I felt it coming on all weekend, but by last night and certainly this morning it was here. What was just a little tickle and light cough yesterday has made me feel super crappy today. I don't know whether it is because the weather turned back super warm this weekend or if the drainage from my allergies finally got the better of me or what, but my lungs hurt like I ran a long way except that I ran all of about 100 yards yesterday. And my stomach feels like it is still digesting the food I ate yesterday and what little I've consumed today - nausea is no fun!
I haven't really been sick much of the last 6 months so it has kind of thrown me for a loop. I'm hoping this is short lived. I did have some tea this morning (w/ lemon and honey), a little bit of Emergen-C (that nearly had me throwing up my light breakfast) and some chicken soup for lunch. Please Lord don't let my husband get it - nor the kids. I'll power through, but I only want to have to take care of me. Especially since my dear husband found out that instead of 6x12's (night shifts) this week it is 7. No rest for the weary - so he really can't afford to be sick.
Yesterday I did get in a pretty good long walk with a bunch of Brownies (Girl Scouts) putting flyers out for our "Trick or Treat for Cans" that is planned for Friday. Even ran with one mom up a steep hill (although I petered out before her). Better than no workout I suppose.
The up side of feeling crappy today is that I laid in bed for part of the day letting work slide for the most part. I enjoyed finishing "Born to Run". Now if I can get myself back in the saddle to return my books via bicycle again.
How do you handle when sickness gets in the way of your workout plans? At one point of "on the mend" do you suck it up and power through a workout?
Monday, October 24, 2011
Thursday, October 20, 2011
Against the Wind (Bike Ride)
The sun came back out today (never saw it on Wuss Wed) and by mid-afternoon it had finally climbed into the very low 50's, but the wind (W-NW) was still in full force. I picked up the kiddos, worked with my husband to give the house a "lick and a promise" kind of cleaning and then took off the last hour he was home to get in a bike ride. I missed saying goodbye to him by a few minutes, but knew that would probably happen. I did about 11 (slow) miles by myself and then added another mile and some change with my daughter who wanted to brave the cool wind for a quick ride down the road and back.
I did a few hills to get that heart rate up. But I also had a lot of thoughts about one thing: when I start doing my "bike rides" indoors I won't have to go "against the wind" (queu music). Oh dear Lord in Heaven - I felt like I was pedaling and going nowhere heading west - even on the flats! It was not a good time. And it was so weird to be sweaty and cold at the same time. I had trouble remembering to drink although my mouth got dry a couple times.
I still don't own a trainer and haven't figured out if I am going to buy one or just use a stationary bike at the ARC or maybe even suck it up and get a Y membership. So many things to spend our money on in this crazy sport. But I decided that is a whole other post.
I did a few hills to get that heart rate up. But I also had a lot of thoughts about one thing: when I start doing my "bike rides" indoors I won't have to go "against the wind" (queu music). Oh dear Lord in Heaven - I felt like I was pedaling and going nowhere heading west - even on the flats! It was not a good time. And it was so weird to be sweaty and cold at the same time. I had trouble remembering to drink although my mouth got dry a couple times.
I still don't own a trainer and haven't figured out if I am going to buy one or just use a stationary bike at the ARC or maybe even suck it up and get a Y membership. So many things to spend our money on in this crazy sport. But I decided that is a whole other post.
Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Swim Tue - Wuss Wed
Given I wasn't ready for the meeting I had with a client this morning, I didn't get around to writing this last night as I was hastily prepping for it. But in between everything yesterday, I snuck in a very quick 30 min swim. I had full intentions of following a "workout plan", but I wasn't really mentally "there" enough. I got to the ARC with only 35 minutes before they closed for afternoon maintenance of the pool. Grr...should have left the office earlier.
So I literally stripped in one motion and yanked on my suit in another and ran from the locker room with 30 min to swim. I think this made me feel rushed the whole workout. And I was thinking about all the other stuff I needed to do throughout the afternoon/evening - serious lack of focus. I did a quick warmup (like 5 min tops - 200 yards or so) and then tried to count my strokes on each lap. Is it awful that I was having a hard time counting? First 25 yards, I struggled to decide whether to count each arm stroke or every other stroke (full cycle) - all while trying to count and swim at the same time. Yep, maybe should have decided FIRST! But I finally decided it was easier to count every other and just double it. I averaged between 20-22 strokes per 25 yards.
