Feeling strong

I'm thrilled with how great I'm feeling lately.  Still some heel pain, but it seems to be getting better finally.  I don't know if it's the new stretches I do before I get out of bed or what, but something is helping even though I'm not cutting my mileage.  I was killing it at camp this morning -- probably 2d or 3d person overall, first woman, to finish the drills, then after camp I ran a leisurely 1.5 in the direction of home until I met up with my neighbor, then we walked the rest of the way together. 

I can't wait for this weekend.  We don't have much planned really, but there are a million things on my list that I want to get done.  And this weekend I'm taking the list home with me so there's no excuse to overlook things like I did last weekend!  The only fixed time things are minimal -- taking my car in tomorrow at 10:30 related to some recall/inspection/class action notice, friend coming at 11:30 to pick up some things our neighbor is donating to the non-profit where I used to be on the Board (and we'll hopefully have time to play a quick game of Scopa with him and our neighbor before he leaves with the items), having our neighbor over for dinner tomorrow night, and then the big 2-0 on Sunday morning and its aftermath (ice bath, shower, out with hubby for Mexican food, followed by half-pint of Ben&Jerry's to replace the calories).  But seriously, about 1 million other things on the to-do list.  Here's hoping for productivity...

My Monday morning dream:  waking up not overly sore to a clean well-stocked house and a to-do list with everything crossed out.  I might be cheating a little on the list -- instead of saying "Xmas shop" as I've written the last few weeks, I picked one specific gift that I'm going to work on.  I need to do some online pricing research and then swing by a local specialty shop for some advice and to compare.  By the end of the weekend, hopefully it will have been purchased and then one brother will be basically done.