Me. I am. ME!!!! It’s suppose to be in the high 70s today – a nice change from yesterday’s 90 degrees– and I’m taking that as a sign to skip Crossfit tonight and go running in the woods.
In other fall running thoughts, I’ve been chatting a bit in the comments over at Health on the Run about last year’s Bourbon Chase and MAAAAAAAAAAAAAAN do I want to do that again. Running through horse country in October with the promise of Bourbon at the end of your leg? Yes, please. I wonder if I can get my IM crew to rally next fall for a little runnin’ race….
Anyway! That’s what I’m thinking about today while I struggle through Friday. (Long week – home from Belgium (yes I know hard life) at 11pm on Tuesday and right to work Wednesday morning: TIRED.) I am getting excited for Labor Day weekend, both because of an extra day to catch up on sleep, but also because, finally, after 7ish months in our house, I am Ready To Nest. We are still living in white walls and lots of left over furnishings (did I tell you our house came furnished? It did. And we’re finally like, “yeah, actually that decorative bowl of pine cones has got to go.”) So it will be nice to actually have some time to do some heavy lifting and start making the house feel like ours. I mean, obviously, there’s no rush (seven months, y’all), but something snapped in me a few weeks ago where I was like “MUST PAINT ALL THE THINGS” and the sight of a what previously was a perfectly fine couch is now prompting me into a rage. So! Nesting it is this Labor Day weekend.
It seems fitting, given that last fall was all about uprooting and moving — I’m ready to make this fall about settling down and staying.
Whatchu got going on this weekend? Wanna help me paint?
InnerTeub 
Running in the woods sounds amazing. I, on the other hand, am wood-less so I will be doing Fran. UGH. Kill me now, por favor. Only 6 more hours of anticipation.
I have thought about that Bourbon chase about 10 million times since you first mentioned it ages ago. I actually have tried to convince Garrett to do it (as the resident bourbon lover in our house). You may also need to apply the pressure in October now that you have F1 cred, you know?
I think it’s funny that you want to nest — I took next week off from work solely because we have lived in our house together for 3 years (garrett for 12 years altogether) and THE WALLS ARE STILL WHITE. And I can’t handle it anymore, so I’m determined to paint. I’m feeling very ambitious about it, but you know I have zero experience. We’ll see what happens…..
I’ve wanted to nest since before I got back to MN, but alas, living in my sister’s old bedroom temporarily doesn’t exactly lend itself to nesting. It’ll have to wait. In the meantime, this weekend I’m headed up north to my boyfriend’s parents’ lake cabin. Um, I think that’s the most Minnesotan thing I’ve said this week.
Side note: FRAN! I know what that is! I am SO IN on the CrossFit lingo! I haven’t done Fran yet, the only “real” workouts I’ve done are Cindy, Elizabeth, and Fight Gone Bad.
Boyfriend’s cabin? Apparently you can take the girl out of Minnesota but …then you send her right back again, I guess 🙂
FRAN! The work 5-10 minutes of your life! Good times 😀