A Balance, Redefined

More or less a good night's sleep. The day was about the same as yesterday, a bit of family time and a bit of grant work...

Back to the grind. In early as I needed to get stuff done before lab meeting. Got done by about 11am and then headed back home to work on the grant and be "on call" in case something happened. In the evening shoveled snow with my daughter's "help" and then did four miles on the treadmill. 

Trying to get it all in. Still on the waiting game for baby two. I've been trying to work from home as much as possible. However, today I had to go in for meetings in the morning and general "other stuff" in the early afternoon. Just did some more treadmill miles after bedtime.

Stayed home to work and got the most done on my grant that I've managed in about a week. Still managed to get distracted by lab issues via e-mail. However, that is my own fault because I could just as easily turn off my e-mail... Knee was a little tight today but not too bad. Only one more day of NSAIDs and then we really get to "see" what is going on. Just a few treadmill miles as I found out yesterday that I'm giving a talk tomorrow at 4pm... Luckily I can just give the talk that I gave at my last meeting but that was only 10 minutes and I have to stretch it to ~30min... We shall see.

Didn't sleep well, not sure if it was prepping for the talk or getting anxious about the arrival of the new baby. In either case I woke up a little before 5am and couldn't get back to sleep so got back to my grant. I spent the morning working from home and playing taxi drive for Kaitlyn. She likes it when her daddy brings her to school. In the afternoon I went into lab to set-up a few final things for my presentation. Overall, I think it went fine. I would have liked to have been a little more prepared but I presented what I had and that is all I could do. I got some good feed back. After bed time I actually met up with Eric and ran from his house. It had been awhile since I'd run with someone else and it was a good change from the treadmill... We comisserated over our grants and discussed potential strategies then wrapped it up for the night. After well over a week of working nights I decided to stop and pick up a movie and a snack for Sandra and I. Overall, a relatively relaxing evening.

Very strange thing. Despite the relaxing evening I still woke up before my alarm. In fact when I looked at the clock it was the exact same time as yesterday 4:40am... Very strange. I just got up and went into lab as I did have some experiments to do this week that I had been putting off thinking the baby would arrive. I managed to have a very full day and left a little early to celebrate an early birthday dinner and we don't know what will be going on next week... When we got home I just did some treadmill miles. It is important to note that today was the first day "drug free" in almost a month. The knee was very tight most of the day but I don't know how much of that was psychological vs actual discomfort. Good news is that the run went fine and it was no worse at the end than at the beginning...

I finally got a little sleep. It was restless but it was a good number of consecutive hours lying down. The day was longer than I thought it was going to be but at least it started out right. There was a fundraiser held at our church for St. Jude's Children's Hospital. So we had a pancake breakfast and Kaitlyn got to meet Santa and Mrs. Claus. After though I had to go into lab and what should have been 2hrs stretched into 4hrs… Oh well. Because of the fuller day and the snow storm decided to switch off days with tomorrow.