Then I tried to do some drills, but again seemed to have trouble coordinating my brain, strokes and breathing. Did some catch up and catch ups with thumb scrapes (when I thought of it). Tried some fist drills and felt like I was drowing. I need to look at that one on a Youtube video again and see what I can do to correct the form. I'm sure I wasn't doing it right. Only did it for 50 yards. I was not mentally in the game of the drills.
So there were two younger guys in one of the lanes - one appearing to be teaching/coaching the other. At the end, the "coach" told the "student" to swim the length of the lane as quickly as he could and then stop at the wall for one quick breath and turn around and hit it going back. He had him do this several times. All of the times I beat him across the pool (and this guy looked pretty buff so that made me feel pretty good). I also noticed he was having to catch his breath longer than me. Sometimes I'm pretty cool! :) But time was up and I had to throw on my clothes and get going.
While my daughter was in Brownies last night, I had planned on working on the project for this morning, but one of the other moms was going for a walk around the school grounds and adjoining parking lot so I went with her. She walked kind of slow (her phone said we were doing 18 min miles), but we did 2 miles while the girls did their crafts and so on. Better than nothing and I only stayed up until about 10:45 after I was home to get the markups to the project made.
Today I had the meeting in the morning. It was postponed an hour after I was already at Kinkos making copies so I stopped in to look at some warmer workout clothes options at Target. They had a really neat jacket I liked, but I wasn't as impressed with any of the other clothes I tried out. It didn't get out of the 40's today and was super windy - too cold for the capris and shorts I have been wearing. Since I started this journey in April, I haven't really dealt with this working out in this weather yet. Maybe I'll go to the running store next time I'm in Columbia and see how much it will set me back to get appropriate gear. I am sure coming up with a BIG list for Santa this year!
So the short story is that I had planned to try to get some kind of workout in while the boys had football practice tonight, but I wussed out due to the cold/wind/impending darkness and instead settled in with a nice bowl of soup at Panera while finishing the last of "Run Like a Girl" (a thoroughly enjoyable read btw). But now I gotta figure out how to get in a workout tomorrow. I haven't rode my bike for well over a week. And of course, I'm overdue for some housework too and I now have to dodge my husband's daytime sleeping schedule. Guess this next few weeks will just have to fit in the "do what you can" category.
So I literally stripped in one motion and yanked on my suit in another and ran from the locker room with 30 min to swim. I think this made me feel rushed the whole workout. And I was thinking about all the other stuff I needed to do throughout the afternoon/evening - serious lack of focus. I did a quick warmup (like 5 min tops - 200 yards or so) and then tried to count my strokes on each lap. Is it awful that I was having a hard time counting? First 25 yards, I struggled to decide whether to count each arm stroke or every other stroke (full cycle) - all while trying to count and swim at the same time. Yep, maybe should have decided FIRST! But I finally decided it was easier to count every other and just double it. I averaged between 20-22 strokes per 25 yards.
Then I tried to do some drills, but again seemed to have trouble coordinating my brain, strokes and breathing. Did some catch up and catch ups with thumb scrapes (when I thought of it). Tried some fist drills and felt like I was drowing. I need to look at that one on a Youtube video again and see what I can do to correct the form. I'm sure I wasn't doing it right. Only did it for 50 yards. I was not mentally in the game of the drills.
So there were two younger guys in one of the lanes - one appearing to be teaching/coaching the other. At the end, the "coach" told the "student" to swim the length of the lane as quickly as he could and then stop at the wall for one quick breath and turn around and hit it going back. He had him do this several times. All of the times I beat him across the pool (and this guy looked pretty buff so that made me feel pretty good). I also noticed he was having to catch his breath longer than me. Sometimes I'm pretty cool! :) But time was up and I had to throw on my clothes and get going.
While my daughter was in Brownies last night, I had planned on working on the project for this morning, but one of the other moms was going for a walk around the school grounds and adjoining parking lot so I went with her. She walked kind of slow (her phone said we were doing 18 min miles), but we did 2 miles while the girls did their crafts and so on. Better than nothing and I only stayed up until about 10:45 after I was home to get the markups to the project made.
Today I had the meeting in the morning. It was postponed an hour after I was already at Kinkos making copies so I stopped in to look at some warmer workout clothes options at Target. They had a really neat jacket I liked, but I wasn't as impressed with any of the other clothes I tried out. It didn't get out of the 40's today and was super windy - too cold for the capris and shorts I have been wearing. Since I started this journey in April, I haven't really dealt with this working out in this weather yet. Maybe I'll go to the running store next time I'm in Columbia and see how much it will set me back to get appropriate gear. I am sure coming up with a BIG list for Santa this year!
