Just Some Things

It's been crazy around here!  My mom had to have surgery on her leg again.  Which means she can't work right now.  Four to Six weeks of not working.  She had the surgery on the 14th.  She has to use a walker again but, hopefully all will heal well and quickly.  In the mean time, I have been filling in for her at her job at the condos.  It has been so busy there too!  I guess people are out and about early for the tourist season with the weather being so dang dreamy.  Makes it sucky to work though. 
For the past two weeks I have been running 3 times a week with my friend, Tammy.  I get up between 4:30 and 5:00am on those days and meet at her house at 5:30.  We run/walk for an hour.  We are both fairly new to this running thing so we're both pretty comical at this point.  Today we ran for 1 hour, 5 miles, burned 500 calories, and our average mile was 15 minutes.  We ran 2 blocks then walked 2 blocks for the whole 5 miles!  Which means that we ran half of the way!  woot! woot!  Don't laugh!  I'm proud of that time, lol!  It's only gonna keep getting better!  Our short term goal is to run the Strawberry Strut.  It's a 5K here in Carthage in June, I think. 
And I have discovered that when I get up at the butt crack of dawn, I get a crapload of stuff done!  And I have all those good endorphins after running, I'm pretty sure I could conquer the world by 8am.  The problem then is, my afternoon slump hits about 11 or noon.  So, I have to bump up my fizz tab intake on those days.  That's what I'm going to do anyway.