Made it through today! It was a tough one, in that Monday was sort of ground zero for all of the changes in the works, family-wise. I changed to my new office. DH changed to taking BART to work. And the boy changed to his new day care. The whole thing has a lot of implications for our routine, as well. We pretty much had mornings down to a science. We all knew when we needed to wake up, what our responsibilites were, and when we had to be out the door. This morning, that all went out the window. DH left me with jobs I’d never done before, and didn’t exactly know how to do. The day care was asking me questions about the boy’s schedule that I didn’t know the answers to (the other day care had just taken care of everything so I wasn’t sure). And the boy’s schedule was all messed up, nap-wise, because he didn’t have to spend 2 hours in the car commuting. Normally, he’d just sleep in the car. It’s been a bit harrowing, but right now I have some silence and moments to myself (heaven! and so rare!). The boy is napping. Dinner is ready (we are having leftovers from yesterday). And the dishes are all washed (DH will be overjoyed).
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I kicked butt, exercise-wise this weekend. Saturday, DH had to work and he left me alone with the boy, with no car. There are plenty of things I could walk to do, and the BART is fairly close by, but having so little structure, and no goals, was a bit unsettling. I ended up piling the child in the Burley jog stroller at one point, and we did nearly 2 hours of run/walking — mostly walking. The weather really became glorious this weekend, after many weekends of rain in a row. Of course, today it all went back to raining again, but that’s another story. Then, Sunday, I tagged along with DH to Marin County where he was playing a pick-up soccer game, in hopes of finding a nice running/biking trail. We took the Burley, and the boy and I hit the road. I felt like the luckiest girl ever, finding a delightful trail with mixed woods and sun. We did about an hour of run/walk… mostly walk. I can definitely feel it in my legs today.
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About my new office. I’m up in a loft really near the ceiling/roof, so the rain pounding down today really created quite a racket. There was a point where I was listening to my phone messages and honestly couldn’t hear what the message said. It might have just been the sound quality of the message, but it sure seemed like the rain was drowning out the guy’s voice. So, the rain experience was very intense. It wasn’t all bad, though. It also helped me feel a bit more connected with nature and the outside world. And then, every once in a while, the sun would come out in all its glory. During one of these times — a particularly sunny one — I commented to the office folks that there must be a lot of rainbows outside. So, they decided to go out and see them. They walked over to the door of the office, opened it… and there was not only one rainbow but two. A double rainbow. They knew exactly where to look, because that’s apparently where the rainbows come, when they come. How amazing and refreshing to work in a place where people take rainbow breaks. I think I’m going to be very happy in my new digs.
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OK, the boy is crying so gotta go!