I hate Mondays again ever since we returned to the office. Today was no exception. Woke up at 5:30am (one hour earlier) and was super awake; then went back to sleep and was like a zombie at 6:30am. Then had to shave quickly as I have a massage this afternoon and forgot to do it last night. So I was scrambling all morning to make it out for work by 7am.

Massage therapist and Pilates for me this afternoon. Leaving work at noon will make me feel better.

I'm resigned to the fact that it's Monday.  But, glad I do not have to commute any farther than downstairs to my home office.  Had a productive weekend but now I feel like a need an extra day off to rest up from all the productivity, lol.  Easy 6 miles yesterday, something easy this afternoon.  I'm about 50 miles away from 2200 for the year which sounds like a good goal (gotta love how I set my goal at the end of the year, which is why things like the "running game" don't work for me).

Karen, what's the weather looking like in IL?  Snow?

Damaris, I do not miss commuting.  How far away is your the office?

MTA: hi Lori, cross posted while I was refilling my coffee.  Sorry about the family drama.

I ran 4. It was enough for today.

Damaris, yay for leaving work early! Hope the massage is good-painful, and the Pilates goes well.

Lori, sorry for the crappy mood. I saw that 10 on Strava yesterday and was impressed.

Margaret, brilliant goal-setting plan! Productive weekends are good, but they do make Mondays exhausting. Weather is cold. Highs around freezing or a little above, lows in the 20s. Unless I stay past next weekend, when the highs are only going to be in the 20s and the lows go down to 10-15. Thinking I'll start back Sunday afternoon or Monday to avoid that!

My sister's husband is going deer hunting next weekend, so we are joking that we're going to test run the Golden Girls house for our future. We realized my mom is probably going to outlive us all, so she'll be our Sophia. And odds and genetics say we are both very likely to outlive our spouses.

Yesterday I made camping reservations for Big Bend for the second week in January, so looking forward to that! We are going to figure out some sort of westward loop after that and meander around for a week or two. Will probably try to stay south to avoid the cold and snow, and will hopefully be able to meet up with our San Diego van friends somewhere for part of it.

 

Lows in the teens for us from this weekend on, so same. But we don't hit lows below 38F until then. We are missing the blizzard and getting rain instead, lucky.

Makes sense weather would be similar. I believe my hometown is almost straight west from you.

Yep, just looked at google maps, about 300 miles straight west.

Margaret! So the DH has decided that wandering west after our trip to Big Bend in January would be a good time to have a guy he knows in CA do some work on our van. The guy is in San Carlos. I don't know the timing yet, but according to my Google maps, I'm going to be practically in your backyard, and  you and I need to go for a run. Or dinner. Or both.

Yes, definitely! San Carlos is just over the hill, as we coastsiders say. We will be away January 2-11. Hopefully your visit is after that?

Laura, ugh. Hope a couple days rest does the trick. I used to love Christmas, but now I just don't really get into it that much. Probably partly because we're down here and the families are all up north. Anyway, hang in there - just a couple more weeks until it's done!

 

Yes, definitely! San Carlos is just over the hill, as we coastsiders say. We will be away January 2-11. Hopefully your visit is after that?

We will be in Big Bend until the 12th, then want to check out the state park next door to the national park for a day or two, then will probably take a few days to get up there, with maybe a meetup with our San Diego friends in there somewhere. May stop either coming or going at Joshua Tree or Death Valley. And may do one way or the other on Highway 1, which would take a lot more time than I-5. Anyway, earliest we'd be up there probably would be 19-20 time frame, could very well be the following week. I will definitely let you know once we figure things out.

 

 

We will be in Big Bend until the 12th, then want to check out the state park next door to the national park for a day or two, then will probably take a few days to get up there, with maybe a meetup with our San Diego friends in there somewhere. May stop either coming or going at Joshua Tree or Death Valley. And may do one way or the other on Highway 1, which would take a lot more time than I-5. Anyway, earliest we'd be up there probably would be 19-20 time frame, could very well be the following week. I will definitely let you know once we figure things out.

Yay, good!  Sounds like I'll be here.  My DH is going to the Philippines on 1/15 so you will probably not see him.  Keep me posted once you have a plan in mind.

Hi LC and HCK!