Downtime

Today is the longest day of the year... I love having this much light. I'd like to snowbird to the southern hemisphere, just so I could always luxuriate in having more light than darkness. But like most things then, I think I wouldn't appreciate it so much.

Today marks the start of summer and a lack of responsibilities for me. Not entirely true; I'm going to Goldmine for 8 days beginning in 3 weeks; and sometime in summer there's a Con planning meeting that will happen. But mostly things are shut down for the next two months, and that's a beautiful thing. I really need that downtime.

Last night was my solstice party, replete with some very good (if I do say so myself) ice creams - the chocolate was pretty intense, and the mint was incredible (my favorite). It felt pretty killer to wake up this morning and say... I have nothing to do today. I mean, there are things I could do, but if I chose not to do them, it wasn't going to bother anyone else. *That* was a good feeling.

I've been working on this thing called Couch to 5k. It's 9 weeks of working out 3 days a week, building up from doing a 20-minute walk/run workout to running 3 miles. I just finished week 2, and so far, so good. When I find myself thinking with trepidation about the idea of doing 3 miles, I think - but you don't have to do that tomorrow. You're not going to do that for a while yet; and by they time you get there, you will be ready. Last week was okay, and this week was okay, and next week will be a little harder, but still okay... we'll get there. That's the whole point of this set-up - as they note, and as is so true, most people try to run by saying, "okay, I'll go run this far" or for this long - and it's too much. So either you kill yourself trying, or you quit because it's too hard, and then you hate running. I hate running. But so far and I can do this, and I'm going to keep going, because I'd like not to hate running. :)