now this feels more like november. a houston november, anyway. it was about 55 degrees outside this morning, and thankfully not humid for once.
i bought my ticket home for christmas. hooray! i even have a couple projects in mind for the break. see, i always have things that i’ve been meaning to do but haven’t had time for, and christmas vacation is the perfect time for them. this year i’m going to work on the scrapbooks for my past couple jaunts to europe, and hopefully turn some of my growing pile of race t-shirts into a karen-inspired quilt (with much sewing help from mom).
wow. those two projects make me sound like an old woman.
though maybe i am an old woman. it feels like it’s been weeks since i came to work and wasn’t sore in one part of my body or another. today, my arms, shoulders, and upper back ache. i’m sure it’s from climbing on monday, and granted, i hadn’t been climbing in probably a month, but geez, you’d think that with as active as i’ve been lately, the soreness would go away as my body adjusted. but at least the weird leg pain from yesterday has gone away. i took some advil this morning, which is supposed to relieve muscular pain, so hopefully that will help. i’m starting to feel like i’m 90 years old.
because of the whole weird toe tendon pain thing yesterday, i skipped the usual tuesday long run. buzz is out of town, but i had been planning to run for about an hour, to keep fresh because next week we’re planning to increase to a 90 minute run. i didn’t go. instead, i went home, cooked dinner, and sat around. i’m gonna run tonight instead, though i may go just for a half hour or so instead of a full hour. i dunno. maybe i’m trying to do too much too fast.
when i booked my ticket this morning, i checked out my frequent flier miles. a couple more trips and i’ll have 25,000 miles, enough for a ticket within the 48 states (or, as george said, “just get their credit card and charge your rent each month”). but then i saw that you only have to have 35,000 to get a ticket to hawaii. so that may be my new goal. or, if i just keep saving, when it’s time for our trip to australia in 2006 or 2007, i may just have the 80,000 miles needed for that ticket!
rambling. i’m feeling restless.