In My Copious Free Time

the cutest dilemma

I can't decide what is more startling...that my nephew Grady is 7 months old already or that he just gets cuter every day. Just when I think he can't get any cuter, boom.

If my shoulder wasn't so sore, I'd pat myself on the back

A couple of milestones to report...

1. I had my first foray into chiropractic treatment on Friday. About a week ago, I reached for something under the couch and felt a "tweak" in my shoulder when I did so. Since then, it's been sore with intermittent aching radiating down through my upper arm to my elbow. Not good, but on Thursday when I started having tingling all the way to my fingertips, I figured something was Not Right and I better get it looked at. I've always been a bit skeptical of chiropractors, but at some point, discomfort trumps skepticism.

It didn't take the chiropractor long at all to determine that my problem was really in my neck, not my shoulder and he isolated exactly where I had a very irritated nerve (this is actually what I expected). He showed me some stretches to do and told me to apply an ice pack 10 minutes out of every hour over the weekend. Monday I go back for an adjustment. Strangely enough, I am excited about this.

2. I ran in a 5k today after doing very little running so far this season. (Season=when it's warm enough to run outside and there's no snow on the track) I slowed down a lot over mile 3 but then picked it up in the end to finish at 32:38. That was 22 seconds too slow to make it into the top 100 women in the race. Oh well, maybe next year. :)

I have two new running favorites. The first is my new running shoes, a pair of Nike Air Pegasus. It's been a long time since I could wear Nikes and I was so happy this pair fits me well. Odd, though - I wear a 7.5 and sometimes even an 8 in regular shoes, my other running shoes have all been 7.5 but these Nikes are 6.5.

My other new running fave is more apparel - a skort, to be specific. I only like to wear running pants when it's very cold, so these skorts come in very handy. I don't know why I like these so much more than shorts, I just do. (And for the record, "skort" seems like an impossibly old fashioned word.)

Oh, and an Alex milestone to report. He lost his fourth loose tooth this evening. Unfortunately for the tooth fairy, we don't know where he lost it - while I was washing his hair tonight I noticed it was gone and he has no recollection of it falling out.