Isn't the weekend for resting?

I'm exhausted! We've been having trouble with our heat - long story but the tech has been here twice in a week - well, we still had heat last night, but the registers were clanging, rattling, etc so bad that we had the tv turned all the way up and couldn't hear it. This morning I called again and got a nice on-call guy on the phone. He thought we could adjust the pressure over the phone, so he talked me through it and told me to call him back if I had any more problems. An hour later I checked the furnace and the room had about 1/2" of water on the floor. Yikes! I called him back and he came over. Turns out that there is a leak in the pipe that heats the basement, which is also where our landlord's apartment is. He shut off her valve, bled the air out of our pipes so they wouldn't make any more noise, and said he'd put in a ticket for the pipe to be fixed and re-routed. It's buried under the cement floor so they have to make a new connection. The water literally comes up through the floor.

To top that off, the water softener wasn't working right - the tank was bone dry, so I had to reset that, put 5 bags of salt pellets in (I had to go to the store to get more) and hopefully that's all working nicely now.

Grocery shopping, got home and amanda's friend called so I dropped her off at her house, now here I am. Whew! I was going to work out today but I think I've made enough trips up and down the stairs that I don't have to.

I ran yesterday morning at the gym - my legs are sore today, but it was good. I had no trouble getting up and out on time - I just started to hit a wall at work around 3:00. Nothing a little coffee didn't cure.

I picked up my pass at the mountain yesterday, too, so after they open on Wednesday I'll be cruising on my snowboard. Can't wait! The mountain looks so pretty when it's white.

Can't even think about Thanksgiving yet - I bought a turkey today but that's as far as I got. Ugh.

Now I'm going to go take a nap!

Tomorrow it starts...

I did it. I re-joined the gym. I left the comfort of the cushy spa that I never had a chance to use, and joined up at my old no-frils but better-for-lifting gym. I will begin to reestablish my routine at 5:30 tomorrow morning. I will go every weekday morning after that. I've always said it takes 2 weeks to establish a routine and make it last, so that's what I'm going to do. With mike getting up at 4:45 am anyway, it makes it easier for me to get up too, rather than try to go back to sleep. I might as well be doing something productive instead of fighting to sleep for another hour until I HAVE to get up.

So I will get stronger, leaner, and firmer, but hopefully not bigger. I like my frame the way it is and I don't want to bulk up like I usually do when I lift. We'll see...

Update on the bike

I just checked my blog after almost 2 months and saw the comments regarding my last post. I just yesterday sent my aunt a check to purchase the bike, and asked her to keep it stored for me where it is for the winter. Now I just need to learn how to ride it! lol

The explorer is gone - we had that repair done, and it was running ok, but clearly getting older. Mike's friend who works at the ford dealership called us and told us about a 2003 that had just come in as a trade. He had the salesperson hold it aside for us and we went in to look at it. It only has 16,000 miles on it and it practically looks brand new. We brought the price down a little, had them wash and vac it and fill the tank with gas. I love it - it's so smooth and quiet.

So that's my vehicle update.

More later on the rest of my life - nothing too exciting - finally!