So the short story is that I had planned to try to get some kind of workout in while the boys had football practice tonight, but I wussed out due to the cold/wind/impending darkness and instead settled in with a nice bowl of soup at Panera while finishing the last of "Run Like a Girl" (a thoroughly enjoyable read btw). But now I gotta figure out how to get in a workout tomorrow. I haven't rode my bike for well over a week. And of course, I'm overdue for some housework too and I now have to dodge my husband's daytime sleeping schedule. Guess this next few weeks will just have to fit in the "do what you can" category.
Monday, October 17, 2011
T Walk/Run
Today started out cool and cloudy. I was also needing to catch up on nearly a week of blog reading work and thought it would be better to get something done before going out for a bike ride. Well, one thing led to another and it never happened. It did rain (something I haven't had to work around much the last several weeks), but then stopped about the time the kids got home from school. They had a lot of stuff to supervise finishing so I took a break from "work" and skipped the bike ride as the weather was pretty dark.
My husband left for his crappy night shift and I took my daughter with me to the grocery store and came home still hoping to fit in a workout. After some supper that I should have eaten before I left, I decided I would go for a walk/run even though it was dark. My daughter wasn't keen on being home with her brother so I told her she could go with me. Two steps out the door and she sees lightening in the distance and says she doesn't want to go after all - and doesn't want me to go. So we settled on that I would only run while it wasn't raining and wouldn't be far from the house. So I ran down our little street (only 3 houses deep, but all hill), around the cul-de-sac bulb, then back up, then down to the right to where the sidewalk ends and then back to the intersection and down to the end of our property (we own two deep lots). I did this weird little T four times in about 30 min. Turns out each one is a little over a 0.5 mile and includes 85' of climbing. But my daughter was happy as it did start to rain on my last T and I could come right in. Better than sitting on the couch I suppose.
Today I also turned over a new leaf on my eating. I have really been slacking on this lately - having soda whenever I'm feeling sluggish, eating too many carbs by justifying the fact that I need energy for workouts, rarely seeing a real vegetable on my plate. Just not good! So today I stuck with water (even though I had a wicked headache this afternoon - caffeine withdrawal?). I also wrote it all down with notes about the what, when, where, how and why. Just not wanting to write down that I ate or drank something awful is a big help! We'll see if this helps move the scale over the next couple of weeks.
My husband left for his crappy night shift and I took my daughter with me to the grocery store and came home still hoping to fit in a workout. After some supper that I should have eaten before I left, I decided I would go for a walk/run even though it was dark. My daughter wasn't keen on being home with her brother so I told her she could go with me. Two steps out the door and she sees lightening in the distance and says she doesn't want to go after all - and doesn't want me to go. So we settled on that I would only run while it wasn't raining and wouldn't be far from the house. So I ran down our little street (only 3 houses deep, but all hill), around the cul-de-sac bulb, then back up, then down to the right to where the sidewalk ends and then back to the intersection and down to the end of our property (we own two deep lots). I did this weird little T four times in about 30 min. Turns out each one is a little over a 0.5 mile and includes 85' of climbing. But my daughter was happy as it did start to rain on my last T and I could come right in. Better than sitting on the couch I suppose.
Today I also turned over a new leaf on my eating. I have really been slacking on this lately - having soda whenever I'm feeling sluggish, eating too many carbs by justifying the fact that I need energy for workouts, rarely seeing a real vegetable on my plate. Just not good! So today I stuck with water (even though I had a wicked headache this afternoon - caffeine withdrawal?). I also wrote it all down with notes about the what, when, where, how and why. Just not wanting to write down that I ate or drank something awful is a big help! We'll see if this helps move the scale over the next couple of weeks.
Sunday, October 16, 2011
Back from Trip
One day and night in St. Louis and three days plus two nights in downtown Chicago did not make for a ton of organized exercise, but we are starting a new week. I did go to the gym at the top of the Allerton Hotel on Friday morning and did a stationary bike/crossramp/treadmill brick. It was 30 min on the upright bike followed by 10 min on what I thought was an elliptical machine, but turned out to be kind of a mix with a stairstepper and really made my quads/butt burn. Then I did a short workout on the treadmill with a walk run mix. Did some stretching before my shower and heading over to the conference.
