carolynruns replied to your post: lostweightgainedlove replied to your post: GOOD…

I’m heading out for a long(ish) run soon as well. Good luck to you!

chrisrunsandoeslife replied to your photo: Recovery— ice bath, peanut butter and banana…

BAD ASS! And the run too :)

arkansascello replied to your photo: Recovery— ice bath, peanut butter and banana…

Nice!!

zeenes replied to your photo: Recovery— ice bath, peanut butter and banana…

Good job! You’re awesome!

puka2018 replied to your photo: Recovery— ice bath, peanut butter and banana…

way to go Nava!! 11 miles thats awesome. Well deserved icebath and sandwich.

lostweightgainedlove replied to your photo: Recovery— ice bath, peanut butter and banana…

You are awesome. Id rather do another 11 before an icy bath

Thanks everyone!  Ya’ll’s comments really made me smile (and all of the likes!). And usually my peanut butter & banana sandwich is pre-run, but considering I did my run a few hours after lunch, I didn’t need fuel (when I do my runs first thing in the morning I usually have my sandwich).

And I’ve become accustom to an ice bath, which oddly, makes me feel relaxed and helps a lot with the recovery—especially when I’m dripping in sweat from the heat outside.  Needless to say, I’m going to miss them, as odd as that sounds.

4 Things Saturday:

1. Ran 11 miles, 3 hill repeats, in hot temperatures. I even got a few remarks from some people on the trail.  I caught up with a family 3 times as they were biking and taking breaks.  It was nice to see the whole family out (grandparents, parents, 3 kids—WITH HELMETS!).  And saw two guys on bicycles at some point, not at the same time, and both said hi to me.  But the highlight was the first guy I ran into.  Couldn’t be much older than me, and we ended up doing hill repeats together.  Well, hill=trail ramp.  I was just starting my 2nd mile when I saw him and made a remark “Hill repeats, huh?  That sucks.” His response “Yeah, need to push them in training to get stronger.”  Me: “Mind if I join?  I have a half next weekend and rumor has it that the first 6 miles are killer hills.”  His response: “Sure, I’m keeping a slow pace though, have to keep some in the tank for the 5 mile run home.” And there you have it ladies and gents.  I ran with someone doing hill repeats.  Sadly he’s just in town with some friends for spring break, so no future running partner. :(

2. Ate pretty spot on.  I tanked a bit towards the end of my day — 45 calorie fudge pop, yes please!  Heck, I earned it.  Loaded today with a bunch of processed carbs, but considering next week my diet is going to shift to carbs, most likely processed as I’ll be traveling, it’s safer to start now in my opinion.  Plus, I didn’t go way over board.

3. Recovery like a boss.  Got my ice bath, foam rolling, compression sleeved legs all nice and relaxed, with blister medication and socks on the feet.  I’ve noticed when the weather gets hotter, despite having toe socks (yes I invested in a few pairs), my feet still get blisters.  Doesn’t matter the shoe, it’s the weather that matters.

4. Finished my contributions to my group project (again) and 2 pages on the thesis.  I wanted 3, but I’ll take 2 at this point.  Anything is better than nothing.

Daily Miles: 11 miles

Daily Workout Minutes: 175 minutes

Weekly Miles: 26 miles

Weekly Workout Minutes: 553 minutes

Jumping Jacks: 250/180

Yesterday:

- I drooled over the Marine Corp Marathon course. One day I will run that sucker. If that is the only marathon I run in my lifetime, I will die a happy person.  Seriously, ever since I got into running it is THE marathon I want to run.  It won’t happen this year (seriously, it won’t), but you never know what 2013 will bring.

- I drank all the water in the world.  Okay, maybe all the water bottles in my house.  Well, bottles filled with water.  I have 5 24 fluid ounce bottles in my room. 4 of them were filled with water.  Plus my 24 fluid ounce glass of water for dinner.  Lots of bathrooms trips.

- I spent a solid 2 hours looking over my thesis notes to see what I’m missing.  And patiently waited for archives to contact me back about my research.

- I ate some awesome and healthy things. Although my stomach is hating me for the strawberries and whip cream from Sunday.  Do I regret it?  NO, I ran 11 miles, I deserve some whip cream!

