In A Rut

Well, its been over a week since my last post and I'm sure you're all wondering what has happened to me that has forced me not to blog. The answer is, nothing has happened, I just can't think of anything to write about. Which is very unusual for me because its not very often that I can't think of something to say. Life at our house is pretty quiet right now (knock on wood) so there isn't anything to report. But, alas, here I sit at 2:30 in the morning and I'm forcing myself to blog. I have no idea what the end product of this post will be, I'll just let my fingers do the talking so I'm sure it will be pretty random.

Why am I up at 2:30 in the morning? I can't sleep. My allergies are killing me and nothing works to alleviate the symptoms. I woke up around 1 because I was sneezing and had a stuffy, itchy nose and an itchy mouth and itchy eyes. I've got a feeling this is going to be a horrible allergy season. That leads me wonder, WHY do I live where I live? I absolutely HATE the cold winters and the snow and I have a love/hate relationship with Spring. So happy to have the warm weather and sunshine but I dread the 2 - 2 1/2 months of Hayfever. Let me just say that Diet Dew will be my best friend tomorrow, or rather, later today.

Let's see....yesterday I stood up my visiting teachers. Not on purpose, I had every intention of being home when they arrived yesterday afternoon. I had their visit noted on my calendar and even thought about it several times yesterday morning. Then, I went to lunch at a friend's house and decided to go grocery shopping because I was already in North Logan and it would save me a trip today so I completely spaced the VTs and went to Wal-Mart. I didn't even remember until about 6:00 last night when one of them called to say they missed me. I felt really bad...and embarrassed. I apologized and insisted they could just skip me this month since it was my fault, but nope, they're coming at 10 today. I know I'll be home, but will I be awake and alert? I'll probably just sit on the couch sipping my Dew while they try to enlighten me.

We've been going to church at 1:00 this year but we get to switch to 9:00 this week. I'm SOOO excited. I feel like the whole day is wasted when we go later. There were 3 wards in our building and a new Stake Center was dedicated last week so one of the other wards is moving to the new building. This was all supposed to happen in March, but you know how Mormons are with deadlines.

The Panda Run is on Saturday. Every year the elementary school hosts a fun run as a fundraiser. (The school mascot is the panda.) We've always made it a family event but I was so irritated with the dumb, bossy, unorganized, clueless race director last year, I was going to skip it this year. But, about 2 weeks ago one of the girls brought up the subject and Brent started talking about it and how we were all going to go run. (Who are you and what have you done with my husband?) So, we're going but I'm not running. I'll take my turn sitting on the sidelines with Damon, rather than defend my championship title (I've won the women's 5K the last 2 years) while Brent and Brittany race each other and Brooklyn tries really hard to NOT go the wrong way. As for Brent and Brittany, there may actually be some competition between them this year (they run the mile). Brent has made some drastic lifestyle changes over the past year and Brittany is training for the Wellsville Mile so she's been running a mile every day at school and shaving of time each day. It'll be fun to watch.

Wellsville Mile. This event was started 20-something years ago. All the 4th and 5th graders in the south end of the valley get to go out to Wellsville each year and run a mile-long race. Its a pretty big event and the teachers have the kids train for it. Since the weather has been nice, the kids are out running a mile each day to prepare. Last night at dinner Brittany was telling us her times for this week. She started the week with 11-something minutes, dropped down to a high 10 the next day, low 10 the following day and yesterday she ran a 9:40. I wish they would have done something like this for the kids in the north end of the valley when I was in elementary school.

I'm giving up candy for Lent. Not really, because I'm not Catholic and I don't even know when Lent is, although I do know I've missed it for this year, but I'm trying to stop eating so much junk. You know how the experts say not to deprive yourself of something because it will just make you want it more? They say go ahead a have a few bites of cake or a few pieces of candy to curb the craving. Well, these experts don't love treats like I do. I am finding that I do better if I just avoid it all together rather than indulge a tiny bit because to me, there is no such thing as a "little bit". Once I start, I can't stop. So I'm trying not to start. I've done well this week but the weekend is coming and thats always where I falter. I'm just about going crazy as I try to make better choices about what goes into my mouth and I'm trying to convince myself that I don't NEED to eat constantly. I keep thinking that there is a "hump" I just need to get over and it will come if I just hang in there and then it will be a little easier. I'm pretty sure I just need to detoxify my body and get out of the habit of "grazing" all day long. I tell ya, bad habits die hard. I came across a quote the other day from President Joseph Fielding Smith. He said, "Habits are easily formed. It is just as easy to form good habits as it is to form evil ones." I'm not sure if this applies to junk food but I'm trying to keep these words in mind.

I've been sitting here for an hour. I'm starting to feel a little bit tired again but I don't really see the point of going back to bed because I'll just be getting up in another hour to head to the pool. Maybe I'll go do some laundry. But before I sign off, I'm curious, did anyone actually read this whole post?