SUNDAY

Listening to:  The Pain Nurse, audio book

I decided to start the week out strong.  I’m digging this audio book thing because your mind really can’t wander when you’re listening to a story.  It’s super cool.  Every three minutes it fades a tiny bit for part of the time announcement but not enough to take away from the story.  Today at the beginning of our streak, we were still in our neighborhood and about 50 feet from running when we came upon a couple putting luggage in their car, and a pillow and then an iron.  They were both in their late 20s/early 30s.  I couldn’t figure out what they were doing at first because of the pillow and the iron, but then I figured they were probably just going somewhere and staying in a hotel or something.  Then it looked like they were going to hug but instead he stepped towards the passenger side door to get in and changed his mind last-minute.  It really was just an odd little scenario.  To make things every stranger, as I passed the car I uncharacteristically glanced in, and on the floor was a 3/4 full large bottle of blue mouth wash.  Why?  People really are odd.  Incidentally, the gnats were out again this afternoon for a much larger portion of the hill than last time.  They don’t bother me on the way down (maybe I’m too fast for them?) but I go up twice.  I’m sure I look adorable sweating up a hill, panting, swatting at gnats that only I can see.  Normal.

MONDAY

Listening to:  The Pain Nurse, an audio book

I couldn’t make it the double hill this time.  It’s this stupid pill I’m taking that sucks the awake out of me and makes me feel fuzzy and dizzy and when you’re running the last thing you need to feel is dizzy, you know?  I took the pill a LOT earlier last night and I believe I went to bed around 8:30 because it’s such a ridiculous sedative.  I need to take it because I need it to bring my mania down but it’s just too strong, and he even said to take 2 if I needed to.  Holy goodness!!  I may leave him a message this evening after I take the pill so he can hear what I sound like (stoned – if I knew what that sounded like) when I leave him a message asking for help.  The runstreak – it went well other than the cutting short part.  Luke left a poop in the middle of a random sidewalk, I focused on the kinda bad book that had me in its grip (I recognize the woman reader’s voice but you’ll have to wait because I’m not looking it up right now but I know who she is.  Not him though).  I encountered the hat-tipping elderly gentleman and an elderly couple I’ve seen before that the pups ignore and the wife oohs and aahs over them.  So that is all for today.

TUESDAY

Listening to:  The Pain Nurse, audio book

I struggled today, kinda like yesterday.  This damn Seroquel keeps a mean grip on me.  I took it last night at 6:30, was stumbling stoned and in bed by 8:30 and I still feel the electric on-edge feeling, making me dizzy and get palpitations while I’m exercising.  Hot Joe suggested I take half a pill tonight but to be honest, I may just skip the whole pill altogether tonight and call him tomorrow.  Or I’ll take half and call him.  Whatever.  Still enjoying listening to my audio book.  I’m totally into it now.  My mapmyrun app isn’t working for some reason, and by not working I mean not saving, but I saw the time (42:13) and the distance (3.29) so there you go.

WEDNESDAY

I didn’t runstreak today.  I needed to let that awful Seroquel leave my body so I could breathe and run and not feel my heart palpitating and worry I would pass out.

THURSDAY

Listening to:  The Pain Nurse, audio book

I got my butt out there again today, still a little off from that medication, and squeezing it in between Noah’s homework and Back to School Night.  I struggled a bit, I was a minute slower, I had to stop running a few times and I was wheezing when I started to run, but I got through it, I did my whole route, and I felt accomplished when I got home.  I have two days to get in my full five, and both are days off work, with no work.  I hope I can inspire myself to streak at least one of those days, but how awesome would it be if I could do both?

FRIDAY

Listening to:  The Pain Nurse, audio book

Luke screwed this up from the get-go when he went searching for just the right spot to poop. It was taking him forever so would tell him, “Sucks to be you because you will not be pooping here.”  I’m sorry, but he needs to be quicker about this or flipping poop at HOME.  An ‘incident’ occurred when we were headed up Haigh (we took the original route today), which has not concluded as of yet so I will be posting the whole story when we know the ending.  Stay tuned!!!  I also couldn’t double the hill.  It’s so crazy that I keep getting a sensation like I’m going to pass out.  I wonder if it has to do with my meds…Okay here are my stats for the day and them I’m off for…Target and…I have no idea what else.