Making Choices

Happy St. Patrick’s day everyone!  Today is one of my favorite days because everywhere I turn I see green, green, GREEN!  (My favorite color hands down is green!)

I haven’t been around much in blog/twitter/facebook land in the past week because my dad was in town.  He only comes down 1x a year so I like to spend as much time as I can with him.  Visiting Dave’s family and just doing vacation-ey things can make it really hard to keep up with the internet land.  This year’s vacation was pretty good – we went to the Brier (like watching paint dry for me), visited family, dropped $ down at the casino, and overall the weather remained incredibly awesome!

Dave also returned last weekend after 2 weeks away in horrible, horrible Windsor Ontario.  He’s travelled many a time before, but never here and it was never *this* hard.  Thankfully he’s back!

Life has been incredibly busy as of late and my 10k training for the Bluenose this May has been pretty much non-existent.  I haven’t trained in 3 weeks which means I’d have to start all over again to build up my endurance.  Endurance is not something this girl has and there’s only 8 weeks before the race.  If I were to run the 10K, training would be imperative.  No question.  So after a LOT of thinking, I decided to switch to the 5K run instead that day.

I have mixed feelings about it.  I really did want to do the 10K – in fact, race day is on my birthday so I wanted to use that day as one where I’d meet a HUGE goal of mine.   The stress of not being able to train, and knowing I wouldn’t be able to just “push through it” was getting to me.  I STILL wanted to run, but I wanted to feel GOOD about doing it… not stressed.  That’s how I came to the decision to switch.  Thankfully the wonderful Bluenose peoples were able to switch me without any problems!

Now it’s time to get back into the training groove.  Life has started to somewhat settle down, so I have to make the most of it and train for that 5K race and achieve my own personal record.

Might I just add – It was almost peaceful stepping away from the internet-land for a while.  I am thinking that a de-plugging weekend may be in order soon!

Orlando Baby!

For the past 3 years Dave and I have travelled down south (Cuba 1x, Dominican 2x).  This year we decided not to go on a trip down south for a number of reasons.  For one, it eats up a BIG chunk of my yearly vacation time (5 days out of 15).   That doesn’t leave me with much vacation for the rest of the year which is usually used for me to go back home to visit family, and possibly if family comes to visit me.  Also, we have a few things going on at home which we need to preserve our financials for.

Going home is great but it’s always rush rush rush combined with trying to split my time visiting my family (divorced parents), and friends in such a short amount of time.  Often when I get back I need a vacation from the “vacation.”  That always makes me wish I could have a sit back and do NOTHING vacation!  (I need those every once in a while.)

Yesterday Dave was asked to go to Orlando to attend a Bigass conference that he’s wanted to go to for so long.  He’s super excited about it!  I am slightly envious because yet AGAIN he gets to travel somewhere cool and I get to stay home.  He gets to travel so frequently for work and although he IS working, he still gets the opportunity to check out cool new places which I consider a mini-vacation of sorts.

The conference is April 26-29 so I was thinking of heading down there on the Thursday (29th) and we could spend the weekend together in Orlando since he’ll already be there!  Flights there are actually WAY more reasonable than flying anywhere to and from Canada, plus I wouldn’t need to use too much vacation time (1 or 2 days).  Score! 

I would JUST be missing Angie by a week since she’ll be in Orlando the week before.  What timing, right???

At any rate – this all has me excited!  I’ve never been to Florida before, so you can bet your sweet booties that I’m going to tourist it up by heading to Disney!

YEAH!