Back To Reality...

The first day back at work after vacation is always hard and relatively busy. I spent the early morning responding to emails & addressing a few pending items from last week. I spent the late morning to early afternoon in meetings. And I spent the rest of the day working on stuff for two major meetings tomorrow. Needless to say I was busy but my heart still wanted to be on vacation...

Now that I'm home my day is only half finished. Once I'm done with this post, I need to start the work I brought home with me. And then once the sun sets and it gets a little cooler outside, I need to do my daily run to keep my running streak alive. Both the blogging streak and the running streak take time away form other things (like resting) but that doesn't make me enjoy them any less. Even on vacation I set aside time to complete my blog posts...

And of course I ran every day while I was there. Not only did I run, but I had sub-10 runs every time!

Heather Made The Blog!!! & More Monday Madness...

I was talking to my friend Heather at work today and we were updating each other on our current long distance statuses (we even decided to form a club at work 😉). So I mentioned that we should take a picture together for my blog post today...

On my way home from work I saw a bumper sticker that I think I should be wearing as a special bib at every race moving forward...

(ironically the driver sped off once the light turned green 😒)

I know I've mentioned (a bunch of times) that I have a lot of race related travel expenses this year (the Berlin Marathon being the most expensive and then my annual Chicago trip for the Chicago marathon two weeks after Berlin) so I've been trying to figure out ways to save more and earn a little extra income to put aside for those expenses. Hopefully I'll be able to start teaching nursing courses online again, but in the meantime I'm signed up for Achievemint so I can finally get paid for my daily active lifestyle... 

(I have a lot more running to do to get my $10 😞)