Otherwise there was a lot of schlepping my duffel bag (with 3 days worth of clothes) around the convention center (first and last day). I also did a ton of walking around the Miracle Mile since I didn't have a car - dinner out with friends at Quay on Thur night (walking to the restaurant and back to the hotel), donut dash several blocks away on Saturday morning with friends (I was running late) and tons of time on my feet in general. Better than nothing as far as exercise. But need to head out for a walk tonight and probably a nice bike ride tomorrow.
Eating while gone wasn't that great either. Ate too much at nearly every meal - too many desserts, two margaritas (one Wed night and one Thur night), a couple of sodas, etc. I weighed myself this morning and was up a couple pounds. After thinking about the CTER post about food logs, I think that my plan for trying to reign in the poor food choices is to be more accountable for what I'm putting in my mouth. I liked Jason's advice about thinking about the why, when, how of the eating as opposed to just the "what". So that is a goal for the next couple of weeks.
Otherwise there was a lot of schlepping my duffel bag (with 3 days worth of clothes) around the convention center (first and last day). I also did a ton of walking around the Miracle Mile since I didn't have a car - dinner out with friends at Quay on Thur night (walking to the restaurant and back to the hotel), donut dash several blocks away on Saturday morning with friends (I was running late) and tons of time on my feet in general. Better than nothing as far as exercise. But need to head out for a walk tonight and probably a nice bike ride tomorrow.
Eating while gone wasn't that great either. Ate too much at nearly every meal - too many desserts, two margaritas (one Wed night and one Thur night), a couple of sodas, etc. I weighed myself this morning and was up a couple pounds. After thinking about the CTER post about food logs, I think that my plan for trying to reign in the poor food choices is to be more accountable for what I'm putting in my mouth. I liked Jason's advice about thinking about the why, when, how of the eating as opposed to just the "what". So that is a goal for the next couple of weeks.
Tuesday, October 11, 2011
Walmart 5K (not a race)
Nope - just like last week's "Brownie 5K" this is just a way to remember where I went. I live right at about 1.5 miles from my local Walmart. The route between here and there has sidewalk all but part of my street (the older section). My neighbor told me that it is right at about a 5K and this morning I check it on Map My Ride and from my driveway to Walmart's back driveway (into the vehicle service area) and back is indeed 3.1 miles (yay!). And it has some slight inclines and one bigger hill on the return so I don't get to just coast through flat terrain. Plus, it is along collector and arterial streets so no safety worries mid-day.
Unfortunately, waiting until midday made it a little bit warm, but I wanted to get a project out the door this morning before I'm gone the rest of the week so que sera sera. It wasn't that bad - 78° and 52% humidity with almost no wind (S 3 mph). I warmed up with a 10 min brisk walk and stretched in front of Scholastic's office and then tried to run 60 sec/walk 60 sec until I was almost home. I had to go 30/30 a few times and 30-90 a couple times (hill), but it wasn't too bad. I also walked the end to try to cool down a little. Still managed to do the 5K in just slightly over what I did it two weeks ago in a race (43 min instead of 42 - didn't include stretch time). Go me!
Tomorrow is a long travel day - up at ass crack of dawn and drive to Chesterfield (St. Louis burb) for a conference all day, vendor/networking event until 7 and then back towards the airport to stay the night so I'm going to take it as a rest day. If time/energy and hotel accomodations allow, I'll try to get in a short workout Thur morning. Otherwise I'll just walk around the airport before my flight and then tons of walking I'm sure in Chicago. Not dragging a laptop with me so I'll probably be incommunicado until Sunday. Have a great week!
Unfortunately, waiting until midday made it a little bit warm, but I wanted to get a project out the door this morning before I'm gone the rest of the week so que sera sera. It wasn't that bad - 78° and 52% humidity with almost no wind (S 3 mph). I warmed up with a 10 min brisk walk and stretched in front of Scholastic's office and then tried to run 60 sec/walk 60 sec until I was almost home. I had to go 30/30 a few times and 30-90 a couple times (hill), but it wasn't too bad. I also walked the end to try to cool down a little. Still managed to do the 5K in just slightly over what I did it two weeks ago in a race (43 min instead of 42 - didn't include stretch time). Go me!
