Hi All Peach, Congratulations on your successful trip and getting back home safely. I was hoping you'd get plenty of sleep, but hopefully tonight you can start catching up (?).
I hope everything operated smoothly in your absence: work, home, kids' appointments, etc.
I spent a lot of time on Facebook yesterday afternoon. I hope I don't do that today, because the kids could use my face time more than I need to read people's stuff and post silly things. I already snuck a peak at Facebook and posted a silly thing today, though. It was a joke about sayings that are evocative of a marriage between the African American and Scandinavian traditions. I'm hoping some of my spouse's nice relatives take the bait. Some of them are going through hard times, and maybe could use a few lighthearted sayings. They were fun to come up with. I proposed other people submit their own. :-)
I'm in a good mood, anyway, and that's after having a bad abdominal pain this morning for a few hours (5 on the pain scale; that doesn't happen very often). It was slight before I started exercising, but grew rapidly in strength while I was exercising. And I didn't even hardly do abs, but for one double set of 65. I'm starting to feel better now, though.
Coincidentally, the doctor called two days ago, and said he wants me to have an intestinal procedure called an enteroclysis, which uses radioactive barium as a contrast medium and then takes pictures inside the small intestine. It would be at Stanford University hospital. He first has to call the doctor who would perform the procedure to see if he'd do the procedure on me, because my doctor doesn't do it. I don't know how long this would take to schedule. I was thinking of blowing him off, or at least pushing the test out in time, since we will travel soon, and since I've been having an easy time of things these past few months, except for on the running days. But because I had this significant and unusual pain today, I told my spouse about it - it was that gripping a pain - and he said I should definitely follow through with the doctor and get it at least scheduled. I told him I'm still waiting on the doctor to call the other doctor and report back to me. But I will take it more seriously now.
I'm going to do some laundry, and then I hope to spend some real face time with the kids in a pleasant manner. I need to write a letter to my oldest at camp, because I haven't written one yet, and neither has my spouse (that is unlike us). I should clean the kitchen floor, but I may bag that in favor of the time with the kids and because I'm feeling some discomfort.
I felt Tired on the elliptical at the Southwest YMCA this morning, so I cut it back to 20 minutes today. Yet, my RPMs were a bit faster than usual, when I looked. It's as if my body picks a certain intensity and Must work at that one. Today my body chose 144-148 RPMs, for some reason. I have no say in it. Slowing down doesn't work because it doesn't "feel right". And speeding up is not an option, because I'm tired. Whatever song is playing makes no difference in this matter. Odd, huh? Of course, if I really feel tired, I slow down or stop; I'm just talking about those lesser cases where I just feel it a little.
Next I did 30 min. walking at 4.2 mph and 6% incline. That felt just fine and I could have kept on with that for a lot longer, but didn't want to be stupid about things. And, there Is a life outside the gym to consider ... I'm not trying to work myself into a case of exercise anorexia (fat chance). I enjoyed my gym music a lot today, so that was great. And last night I played a variation of a song I once wrote, after not having played piano in months/years. K2 and K3 and my spouse apparently didn't mind listening to it.
We may be going to Taco Bell for lunch. I think the kids are being nice to me, volunteering that they'd go there, maybe so that I don't have to fix lunch? They don't want Taco Bell much any more. They like when their father prepares "taco night" at home. It IS a pretty awesome spread ...
Well, I wrote a lot about my little daily details. I Was just going to check in with a brief hello, since there wasn't much new.
Looking forward to hearing what you are doing with your kids. Hope your spouse is easy on you as you recover from your trip.
Love, 90hazelnut
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