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How Do You Be?

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Sometimes I feel like I need to be ‘reset’. The other day I got home from a run, put a pot of coffee on, hopped in the shower (I know! Shocking! But I did have to work later.) After I performed my socially necessary hygiene I grabbed a hot cup of coffee, got my book and sat back in bed, still wrapped in my towel, wet hair patiently drying into ringlets and I read.

My roommate walked by my room and poked her head in and said I look peaceful.  You know, I felt peaceful. My absolute favorite part of my day is the 20 or so minutes I try to allow myself after a run and shower. Enough time to relax, drink a cup of coffee and just be for a moment.

 

What do you do to just be?

 

Book, coffee, love

Book, coffee, love

A Story that has Nothing To Do With Anything

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What do you do? You’re at a store and use the public restroom. Probably didn’t even plan on buying anything, you just needed to go and stopped in. You used the toilet, [hopefully] washed your hands and then flushed and left. But wait, uh oh, your waste didn’t go down—it’s spinning and spinning, the water is rising, you panic, you leave!

3, 5, 10 minutes later you’re down the block, in the next store totally forgot about what you’ve done. 3, 5, 10 minutes later what you can’t see are the store employees panicking after a different, innocent customer, an honest customer ran over and told them the bowl was over flowing, turn off the water, you don’t hear them yell this from Starbuck’s across the street. You don’t see them moving sock racks, grabbing shoes and grabbing paper towel to stop the flow of your waste from ruining merchandise.

Shopping for earrings while sipping your mocha you have no idea that the store you went to the bathroom in at 4pm closes at 5 but the employees are there until nearly 6pm cleaning up your mess. By 6pm you’re home making dinner with your family not even thinking twice about having used a public restroom. You don’t realize.

 

Next time say something. It will save people time and stress. We all poop. Overflowing toilets happen, but don’t just sneak away.

My Mother is going to be SO PROUD!

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How often is it really necessary to shower? I mean, I know some people HAVE to take a shower every morning to wake up. I even have a friend that takes a shower before he races, weird, right? Usually I like to tie my blog posts into something sorta philosophical, but this one is pure curiosity.

I had my running group yesterday at 6:45am, so I ran to our meeting place (2.2 miles) we ran to the track (1 mile) did 2 miles worth of speed work then ran back to the YMCA (1 mile) then I ran home (2.2 miles) Needless to say I had a solid running day. I was home by 9am and had zero plans for the day. Unless you count a date with my new book and the sun plans. Soooooo, I didn’t shower. I laid on the couch with a fresh cup of coffee and read, I eventually ventured to my friends and chatted while we soaked in some vitamin D and then went back to my book for the afternoon.

I (accidentally) napped and was woken up by my friend calling asking if I wanted to get a beer later, sure, I said, as long as I don’t have to shower. And you know what her response was, dude, I’m not showering. And so she came over, we decide to not have a beer and just catch up with our smelly selves instead, but still, we were both fully ready to go to the bar sans-shower. I ask you, is this okay?

Wait. I guess this saga isn’t done yet. I then fell asleep, with no shower, and woke up to go to work. I totally forgot that I hadn’t showered, good thing I work at a gym and am amongst smelly, muscley guys all morning! So I went to work and then worked out. I ran a bunch of errands and just now got back from a visit with my neighbor and lunch. Now here I am, writing this blog, about to read my book and I’m two workouts deep and the only reason I’m probably going to shower today and not after my run tomorrow is because I’m getting a hair cut tonight and I was told to come with clean hair.

 

 

 

Maybe I just need a shower buddy?

Maybe I just need a shower buddy?

 

Does anyone else live like this? Or is it only me and my other friend who runs/mountain bikes a lot?!