The universe is conspiring to give me what I need
Tomorrow is parent-teacher night at Noah’s school. Carl will be attending. I will not. I will be at a post-book-launch dinner to which I was invited. People will be attending whom I admire, including people you probably have heard of if not read. So I said yes. I feel really bad about missing P-T night, but Carl will take notes. And I do know all the teachers but one.
I expect to come out of it dying to finish my book.
My health is still rocky. My life is thinly balanced because every couple of days I have to go to bed at 7:30, and on weekends I either sleep or end up lying on the floor at 3 pm Sunday anyway. I am unhappy about this.
Regardless, I am seeing that there are lifestyle changes I need to make. I’ve been living in my head too much this year of adjustment to motherhood + full time work + job ramping up. So I am signed up for yoga, have been taking steps to eat better all day and not just at home (the dread work snacks) and weirdly today the publisher of my magazine decided that we* should train for the half-marathon that goes with my publication in the US.
In May.
I kind of doubt, never actually having been a runner, that I can achieve this but I certainly can give it a go. I’ll have to be really really careful especially right now but I think I could manage a 20 minute run a few times a week (”run” to start) without killing myself and see what happens.
Lord knows that is not in the marathon category but I am curious as to whether it would help or hinder my current condition.
You would think that trying to finish a book and run in the limited time that I have is crazy and it kind of is. But I do know that historically I write more and better when I am working out. And I’m thinking Noah might consent, with bribery, to sit in a jogging stroller for a 20 min run provided he eventually got to play t-ball. So I might try it. I’m sitting with it for a couple of days.
* It’s voluntary of course. But not the kind of voluntary you want to ignore.
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