Ugly Toes

Last night, we had another 10PM scare with Molly. (I wasn't blogging at the time, but we had a horrible, terrifying incident after her spay). She's gotten pretty good lately about being let out into the backyard, taking care of business and then running back up onto the deck. Last night, the Engineer let her out, and a few minutes passed without her coming back onto the deck. That usually means she's found something to play with or is digging in the yard, so I asked the Engineer to call her up. He opened the door and called her, but no response. We tried squeaking one of her toys, because sometimes that gets her attention more than being called. I got a little nervous when I realized we couldn't hear her tags ... when she doesn't want to come in, we can still identify where in the yard she is by the tags. I threw shoes on, ran down the stairs and over to the edge of the house where I found that the gate was swinging wide open. I yelled to the Engineer that the gate was open, and then tore to the front yard while yelling Molly's name. It's pretty dark at 10, and I realized with a sinking feeling that she could've gotten pretty far and I had no idea which way to start looking. Luckily, after a few calls, Molly came bounding from the south and followed me back into the yard. So good ending, but I can't tell you how awful it felt to see that gate just swinging in the breeze.

Today, I thought I would take her for a walk and take some pictures of the misleading hill. But it's been snowing all day (damn snow! go away!) so I didn't feel like going for that long of a walk outside. Instead, I ellipticalled for 45 minutes, weight lifted for 48, and the treadmill walked for 30. Nice, long XT session! My shins are a little sore today, which is kind of odd. I think I'm going to take tomorrow off, and I probably should start doing my drills again. (For track and cross country, we always did 4 types of drills after warmup: high knees, butt kicks, walking on heels, and walking on toes. I used to also do heels and toes following practice, and those are the 2 drills I should be doing now).

We went mattress shopping yesterday, which has to be up there on a list of least fun shopping ever. One of the stores was set up super poorly - the mattresses were lined up with maybe 3-5" in between. It's kind of hard to test mattresses out when you can barely climb on them! That store also had a saleslady that was kind of annoying. Luckily, I guess, they didn't have anything we'd want. I still haven't cleaned the office, so the Engineer doesn't want to buy anything yet. We also have to settle what size: king or queen. We currently have a queen, but I would love the space of a king. But it'd be a tighter fit and we'd have to get new sheets. We keep flip flopping on what to do.

elliptical | 40:00 HR Cardio/5:00 CD | 36:39 in zone | 3.12 miles
upper+ lower body weights | 48:00
treadmill @ 1% | 2.08 miles | 30:00