Tomorrow is a long travel day - up at ass crack of dawn and drive to Chesterfield (St. Louis burb) for a conference all day, vendor/networking event until 7 and then back towards the airport to stay the night so I'm going to take it as a rest day. If time/energy and hotel accomodations allow, I'll try to get in a short workout Thur morning. Otherwise I'll just walk around the airport before my flight and then tons of walking I'm sure in Chicago. Not dragging a laptop with me so I'll probably be incommunicado until Sunday. Have a great week!
Day in the Life
Shut Up and Run (aka SUAR) suggested that all of her blogger friends (do stalkers count?) do a "day in the life" post to try to win some cool SUAR swag. I totally could use a visor/hat because my Rx sunglasses bleed sunlight in the top! :) So here goes (with as many pics as I could get in):
My weekdays tend to be pretty "run of the mill" so I chose Monday, October 10th for my "day in the life". I got up and threw on my robe after weighing myself. Found out that the pesky chip basket at the Mexican joint on Saturday night did me in again. Up a little (very standard Monday - ugh). Then I started making lunches for the kiddos.
Then I got the kiddos up. I had to help my daughter who is fighting wicked allergies with this dry fall (and the wind we've been having) clean out her eyes and do some drops. Not fun! I settled her in with an ice pack (leftover from my lactation days) to reduce the swelling.
Otherwise, the morning routine went pretty normal - everyone into school clothes (pretty easy for kids to get dressed when navy/khaki/white are the only choices), socks, shoes, breakfast (waffles for the girl, Cheerios for the boy), ensure girl has brushed hair and assist with ponytail (boy gets No.2 clipper guard every 4 weeks so we don't have to do this with him!).
But today we were all moving a little slow (plus with the eye drama) so we headed out the door a smidgen late (after I threw on clothes 2 minutes after we are normally out the door - yikes). Dropped the kids off at school and ran home to finish getting myself ready. Then off to Columbia (40 minutes door to door) with this beautiful color along the way (better in person, but you get the idea - hard to take a pic while driving!). Stopped for gas and breakfast (too ashamed to take photo - thought of CTER's discussion about food logs showing the what/where/when/why).
Got to my friend's office - Gene the surveyor and I go way back. I told him I'd come by today to sort out a floodplain elevation issue on a project he's working on. Took me way longer than I'd planned (I hate the FEMA Map Service Center web site!!) Then I made a slide for my Society of Women Engineers section with pictures for the slide show at the conference later this week. Headed across town to the ARC. Got my swim on in these lap lanes. Unfortunately, at 1:30 every weekday (not sure on weekends), they close this pool for 1.5 hours for "maintenance". So I got kicked out and this is what it looked like as I left:
Stopped in and bought my son a mini photo album to put his summer conservation camp pics in ($1 store). Also stopped for a soda and burger (2 PM is too late for lunch - and I almost left this out since I'm ashamed again). Then headed back down the happy highway for home enjoying some more awesome color (and more difficulty getting pics while driving):
Got back to town with 30 min to spare so went on home and cleaned out my car and checked a couple blogs. Then back to school to pick up kids and sit in the long carpool line (once I could even get in the parking lot). Picked up my kids and two of the neighbor's kids and headed for home dropping the spare two on the way.
Then the usual afternoon homework, start the laundry, etc. I worked on packing up parts of the rest of the week's lunches since I'll be out of town and mother-in-law will have to take over the normal morning routine. Then I typed up the routine for each morning and added all the info on where I'd be each day and what other commitments were on the family calendar. Evening rolled on as I sent the boy off to football practice and fed the girl and me (corn dogs - yes it was an awful diet day)/let the girl play while I did some research for a client and wrote my swim blog post. Read some more blogs. Later realized it was dark and she hadn't done her nightly reading yet so I had her do that. Ran both kids through the shower and folded laundry. Sent/read a few more emails/blogs.
Flipped through channels for maybe 30 min and gave up and went to bed. Couldn't sleep so I got up and started this post before I forgot everything anyway. I work for myself so my work days vary based on the load (pretty light right now) and other obligations as a mom/wife. While this was a pretty typical day, Monday was the only day this week that was going to be this "normal" because Tuesday is "early release" day (once/month kids get out at 2:00 instead of 3:05 for staff meeting) although I'll work at home all day so not a big deal.
