A Quickie is Better Than Nothing

I thought that would get your attention.

Vacation was great - a pic of a local beer bitch in Aruba. Sorry, it's tiny (by design).

All said, the week was super relaxing, I ran 3 times, swam twice (for exercise) and drank much rum.

We got home Sat night to a very cold and dark house - even with 2 goose down comforters I was still cold. I slept in wool socks, fleece pants, two fleece pullovers and a wool hat. No heat, no power, no water from Thursday to Wednesday is just not fun. I drained the heating system and water pipes until 3AM the night we got home hoping I caught it in time. We haven't noticed any water cascading down our walls so I guess I did well. So many people had it worse than I did - at least I was able to find a 'safe' house w/heat & hot water.

Running stuff: 3 runs in Aruba - 7/5/5.4 - it was just too hot and my motivation was focused on sleeping, drinking and eating so running wasn't making it onto the priority list.

Since then, my motivation still hasn't surfaced so I'm limping along. Dealing with a major power outage, catching up at work and the garbage associated with the holiday season has managed to chew up my time. Next week is a 2-day work week and the following week I'm off so we'll see if I can get back on track.

22 miles this week but I missed my Wed run waiting for the heating contractor to help me refill my system. Totally worth the $95 I spent having him here (he actually undercharged me).

I was debating buying a treadmill today. Seems like a wise idea to me but it's just a lot of coin I don't feel like parting with. The major convenience of the TM is I can run on Fridays while DD naps w/out bothering to find a sitter. DW would also use it and add on the the amount of crappy weather we get, it just seems to make sense. Just something else to think about.