tobermory's Diaryland Diary ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Time crunch Today was the last class of the current Boot Camp session (but never fear � there�s a four week class starting next Monday and I handed in my $90 check for registration today) and that always means we do a timed mile and one-minute sit-up & push-up tests. Thanks to some truly awful techno music (Darude � Sandstorm) and (I am so embarrassed) Bon Jovi�s Have a Nice Day, I cranked out the mile in 8:52 � my new best time (although still the second worst in the class). Tomorrow is the 5K � don�t get all excited and think I�m going to finish it in a half-hour because I don�t think the 9-minute mile pace is something I can keep up for three miles without collapsing at the finish line and barfing up whatever sports drink concoction they�ll be handing out during the race. Speaking of the 5K, I think I may have overcommitted my schedule a wee bit tomorrow. The 5K starts at 8am and will take approximately an hour. Then I was planning on hitting the local Farmer�s Market with my co-runner. This would have been fine & dandy but there was a scheduling mishap with one of our Belly Dance performances. We all thought it was on Sunday at noon, but PSYCH! now it�s at noon on Saturday (thankfully I checked the schedule and thought to mention that we were listed on Saturday � not Sunday and while surely that was a mistake why don�t we call the coffee shop owner to reconfirm�. What? Not a mistake? CRISIS MODE!). Oops. It�s definitely the fault of the flakey coffee shop owner because our troupe leader was planning on observing Shabbat with her family on Saturday and although I don�t claim to understand much of Judaism, I do get that the performance and all that it entails doesn�t really fit with the whole Shabbat thing. Anyway, I have to haul-ass home from the 5K to shower and dry my hair and then run right back out to meet up at someone�s house for dressing, make-up, hair, last-minute rehearsal etc. We�re done around 1pm and then we get a few hours off before meeting at 6pm at the yoga studio for our next performance. A small consolation is that on Sunday it�s all over and I can sleep as late as I want. You might suggest that I flush my registration fee and shitcan the 5K, but then I�d be a lousy friend. My running buddy has already paid the registration and I don�t want to bail out on her because who wants to plod through a 5K by themselves? Oh well, if I can make it through Saturday then I�ll really know that I can do just about anything. I made an apparel error today. I look fine, it�s just that I wish I had decided to pull on a pair of toasty tights under my black t-shirt dress because I am freezing my ass off. I�m also channeling my inner Laura Bennett. I�m trying to wash my hair less (like 2 or 3 times a week as opposed to up to twice a day) � this is something that only those of you who spend egregious amounts of money to have a color that is not your own applied to your hair will understand. To the rest of you this is probably something you�d only do under duress � like during a heinous camping experience where no showers exist with a 50 mile radius. Anyway, the less I wash, the longer I look like a vibrant redhead and the more time before I have to shell out $165 for a color job (yes, it really is THAT much � don�t tell my husband or he�d croak). So, with my upcoming schedule I want to have squeaky clean bouncy hair on Saturday for the Belly Dance performance and that means waiting until after the 5K to give it a good scrub. I can usually wear it down for two days after a wash & dry and I�m just past that, plus it was misting this morning during Boot Camp and my hair got a little damp so I�ve got it pulled back in a sleek ponytail. This, coupled with the red lipstick and black dress give me the Bennett touch. Thank god I don�t have the eleventy billion children and a pooping turtle to complete the effect. Yesterday: 10:51 a.m. - 2007-10-19 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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