My Weekend

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Summer, an off week and free wireless...

Summer is here! I have been wedding planning like mad lately and have really been getting into it. So much so that last night I worked on planning till 12:30am. I think my most favorite part so far is trying to find all of the pieces that are so easy to forget and fit them into things. Since the location is unique Erin and I are planning pretty much all aspects of the ceremony and reception from scratch. Anyway, that’s where a lot of my thoughts have been lately.

This week has sort of been a little off for me, my workouts have slacked and I’ve been getting to sleep later. Work has been busy, but I have not been extremely productive overall. That gets frustrating. The good news is that the week is coming to a close, I’m a month out from getting married and I am set on hitting the last month in the gym pretty hard. I’ve made progress since I’ve started working out and want to finish that off strong.

I find myself looking forward to Ultimate frisbee tonight and to camping in a couple weekends during a wedding trip to Abingdon, VA. After that I’m looking forward to relaxing on my wedding weekend and a vacation to ??? I’ll have to blog from my destination, since they have free wireless.

Work & a done knee.

I'm pretty scatterbrained right now. Mainly because I am between projects at work and just need a little bit of time to relax before the next set of meetings. Work is going well and I have come to the point where I am having to fight for my time. By fight for my time I mean I have to turn down a few things so that I can keep up with my current work. Currently I can handle about 5 projects at once. Any more than that and it's too easy to get lost. With the addition of departmental work, I may even have to drop that to 4.

As for my knee, it's done for. I can't run on it. Therefore I can't train for VA Beach. I could go get an MRI, but if anything is wrong then I'd have to have surgery and there goes a whole bunch of $ that is earmarked for the wedding. So my plan now is to continue to work out, limit the running and plan for a wonderful weekend in VA Beach come September.

Knee & Graduation

Have been meaning to blog for a while as there is plenty going on. First is that my knee won't run. Strange way to say it, but it's been the case. I can go out and play Ultimate, but I am having issues running for a prolonged period of time. This has been more of a mental challenge because I'm set on working out and have started training for the next half-marathon. So my next decision is how to handle this. I can pick up where I left off last fall and go have an MRI done, deal with insurance and the like. If there is anything wrong then I obviously won't be running the half-marathon. If nothing is wrong I rest up and train. The other choice is to hope it goes away, but that seems pointless, since it came back after months of rest. Stay Tuned.

Last night I went to a cousin's (Chris White) graduation at Pulaski High School. Saw family from SW VA and North Carolina. Erin came to see the celebration as well. When all was said and done we ended up at Sonic eating more ice cream than I have seen in a long time and it was great! I am proud of Chris finishing up 13 years of school and hope he enjoys his time off before heading to his first year of college this fall.