Jedi Mind Tricks

And the Art of Getting Out the Door to Run. The real story.

1) Bury deep the thoughts and feelings of how running sucks. (Once you start down the dark path...)

2) Plan to run early in the morning the night before. Upon waking, tend to the minimum of personal self care tasks, get dressed, and get out the door as soon as possible. Avoid any thought of what will happen when you cross the threshold. Make getting out the door AS SOON AS POSSIBLE your primary objective, this avoids giving the mind the opportunity to procrastinate.

3) Think about what you will eat when you're done running and how good that food will feel in your mouth, nourishing your cells.

4) Think about all the HOT bodies you'll see on the path. Think about being/becoming one of those HOT bodies someone else will see on the path. :)

5) Savor and enjoy the challenge and discipline of running long or running fast. Indulge the competitor inside of you, the seeker of adventure inside of you. Know that if you don't run this time when you said you would, it'll be that much more difficult to run next time. (This is karma!)

6) To follow up on #2, have a procedure in mind. As in:

Have running clothes readily available... Toilet. Brush teeth. Neti pot if necessary. Eat 2-4 dates. Grab gel shot. Drink water. Out the door.

7) Think about what cool place you're going to go run next. Barcelona? The Carribbean? The Great Wall? Think about other people being jealous and in awe of your exploits. (This is a desperate measure, I admit, but sometimes necessary.)

8) Remember that there will be moments where running is bliss. You have to run the sucky runs to get to the blissful ones. They do exist and they are the best of times.

9) Remember when you're done, you will be happier, calmer, and feel more at-one with the universe.

10) And the ultimate, fail-safe plan: make plans to meet a (reliable) running buddy you like to gossip with and have a ball! :)

Life After Harry Potter

I finished! Wow. Now I get to be me again.

I don't think I've ever been so obsessed about reading a book. I had not before experienced frustration with the speed of my eyes moving over words on a page. Faster, faster, read faster, I felt sometimes, I need to know what happens!

Anyhow, time to clean my apartment.

Happiness is

Things that have made me happy in the last 24 hours:

-Deciding not to do the marathon in October--that running sucks--and then going running, and loving the hell out of it! Yay for not feeling pressure to do something.

-Deciding to take Thursday off from work to go visit a peach orchard in Michigan to maybe find some writing inspiration maybe do some drawing.

-Finding Vegan English muffins at Trader Joe's and knowing that I'll try them with Cashew & Macadamia Nut Butter tomorrow morning. And I'll drink some TJ's grapefruit juice too!

-Licking my fingers after eating Trader Joe's Savory Rice Crackers--yummy salt!

-Going to Aikido class, then coming home to my kittens. I love looking forward to seeing the little monster heads at the end of my days.

-Putting on comfortable Thai yoga pants, listening to Kate Rusby, drinking a Sam Adams, and reading Harry Potter...which I'm about to do again...so far I love book 7!

:)

Harry Potter Obsession Continues

I finished book 6! (Half-blood Prince) SO GOOD!!! I think it took me two days? I'm thinking about waiting to start book 7 for a day or two, to give me some time to be in my life. I wonder if I'll be able to resist. But, really, I should fold my laundry at least before I crack book 7.

This is what my kittens have to say:

Bodhi: Sig! Hold still, I'm trying to clean you
Sig: Stop it, I'm trying to bit your neck
Bodhi: Noooo, Siiiiiig, stop it, I neeeed to liiiiiiiiick you baaaaack.
Sig: Rar-rar, I'm biting you

Cat casualities today:

-1 roll of toilet paper, slaughtered on the bathroom floor (Sig)
-a lamp had a near death experience (Sig)
-Bodhi jumped into her water dish and spilled water eeeeeverywhere

I'm late

for a very important date...

No, no, wrong book.

But I can't write now, I'm in the middle of reading Harry Potter. Life will commence when I have finished. Until then, nothing is happening.

If you need something to read, read Harry Potter.