Stress-city...
Thursday 22/03/07:
Wow, where has this week (almost) gone! Work is still crazy busy and I'm really tired, but the time just flies by... Yesterday was a particularly trying day... I'm one of four managers at work - 2 males, 2 females - and we all work really well together except for one, who really gets up everyone elses noses... She's been particularly talented at it just lately and yesterday enough was enough, I drew the line and got the M.D involved... Some rather long meetings followed... Saving grace was one of my team from another branch bringing in a yummy 'boysenberry crumble cake' for afternoon tea! Today was just as stressful and for the second time this week I had to dash to the dairy (hang on, Aussie-speak, um, milk bar?? Pommie-speak, um, corner shop?? - hee, hee!!) for a little bar of my favourite chocolate (Cadbury - black forest) and a can of V. Very naughty - not the thing athletes are made of at all!! (So just as well I ain't one!!)
To counteract some of the stress and due to weather predictions, I decided to run this morning rather than leaving it till tonight while Courts was at gym. It had been raining a little overnight and the roads were still wet when I headed out just before 6am. In my head I'd planned on doing a 10km loop, but it took me a little longer to get out the door than usual this morning (don't ask!) so I shortened it to an out and back with the turnaround at the highschool.
Brisk walk warmup: 5mins
Steady paced run: 38.36mins, 8.56km, Max 3.44min/km, Ave 4.30min/km.
Brisk walk cooldown: 5mins
It drizzled a little in the middle, but was rather warm and humid so it was actually nice. Again I ran faster than intended... My legs (quads/adductors) were a little stiff after Tuesday's 13kms, but after a rest day yesterday they felt fine again today and it was kinda one of those 'switch off the brain and forget about what your legs are doing - just leave them to it' runs. At one point as it was just getting light I saw someone running up ahead and thought it may have been Rob. Thats about the only time I did conciously pick up my pace a little, but never caught up and it turned out not to be him anyway! Will rest again tomorrow - I did vow to only run alternate days this week - and then probably run with the group on Saturday. Its been a few weeks since I have and even tho I know Rob will be away, it would still be good to catch up with the others.
Well theres been about half a dozen expressions of interest in the book so far. I am open to bribes by the way and have had one of those to date - so think I know where it will be going first! Hey, no matter what I'm sure it will make its way round to everyone who wants to read it before long and it will be fun tracking where it is at!
Right, off to play the tooth fairy yet again! Courtney's had her two top front teeth loose for ages and even the new ones had come thru behind and were trying to push the old ones out, which had them sitting at weird, unsightly angles for ages!! She's been looking like a rabbit! One finally fell out on Monday while at school and then at 1am this morning she sneaked into my room to tell me she had just found the other one which had fallen out while she was asleep! It was half way down the bed and how she didn't just swallow it I don't know! Costly business this tooth fairy gig - hope I can rustle up a gold coin!
Wow, where has this week (almost) gone! Work is still crazy busy and I'm really tired, but the time just flies by... Yesterday was a particularly trying day... I'm one of four managers at work - 2 males, 2 females - and we all work really well together except for one, who really gets up everyone elses noses... She's been particularly talented at it just lately and yesterday enough was enough, I drew the line and got the M.D involved... Some rather long meetings followed... Saving grace was one of my team from another branch bringing in a yummy 'boysenberry crumble cake' for afternoon tea! Today was just as stressful and for the second time this week I had to dash to the dairy (hang on, Aussie-speak, um, milk bar?? Pommie-speak, um, corner shop?? - hee, hee!!) for a little bar of my favourite chocolate (Cadbury - black forest) and a can of V. Very naughty - not the thing athletes are made of at all!! (So just as well I ain't one!!)
To counteract some of the stress and due to weather predictions, I decided to run this morning rather than leaving it till tonight while Courts was at gym. It had been raining a little overnight and the roads were still wet when I headed out just before 6am. In my head I'd planned on doing a 10km loop, but it took me a little longer to get out the door than usual this morning (don't ask!) so I shortened it to an out and back with the turnaround at the highschool.
Brisk walk warmup: 5mins
Steady paced run: 38.36mins, 8.56km, Max 3.44min/km, Ave 4.30min/km.
Brisk walk cooldown: 5mins
It drizzled a little in the middle, but was rather warm and humid so it was actually nice. Again I ran faster than intended... My legs (quads/adductors) were a little stiff after Tuesday's 13kms, but after a rest day yesterday they felt fine again today and it was kinda one of those 'switch off the brain and forget about what your legs are doing - just leave them to it' runs. At one point as it was just getting light I saw someone running up ahead and thought it may have been Rob. Thats about the only time I did conciously pick up my pace a little, but never caught up and it turned out not to be him anyway! Will rest again tomorrow - I did vow to only run alternate days this week - and then probably run with the group on Saturday. Its been a few weeks since I have and even tho I know Rob will be away, it would still be good to catch up with the others.
Well theres been about half a dozen expressions of interest in the book so far. I am open to bribes by the way and have had one of those to date - so think I know where it will be going first! Hey, no matter what I'm sure it will make its way round to everyone who wants to read it before long and it will be fun tracking where it is at!
Right, off to play the tooth fairy yet again! Courtney's had her two top front teeth loose for ages and even the new ones had come thru behind and were trying to push the old ones out, which had them sitting at weird, unsightly angles for ages!! She's been looking like a rabbit! One finally fell out on Monday while at school and then at 1am this morning she sneaked into my room to tell me she had just found the other one which had fallen out while she was asleep! It was half way down the bed and how she didn't just swallow it I don't know! Costly business this tooth fairy gig - hope I can rustle up a gold coin!
posted by Vicky @ 3/22/2007 09:35:00 pm
7 Comments:
At Thu Mar 22, 11:13:00 pm,
Ewen said…
So, Em gets it first? I could lend you my copy of 'Pre'.
Glad you got out for a run.
'Dairy'? That's where they milk cows. I think you mean 'take-away' or 'cafe'.
At Fri Mar 23, 12:24:00 am,
Andrew(ajh) said…
Hmmm ... nothing like a bit of office politics to ruin your day is there .. .good job we have our running to get it out of our systems! Just ordered a book on Amazon the other day called "The No Asshole Rule" about how to deal with assholes in the workplace. Maybe you'd like me to send that one your way!
At Fri Mar 23, 11:56:00 am,
2P said…
Geez you get off light - the munchkins in our family invoice us with amounts that you can only pay with cheque or credit.
Nice run.
At Fri Mar 23, 09:28:00 pm,
Anonymous said…
Choc hey, just you wait until my package arrives, you may just find a special treat in there, only available in Melbourne ;-)
At Sat Mar 24, 09:29:00 am,
Anonymous said…
I try to keep well out of office politics, and am very lucky that I work in a place where about 90% of the staff are great. The other 10% are idiots and I avoid them like the plague.
I always head for the chocolate whenever stress takes hold, but as my March challenge is to NOT eat any chocolate I've moved across to apple scrolls and mentos!!
At Sun Mar 25, 12:35:00 pm,
Anonymous said…
Where has the week gone? It's gone now, I'm at work on a Sunday checking bloglines.
Running is a great stress reliever especially after dealing with a...holes at work.
At Sun Mar 25, 06:24:00 pm,
Anonymous said…
I am with 2p, our tooth fairy leaves $5 a tooth and has been know to leave a tenner for extra big teeth, lol! We had to up it because Brother-in-law let it slip to my 9year old how much his kids ggrrr! I have actually heard myself saying to son "in my day we use to ony get 20c"
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