However this strategy is not “buying in bulk” as much as “stockpiling” so I made an attempt to correct this by asking the guy at Trader Joe’s whether I could buy it in a case. He went into the stockroom to check, and when he was gone I got cold feet about having all that pumpkin. I had images of eating pumpkin oatmeal in June 2015 and started to feel a little pukey. Luckily when the guy came back from the stockroom, he had clearly forgotten about my request because he saw me and didn’t say anything.
Anyway, when it starts to get cool out I like to put pumpkin in pretty much everything. It adds a ton of nutrients not to mention a nice fall flavor. But Donnie doesn’t like to be caught off guard so he insists that I announce, “THERE IS PUMPKIN IN THE OATMEAL” before he takes a bite. Picky!
Yesterday he told me he was getting burnt out on oatmeal, which could be a real crisis.
#8 Go to the Dentist Every Six Months: See that postcard with the green frogs? That’s my dentist appointment reminder card that I filled out in February when I made my appointment for six months from then.
At my appointment a couple weeks ago I was pleased to remember that when you go on a regular schedule, the cleaning takes a LOT less time. The dentist even told me I had the cleanest teeth he’d seen all afternoon (true story). I’ll never have the prettiest teeth or the straightest teeth, but clean is within my control! I am addicted to Crest “Glamorous White” mouthwash, which costs a small fortune but is worth its weight in gold.
Or a haircut from Great Clips.
#6 Study Yoga: I’ve been doing this thing where I’ll make a video of myself on my laptop doing yoga and watch it afterwards to check my form. The other day I came downstairs after making one of these videos and Donnie said: “Were you leaving someone a voicemail at 6:00 AM?”
Now, I can’t imagine why he would think this except that I started the video by saying, “Hello! It’s Wednesday morning, thought I’d do a lil’ yoga.”
And what the heck is a “lil’ yoga?” Why would yoga make my Minnesota twang come out? I've never even been to Minnesota. Maybe it was all the blood rushing to my head after too many downward dogs.
#1 Run a Half Marathon: My training has been going great and my goal now is just to not get injured!! Here’s what I did this week:
Sunday: Queen Bee course + 1 mile with Janet
Monday: OFF!
Tuesday: 7 miles easy pace + 10 minutes strength training + vinyasa flow yoga video
Wednesday: 9 mile tempo run at 7:15 pace + lil’ yoga
Thursday: 5 miles easy pace + 10 minutes strength training
Friday: Started to do yoga, quit after 15 minutes
Saturday: 7 miles easy pace + 10 minutes strength training
It was great to see the Queen Bee course last week and fun to run that far with Janet, although we got a little silly towards the end.
We finished off our morning by doing happy baby pose in front of the casino parking garage, and I swear if anyone had walked by they would have probably thought we had lost our gd minds. They wouldn’t have been too far off base.
Just a little off base. Or a lil.
-K.
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