If all goes according to plan (which, I know, it never does….) I will be running the Lausanne marathon two months from today. Two freaking months. That’s eight weeks, and the last two weeks are taper so thats just 6 more long runs. Holy poop.
On a lighter note, today was a good day. First of all, I went to the gym. It’s funny, I felt like I hadn’t been there in FOREVER since I didn’t go on Saturday (day before long run so tried to rest), Sunday was long run, didn’t Monday (day after long run so tried to rest.) For someone who is an obsessive compulsive gym goer, and who relies on that daily ritual for her sanity (even if I don’t do a hard workout at all), that was tough for me. I know, that sounds retarded. But for some reason, just walking into the gym makes me feel better each day, even if I do nothing but ride a stationary bike for a little while or walk on a treadmill. I think part of it is because of the fact that I work at home so it is sort of like my “haven” where I get to leave the house and leave work and actually be around other people for a little while. But it’s more than that, because it has always been a place I love to go even before I started this job and started working at home. It was my escape during college and grad school, and even back in high school and before. I guess I’m just a bonafied gym rat. And I love it. It’s my therapy.
So anyhow, I went to the gym today. Did 20 minutes on the stepmill (fat burning program, level 13) and then 20 minutes on the elliptical (hills, level 11). I sweated like nobody’s business. I have been sooooo hot lately, all the time. At night I have trouble sleeping because I am so hot, and during the day time I’m hot as well. I always have been a heavy sweater at the gym, but this has gotten simply ridiculous! It’s actually kind of embarassing, dripping all over the place. But whatever, that’s sure as hell not going to stop my work outs!!!
Work was fine, same old. Breakfast and lunch were the same things I have had the entire week – clementines, green tea, coffee, and my huge salad with everything under the sun thrown in. Snack was my cereal. I know… boring. I’ll try to spice things up some more. My dinners are getting more interesting, though.
When S came home after work, he walked in WITH A DOZEN ROSES for me!!!! I couldn’t believe it, I was so happy. He’s a sweet guy and says very nice things, but he doesn’t really do little romantic things like that very often at all so it was huge surprise and really meant a lot. Especially because I was kind of grumpy with him when he left the house this morning – I was annoyed because on Thursday night we have to go to eat dinner at his friend/coworker’s house with him and his wife and 1. I’m not that excited about going overall and 2. They are going to get Indian food, which I am not a fan of. I also couldn’t sleep at all last night, partially because I was hot, partially because of some unknown reason, and partially because he was SNORING so LOUD. I freaking wear earplugs, and I still can’t sleep – that’s how loud it is sometimes. So I was kind of snippy as he was leaving in the morning. Needless to say, I can’t possibly be snippy with him now, bless his heart.



Isn’t that sweet? Totally made my night. For a few minutes I actually got scared because he was being so nice to me the entire night I thought for sure that he must have done something really wrong. But turns out he didn’t, he was just being sweet
For dinner, I made whole wheat penne with olive oil and parmesan cheese for S, and some homemade garlic bread on the side. I admit it, I had a bite or two, or three…. while I was cooking it…

For myself, I made grilled chicken breast, steamed broccoli with mozzarella cheese and egg whites with hummus:

And some cottage cheese cheesecake pudding with blueberries and flax seeds:

Dessert was some swiss chocolate:

And then I made an experimental recipe. From a long time ago, when I made the mistake of trying the Medifast diet, I have at least 30 packets of medifast chocolate pudding sitting in my closet. It actually tastes pretty good, so I don’t want to throw it away, but I always have better things that I want to eat so it has basically just been sitting there. So I tried to experiment and make some brownies. I took a packet of medifast chocolate pudding and mixed it with a tablespoon of whole wheat flour, one egg white and a pinch of baking powder and sweetener. I mixed it all together and added a little bit of water to make it a thick dough and then separated it onto spoonfuls and put it in the toaster oven at 350 degrees for about 10 minutes. When they came out, I let them cool for a few minutes and put on a little bit of peanut butter. And they were pretty good! I was happy with my invention:

Now it’s bedtime for bozos. Hopefully I will be able to sleep tonight, I’ve just about had it with this insomnia thing. I don’t know how insomniacs get through the day, I really don’t. If I get less than my 7 hours, you do NOT want to talk to me the next day. That reminds me of a really interesting article that I just read on Runners World website. It was about Tera Moody, one of the best marathoners in the country who is also an insomniac. It is crazy, I don’t know how she does it. But really interesting.