Pounding the Pavement

I have finally gotten over the baby plague! I feel so much better. No fever. I can breathe. I can sleep through the night. The headaches are gone. The coughing is over. It took way longer than I expected to get over. I felt like I had a really bad cold or the flu but it was neither so OTC meds didn't really help. I started feeling better after about a week, but when it came to getting out and exercising it flared up and I was hacking and coughing again. I decided to lay low for a little bit longer, not really exercising, but I did do little things like park farther back in the parking lot, walk every aisle at the grocery store, take the long route from store to store at the mall, etc.

This week, I have actually gone out to exercise on purpose! I am genuinely excited by the fact that I put the leash on the pup and took him for an admittedly short walk around the parking lot at our apartments. It was just over half a mile to make the loop, and I had previously built up to a mile and a quarter, but it's a start. I am expecting a package to be delivered via mail today and am ready to lace up the sneakers and leash up the pup to walk to get the mail. It will be a slightly longer walk than yesterday with a reward at the half way point and I can't wait for the mail to be delivered to do it! I've been refreshing the tracking information compulsively for an hour now, as the mail is usually delivered around lunch.

I have also signed up for the Ravenclaw House Unity Run to help motivate me to keep getting out there and racking up the miles. This "run" is a just for fun event for our house and not the HRC at large. We are dividing into teams and seeing which group can get the most miles in a defined period of time. I don't really contribute a lot of miles at the moment, but love knowing that I'm going to have some great motivation to help me for the race period. The race is two weeks long so I'm also hoping it'll help build a good routine building up to and during the race.

OH! I also have to mention, because I babbled about it earlier. I got the job at ThinkGeek! I am very excited. At my interview we were told that we'd get a call in a week with any hiring decisions. Well, I got a call the very next day. I'm pretty sure they weren't even done doing interviews, yet (we were told we'd get a call after the other scheduled interviews were done)and I was hired. I know I said this just a couple sentences ago, but I'm very excited! I love that being a fangirl got me a job in RL! My husband is excited because he's finally gotten me on board with the new Star Wars movie. The fact that I'm not a Star Wars or James Bond person bugs him so much. I find it kind of hilarious, but he is genuinely perturbed by my lack of interest in two of his favorite fandoms. Nothing against Star Wars of James Bond, I'm just not into it. I've seen several of the movies and they did't grab me. But now being a nerd is actually part of the job description, a very big part of the job description, and I figure I should at least be up on the new Star Wars movies coming out.

It's been a good week here at Apartment Nerd.