good things

i had Not A Great Week for most of last week - too much stress at work, not enough of whatever i usually use to diffuse stress - and came home grumpy and out of sorts for several days in a row. that's very unlike me: i'm pretty ADD when it comes to being unhappy or mad or grumpy, and can't seem to hold onto a bad mood even if i want to (this was upsetting as a child, when i thought i'd "punish" my parents by being mad at them for DAYS ON END, or NOT COME DOWN FOR DINNER, that would show THEM!! ...and 20 minutes later i'd be in a perfectly good mood again, and bored, and want to go back downstairs and play.)

uh, anyway. the point was (supposed to be) that by thursday, apparently i'd had enough of Stressed and Annoyed, and even though nothing had changed at work i was in a far better mood overall. this mood was amplified times ONE MILLION when i went to the gym after work that evening, and discovered a girl scout table set up. i'd kvetched on several peoples' blogs (*coughnilsacoughsorry*) about how tragic it was that no girl scouts had hawked their wares to me this year, and i was destined to go an ENTIRE YEAR without any thin mints stashed in the freezer, and WOE IS ME MY LIFE IS SO HARD, etc. and then! right there! in front of my gym! an entire table of cookies, with some chatty little girls who were very happy to take my thin-mint-only order. and i was their very last customer - they were packing up as i arrived. so had i stayed at work 10 minutes longer, i would have missed them completely and still be sad and thin-mint-less.

and THEN! i went inside and had the BEST RUN EVER (ran the first mile with no interval-walking-bits, in 8.5 mins! then continued, interval-like, to finish up 2.5 miles with a 10 min/mile pace overall). i felt really good during the run, really good after the run, and REALLY REALLY good when i randomly decided to see if i could magically do any pull ups these days, and DUDE I ACTUALLY CAN. i mean, like 1.5 of them, but still, that is exactly 1.5 more pull ups than i've been able to do in about 10 years.

friday continued with the good: we celebrated a friend's birthday with korean bbq and noraebang. the meal was one of the best i've had. every single mouthful was like a happy little mouthgasm of wonderfulness. honestly, if you're local, and you like korean barbeque (which: HOW IS IT POSSIBLE NOT TO? well, i guess if you're a vegetarian..) i hiiiighly recommend this place. for the karaoke portion we went to our regular annandale locale: the delightful cafe muse. good times were had by all.

on saturday, i decided to run outside to take advantage of the nice weather. i cannot understand why running outside is approximately 40 times harder than running on a treadmill. i mean, i get that there are hills, and i'm running on concrete, but still. i'd would think that would make it like TWICE as hard as treadmill running, not eleventy billions times harder. whatever. in any event, i did a short 1.6 mile loop, with WAY more walking than when i'm in the gym, but still: i did it. then i watched harry potter movies all afternoon. :-)

yesterday's weather was nothing short of amazing. 3 days earlier, i'd had to get a second comforter for my bed because the wind chill was in the single digits, which meant my bedroom was barely making it into the double digits. by sunday, i was sitting outside in 80+ degree weather in williamsburg with my good friend shannon* and her family, getting sunburned. SUNBURNED. because i had EXPOSED SKIN. and it was exposed long enough to BURN. that is freaking awesome, my friends.

so! that was an awfully long way of saying that last week started out crappy, but ended fabulously. and while it's a bit cooler than it was over the weekend today, it's still sunny and deliciously nice, so i think it's physically impossible for me to be in a bad mood. two thumbs up.

*she just started a blog yesterday! and has an adorable son! go visit!! :-)