Life suddenly got a whole lot busier for me; but no matter how busy my life gets, I never forget to appreciate what a wonderful world we are given to live in. On Monday morning when my first client and I finished up our run, I noticed what a beautiful gift a little spider left for me between my deck and Alberta spruce. This perfect spider web looked like a CD and seeing it truly made my day start out a lot brighter!
I’m not sure if you missed me or not, but I actually didn’t have a chance to write anything for three days… My clients are returning from summer vacations so my work load just got a lot heavier than my lightened summer schedule. Reality check! Also, we’re having a few repairs done around the house so I’ve been busy and distracted with that, and for some reason I’ve been in the mood for spring fall cleaning.
My first stop was our wreck of a mess called our running cabinet. We had stuff everywhere. I found this many safety pins scattered in it… that’s a lot of races and unused pins! I threw away a lot of sample snack bars, energy tablets, pain relief creams, etc. that we’d never tried and had gotten pretty old and nasty. Not that I don’t like trying these products, these had just found their way to the back of the cabinet and had gotten lost among the junk…
Look what else I found! This is Bill’s old Garmin that we got him for Father’s Day years ago when Garmins first came out. That huge arm band is the receiver and had to be worn in order for the GPS to work!
I decided to move everything into one of our laundry room drawers and look how organized we are! We already keep our running bags, extra towels, sunscreens, etc. in the laundry room, so it only made sense to move everything in there.
Tuesday night I went out to dinner with two of my very good friends that I don’t talk about much since they don’t run, and I mostly talk about running with you guys. Years ago we started a birthday dinner group where the birthday girl gets taken out for dinner. Originally there were six of us, but with friends moving away, it’s now just the three of us. Tuesday night I ordered Shrimp Messina (sautéed shrimp, mushrooms, spinach, toasted pine nuts and lemon butter over cappellini) and wasn’t disappointed! I might or might not have had a lemon drop martini, or two… AND guess whose birthday dinner is next?
Tomorrow is College Colors Day and I have a special treat in store for my 7 AM client. Don’t forget to wear your colors! Stay tuned!
- Questions:
- What beautiful thing in nature have you noticed lately?
- Whose got a three day weekend coming up? ~ Not me, I’m seeing clients both Saturday and Monday mornings.
- Where do you keep your non-clothing running stuff?
LOL, our running drawers look eerily similar. I have the same pink nathan hydration belt, spibelt and are those raspberry clif shot gels? The only thing missing is the pink body glide and the pink nano and I bet you have those too… That spider web was so cool. I’ve seen some beautiful ones but that one is impressive.
The body glide is in my runner’s bag, and my Nano is blue! 🙂
I was very happy that I was able to get the spider web to show up in the picture.
Haha that receiver seems so funny now! Glad they’ve improved since then 😛
Thank goodness everything gets smaller with improved technology!
What a cool spiderweb! I saw a gorgeous butterfly hovering near one of my trees today. That was pretty awesome.
I don’t really get three day weekends. Mr. PugRunner is taking Monday off, though, and he’s going to do a local 3.5 mile race, while little man and I cheer him on.
My non-clothing running stuff is EVERYWHERE. I have some in little man’s cabinet, some in the pantry, and some in a drawer. I need to get on that.
Mom’s never get three day weekend! Good luck to Mr. PugRunner in his race!
Oh man I am envious of your organization. I love it! Our running stuff is all over the place in the house. That makes us sound like slobs, but what I mean is shoes are in one spot, shot blocks in a drawer in the kitchen, my handheld water bottle us in my “running bin” in our bedroom, etc.
We also have a really neat spider web between our mailbox and newspaper box. Luckily neither the mail lady nor the newspaper guy have disturbed it.
I checked this morning and my spider web was still there! 🙂
Busy is good isn’t it?! I feel like I have fallen off the blogging world this week! My hubby had this week off from work, so we did a lot of family time and cleaning (yay! NOT!). I hate cleaning. That spider web would completely freak me out!! Yikes! I would be paranoid that the spider was on me!! Our non-running clothes go in a separate hamper. No, 3 day weekend, per say!
Yes, busy is very good! I’ve got fun stuff going on, and this time of year is always very busy for me!
Your dinner looks like it was really yummy!
I have a drawer that I keep my running clothes in, and a bin in my closet with the other “stuff” I need for my run. The laundry room idea is a good one!
Lately I’ve been noticing the sky a LOT.
I love the sky pictures you post on your blog!