This week is all about being calm and quiet. My mind not so much but activities, yes. Trust me, its a good thing. With a breakdown (physical or mental) feeling like its looming in the background earlier in the week, I tried to take it easy and find some routine back in life so that I can avoid it. But, the title already says it all…I lost that battle in a really really bad way eventually…
Still, lets take a look at this week.
1) Running Update: Week 3
The rain, my friends! Its been my absolute enemy. I used to do dragonboat so drizzle, I could work with but its just been downpours. I ended up doing my Tuesday run around my house. Like I literally ran up and down the stairs then circles around the dining table and my den and my bed then back and forth in the basement, etc then repeat. I was jogging doing chores with one hand because I needed to have the Running App track my movement with the other hand. It was crazy and I probably looked ridiculous but it was done in the end.
The second thing I’m learning (again) is commitment. Training is a choice and a dedication. One that means you trade off certain things and rearrange life to do this because it means something. Just like any goal, right? So with that said, despite the stupid migraine plaguing me on Friday and I eventually just took the night off after starting to feel a little sick. I actually felt better on Saturday and went for my run, which turned out to be a huge mistake. You’ll see… especially since I managed to go do groceries and run a few errands before realizing my body was not too happy.
2) Updating the Appearance
I’ve talked about this for two years at least. My stuff on the side bar was from 2013! 2013!!!! Can you believe that? That’s when I started losing touch with blogging a little but this week, I sat down and took care of it. Change the header picture last week and then updated a few things and rearranged stuff around. Now it’s better! I’m not changing the theme since I just changed it last year or something. I’m happy with where this is all going. My indexes are all back up to date and will be updated on a weekly basis as promised and trust me, that Disney baking project! I’ll get that Snow White recipe done! 🙂 I literally have all the ingredients and even a little more for a little baking extra (once my energy level increases).
3) Garden Update
There was a lot of rain in the past week. I mean, a lot. So, the good part was my garden was so alive. Everything grew like crazy.
Lettuce after all the rain
Cucumber Plant
Ground Cherry
We’re starting to harvest the lettuce and its delicious. Both the iceberg and romaine are awesome. The cucumber plant is having some flowers now so its all good. And the ground cherries are looking lovely. My issue is that last year, we had that but it never ripened before it fell. So I’m hoping to figure out why that happens and fix it.
4) A Little Visitor (who could be my strawberry eater)
Can you see it?
I went out for a little bit of fresh air and to catch some pics for the garden update. And who knew that I turned around to look at the mess of moving over a plant to free up space for my raspberry eventually and something brown moved around in my peripheral vision, kind of. Its a little bunny. I have neighborhood rabbits. I know that because they hang out right in my garden here. I’ve been suspecting the rabbits are the ones responsible for eating ALL of my strawberries but I guess I can’t get angry when its a cute little one like that…
5) Being Sick with the Not So Forgotten Gastroentritis
Being sick sucks. We can all agree with that. Its been a while I haven’t had gastro not to mention one that took a billion years to build up to the actual symptoms resulting in my taking a day off work today (as I write this after sleeping and lounging around the entire day). It has not been easy. From migraines to realizing I had a minor fever on Saturday and having slept 12 hours but still lasted into Sunday and then the fever tapering off and my date with the bathroom began for hours. It was memorable and painful and I just couldn’t work up the energy to go to work nor did I want to pass on whatever bug I had to my coworkers because I’m not that evil. Its taken me a whole day with some congee, a good amount of warm water, sitting around lounging in bed and watching Netflix and wondering if it was actually over.
As I write this up, I’m rebuilding my energy and my health because gastro is ridiculously damaging especially since I already have the underlying IBS so my digestive system is already bad. Either way, I don’t know how regular my posts will be this week. I have the content. I just need to write it and that takes energy that I’m not sure I have right now. So I apologize if things are a little slower here this week. Bear with me as I work hard to recover. Perhaps, I’ll take this opportunity to write about vacation since that takes a whole lot less time than reviews.
Upcoming:
- Orange is the New Black Season 3 TV Binge
- The Fault in Our Stars Book Review
- Day in Seattle Vacation posts
That’s it for this weekly adventures! Stay Healthy!! 🙂
Tranquil Dreams 