since my workout is diggity done. Tomorrow is really a test, because I’ve got to be up and out by like, 7:30. This may sound late to some of you, but it’s the middle of the night to me. I have a feeling it’s fucking with my mood a bit (negatively, see stabby comments above and eeyore like facebooks and tweets), but hopefully that will subside soon.
Also, along with this, is more outside time. I was really beating myself up on my sad, sad paces on runs, but I found lots of evidence to support that you need to lower your expectations. They said in the temps I was running in – to add about 20%. Guess what, it was just about exactly 20% more than a really fast paced 5-6 miler would be for me. My two summer mantras will be “Base is more important than pace” and “It IS that hot and you ARE running that slow. It’s ok.”
Mostly, uh, because I’m a dumbass and signed up for THIS half marathon and am also targeting THIS sprint tri. As an A race. 8 days apart. Either training the long runs with everything else for the swim and bike will be AMAZING for my endurance and I’ll PR like crazy, or I’ll crash and burn. I had success last year training up my run to almost half marathon lengths during tri season, but that was for an olympic. I’ll be running a 12 one weekend, a sprint tri the next, and then a half, so no real taper time. While the sprint is an A race, the half is ABSOLUTELY not. I’d just like to finish at a respectable pace. If I’m feeling great on race day, maybe I’ll race it, but for this one, I am really doing it for the t-shirt. I mean, it says that I run for champagne (and chocolate). Um, hello, race tradition!
Vacation, All I Ever Wanted:
Vacations are falling into place. While I keep threatening to hop a plane to a desert island this week, we will be doing just that in December to Jamaica (Montego Bay). 5 days of all-inclusive resort with food, drinks, water sports, land sports, white sandy beaches, and most importantly, just me and my Zliten. We were going to do Portland in Sept., but after researching, we just don’t have enough time to really do it justice (flights there and back would take up the majority of a day, and I want more than 2.5 days in a new city for the price we’d pay). Likely, we’ll do NOLA again as we HAVE been there, it’s driving distance (or if we can get a really good deal, a VERY short flight), and will be a good long weekend away.
2012 is actually now settled too. Cruise with my parents early in the year (either back to the same ports we went to last time, or more Jamaica), and we just found out our friends are getting married ON A FRIKKIN CRUISE TO ALASKA in Sept – we’re so in. So 3 trips out of the country! Woohoo! 2013 is tentatively some sort of really long cruise with my rents for my dad’s 80th, so we’re thinking that we may actually do our planned honeymoon in Italy and Greece for our 5th anniversary. =) When you have the money you don’t have the time, when you have the time you don’t have the money, indeed.
It’s Friiiiiiiday, Friiiiday:
Well, almost. Plans this weekend include Judah Frelander at the comedy club, a bike ride, and that’s about it for now. What’s on your agenda?
I'm a video game producer and a lover of anything game related by trade. I'm a triathlete by hobby. I live for being on or in the water as much as I can - scuba diving, snorkeling, paddleboarding, water slides... you name it. The dichotomy between my outdoor and indoor realities are interesting, but they're all mine! Longer version
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You want to hop plane to a “desert island”. And ME wants to hop plane to “dessert island”. Big difference. Anyway, while in labor one time (you, as in , about to pop a kid out by belly), I threatened to stab the nurse with my IV. I don’t quite know how an IV would have stabbed her, but it made sense to me at the time. Labor = delirium.