Sunday was a busy day. I started the day volunteering at the North Shore Half Marathon in Highland Park. Check-in for the volunteers was at 6:00 a.m. which wasn’t that early for me since I live only about 20 minutes from the race site. It was a treat being close for a race and having plenty of choices for parking which were close to the race starting point. For the race I worked at an aid station filling cups of Gatorade. After all the runners had passed the aid station, there were so many cups of Gatorade left over. I hate when there is so much waste. The next time I am going to figure out how many cups of liquid are needed at a station depending on the number of runners. You don’t want to run out of drinks for the runners but then again there shouldn’t be so much waste.
After I came home from volunteering, my son came home from Boston so we went to breakfast so I could hear about his trip. I am always so hungry after I volunteer for a race for some reason. Maybe it is all that fresh air. After breakfast I went to visit my parents. They still haven’t gotten over that I am going to be moving especially since I won’t be living so close to them anymore. My dad’s latest idea is that he wants to move back to Austria since he feels that everyone is moving away from him. I told him that he is over reacting.
Once my visit was over, it was back to moving stuff in the house. Will this ever end? Before I knew it was 10 p.m. and time for bed.
On Monday was my birthday. For dinner my son and I went to Nacional 27 which serves Latin food. I really like the food and the décor and would definitely go back there again. My son really loved the lamb taco and I found this shooter that came with the ceviche sampler very delightful even though it looked like wheatgrass juice. To drink I had Cava which I found very tasty. What is a birthday celebration without cake? I ended the meal with chocolate cake.
At work today the people in my department brought in treats for my birthday which is a tradition we have in the department. I was going to stay away from the treats but when I heard there was chocolate cake, I had to have a piece. The cake was very good and I wanted another piece. Stay away from the cake. Sugar is really a drug for me. Having one piece of cake isn’t bad but when I had that second piece, I wanted more. Thankfully, birthdays are only one time a year.
My intent was to run after work today but it was such a downpour when I got home that I didn’t go for a run. Tomorrow should be dry so I am going to bring my running clothes to work and then run after work before going home.
Now that my house is all staged, I can focus on other things.
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