Come on Friday!

I'm so psyched for Friday!  After an insanely long week at work I couldn't be happier for a 3 day weekend.  I've been stuck in day long meetings since Wednesday and tomorrow is the last day for them until next month.  Not to mention, in between meetings, somehow, I've managed 3 home visits, a training class and a visit to our impending (fingers crossed) new office.  Oh, and I've survived the horror of a committee meeting and a Board meeting. 

I felt good about myself on Tuesday; I got in 20 minutes on the elliptical.  I made a point to go faster than I think I normally do.  It made me feel pretty good inside and out.  On Wednesday our house got hit by the dreaded lice.  My daughter was scratching at her head and when I looked she was infested.  I quickly grabbed the treatment and picked through her hair before bed.  My back was so stiff from being hunched over her for hours I thought I'd cry.  She's short enough that when she sits on the floor in front of the couch I have to hunch over but she's too tall to sit on the edge of the couch in front of me.  After she went to bed I finished up 2 bracelets that she and her friend had made over the weekend so she could take them to school.  Looping that steel wire and cutting it bruised the palm of my hand and scrapped the side of my finger raw.  They didn't look great but they were OK.  I'm just getting started in jewlery making so this was only our second attempt.  Not too bad if I do say so myself.

Today was another long day at work but when I got home there was dinner waiting on me in the kitchen.  My wonderful, thoughtful husband had gone to my FAVORITE restaurant in the next town over and bought dinner for me.  It was soooo good - eggplant parmesan and salad.  I just finished a beer on the front porch and now, as I am typing this, I have the urge to get on the elliptical for a few minutes.  I feel like a slacker for not exercising yesterday so I'm going to try and make up for it by doing some tonight.  Hopefully, all goes as planned tomorrow and I can come home early and get a nice 30 minutes in before the evening festivities begin.

My goal is to make myself get up early enough in the mornings to take a nice 20-30 minute walk but the road to hell is paved with good intentions so that hasn't happened yet.  Eye on the prize, eye on the prize.