So... I'm half done training for a 5k, and a quarter of the way done training for the half marathon at the end of September. If my GPS thing is to be believed, I can currently run just a little over a mile and a half without stopping at a pace of 12:00ish. That's not very speedy, but I'm not interested in winning any races - just finishing them. I figure I can work on pace later - but I don't think I'll ever be an especially speedy runner. I'm cool with that. Provided I stay on track with my training and barring anything unforeseen (stay away, injury!!), I'll be done with Couch to 5k on July 4, and I will theoretically have a good running base to start the twelve-week training for the half, which I've adapted from Hal Higdon's programs. One thing I need to be much better about is crosstraining. Life will get much more normal after this week, I think, so hopefully I can get into that groove soon.
I'm feeling antsy lately... part of it is a deep need to connect with myself and create. I want to sew and knit and dance and make and beautify. I also want to de-clutter in the worst way. I have a lot of extra junk, and I think it's weighing me down not just from a material perspective but also from a spiritual one. Old stuff has old energy. Time to slough that stuff off, I think.
In furtherance to my need to create and beautify, once Mercury turns prograde again, I'm also going to start putting in my new floor, and I wil also be painting the living/dining area. You can't possibly know how excited I am about that!! After that gets done, I'm going to turn my attention to the master bedroom/bath. I have some fun ideas for that. :)
Apart from that, not much going on. I know that writing about my boring life isn't necessarily the best tumblr material (seems this place is a breeding ground for activisim and political soapboxing - good, bad, or otherwise - and the age of the average tumblr user is probably about 20 years younger than me), but I miss keeping an online journal sometimes, I really do. For that, I miss Livejournal... which was to my generation what tumblr is to today's, I guess. Does that date me? Yes, probably, but I like tumblr because it connects me to what younger generations are doing, thinking, and feeling. I think that's important - older generations need to listen to new ideas and help future generations - who have incredible vision and ideas and energy.
I may go back to my LJ and take it out of mothballs... I don't know. Part of me wonders if I'll even have the time for it. I barely take the time to write here (though I'd like to change that). Besides, if I went back to LJ, who would read it, anyway? Does anyone use it anymore? I think most of the old gang has gone their individual ways, and it's not like anyone new goes over there... unless it becomes popular with hipsters who, you know... "use LJ ironically." Whatever that means. I have yet to hear anyone give me a cogent explanation of that. Oh, and get off my lawn.
Anyway, so here are my creative projects that I'm eyeballing in no particular order:
Reading a play called Creature that I picked up in a theatre bookstore in NYC - with an eye towards maybe directing?
Setting up a craft space (sewing, knitting, etc.)
Decluttering in general - but especially the master bedroom
Hopefully all this will scratch the itch!!
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