- I emailed with FIVE people from tumblr. Ya’ll are crazy awesome people.  Seriously just awesome.  Words cannot describe how friendly and welcoming all of ya’ll have been over the months and I’m excited for each and every one of you!

Today:

- I ran 3 miles.  A year ago I ran my 2nd 5K in my life.  It was in 47 minutes that I completed the 3.1 mile race at Disney’s Magic Kingdom.  I had run the same course the year before at 52 minutes.  This year?  I eat a 5K twice a week for training.

- I ate like a boss with omelet filled with spinach and fresh veggies for dinner.  I wanted to have turkey meatballs and yams but didn’t have the time before class, still, eating healthy makes my body feel healthy.

- I completed half of my contributions to my group project due 3 days after NYC.  I already told my partners that I would be MIA and needed to finish the project earlier than the due date, and they were fine with it.  Finishing half of it before the agreed due date of this weekend makes me feel pretty accomplished.

- I put in a few hours of thesis writing to my 2nd chapter.  This was really needed because I’ve slacked a bit in my whole concept of a page a day for the second half of February.  It was more like a page every 3 days.  Still pages were written and I’m slowly progressing.  Tons will get done in the next several days and weeks since school is tapering down.

- I stayed awake for my entire class today despite having a late night last night and a super busy day.  Kudos to me because I’m really getting annoyed with this teacher and this class. Only 6 more classes left before I’m finished.

Changing up the way I do 4 things for this week because I was tired of labeling it that.

Also, this week’s challenge..I’m ahead by about 2 weeks on this one.  I started playing piano again—bet you didn’t know that I played piano for 10 years growing up.  Well, now you do.  I gave it up in high school, along with anything and everything else that wasn’t school, science fair, history fair, or youth group related.  I no longer loved piano, felt like it was a chore.  But just tinkering around for 2 hours with old tunes?  Made my heart tingle a bit with some love for the music again.  Also, starting work on crotcheting a blanket for a friend.  Despite being ahead of the game, I’m going to pick one thing I haven’t done in awhile—paint.  I’m not great at drawing or painting (unless it is paint by numbers, if I actually get the right number with color, haha), but I’ve always found solitude in it.

Here’s to Week 10 being filled with success!

1. Ran 3 miles.  At this point I’ve chaulked up my Tuesday runs (or any post-run from my long runs) as crappy.  I have no issues with that.  Negative talk the first mile, push through to the second mile, come out strong on the third mile.  It’s the way it happens.  Just have to crank out the miles to get it done and mark another day done on the training board.  Although I do reserve the right to complain about this run—IT WAS HOT OUTSIDE!  This is why running in Florida in the middle of the day does not work.  I need to push and get up early to run.

2. Eating was on par for a Tuesday.  I tend to chalk in more snacks post-run because of class.  Still keeping good in the calories, sodium was high but with the heat I tend to bounce up sodium a bit just to drink more.

3. Finished another assignment today.  Got an extension on another because the professor is out of town and had a pile of questions from students about the assignment so she gave an extension.  Although I’ll still have that assignment finished tomorrow ironically, when it is due.

4. I slept 12 hours last night.  Which is rare for me considering that nothing major happened yesterday.  Allergies are in full swing down here with a super high pollen count (ugh) so that clued me in on why I slept so long.  Usually at the start of allergy season I get sick.  So I’m betting when my body wants to sleep it is fighting something, so I’m going to go ahead and let it fight.  Of course forgetting to set an alarm also doesn’t help…

Daily miles: 3.67 miles (0.67 were for the dog—didn’t have a long walk because of the heat)

Daily workout minutes: 72 minutes

Weekly miles: 6.67 miles

Weekly workout minutes:  157/180 minutes

Total Jumping Jacks: 50

Total Push-Ups: 20

Total Crunches: 30

Look for tomorrow—Do Life Week 9 challenges, to do list for the remainder of the week, and hopefully (fingers crossed) my eggplant & swiss cheese recipe that I was supposed to post over the weekend and forgot.  

Wrapping it up this lovely Sunday evening.  Been a productive week.

This week I took on 2 challenges—to find a new running route/trail (my challenge) and spend an evening without computer or t.v.

How’d I do?  Well, I found a new running trail.  Unfortunately it didn’t work out for the best—you win some you lose some, right?  It definitely left a big sting on my running, but I’m not upset in the least considering I cranked out a ton more miles this week and feel better.  And an evening without computer or t.v.? That would be Friday night for ya’ll.  I spent a long time on Friday just for myself and me time because I needed it with midterms and all coming up.  

