Week in the Life: Saturday December 16

 

Hey friends, we're doing a one week experiment where we hang out each day and I'll tell you everything that's going on in my life (inspired by Stephany's Week in the Life series).  Happy Saturday everyone!!!

I sleep in until close to 8.  The Hubs looks zonked out and I'm guessing that since he was out late last night this will be one of the rare weekend mornings that he sleeps past 8.  I tiptoe downstairs and brew up a big cup of coffee.  We ran the dishwasher last night so Thug Wife is available for Mug du Jour duty.  I hit Wordle and the Spelling Bee and then hop on the internets to read blogs.

Hubs gets up around 8:30 and has breakfast.  He's been in a good groove with fitness lately and says he's thinking about running a 5k.  He mentions the 5k that's held in our town on Christmas Eve, but he's hesitating because it's on a holiday and early in the morning.  I tell him that it's a good thing that he asked because our town's Christmas Eve race is not 5k it's 5 MILES.  I steer him toward a New Year's Eve race that's 5k and in the afternoon.

He asks if I'm running 5k and I tell him what's been on my mind this morning...no I'm not running 5k and thanks for asking I'm really not running at all.  Well lately I've been doing a few 2 mile runs but the last few were very tedious and so far this week I've run a grand total of 6 minutes which was yesterday.  It would be fun to do the 5k but I can't see getting there in the next 2 weeks.  If he registers I might do it tho, TBD.

Anyway I have a good brood that I'm not satisfied with my fitness life at all.  I'm continuously torn between focusing on strength or focusing on cardio and serving neither of the masters well.  The only thing that I know for sure is that I'm not going back to running all the miles like I was back in my half marathon days.  Should I go back to doing strength 5 times a week and just stick with 20 minutes of cardio afterwards or [gasp] maybe NO MINUTES OF CARDIO AFTERWARDS???  Actually that probably makes sense for the winter since it's too dark to run outside in the mornings and will soon be too icy.  Then maybe I could do couch to 5k in the spring and see what running feels like then.  Or maybe I'll stick with 3x week strength and start treadmill C25K in January which would keep me busy on the treadmill for the worst of winter.  I spend a great deal of time thinking about this without arriving at a conclusion, which is the same outcome as always.

I realize that I'm on track to spend this morning doing exactly what I did last morning which is sitting on the couch.  My weekend fitness agenda is that I workout either on Saturday or Sunday, but not both.  Saturday is ideal because then fitness is done for the weekend, but if I don't feel like working out on Saturday I defer to Sunday.  This feels like a defer to Sunday kinda weekend.  I'm starving but not hungry for anything in particular.  I cycle through all of my breakfast possibilities and end up with my version of a Egg McMuffin.  Two slices of bacon in the microwave, English Muffin in the toaster, one egg beaten and cooked up omelet style like this:

Then fold in the sizes to make a square:

I find no reason to leave the couch.  Stepson #2 get up a little before noon and he and I and Hubs talk about our plans for the day.  #2 wants to have his friends over that night, and since he has a tendency to get lost in homework and videos games Hubs and I are encouraging him to do things that involve other people so yay this is exactly what we want.  We figure that we can go out to dinner early and get some snacks for his friends on the way back.

I continue to roost on the couch and around 1 I have lunch.  I put together a nachos/taco salad thing from our leftover taco spread.

I assess my life choices and decide that I need to do something anything physical.  My legs are a little sore from yesterday's strength workout so I don't want to try to run.  It's mid December but it's also mid 50s so I do my go-to "I don't feel like working out" workout which is a bike ride through the neighborhood.  I realize once I've started that I haven't ridden my bike since September and I really shoulda put more air in the tires so the ride is harder and slower that it needs to be but hindsight is 20/20.  I go to the other park in our neighborhood that's further away.  I used to come here for running all the time but I hardly make it here now.

I get back home and realize that yay I did something physical but now my legs are going to be even more sore so I need to walk it off.  I go for a mile walk/podcast listen.  Okay, the daily movement quota has been satisfied.

At 5:00 the fam heads out on the town.  We wanted to do something special to celebrate #1 finishing the semester, so we go to our local Thai/sushi spot. Hubs is the only non-sushi eater in the family so he gets a stir fry.  #1 gets two cooked sushi rolls plus rice on the side.  #2 gets a cooked sushi roll and a side of fried rice.  I get a rainbow roll.  For some reason #1's two rolls are served on two plates but they put #2 and me together on the same plate which is fine because we're sitting next to each other.  I guess they pegged #1 for the big tipper in our group.

Afterwards we go on a family grocery run to get a few necessities plus snacks for #2's big social night.  I can't remember the last time all four of us went to the grocery store but it's fun, especially since one of the boys' friends is working there.

We get back home and #2's friends come over in a bit.  They head down to the basement for a game of D&D.  We send them down with chips, cookies, and a six pack of Sprite and they are not seen again for the rest of the night.

Hubs and I start off our night alone by catching up on the Advent calendar.  We didn't do it last night so we have two sections to do now.

Now it's movie time.  The Hubs suggests A Fish Called Wanda.  I've never seen it but I've been thinking about it lately since I just read a book called A Town Like Alice - there's a similar cadence to the titles - A [animal/place] [named/similar to] [person's name].

Hubs and I grab some brews and head for the couch.  Zombie Dust is my current favorite.

I don't think I would have liked Wanda as much if I had watched it on my own, but as a companion piece to snuggling on the couch with the Hubs, it's a fine movie.  Laughs are had.  After the movie we watch an old 8 Out of 10 Cats Christmas Special on Youtube, which is one of our couples' TV go-to's.  Hubs isn't ready for bed yet so I leave him with Youtube while I go upstairs.  I shower and finish my book, and I save the NYT crossword for tomorrow since I'm drowsy.  Hubs packs it in and we turn out the light.  The next thing I know it's Sunday.  But that's a story for tomorrow.