Then Wed-Sat I'm leaving for two overlapping conferences (International Erosion Control Association Great Rivers Chapter in St. Louis and then Society of Women Engineers national conference in Chicago). I don't travel much normally - usually up and back same day for even my more remote clients - so it figures these two events were back to back. But thus the need to kind of lay out everything I do for a very forgetful mother-in-law. Will miss my kiddos, but I'm kind of looking forward to my water quality geek friends on Wed and my generally awesome women engineer friends the rest of the week. I'm sure I'll be beat when I get home late on Sat!
My weekdays tend to be pretty "run of the mill" so I chose Monday, October 10th for my "day in the life". I got up and threw on my robe after weighing myself. Found out that the pesky chip basket at the Mexican joint on Saturday night did me in again. Up a little (very standard Monday - ugh). Then I started making lunches for the kiddos.
Then I got the kiddos up. I had to help my daughter who is fighting wicked allergies with this dry fall (and the wind we've been having) clean out her eyes and do some drops. Not fun! I settled her in with an ice pack (leftover from my lactation days) to reduce the swelling.
Otherwise, the morning routine went pretty normal - everyone into school clothes (pretty easy for kids to get dressed when navy/khaki/white are the only choices), socks, shoes, breakfast (waffles for the girl, Cheerios for the boy), ensure girl has brushed hair and assist with ponytail (boy gets No.2 clipper guard every 4 weeks so we don't have to do this with him!).
But today we were all moving a little slow (plus with the eye drama) so we headed out the door a smidgen late (after I threw on clothes 2 minutes after we are normally out the door - yikes). Dropped the kids off at school and ran home to finish getting myself ready. Then off to Columbia (40 minutes door to door) with this beautiful color along the way (better in person, but you get the idea - hard to take a pic while driving!). Stopped for gas and breakfast (too ashamed to take photo - thought of CTER's discussion about food logs showing the what/where/when/why).
Got to my friend's office - Gene the surveyor and I go way back. I told him I'd come by today to sort out a floodplain elevation issue on a project he's working on. Took me way longer than I'd planned (I hate the FEMA Map Service Center web site!!) Then I made a slide for my Society of Women Engineers section with pictures for the slide show at the conference later this week. Headed across town to the ARC. Got my swim on in these lap lanes. Unfortunately, at 1:30 every weekday (not sure on weekends), they close this pool for 1.5 hours for "maintenance". So I got kicked out and this is what it looked like as I left:
Stopped in and bought my son a mini photo album to put his summer conservation camp pics in ($1 store). Also stopped for a soda and burger (2 PM is too late for lunch - and I almost left this out since I'm ashamed again). Then headed back down the happy highway for home enjoying some more awesome color (and more difficulty getting pics while driving):
Got back to town with 30 min to spare so went on home and cleaned out my car and checked a couple blogs. Then back to school to pick up kids and sit in the long carpool line (once I could even get in the parking lot). Picked up my kids and two of the neighbor's kids and headed for home dropping the spare two on the way.
Then the usual afternoon homework, start the laundry, etc. I worked on packing up parts of the rest of the week's lunches since I'll be out of town and mother-in-law will have to take over the normal morning routine. Then I typed up the routine for each morning and added all the info on where I'd be each day and what other commitments were on the family calendar. Evening rolled on as I sent the boy off to football practice and fed the girl and me (corn dogs - yes it was an awful diet day)/let the girl play while I did some research for a client and wrote my swim blog post. Read some more blogs. Later realized it was dark and she hadn't done her nightly reading yet so I had her do that. Ran both kids through the shower and folded laundry. Sent/read a few more emails/blogs.
Flipped through channels for maybe 30 min and gave up and went to bed. Couldn't sleep so I got up and started this post before I forgot everything anyway. I work for myself so my work days vary based on the load (pretty light right now) and other obligations as a mom/wife. While this was a pretty typical day, Monday was the only day this week that was going to be this "normal" because Tuesday is "early release" day (once/month kids get out at 2:00 instead of 3:05 for staff meeting) although I'll work at home all day so not a big deal.
Then Wed-Sat I'm leaving for two overlapping conferences (International Erosion Control Association Great Rivers Chapter in St. Louis and then Society of Women Engineers national conference in Chicago). I don't travel much normally - usually up and back same day for even my more remote clients - so it figures these two events were back to back. But thus the need to kind of lay out everything I do for a very forgetful mother-in-law. Will miss my kiddos, but I'm kind of looking forward to my water quality geek friends on Wed and my generally awesome women engineer friends the rest of the week. I'm sure I'll be beat when I get home late on Sat!
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