Howdy. I just got home from a good run at the gym – good on the speed and distance, not so good for the belly. We had a later night at the office tonight, so my supervisor Sarah bought us all Thai food. I didn’t eat a ton, just a small plate, but it felt like a ROCK in my belly during my run!
What happened before that, though, you might ask? I knew you were curious about my day! 
On the way home from the superintendent meeting – which went just ok, I would say – I snacked on some baby carrots. I now have some answers about the specialists issue, but I don’t think they’re the answers we wanted. I took out my frustration with some carrot crunchin’.
By the time I got into the office, it was 4:45 and it felt like my day had been going on forever… but we still had a state conference call and lots of membership renewal calls to make! The best way to get through those few hours? An apple! It was juicy, tart and crisp – everything a perfect apple is supposed to be. Mmmm – my mouth is watering thinking back to it!
Like my bit of PR there?
The reason we were in the office until 8:30 tonight was that organizers had to make membership renewal calls to people whose memberships had expired in our chapters. Now, I normally hate doing this, but it actually was both fun and productive tonight! Stand is made up of volunteers, so it may seem strange that we ask people to give us money in order to volunteer with us, but it’s the list of dues paying members – along with bodies in a room – that give us the political weight to get things done in this state.
It didn’t hurt that Sarah ordered us Thai to put a smile on my face for the evening as well. I had a small plate of about 1/3 c rice, some drunken noodles, about 1/2 cup veggie red curry, and a tofu salad roll. I have no idea how many cals it was but I don’t think that many, and it was quite filling! And that’s just a 6 inch plate, BTW. 
While delicious, it proved a little heavy for my run later. I ran about 6.15 mi in 50 minutes on the treadmill at the gym for a 620 cal burn (including warmdown walk) and it was bouncing around the whole time. Ick. Also I forgot my water bottle which was less than stellar. I finished off my workout with today’s abs, since I forgot this morning. I did 2 sets of 15 plank to pikes on the stability ball, 2 x 50 stability ball crunches, and 2 x 15 back exercises on the ball.
Finally I’m home… I LOVE being gone from 8:15 am to 10:30 pm! Sikkeeeeee.
See you tomorrow! I have plans to yoga it up mid day which I’m really excited for.
