This is not a joke.

Ok so I haven’t written in awhile and I haven’t run since Thursday I ran 6 miles. Instead since Thursday I have been having a bit of an unlucky streak. So now I am going to get it all out! It started Thursday morning…. I was up at 5:45 for the morning run and then by the time I left the house to go to work is was about 8:00AM. I walk down the street to where I parked my car last night. Well its not there anymore. Obviously I parked in the one place in all of Beacon Hill that is resident parking from 6PM to 7AM and my car got towed. Every other sign says 6PM to 8AM, but I guess that’s beside the point. Anyway, I call Michelle who thank goodness, finds my car for me. What would I do without her! It’s in South Boston so I hop in a cab. I end up at work around 9:30. It was actually pretty painless except for the $93 I had to pay to get my car out and the $75 ticket that was on my car when I picked it up. I think they must have put the ticket on my car as they were towing it away because really, there wasn’t enough time for all that to happen.

Ok so we worked really late on Thursday too (almost midnight again) and I just parked in a meter spot when I got home because it was all I could find. I knew I just had to get there by 8AM…of course I am maybe 10 minutes late in the morning and I get down there to find a $25 ticket on my car already!! Seriously the meter person must have all the tickets made up beforehand and then just run down the street putting them on the cars as fast as they can…..so in the past 2 days I have spent $200 on my car….awesome…one of the perks of working nonstop is that you are supposed to be able to save a lot of money but no not me, I find a way. Then on Friday I leave one assignment to go to the office to finish another assignment and I end up working until 4AM on a Friday night!! I got a lot of stuff done that urgently needed to be done but it was still pretty terrible……

Saturday I have a breakdown haha…I am so tired from weeks of 14 hour days and I have this whole assignment on top of the one I am working on that needs to be done by Monday and I just lose it….I go into work on Saturday and just start working hoping for a small miracle and I get one. My super BFFs (the best BFFs in the whole world totally bail me out. They spent 7 hours on Saturday night helping me finish up all of my work. It was really the greatest thing that could have ever happened. I am forever grateful to them!!

Sunday I head back into the office to finish up some more work. I’ve got coffees for me and Michelle and I hop into the elevator like normal but when I get to the 24th floor, the doors don’t open. I push a few buttons and wait another minute or two and nothing…..so now its 3:30 on Sunday and I am trying to finish up my work and I am stuck in the elevator!! I push the call button and they have to have someone come in to help me. I end up stuck in the elevator for half an hour!! Then it just bounced and the doors opened... I grabbed my stuff and got out of there as fast as I could!! I end up working until about 9 and made sure that I did not take that elevator down!

Now it’s Monday and so far nothing bad has happened. I really disappointed that I didn’t have any time to run this weekend since I had to spend the whole weekend doing work. Oh and now I am getting sick again!! I decided though that starting to day I was going to start being really positive and optimistic about everything and hope that it will turn my luck around! I just have to make it until Sunday and then Glenn and I will be on a plane to Costa Rica!!

Heat wave

I still just can’t get it right! I am getting ready to go running this morning and its still winter and it’s still dark out so of course I assume it must cold out. I mean it almost always is these days. So I put on my warm tights, my polar fleece winter hat, my gloves, a long sleeve shirt, and a jacket…..a little excessive I see now looking back and knowing that it was actually 50 degrees out and I probably could have worn a tee shirt and shorts, but by the time I got outside it was too late (plus I was still in disbelief that it could be so warm out), but it was that warm out. Shell and I were already overheating I think by the time we got to the end of the street, but it was like 5:20 in the morning and we were awake and outside already so you just keep running. We ended up doing 8 miles! And I realized when we were done that I was so distracted by how warm it was I didn’t start my watch timer or my ipod thing!! Such a bummer for the dork that has all of her runs documented in like 6 different places!!

Too much going on!

Ok so now that my blog has gone out to everyone at work and more I have become so busy that I am struggling to find time to write about my runs!! So here is a quick recap of what I can remember from out 6 mile run on Thursday – SNOW! Yeah that about sums it up!

Yesterday I didn’t get my act together early enough to run as much as I should have. I know….naughty Heather!! It was about 4PM when I was heading out to the door. With sunset at 5:36PM I decided that I would try to run about 9 miles as fast as I could so that I would be back before dark. It was pretty windy out but nice and sunny. I had some new running kicks too so that was extra exciting! Haha…..other than that the run was pretty uneventful as it usually is when I run by myself. And the super fun part about running in the city is that I get to run up a really big hill to get home! Its good practice. I keep saying that some day I am going to do a hill workout on the hill to my house, just up and down for a few miles, but I think I might not make it up the second time. Seriously when I get to the top of the hill I am sooo out of breath and I think my legs might give out! But like they say I guess, if it doesn’t kill me will only make me stronger. I’m hoping that my hill will make heartbreak seem like a speed bump!