I really hoped to run (and read some blogs!) yesterday, but I was busy busy busy the whole day/night! I went to my old classroom/school office & worked for a few hours. Came home and did a lot of cleaning (it's very hard to arrange a tiny dining room so that 15 rubbermaid bins full of classroom stuff and 11 Christmas dinner guests will fit!), some baking, and then when David got home from work we went to the Marine base to check on a piece of furniture I've really been wanting. We had dinner while we were there and it was 8pm by the time we got home!
I had such a hard time waking up this morning. By the time I was up & moving, the bank & commissary were open and I knew I'd better do my errands right away or I wouldn't do them at all. And since we sold my car today, I had to do my last-minute driving while I still had the chance! It doesn't really seem like we're moving, but my car being gone does make it feel a bit more "real". So, it was another evening run for me. This time, I made sure I turned our Christmas tree on so I'd be able to see it through the window on my way out and back. I ran through a housing area looking for good lights, and so far, they were the best I've seen. My favorite was a quad-plex decorated with icicle lights all the way across the eaves of all 4 units, lights on the bushes, wreaths in the windows and red bows on the palm trees! That must be a great group of neighbors, coordinating their decorations perfectly! My friends put up awesome lights, but they live in a housing area on another base and I didn't have my ID card or enough time before my husband would be back with our dinner. We really don't get take-out every night, but since I've been baking for days and cooking dinner for 11 tomorrow and breakfast for 6-8 on Christmas day, I think I deserve to not cook dinner! I felt like I should have run more than 4 miles, but I plan on a nice 7 or 8 miles tomorrow morning. Christmas Eve, Christmas day, and Thanksgiving day are my three very favorite days of the year to run! The roads (around here anyway) are so quiet and I always love imagining what's going on in the houses I run by early in the morning on those days.
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