At home workout. Leisurely day, a lot of driving here and there. Health food store, for Skye food, organic yams and Quinoa, incense for me. Sewed a dress from some fabric a friend gave me years ago-a freebie! Finished the hem during the Yankee game. Planning a long run for tomorow.

A cool 55 deg this a.m., put on an extra layer! Coutney and Fraulein aka, short shorts, were out early. Fraulein was not running but walking her Rottweiler (of course. The town was swimming with cops this am. They were staked out, cruising up and down the streets, looking into driveways. I must have passed 7, both town and STs. They must be looking for someone, as long as they were not in my driveway....! So I have this wonderful day off and P and I are headed to NJ, to the beach, ahhhh relaxation, sun, Atlantic.   

Home workout. No classes this week, really missing Pilates and core workouts. Monday will be the last Pilates of this series but we got enough people together to continue for 4 wks. This is terrible, I'm desperate to keep these classes going. I'm driving 30+ miles round trip for Pilates-how far will I go!

Woke up at 4a feeling good! P.was up since, what?, 1a or something like that! He made the coffee I went running. Shirley, Patricia, Sharon and then The Park just to kick back what kicked me in the ass Monday. All done by the light of the moon. Had to don my reflective belt-yuk...extra clothing, but it works-most cars veer away. I feel renewed. A neighbor of ours told me about a 7 mile loop he runs. I have run both ends but never put the whole thing together-think it is more than 7 miles too. That's my new goal. Will wait for an early, cool, weekend morning to do it. Now off to work early before the AC starts blasting, gotta tackle Medicare!

Worked radiology, forced fluids, tried to stay warm. Had to drop P. of in Beacon, then haircut, picked up a salad at Wendy's then home to see if A-Rod was gonna hit his 600th HR-no deal. By the way found my ped batteries at @pearls house, back to numbers.

Pilates at home, a great workout but not the same as going to class.

Nice dinner out with Evan and Samantha for Evan's birthday last pm, and a good nights sleep, so I thought I would have a great run but it was tough. I did "up and over major" because that was my plan-mind over matter won out! Waiting for the rain delay to end to see the rest of the Yankee game. Might just go to bed. Tomorrow off to see @Pearl. Surgery went well. She is staying at my parents for one more night. I will take her home tomorrow.

I have been running, really I have!. My ped battery died sometime last wk. I have a spare and put it in a safe place, I just dont know if that safe place is at my house or @Pearl's. @Pearl has not been posting due to a fall last wk. Fractured 3 bones in her wrist! She is having surgery tomorrow-not sure why the delay-MD was on vacation or something!!! She is a trooper, not complaining, doing the best she can-she did not need this. Guessing at my steps, ran to Shirley and then once around the track at the park.
Pic of Manson-he really is cute, but if ya look closely he's plotting something evil for sure!

Slept in,late night-no complaints!
Pic from family reunion on Sat.

Pilates. I'm so addicted to it. Have been scrambling around trying to rustle up enough people so the class will not end in two wks. Have found enough people to commit. The new class will be even further for me to drive on a Monday night after work. Just how far will I drive for my fix!

Ran to Westage, made 600. Found sprinklers at 300 and discovered that by standing behind one and bending over and putting my hands over it it will spray straight up at me. Got soaked! Stopped to watch the Great Blue Heron on Fishill Creek-amazing and beautiful bird! Had a good time at family reunion yesterday.
Reconnected with Peachie and Bill, has been about 15 yrs!

Up late, but still got up at 4:44! Thought it had cooled off last night. Woke up chilled with all the fans going and Skye had pinned all the covers at the end of the bed. Once I hit Main St. I realized it was just as hot and humid as it has been. Ran "up and over minor". Paused under the sprinklers on Red Oak and saw a doe and buck on Thomas. Now off to work to grab my roast beef sandwich from yesterday then on to radiology. Donating blood tonight, need my iron!

Crazy day at work. Monday! Then off to my relaxing Pilates class. Home to a home cooked dinner by P. (making up for yesterday) Perfect. Just wish it wasn't 9:00!

Woke up at 5:00 ready to run. Ran almost 6 miles in a steambath. Foggy, and hot. Nothing exciting, just dodging cars in the fog.
29th anniversary but it seems I'm the only one that remembers. Guess it's a year better left forgotten.

Slept in a little after staying up for most of the Yankee game. By the time coffee was brewed it was starting to rain! Yea, rain! P, Skye and I snugged up on the front porch, coffee in hand, well not Skye, and some sourdough toast drenched in butter, yes Skye shared that, and watched the rain. Eric joined us before he was off and running. Now I need to workout, and then do some painting. Finally getting to the new room over the garage. What will it be, a sewing room, Pilates studio, or a man room? Guess it could be multi-purpose!

Made it out to run, finally! There was a very dark cloud over head that I was hoping would open up and RAIN on ME, but it moved away. Ran The Park and then ran the park. I always run by the entrance of the park but today notice they had put in a paved walking trail. Who would have known? Ran the loop twice for a few extra steps (for being lazy all wk) Now I have a place to run when it is dark out, not lit but it is flat and safe if I use a flashlight-talking winter uuugghhh! Work was work, I did complete the Medicare update application 855I and 855R x 2 with all the necessry attachments and maybe a few extras-(let them sort it out), a blank page between each form, all sigs, and address verified twice, exhausting!!! I ran it straight to the PO. We put all kinds of blessings and good karma on it and can only hope it's not returned with holes punched through it and a list of things to fix. Meanwhile Monday should be interesting to see if we can prescribe, order tests, or supplies for our Medicare patients. That's right a new mandate from the heath system reform law changed the deadline from Jan 1 2011 to July 6 2010. With a 45 day allowance for them to process the application we will not be allowed to order test, or prescribe for our Medicare patients until our application is approved. We had to update our info even though we have not had any changes. Pages and pages of paperwork, stress galore. So how do we take care of our patient's needs until the application is approved?? The new administration does not seem to care about that! (send everyone to the ER?) This is just a part of our new Health Care Reform. They are determined to put the sole practitioners out of business. Every day we face new hoops to jump through, lower fee schedules, and await Congressional decisions. All this while the docs are trying to keep people healthy and save the ones that are not! It is getting very scary!

Pilates, in a very hot gym. We were not sure they would hold the class but they did, only 5 of us showed up. They have huge fans blowing that helped a little. Glad I went it always feels good, yes, even the 44 pushups!!! Came home and P had left out some garlic knots and a sausage roll-yum, shared the knots with Skye. Run tomorrow, will see how the sleeping goes.

Thought I would make it out running, but just not up to it. The heat maybe,just pain spent probably. I forget just how crazy reception can be. Day after a long wkend, covering for another MD and only one nurse. New receptionist was wonderful. She never uttered a negative word, handled everything professionally and was still smiling at the end of the day. We must have filed over 100 charts, sent 20-30 faxes, answered who knows how many phone calls!! Yikes what a day! Hats off to the front desk crew who do this every day! And I got a lot of steps in, most days I'm sitting on my butt al day.

Ended up going to work, spent about 8 hours catching up on things. Tomorrow I have to work the front desk and train a new employee.

Still could not get up to run, but it's not like I'm not active all day! Did a workout at home-hot one, then spent the day watering my poor dry plants, weeding, etc.