quicknotes

*It's not just the work treadmill. It's any treadmill. I need to just say no. I burn more calories on the precor anyway.

*My cycling shoes** arrived yesterday! Now I just need to buy some SPD cleats, and I'm all set to use the clipless pedals at the spinning class Saturday.

*The mystery smell from a couple days ago? It was my gym bag. Gross, I know...but I was wearing my running shoes when I hung the Christmas lights back in December, and our front flowerbed is used as a...um, how shall we say...depository for the neighborhood strays. The dirt there is positively stinkadelic. The shoes had been aired out since then, but apparently had transferred their stench to the inside of my gym bag. It wasn't really noticeable until I moved the bag. Or took something out of the bag. Or dropped it on the floor in my office. I'm now using a different bag until laundry day. But at least I know it wasn't phantosmia, or any of our cats using my clothes as a litter box. Both of those would have been much more disturbing.

*You'll be happy to know that the Clomid worked as expected. If my basal temperature is to be believed, ovulation has come and gone. I haven't wanted to kill anyone for days, either, which I'm sure my family appreciates. However, being no-patience me, I want to take a pregnancy test, like, right now. I'm making myself wait until March, because it really wouldn't be able to detect anything until then anyway.

*I'm going to try to work out twice today. I've got a church meeting tonight on the office side of town, so I'm going to go straight there after work. Since I drive right past a 24-hour fitness on the way home, and I don't have to rush to pick up Noah, I'll hit the elliptical after the meeting. Since I'm kind of light with the fitness points at work this month too, I'm also going to try to do a quick thing over lunch. With the way my hips and knees feel today, though, I'm going to have to be careful with overdoing it on the legs. Oh, and as noted above, ABSOLUTELY NO TREADMILL.

*I've been reading a book on time management, since I am horrendously bad at it. I've gotten through chapter 2 (or is it 3?) that suggests recording all your to-dos in one place, and treating time as a...something. Commodity? No. Resource? No. Dammit. I can't think of the word the author used, but the point was to think of time as finite, assess how long your daily activities really take, including travel time, prep time, personal quirks, etc. Then schedule everything. To this end, I have bought a day planner. And unlike previous day planners I've had, I'm actually using this one. It's gone pretty well so far. Except that I didn't really schedule writing this post, so it sets the rest of my day back a bit. Though, now that I look at it, I didn't have anything scheduled from 10-12. Score!

UPDATE: The name of the chapter was "Making Time Tangible". Tangible. Oh, thank God I finally remembered, it was driving me crazy.

*Speaking of the day planner...it tells me today is Ash Wednesday. My residual Catholicism is kicking in and telling me to give something up for Lent. I haven't decided what.

*Eating has been pretty good this week. After 3 pm is always a challenge for me, but my theme this week has been planning ahead. I went a little off plan last night, but trying to stick with it today. One day at a time, and all that.

**These, in case you were wondering. They're not exactly great as road shoes, but they were relatively cheap, and the recessed cleat means I can walk around the gym in them after the spin class. I'm not even sure I'll like being locked into the pedals, so I didn't want to invest in some schmancy road shoes that I'll use twice and then throw in the back of the closet.

Hope the Clomid works for you! I used it twice and got pregnant with girls both times, once on the first try.

Good luck w/ the clomid. I have my first consult w/ the doc next week. I am guessing they will prescribe clomid. I just had the blood work and stuff done.