Managing through the crazies

Not that life is ever meant to be sane, but lately its been extra crazy. Life on the blog front has been non-existent because life in the real world has been extra crazy. About 6 weeks go, I took another position in the same company, and its completely different than what I have been doing for the past 15 years. So as you can imagine, when I said yes to that, life instantly became insane. New people, new context, new work; all exciting stuff, but it does not lend itself to blogging often.  Combine the new job with kids being back to school. The oldest is in 8th grade, so we are getting ready for high school. Which means we are she's EXTRA busy too. Although I have missed you guys and blogging, when I sit down at the end of the day, I usually pass out.

I have always reserved my mornings for blogging. However, since I really didn't know how to do my job (I'm in marketing now) I spent most of the past 6 weeks of mornings trying to stay caught up at work.



Where I spend most of my mornings

 This is my first post in.... forever. So I'm hoping to be back on the wagon. The good news is between kids' school and work, I think we're starting to get a handle on the crazies.

I have been trying to keep my workout routine up. I know I have said this before, but no workout = crazy mama that no one wants to be around. Now that we have gotten past August in Houston, its definitly better for running. For those of you who don't know, the heat index for Houston in August is typically between 105-110F. The insanity of trying to run outside did not get me very far. I HATE treadmills so I would look for times that were "decent" to run. The term decent is relative and used loosely in this case. Most evenings in August were still 93+F.

Since July, not too bad

When I did get to run, I started using the Nike run app to track my mileage. I've done pretty good so far with it; I think I've missed using it a few times. I like that it annonces the pace and distance, and has a counter on it that tracks miles ran. During my run, I still use my Garmin. I'm pretty much married to that thing; not sure I could ever live with out it. The level of detail it gives during the run time is awesome.

Life has been extra crazy which means normal minus blogging. So maybe now I can add the blogging back in. I have some traveling planned and I always try to run when I'm in a new city and talk about all the differences between cities and areas.

How has life been for you??