Week what, day who?

So my running schedule is all forked to hell.

Saturday I had the Walk for Farm Animals and Sunday . . . I forget what I had going then, but I didn't have time to run.

I was told by numerous weather people that today was supposed to be sunny and clear. Well, guess what? It rained. ALL DAY. I take that back. It didn't rain this morning. Unfortunately, I was swimming at that time. Then I had to take my mom to run errands. By the time I got home, got dressed and got down to the track, it had started raining. I was hoping it would just drizzle a little and move on, but by the time I was done with my warm up, it was raining hard. Not only that, it was windy. I'm not a wimp when it comes to weather, but the last time I was out walking in the cold and rain, I got sick for two weeks. So I decided to pack it in. I'm going to try again tomorrow, even though it says it's going to rain for the next two days. Tomorrow I'll bring my raincoat. Jacket. Thing.

The other reason I postponed the run is because of my knees. And my back. My arthritis has flared up something fierce. I haven't been in this much pain since before I started working out regularly (eight months ago). I haven't done anything differently, so I can only assume it's the change in weather. I hope that's it, because I would hate to think my arthritis has gotten worse. Also, yesterday I helped my mom's caregiver (Corinne) move her entertainment center into the garage. The neighbor kid helped (just me and him), but I find that today my back is in pretty bad shape. I lifted properly and everything. I guess I'm just old and busted. I stuck around afterwards to help her set up her receiver/TV/DVD player/stereo and get everything hooked up again. Dunno how I did it. I'm a technomoron. But I turned everything on and it all worked so yay. I sat and had some water and talked to her and her mom for quite a while. Very sweet people, those gals. Corinne's birthday party is coming up soon and I've been invited (along with my mom). She (Corinne) has diabetes, so I'm looking up vegan recipes catering to the diabetic. They're a big Adventist community here, but not too many of them are vegan, so I figure I'll just make a little something for myself to eat, and make it diabetic-friendly just in case Corinne wants to try some.

For breakfast this morning I had soy yogurt with a tablespoon of ground flax seed. After swimming, I took my mom on some errands. We ended up at the Safeway and I found some Odwalla bars on sale ten for $10. I looked at the ingredients for shits and giggles and was surprised to find they were vegan. I grabbed ten of them, mostly the Choco-wallas. What? I ate one while my mom ran into the post office and holy crunchness was it good. I've lately come to realize that I'm very texture-oriented when it comes to food. Perhaps that's because I have no sense of smell and my sense of taste is possibly diminished? No idea. But when I bit into that Choco-walla, my teeth and taste buds died and went to heaven.

Anyway, I ixnayed the run but I did some aerobics and my ab workout. Afterwards, I stretched longer than I usually do.

Then I drove to my sister's house to pick Lady up. She's got an acupuncture appointment tomorrow at 2:00, and I wanted to give her a bath. Now she's all fluffy clean and air drying on a towel in the front room.

Geez. I told myself I would only talk about running/exercise on this blog. Sorry, folks. There’s a reason my ex boyfriend called me Edith.