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June 5, 2008
Sometimes
That's a bit what I've felt like this past week. Overwhelmed and tired and generally grumpy ... but that's at an end now because I finished that little piece of work that has had me bashing my head on the table and got me smiling while on the treadmill because it felt like I was running away from it for just that little bit of time.
Peg-Leg's been in London for the past week on an Oracle course that should make him more valuable to his company, but they'll no doubt fight that statement with every breath in their bodies until he leaves and they're forced to bribe him to come back because of the fact that (even now), they can't manage to find anything on their systems because
- He's the only one that knows the whole system and
- The others in his team are far too lazy to do some logical thinking and find things themselves.
Training this week has been up and down.
Monday evening I biked and did some cardio at the gym (staying off the dreadmill for a bit) by rowing and using the x-trainer and various other machines they have stationed across the room. I actually quite enjoyed that - the a/c was just that little too hot and that meant that I had sweat pouring off me by the end of the session. Of course, I forgot to open the door at home when I got on my bike and ended up losing enough liquids to make me thirsty for the week to come :) Tuesday afternoon I headed back to the gym and ran on the treadmill for almost 4 miles while listening to my angry music (not really angry, but a small boy that was walking at 1mph on the treadmill next to his mom thought that it was angry music) and once again enjoying the fact that I was working up a good sweat.
Last night I had a planned supper with friends, so that became my weekly day off and tonight I'm heading onto some of the trails near our house to get some running done before I may or may not get back onto that bike...
Of course, being alone at home helps to get into the swing of things, but its been a relatively fun week. I hate being alone in the house at night, because I've become used to certain sounds of someone else being there and now that it isn't, paranoia-supreme has struck. I lie in bed and see shadows (the trees casting their shadows) moving and my heart rate goes up a few beats. Then I turn over and the bed creaks... another thing that makes me jump. Then PL sends me a text and I'm just about read to grab a rolling pin and go through the whole house to make sure that there is genuinely no-one else there but me.
Yes, paranoia like there is no tomorrow.
Thankfully PL is back tomorrow evening... and I'll get my rest again.
Posted by karinm at June 5, 2008 9:08 AM