In summary: 2 challenges taken, 2 challenges complete.  (Most of the other challenges I do regularly, so that’s why I didn’t do most of the challenges)

My buddies: 1 is still recovering from injury, but is finding strength within herself to finally show her face on her tumblr and I’m super proud of her for that!  My other Do Life buddy is doing amazing despite having two kids in her house (one’s just shy of 2 months!).  She’s been running like crazy and still finding time to eat healthy and handle the kids—in fact she was so inspirational that I pushed through for my miles this week because if SHE can run then I certainly can!

Here’s my 4 things 

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday:

1. Successfully made it through religious school without kids breaking any bones.  Yes there were tears, blood, fighting, punching, screaming, things breaking, and running happening.  That’s what happens when you combine two classes.  But no kids got severely injured so it’s all good.

2. Bought a new pair of Vibrams.  Had issues with the last pair I bought and there was no way I’d make it through NYC half with ‘em so I knew I needed a quick fix.

3. Like a boss I spent 3 hours on campus working on homework.  Got 2.5 assignments done.  Unfortunately have 4.5 assignments left to do this week.  MIDTERMS SUCK YA’LL!

4. A friend from graduate school said something to me today that really hit home.  He said that whenever he wonders how in the world he’s doing his master’s degree he thinks of me and my 2 M.A. degrees, running, and job searching.  And he realizes that while he’s struggling there is someone out there doing something more than him and he respects me and looks up to me for all that I’m accomplishing.  WOW.  Yeah.  I was impressed.  And a little smitten.  He’s such a cutie.  Too bad we’re like night and day and live in two separate places.  ;-)

Daily miles: 0 <—it’s a rest day ya’ll!  And weekend, meaning no dog duty

Daily workout minutes: 10 <—stretch stretch stretch

Weekly miles: 24.38 miles

Weekly minutes: 507 minutes

Jumping jacks: 200/180

1. Ran 3 miles.  I RAN 3 MILES!  Yeah, this deserves it.  Finally knocked out a run that was on schedule.  It was slow. But got it done.

2. Tried a new park’s trail for running.  Dislike it very much.  How much is very much?  I wrote a letter to the county parks & recreation, that’s how much.  The trail is uneven the WHOLE ENTIRE LENGTH (which is less than half a mile, despite saying it was 6/10 of a mile trail).  We’re talking I was running/walking at a slant the entire time.  And I thought it hurt when I did that on the streets, it’s about 100 times worse.  I almost gave up and went home, but I told myself 3 miles had to get logged before my 10.5 miler on Saturday.  Therefore, 3 miles were logged.

3. Tried eggplant.  It’s alright.  I fried it up with some olive oil and combined it with onion, yellow squash, zucchini, and carrots. Nothing too special.  Have a few slices left that I’m going to bread tomorrow and fry up some portabello mushrooms and make into a sandwich.  The recipe looked delicious, so I’m enthusiastic to try it.

4. Finalized NYC flight plans.  I’d been waiting for a bit, you know me and procrastination, and realized that the end of February is fast approaching and I needed to get the plane tickets purchased so my friend knew when I was coming and going.  The procrastination paid off.  In the end, I paid less for the tickets than when I first looked at them—the difference is the 4 days of long term parking at ATL’s airport.  Definitely a win!

Daily miles: 4 miles

Daily workout minutes: 90 minutes

Weekly miles: 13 miles

Weekly workout minutes: 291 minutes

Jumping Jacks: 180/180

runenvy replied to your post: NYC Flight booked!

I would just wear my medal on display. don’t hide it lest they think you’re being shady. You may want to wear all the medals you have, just to show you’re on the up and up, you know. That’s what I would do. Yeah, wear them all at once. And take pics!

Not even all my medals are on display in my room.  I know I know, I earned them they should be up.  But my room is cluttered with so much stuff from my childhood and combining that with college…I’m waiting until a place of my own where I can display the awesomeness of running medals.  Although, my Soaring Wings medal is right next to my bed—and in a little over a month when I’m back home, my NYC half medal will be there, too!

 puka2018 replied to your post: NYC Flight booked!

Ny so cool…why you going to new York??

