Martha's So-Called Life

hello!

Hi friends!  I'm still here...just trying to get 8 hours of sleep, work all day, and do all my school work all evening.  

This week has been challenging because it's been very cold.  That has made it hard to get outside after work and go for a run.  It's supposed to warm up today (-2 this morning...so I'll believe it when I see it) which should help things a bit.  

Kiva doesn't understand why the humans in her life don't like to go outside when it's cold...

Happy Thursday!  

weekly training recap (1/19 - 1/25)

This week I mixed it up a little with a skate on Wednesday instead of a run.  It was nice to have a change of scenery and change of pace (pardon the pun!).  It was chilly but still lovely. 

My run on Saturday was pretty short because I got extra miles in on Wednesday!  It was also pretty chilly and windy and snowy which makes running a little more tedious (hard on the hips and fit due to unsteady footing).

 

Monday: 3 miles

Tuesday: rest

Wednesday: 4.2 mi skate @ Westchester lagoon

Thursday: 2.7 miles

Friday: rest

Saturday: 1.8 miles

Sunday: 2.1 mi walk on Arctic Valley Rd. 

Weekly Mileage:  13.8

2015 Mileage:  24.7

weekend reading

It's -8°F at my house this morning.  Here's some interesting reads to keep you out of the cold this morning.  Best enjoyed with coffee in hand! Happy Sunday!

It's no Serial...but this new podcast from NPR, Invisibilia, will certainly tide me over until the next season for Serial starts.  

Growing bones...in space!

If you have a PC or an android phone...the little dinosaur in Chrome is a game!

Another win for coffee.

Food labels are misleading and often meaningless.  

rest day

Dogs don't understand rest days.  Nor do they appreciate homework.  Don't let her fool you though, John walks her every morning.

I'm elbows deep in pharmacology and health assessment.  It's funny how you read something and think that it would be easy to reproduce, and then you go to do it and realize how much you forgot to ask about the first time through.  I'm sure getting a complete health history is like any other skill, it gets easier with practice, but it sure seems like a daunting task.  At least I can make stuff up to fill in the holes when dealing with theoretical patients (I would never do that with actual patients).

#gradschoolprobs

changing the rules of 3 x 5 x 365

Two words: grad school

I started a new semester on Monday and it has been nothing but working, running, and school work all week.

On top of working 40 hours and running 12 miles, I have watched 7 hours of lectures and read 20 textbook chapters this week. 

I've decided that I need to have a little more flexibility in this endeavour (as evidenced by the fact that I went a whole week without doing a single card).  I'm not ready to call it quits completely, I just need to cut myself some slack. I think I'll try until I have 365.  That might take me two years...but I'll do my best!

#makearteveryday

weekly training recap (1/12 - 1/18)

Part of my winter goals were to get outside every day.  Until I started this training plan, I was failing miserably at that one.  I think I spent almost the entire month of December not going outside.  While this training plan is not getting me outside every day, it's happening most days...which is great!

I'm also attempting HR training, which means that I'm running very, very, very slowly in an attempt to keep my HR within a certain range.  I've started this a couple of times but never made it more than a week or two.  Something about weeks of of 50+ minute 3 mile runs is rather discouraging.  This time I'm looking at it as a way to get outside and not worrying about speed.  Build a solid base!  

Monday: 3 miles

Tuesday: 3 miles

Wednesday: rest

Thursday: rest

Friday: rest

Saturday: 3 miles

Sunday: 2 mi walk 

Weekly Mileage:  11 miles

2015 Mileage: 11 miles

Sunday we were supposed to go for a skate, but the ice was not quite thick enough thanks to the recent bout with 40 degrees.  We went out to Rabbit Slough hoping that maybe it would still be ok to skate on.  Hopefully if it stays cold this week it will be good for skating next week.

#UnWinter2015 #WaitingForSnowpocalypse 

**If you are interested in my traning plan you can see it here, as well as weekly recaps as the come. 

hooray thursday!

I'm so glad it's Thursday! I'll be even more glad when 4pm on Friday rolls around, but for now, Thursday will do. 

It's been a whirlwind of a week so far.  I'm trying to figure out how to go to take three classes and work full-time.  Eek.  Thank goodness John is willing to take over the dinner making duties while I park it in front of my computer after work every day.  The goal is to be able to have some free time on a weekend day for non-school related activities.

Happy Thursday friends!

a case of the mondays

In addition to my January Funk (yes, now it has a name...thanks B!), yesterday I had a bad case of the Mondays.  Like, bad.  I went to work and had 30 messages in my inbox (i.e. tasks to be done), tried to break my printer at work twice, and every time I started doing something I got paged for labs (part of my job is doing the paperwork for people who drop in for labs).  

After work I came home and went for a run.  It wasn't really a run, it was more of a power walk.  I'm doing HR training and I had to power walk to keep my HR in range.  Obviously I've done more sitting than exercising over the last couple of months if that was the case!

It was nice to get out and not worry about school or work after a busy day.  It was also pretty satisfying to check off the first tiny box in my giant training plan spreadsheet!

John was off watching the Oregon game, so I was on my own for dinner.  Fortunately I thought to throw something in the crockpot so it was easy.  

Then I had to tackle the giant pile of school work I have.  This semester is going to be challenging.  I'm taking three classes (pharmacology, health assessment, and clinical management of well women and children).  In the first lecture for every one of these classes, the instructor mentions how much work each of them are going to be.  I'm not sure I'm excited about having to take them all together.  

I spent my evening listen to lectures.  There are FIVE for my first week of pharm and the first lecture for health assessment is THREE HOURS long.  I'm not really sure how I am going to make this happen...but I will.  John volunteered to cook dinner every night...so that's a start!

Happy Tuesday (and thank goodness it's not Monday anymore)!

lacking inspiration

I'm in what my mom would call a funk.  I have no desire to do anything, cook anything, see anything, eat anything, read anything, or make anything.  I blame the weather.  It got very cold and then it got very warm again and we are still lacking snow.  

Sunday marked 7 days of super clean, sugar-free eating.  It really hasn't been that difficult.  There was one day at work when the office ordered Chinese food and I thought I was going to die from not eating it (it smelled amazing), but I just ate my lunch and pretended I didn't care about Chinese food at all.  

I'm not making a menu this week (see title of this post for reason).  That will probably turn out to be a disaster, but we have food in the fridge and it can turn into dinner at some point.  

Here's hoping my funk disappears soon!

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