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April 22, 2008
Delightful Day
Today's been a pretty darn good day. Most days are but today seemed even better than usual. Several reasons why:
1) Work - lately work has been really busy. We are short several people which always leads to more work for those that do show up. I don't even like doing my own work let alone other people's! But two maternity leaves, 1 medical leave and someone away in Egypt for several weeks has left us depleted and trying to keep up with their patients as well as our own. And furthermore I like MY patient population - trauma and general surgery ICU patients - not other people's patients. Lately I've been seeing some liver transplants that I just do not enjoy. Nothing against the patients of course but man are they SICK. If I can offer up a piece of advice it's this - TAKE CARE OF YOUR LIVER! It does a lot of stuff and when it doesn't work right you have big problems. But anyway, the good news is that today I saw some light at the end of the tunnel. I had a nice easy day today and tomorrow should be the same and then it's off to Florida and by the time I get back two of the above employees should have returned! YIPPPEEEE!!
2) Our weather - seriously - IT IS THE BOMB! I complained so much over the winter about the cold, snow, ice and general yuckiness that it's now only fair that I give some credit to the awesome weather we've been having lately! It's seriously been in the 60s and 70s and SUNNY for about 5 or 6 days in a row. I absolutely love it. It's just SO nice to walk outside and be warm and ride outside in shorts and run and be so happy! I love it. I love it. I LOVE IT!
3) The traffic - the past two days somehow I managed to get home in 50 minutes. That is huge. May not seem that great but compare it to last Friday when it took me 2 hours to get home from work. I have no idea why it's been better recently but it seriously makes me so happy because I have that much more time in my evening to get stuff done, relax, or do whatever I need to do! (I'm trying not to get my hopes up too much that it's going to stay this way but one thing that does help is when school lets out for the summer - which is only about 6 weeks away!)
4) Racing - I can't believe my first race is only 4 days away! I am excited beyond belief. And very nervous. But racing is just about my favorite thing of all to do and it is finally here. And I'm really excited for this trip - to race against some of the very best, to meet some bloggers face to face, to go to Florida... AND both O AND my parents are coming to watch! I don't see my parents much so for them to come down (they live in SC) is just really appreciated and really exciting. They also came to Clearwater last year - so I'm thinking I need to race in Florida more because apparently they like to spectate in the Sunshine State?
So yeah, lots to be happy about. Today I had two light workouts - a swim this morning and a workout on the bike this afternoon with some harder intervals. The only bad thing about the bike workout was the fact that it was relatively short and I didn't want to turn around for home when it was 70 and sunny and absolutely gorgeous!
Here's hoping everyone had just as delightful of a day as I did...
Posted by beth at April 22, 2008 7:40 PM
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Beth - glad you had a great day. We are having glorious weather too and it's SO great!
GOOD LUCK IN FLORIDA!!! I'll be thinking about you having a super fast race out there!
-Ness.
Posted by: Ness at April 23, 2008 8:16 AM
Beth-
Isn't this the truth? I mean, it is amazing what sunshine and 60-70s will do to our moods, isn't it? I mean, I was out walking around yesterday, took the kids to the park, candy store ALL BEFORE 10am!! Before, we were hermits in our house! Looking forward to seeing you in Florida!! WOO HOO! :)
Posted by: Jennifer Harrison at April 23, 2008 8:42 AM
Beth, GOOD LUCK this weekend!!! I am sure you will do really, really well, and I cannot wait to read about it!!
Posted by: barb at April 23, 2008 10:23 AM