NYC = NYC Half Marathon March 18th.  I got in via the lottery on a whim (because tons of people on my dash were applying and I figured why not).  So I got a place to stay with a college friend, all I needed was the tickets for a flight.  I have thesis research to do in ATL and any flight that I were to take from Florida to NYC had a layover in ATL anyway.  It’s just a lot easier.

 lifechangeneededaisle3 replied to your post: NYC Flight booked!

Everything is good! When I flew from Ottawa to Phoenix, I had 48 gels, 2 medals, garmin, bodyglyde etc.. all on my carry on. I had no problems. I even had a ziplock bag full of Hammer Heed powder..

Thanks a ton! Definitely answered my questions! :)  Last time I flew there weren’t nearly as many restrictions and I didn’t pay too much attention because everything was going into checked luggage rather than carry-on.  For 3 nights I don’t need enough stuff to make up checked luggage, so now I’m paying attention to all of the carry-on details. 

1. Ran 1.5 miles.  It wasn’t what was suppose to happen, but at least I ran.  That’s the positive thing.  And I think I know why it ended so badly.  Between stress, the up and down weather, and massive allergies, it was my body’s way of telling me something needs to change.  Maybe?  We’ll see how tomorrow goes.

2. Got a whole bunch of organizational stuff done for my thesis today.  Contacted 4 archives for next month, put a bunch of stuff into Inter-library loan to get, got a dissertation online.  All positive things moving forward for working on my thesis.

3. A- for food today.  Everything went as planned, excluding the small bowl of Chex Mix.  Pretty good if you ask me.  Only processed things were the Chex Mix and Peanut Butter Cheerios (but that’s the way I roll with breakfast, haha).

4. Making all my awesome plans for another productive day tomorrow—shopping at Kohls (50% off sale from 8-11 tomorrow!  Got a giftcard burning in my wallet and a need for size Medium bike shorts/running tights); running, working on my thesis, doing some online homework, and cooking up an awesome recipe for my rutabaga and eggplant.

Daily Miles: 2.5 miles

Daily Workout Minutes: 62 minutes

Weekly Miles: 4 miles

Weekly Workout Minutes: 117/180 

Jumping Jacks: 50/180

Combining these two saves me a post for the day…which I like considering I’m on crunch time for my comps exam and stupid me was so completely unhappy with my paper, that, well, you read what happened at 2 this morning, haha.

Week 7:

- Write a list of your trouble foods. What do you habitually struggle with? Write them down.

Chips. Hands down, the hardest trouble food I struggle with.

- Stay away from those foods this week. We will make this a long-term commitment, but for now, focus on making it through the next six days without those foods.

Completely doable as there are no chips currently in the house and by Friday when we go shopping I’ll have little desire to have chips because on weekends I tend to stock pile sodium and consume it through my sports drinks and sunflower seeds post-long run.

- Talk grocery lists with your buddy.

Well, that’s easy.  My grocery list consist of the following (but I’ll email it to my buddies, too!): bananas, grapes, oranges, apples, spinach, lettuce, carrots, black olives, tomatoes, yams, fresh cut green beans, kale, mushrooms, onions, broccoli, cauliflower, snapped peas, ground 93/7 lean turkey meat, skinless boneless chicken, beans, lentils, couscous

- Write down three foods you’ve never eaten. Ever. Something you’ve always been scared to try. Eat two of those foods this week. Look up a recipe and create it. Eat it, write down your thoughts about it.

This is extremely hard because I’ve been doing my hardest to try new foods.  I guess one food is rutabaga.  The other two I’m at a loss for.

- FOCUS ON EATING. Count calories if that’s what you’re comfortable with. Just be vigilant.

Well, let’s see, this is a weekly occurrence for me (myfitnesspal) so this won’t be too difficult.

- Stay accountable to your buddy. We all know food is tough; we’ll need a friend this week.

Yup, expect an email from me tomorrow after the dreaded comps has been submitted!  In fact, an email every morning to start ya’lls days off right. :D

- Pushups, plans, jumping jacks. Stick with your exercise routines, but this week is all about food.

The routine: Monday - stretch & core work, Tuesday - 3 mile run & stretch, Wednesday - 5 mile run & stretch, Thursday - 3 mile run, stretch, & core work, Friday - stretch, Saturday - 10 mile run, stretch, & core work, Sunday - stretch

- Try to eat in. Make it fun. Find great healthy recipes. Cook with friends and family. Cook with your kids or your significant other.

