Sitting here staring at a blank blog screen, once again not sure what to write. I have a busy week this week- we're doing a "retreat" at work on Thursday and Friday. Really, what that means is that we have meetings or discussions both of those days and that I had to shuffle my entire schedule around. I'm doing 17 visits in 3 days. I did 6 today, although to be fair I "only" visited 5 different houses. I saw one set of twins. 110 miles. Moved one of my regular appointments from Mondays to Tuesdays to accommodate another therapist's schedule. Works out just as well for me, so I don't mind. My car is acting up and only getting about 21-23 mpg, when normal for me is 28-30. Means I'm stopping for gas 2-3x/week. First attempt to fix it was to have the tires rotated and rebalanced and such. I'm not sure that will account for that much of a drop in mileage, but it was worth a try. I should know tomorrow if it worked. If not, then I don't know what. We already had the CV(?) joint replaced 2 years ago, and those are supposed to last 60,000 miles. I drive a lot, but not THAT much. Diagnostic at a place we trust is expensive, any work would be expensive because I hate to bother our resident handyman/mechanic since he's been having health problems lately. Granted, the extra gas is expensive too. Don't really have the extra money normally, and definitely not this month since I just bought my plane tickets to Michigan for October! Yay! Plane tickets! 2 whole weeks at home in Michigan! Nichole's wedding, then time to hang out and visit with family and friends. Have a few projects to finish before then, but I should have time in August when Chris is in Chicago with Scott. Lucky guy gets to leave the desert when the heat is at its worst. Oh wait, that's right now. And crazy me is still running every other day, although I did take the weekend off. It helped. Don't worry- if I don't make it out the door by 7:30 I consider it too hot to even think about running. I'm debating whether or not planning to run a marathon in January makes me crazy. Keep in mind that I don't have a time goal in mind, other than to FINISH. I think Ava actually gets tired of running before I do; her "tell" for that is when she decides that every rock in every yard needs to be individually sniffed. Or maybe that just means she's hot and bored and ready to go home. I'm not sure yet. We took her to PetSmart yesterday and she was REALLY good. Hardly pulled at all, didn't bark at the other dogs, let people come up and pet her. She went through a 16 lb bag of food in just about 3 weeks. Our 2 cats go through maybe 3 40 lb bags of food per YEAR. We aren't over-feeding her. Her food gets measured out every day.
And no, I don't feel like paragraphing today.