worried

And after listening to the speech, I spent the rest of the day on the couch, pumping my body full of everything from green tea and chicken soup to Emergen-C and Oddwalla Wellness juice to holistic medicines and over-the-counter drugs.

I am trying not to freak out. Less than two weeks until my race and I can't breathe. This is not a good thing.

please don't be a sign

I got my bib number and race program in the mail yesterday. Since this is my first real running experience ever, I read everything carefully.

Yes, iPods are allowed. Yes, I can check in my sweats at the starting line and someone will bring them to the finish. No, there aren't any hills. (Yes!)

And as I continued to examine everything in my packet, I started to think, Wow, they really take a lot of precautions and put emergency information all over you just in case something happens.

And then I realized, Oh wait -- that's not emergency information. 911 -- crap, that's actually me.

one down

Knocked one off the list today: I went to Ume for lunch, and it was pretty damn good. Granted, I stuck to specialty rolls, edamame and miso soup, so I didn't try the nigiri, but what I did have was excellent.

One of the rolls was topped with salmon and a very thin slice of lemon. Man -- what a great combination of flavors! And I'm not usually a salmon fan (although if I do eat it, I prefer it raw -- for some reason, cooked salmon is too strong for me).

Definitely going back.

for lack of anything better

There are those times when you are sort of hungry but not really that hungry and definitely not craving anything specific or else craving something very specific -- so specific that you don't have it in your house at all, but are basically too lazy to change out of your pajamas and get in the car and go somewhere and buy it.

So you just stand in the kitchen with the refrigerator door open, even though you know this is one of those things that PG&E told you not to do if you are trying to bring down your energy costs.

And you stare into the refrigerator and think of things like Why do I still have soy nog when it's not Christmas anymore? and Will I ever really eat all of that Filipino candy? and Why is there so much butter?

And nothing is really solved. And then you repeat the process 15 minutes later.

rest day

No running today. Just cooking. Big batch of lentils and brown rice. A mushroom and onion quiche. My goal is to cut down on the lunchtime spending. And maybe try to get to bed a little earlier, just like Miss Mari here.