A day of epic undertakings

Maybe epic is a bit of a stretch, but yesterday was certainly eventful in various ways. I’m planning to do the Great Aloha Run (again!) in February, and yesterday was the first morning of the free training clinic for the run. I showed up on a reasonably-cold-but-not-wet morning to warm up, run, and stretch with over 100 other people. Last year I trained with a group that did about half running and half walking; this year I’m in a faster group. It’s definitely more of a challenge, especially since the run up to Diamond Head Lookout we did yesterday was more hill than I’ve run on in months. I enjoyed it, though, and the scenery – especially that early in the morning – is just beautiful. Plus I totally dig taking off my running shoes and standing in the ocean afterwards, then sliding my slippers on and moseying into Starbucks for a short americano, a glass of water, and some well-deserved reading time.

After the running, and a small recovery nap, getting my mother-in-law packed up and off to the airport (we’ll see her again next week), and doing enough house cleaning to not feel too guilty about not doing any more, I made some tea and pulled out my DVDs. I hadn’t watched a movie, other than the Star Trek and documentaries Frans is constantly turning on for background noise, in weeks. Maybe months. I rarely have the patience to sit through an entire movie at once, let alone two in a row. But yesterday afternoon and evening, I watched FOUR MOVIES IN A ROW. A Good Year, then Girl with a Pearl Earring, then A Good Woman, then Love Actually. All of them reasonably cheesy and romantic, but all enjoyable in their own way.

And now, movie binge out of the way, I can get on with other things. Like the TWO WEEKS OF VACATION stretching out in front of me. Oooh boy.