9 Months to Tri

Brett and I worked out on Thursday. Great workout, and he didn’t damage me at all.  However, I’ve noticed my left knee clicks and while there’s no pain associated with it, I’m starting to get a sensation on the clicks.  I can feel something kind of slipping or popping. Not sure what’s causing it, but obviously I’m a bit worried about it.

Today, I got up and realized that I didn’t have any clean gym shorts. Apparently I only have 3 pairs and I swim 1 day, so I can do 4 days before I’m in trouble if a pair doesn’t make it thru the laundry.  So, my wife has been sick for a couple of days, and apparently none were clean.

Now, I was determined to make sure I could work out, so I immediately threw a load of laundry into the washer and continued to get ready for work. since I had already woken up late, I was in trouble as is. By the time I was ready to leave, it was time to put the shorts into the dryer. I was conflicted. I could skip the shorts and get to work on time, or throw the shorts into the dryer and be about 20-30 minutes late. Stress. more stress than necessary for such a thing. I took a deep breath and thought about it.  Then I realized that there’s absolutely no reason such a thing should cause me to stress. This is life. Things didn’t align perfectly, and today I didn’t have any shorts, therefore I couldn’t work out without causing problems in other areas of my life. I’m not getting paid for this. Its not a matter of life or death at this point to miss a day or two here or there (if I skipped every day, it might be, but this isn’t every day). My career and family isn’t riding on this. So, fine. Just skip it and move on. Pick it up tomorrow.

So, once I made the decision, stress was gone. I decided to make the best of it and told my wife I’d be free for lunch if she was available. She was, and we went to the Agave Grill for lunch and to talk.

The evening was the most interesting. Remember that my wife hadn’t been feeling good? It also led to a serious lack of food in the house, and her day had gone awry and she hadn’t made it to the grocery store as planned. When I got home from work, it seemed that the only real ‘dinner’ option was to go out. I mentioned that I could just make some eggs and chicken sausage for myself and my daughter (my wife wasn’t really hungry). Louanna said that Esmaya wouldn’t eat chicken sausage, but that she had some bacon. Then I said, “you know, I’ve been really craving some pancakes lately.” I think you can see where this is going.

I skipped my Tostitos AND my cookies tonight. But the pancakes were worth it. I’m not sure if it helps, but I put peanut butter on the pancakes.  Now I just need to make sure I don’t repeat this at all this weekend.

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