is it strange to dance so late?
Where the hell did November come from? I can look at my calendar right now and accept that October is gone, but memories of the days are rather fuzzy. Swim. Work. Pie. Nephew.
And now it's November, and daylight saving time left us. I get a bit grumpy at the time change in November, as people who are usually not earlybirds feel smug by the artificial time change that allows them to arrive at work earlier or whatever. It never lasts, mind you, and they'll fall off the bandwagon. But it meant the pool was busy on Monday morning; I had to share a lane, even (hate that!).
I got back from visiting the nephew with accompanying cold/virus/chest residue therein. First day back I didn't even get in the pool, the second day back I got in but did less yardage than typical. Took me three workouts to get back to usual yardage, and another three after that before I could do away with the albuterol MDI.
Last week I converted my workout distance. While I always swim Z yards, I had been swimming that in Z/8 sets. Last week I switched to Z/7, which meant more distance in each set (no increase in total distance). I am trying to gear myself up for the pool switching back to meters in a few weeks. After a week's worth of swimming at Z/7 sets, I had to go back to Z/8 as I couldn't hack it anymore. Not sure why not. I'm not eating any less. My sleep has been slightly more broken, but not significantly.
I talked to dietitian about low energy and she suspects I am not eating enough (who, me?) and encouraged me to up my intake. My primary care doc concurs (we need to feed you like an athlete she said). Easy enough for her to say. Well, sometimes it isn't so bad to eat. I'll tell you, warm apple pie with pouring cream is positively blissful (custard would be better, and I'm sure I'll get that soon; see below). But the time change threw my appetite out of whack, and all the illness going around doesn't help either.
One of my friends at work has a child (5.5yo) with swine flu. I am desperately trying to stay away, not wanting to catch anything. I would avoid illness at any point, but some cases of H1N1 have accompanying nausea and vomiting, which is what I detest most of all. Not to mention, but this coming Friday I fly to my parents' for a few days, mostly to do bake Christmas Cakes. That's with an "s". Mum thinks we'll need to make at least half a dozen, maybe as many as eight. With any conventional item, that's not such a big deal, but English Christmas Cakes are labor (or even labour) intensive. Hence why I'm going. It's just an excuse to eat pie (well, I can do that here) and cuddle with Toby (can't do that here).
So I'm away until Veteran's Armistice Day but only for a handful of days before I fly even Further West to visit the nephew again. AGAIN. love nephew. It will be his birthday, so we have to be there, of course. I will actually be back in Boston for Turkey Day for the first time in a dozen or so years. One of my friends is hosting at her house, and (lack of) illness permitting, I will attend. It also gives me the opportunity to attend Thanksgiving Morning Yoga with my teacher.
In the meantime, doing massive Snow Leopard rollout. ~110 machines, 80 of which will be new installs, the rest upgrades (or, well, pull, backup, wipe, image, restore). No worries about staying busy at work, at least until this is done, which may not be until February. Doing my upgrade now (ditto'ing data off via TDM, then net boot to format & restore image).
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