Hmpf, and to think I was going to celebrate the end of comps with a delicious Panera lunch…think Ben’ll mind? ;-)

Dinners — Monday - chicken, broccoli, cauliflower, carrots, yellow squash, & zucchini stir fry with couscous and salad ; Tuesday - 93/7 lean ground turkey meatballs & yam fries with salad ; Wednesday - vegetable stir fry with butternut squash and salad ; Thursday - egg omelet (3 egg beater servings, spinach, mushrooms, red pepper, onion, with a serving of cheese mix) ; Friday - chicken & matzo ball soup ; Saturday - leftovers ; Sunday - homemade pizza with salad

4 Things Monday:

1. Woke up super super stiff in my right calf, I think it’s from how I was sitting the bulk of last night when working on comps.  Did a ton of stretching and sat in my compression sleeves for a few hours and *bam* so much better.  Also did some core workout which helped me stretch and my body feels better from it.

2. FINALLY finished and edited comps.  It’s done.  I’m sitting on it until tomorrow morning waiting for a friend to revise it and my final revisions.

3. Cut up an awesome dinner of vegetable mix and chicken with couscous.  Added in some scallions and spinach to the mix and it just really hit the spot.

4. Wrote out the things that need to get done this week and I have a busy week ahead of me again.  At least no impending deadline of one week like the past week with comps.  But I do have a fastly approaching Chapter 2 deadline for my thesis that I took into heavy consideration when making out the to do list for this week.  I’m hoping that my motivation for wanting to work on my thesis during comps continues post-comps because otherwise I’m in for a rough two weeks of working on my thesis…

My oh my what a busy and stressful week this has been!

- Did you push hard this week?

Well, it didn’t start off that way this week, but I certainly kicked it in the behind and finished the week amazingly strong.

- How about your buddy? Did you stay connected?

Both of my buddies have had busy weeks.  One injured herself (boo!) and the other has been working towards her goals but has been struggle some like me.

- How have you improved since day one?

I think I’ve become really aware of what I do in a day and how something negative or positive impacts how I view a day.  

- Any outstanding stories or news to share?

Well I had a REALLY bad 10K race last Saturday that put me into a funk I’ve never really seen before.  Completely destroyed all the confidence I had built since starting half marathon training and I ditched two of my runs because of it.  But I came back strong on the other side through my followers on tumblr.  They really helped me push past everything and realize that it was just one run, one race, and that I can move past it all (THANK YOU GUYS SO MUCH FOR ALL THE WONDERFUL WORDS OF ENCOURAGEMENT!).  I had such a great race season last year that I was bound to have a bad race, but realizing it and experiencing it are just two completely different things.  I built upon what everyone told me and just pushed forward and killed my 9 mile half marathon training run yesterday.

- How did you do life?

Ran 9 miles on Saturday, spent the bulk of the week working on my comprehensive exam for my M.A. degree.  Not a really super busy week of “doing life” but school comes first and it IS technically part of doing life.

Week Challenge stuff:

1. Focus on your excuses again. Write down and defeat them.

a.) Procrastination.

b.) Just don’t feel like it’s something important to get done now so I push it off.

2. Commit to exercising all seven days even if it’s just active recovery.

a.) Committed.  I tend to do a 10 minute stretch routine daily, so I’m going to stick in some other workouts with it. 

3. Get outside the box. One day, do an exercise routine you’ve NEVER done.

a.) Bam!  Got some kettle workout stuff weeks ago and haven’t done it.  Plus have 3 workout videos I’ve never done. <—did a kettle workout and did a workout I haven’t done in about a year

4. Intermediate-Advanced: Do your scheduled routine, but add a workout from your partner.

a.) PARTNERS GIVE ME A ROUTINE!  ;-)  <—partners were MIA for this challenge…so can’t do much there

4 Things Monday 

4 Things Tuesday

4 Things Wednesday

4 Things Thursday

4 Things Friday

4 Things Saturday

4 Things Sunday:

1. Got to have a one on one tutor session at religious school since only one kid showed up.  Really got a lot done and felt great about being able to give the kid individual attention.

