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Friday Eve

It’s Friday Eve! Thank goodness it’s getting closer to the weekend. Unfortunately, I woke up to the tragic news of the AA crash in DC. As someone who flies and whose family flies a lot, last night’s crash was my worst nightmare. Today my heart aches for the family and friends that woke up to the news their loved ones were gone forever.

I’m so sad for the larger figure skating community that lost many of its own in this crash. We travel all the time for hockey. A lot of sports families travel all the time for their sports. There’s never a moment where the sports parents stop to think they may never come back home with their athlete. So hold your loved ones close and pray for those who lost someone they loved. They’ll need all the support we can give.

Meanwhile, life cruelly marches on. I remember thinking how cruel it seems when the world keeps moving after the death of a loved one. The loss makes time stop for you, but the sun keeps rising like nothing has changed. Anyway, I digress. The Mayor is six days into life with the pump. We’ll do our second pump change tonight. It’s been a smooth ride so far with a few lows in the mix.

2025 Goal Tracker:

  • Run a 5K: in training
  • Complete Kayla Itsines program: in progress
  • No afternoon Starbucks (except for travel/vacations): 30 days in and I haven’t buckled!
  • Top performer at work: on it!
  • Travel: working on it
  • Eat to lower inflammation: in progress
  • Read daily: in progress. I’m currently reading Armadale by Wilkie Collins– so good.
  • Get out of debt: in progress
  • Financial independence: in progress

What do you complain about the most?

I complain the most about being tired because I’m always tired. I wish there was a lever I could pull that would leave me feeling refreshed and awake. If anyone knows where I can find one, please let me know. And now I’m back to Friday eve.

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Getting Started Again

This week I found myself getting started again on my workout routine. Illness knocked me out of my routine over the holidays. I had resumed it, but a trip and then another stomach bug interrupted my progress. Unfortunately, last week’s bug knocked me out, so I took a week off to recover. Yesterday I started again with an amazing cycling routine with Emily on Apple Fitness+. Today’s workout was a Rihanna-themed treadmill workout by Sherica. As always, the workout was fire.

Taking a week off every few weeks is a nightmare scenario for me. It’s challenging after making so much progress over the late summer, fall, and early winter. Now I feel like I’ve lost some of those gains and am back at square one. Thankfully, the difficult part, which is getting started, is over. The trick is to be consistent and disciplined like I was throughout the fall. Hopefully, it warms up just a tad, so Arrow and I can return to running outside again. I’d run with Anakin, but honestly taking him outside to walk is akin to a CrossFit class. He wears me out.

What do you complain about the most?

At the risk of alienating myself or sounding too cliche, I complain the most about the quality of consumer goods. Not only does this make me feel old and that I’ve turned into my mother, nay my grandmother, but it grinds my gears. For example, we are on our 4th washer and 4th dryer. We’ve lived in our house for 17 years. These appliances should have a shelf life greater than four years. When they sold my great aunt’s house a few years ago, it had a washer and dryer from the 1960s that worked better than my current duo work.

One could argue that three hockey-playing boys take a greater toll on a washer and dryer than aging adults. However, I don’t expect my washer/dryer to last fifty years. I do expect them to last at least ten years. Honestly, I don’t think this is an unreasonable ask. I know I’m not alone in this as family and friends have experienced this with several different appliances, so there’s some truth in the cliche “They don’t make things like they used to.”