I’ve been pulled in a lot of different directions recently. I am working two jobs right now and juggling lots of other things as well. I’ve been busy. Good busy but busy nonetheless.

My parents came to visit two weekends ago. It was a whirlwind of a trip. We mostly stuck around Ballard hitting up Chuck’s Hop Shop, the Walrus and the Carpenter, Lockspot Café, Cafe Besalu, El Chupacabra and in an attempt to balance out the eating we engaged in a little culture too with a visit to the Seattle Art Museum and the Miro exhibit. To balance all of this out, last weekend I worked both Saturday and Sunday.

Don’t worry though. It hasn’t been all work and no play. I went and saw a show, Small Black, with friends on Capitol Hill in this space below the bar Neumos called Barboza. We danced out hearts out.

This week and last we’ve seen some of the most beautiful weather in recent memory but I’ve had things to do inside—life maintenance thing. Luckily, we’ve also seen our fair share of rain so then I don’t feel so bad.<!--more-->

I like being busy. I like having things to do. This said, all of this being busy and doing fun things has cut into my work-out time.

I’ve been doing a pretty questionable job training for an upcoming 5k. See above. There’s the issue of time and rain. Oh and motivation. It turns out it’s awfully difficult to convince yourself to go for a run after working for the last nine days in a row in the drizzling rain. On top of this, my training plan as basically been as follows:
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	<li>0-2 days a week go to the gym and do 30 minutes on the elliptical.</li>
	<li>2-4 days a week of convincing myself that I am walking plenty between my commuting and my part-tiem job.</li>
	<li>1-2 days a week get dressed to run, find ipod, locate house key and go for said run. Feel a little guilty about not working out as much as I think I should so I decide to run a 5k and time myself to see if I am any faster than the previous week. At the end of the runt, I find that I am faster than last time and then I drink a beer.</li>
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I am pretty sure that none of this constitutes an approved 5k training program but that’s life. And let’s be honest, a beer after 3.5 miles is pretty wonderful. I’m not going to be training for a half marathon using this plan but I that’s okay with me.

The hard part is, come the end of the day, I’m tired and a list of to-dos that’s not really getting any shorter. But I can’t beat myself about this because I’m busy and I’m doing the best that I can do. I don’t feel like making dinner so I eat salads.  I don’t feel like writing a clever blog post so I read books instead.

Then I go to bed. For real, as soon as I am in bed, I’m asleep. It’s wonderful.