2. Comps comps COMPS.  Revisions and reviews in progress.  Success in getting 8 pages written by Sunday afternoon!

3. Nice mile walk and 15 minute stretches this morning after an intense workout day yesterday—body doesn’t feel as sore as it did this time last week.

4. Managed to get my Do Life Challenge done and submitted before dinner.  (huge accomplishment considering I tend to not have enough time Sunday to recap the challenge)

Total Miles for the week: 24 miles

Total Minutes worked out for the week: 593 / 180 minutes

Total Jumping Jacks for the week: 200 / 180

Got a 10K in the morning.  First official on-site race of 2012.  And only my 2nd official 10K race ever.  It’s a hilly one, like super super hilly.  I know half of the course because of the 5K I did, but the map looks like it goes into an even hiller part of town.  Kind of super excited to run this because one (or both) of my parents will be spectating, which has never happened.  So it’ll be exciting.

Here’s the pile (I love how I’ve gotten so fine-tuned to know what I need):

In no particular order — Do Life shirt (might switch to a short sleeved shirt, jury is still out), Moving Comfort bra, Running short tights, running shorts, Vibrams with chip attached (figured out a way to get it on), UCF visor, Garmin & heart rate monitor (Garmin’s now on the charger), cell armband, yurbuds (amazing little creatures!), Water bottle, 2 Cliff Energy Gels (inside pouch of water bottle), body glide, bib. 

Missing: ipod (finishing charging and running list), peanut butter & banana sandwich for pre-run, compression sleeves for post-run, protein bar for post-run, sports drink for post-run

Tomorrow’s time goal (it’s a hill one, so I’m giving myself a +5 minute cushion): 85 minutes

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4 Things:

1. Leisurely walked 5 miles in the course of the day.  3 with the dog in the A.M., 1 in the P.M., and another 1 before bedtime.  It felt great to stretch my legs out.  I had intended to run after the first walk but I figured best not to push it until post-10K tomorrow.

2. Spent the day working on my thesis.  Got a significant portion of one subject area within the chapter detailed off with research so now I can actually compile sentences with said research.  It’s not the way I normally work, but I’m stretching some of my research for this chapter, so I need to get my ducks in a row.

3. WATER WATER WATER.  Intake has been high.  Why might you ask? Because it’s been low the past week and I need water to prepare for tomorrow’s ridiculous hill race.  I looked at the course yesterday when I got the map, start off with a 0.75 mile uphill, end with a 0.50 uphill.  Only 2 downhills in all of the race, if I remember the streets right.  All I can say is WHY ARE WE ENDING 6 MILES IN AN UPHILL?!  My legs are gonna be needing some extra TLC tomorrow.

4. Put my race pile together long before this post.  As in somewhere around 4 in the afternoon.  Which has never happened.  I tend to get things together at the last minute.  But for some reason I didn’t today.

Monday:

1. I RAN A MILE NON-STOP! 

2. I cleaned my room.  Legit straight up cleaned.  I have to organize my textbooks, post stuff on ebay, but there is actual space to now do workouts in my room (and access to closets, my keyboard, my windows, and bookshelves).

3. I’ve fallen in love with Peanut Butter Cheerios and now must purchase Chocolate Cheerios so I can have a Peanut Butter & Chocolate Cheerio morning (hey, when that’s the only real processed food that you eat on a regular basis you’d understand, too).

4. Did I mention I ran a mile non-stop?

5. Alright, I cheated on the 4th, so here’s the 5th — I worked out my time schedule for the next 3 days and my to do list for the week.

Tuesday:

1. Stuck to my half marathon training schedule and ran 3 miles. They weren’t fast, and they weren’t pain-free.  I realized around mile 2 that the idea of eating Chinese food before running should seriously be negated from my diet.  Seriously.  I need to remember what I eat fuels my body.  And at mile 2 I hit a wall (note: technically it was mile 4 because I had 2 miles walking the puppy before running).

2. Didn’t kill anyone today.  This is significant, really significant.  Miscommunication in my graduate department for the degree I’m receiving in May because the college still goes off of paperwork and NOT electronic submission for graduation.  That coupled with a teacher who does not know how to read a bar graph.  Really?  People are lucky that they are alive around me today.

3. Worked on my thesis!!!!!!

4. Managed quality snuggle time with the puppy despite being actively busy all day on the phone, in front of the computer, doing errands, and running.  Even managed a quality walk with the puppy.