welcome to my mind ...

It's definitely changing from summer to fall. This entire past week has been gradually getting cooler and cooler. It's rained more often over the last week than it has over the last three months combined. Today, it started out quite chilly; the temperature was below 50 at sunrise. It warmed up to a comfortable high 60s, with the sun shining bright between puffy white clouds. There was even a cool breeze to make it the ultimate perfect temperature for being comfortable.

Around 4 I laid down for a nap, with the sun still shining, but two hours later I was awoken to thunder and a pretty heavy rain for Seattle. There wasn't even a 50% chance of rain today so it was quite the pleasant surprise. I opened my blinds just in time for the final bit of lightning and thunder before the rain tapered off to what Seattle is used to getting.

I think there's a Sounders game tonight; the Geico banner plane was flying around earlier and the stadium lights are all on. I guess I'll find out here shortly because they set off fireworks when the game starts. It kind of sucks for the players, but they are more than capable of playing in the rain. That's why Safeco Field has a convertible top and the Clink doesn't have one at all.

I got up this morning, drove up north to put gas in my car, stopped at the eye glass place so that they could actually see the scratched up lenses that needed replacing before ordering new ones for me, and then proceeded to the gym to get in my run. I went for a little more time today and covered a little more distance. I'm pretty damn close to finishing 3 miles in 40 minutes. If I can get there by the end of the month, I'll be happy. Then I start working on shaving off time to get to the 10 minute mile people strive for.

On top of the gym this morning, I've also completed my lunge challenge for the day. It's another challenge my sister and I are doing for the month of September. She started everything else over as well, because we never really finished the other two challenges. Because I'm going to the gym once/twice per week, I count that towards my working out. My DC trip is what screwed up the challenges last month. This month should be fine since I'm not going anywhere and next month should be okay too, since my Vegas trip will have been a little more thoroughly planned. Also, my sister's place has a community fitness center that I can use so even that won't have to stop.

I'll be getting on a scale again tomorrow {I will own my own scale one of these days} and I'm really hoping the number has gone down again, but I also understand that all the lunges and running has probably increased my muscles so I have to take that in to account. Scale doesn't care if you have muscle or fat; it just tells it like it feels it.

Anwyho, it's a three day weekend and I'm pretty damn happy about not having to go to work that day. Any extra time I have off from work is good, especially when it's a paid holiday. I'll be taking another three day weekend in a month; I used my floating holiday to take my birthday off, which is actually a month from today. 13 months from today I'll be 30 ... woo! As soon as I get back from Vegas and get caught up on my bills and such, I'll be saving like the dickens to take two more weeks off for next year's birthday. I'm going back east and this time around I'll have time and money to do whatever I want. Ahh! I can't wait!

Until next time. . .