There are 2-portions of my life.
1. Work. Lame.
2. Adventuring. Awesome.
Everything else just seems to be filler and makes me restless. The hard part about this is that the adventuring is becoming more and more amazing...which just makes the work portion seem that much more lame. It's difficult because I 'like' my job as much as I'll ever like work (I think). I could be damn good at it if I could engage my tenacity to take on work like I take on the rest of life, but I'm horribly distracted by the fact that I can't make it matter in my mind. What's the point of earning money for a huge corporation? Soooo, I do my hours and push myself as hard as I can during those hours, but I guarantee you schemes for my next adventure are always in the back of my mind.
Take, for instance, the fact that the winter has barely started and I'm peeved we haven't gotten out in the snow yet. Eure is ready to take the next step in canicross/skijoring and get out on some trails. Harper has just come of age to really start training, so it's difficult to have them at odds...especially since I'm the only driving force for training them. My heart can't wait to be flying down the trails w/them. The last 2-weekends I was dieing to get out snowshoeing even...but timing hasn't worked out w/these short daylight hours. Poop.
This is a short week for work - today and tomorrow b4 a 4-day break. I'd say we could get out snowshoeing then...but I have the Seattle 1/2 marathon on Sunday. I need to take care to save my legs since I'm a little under trained. It looks like I've rather doomed us to some forced relaxation this long break - hopefully we'll use the time to tackle some organization/gear storage issues. Ha. Maybe we'll finally finish painting our house, too.
Amway - back to that daily grind. Tonight we'll run the dogs in the field be my final run b4 the 1/2 on Sunday.
This little engineer is out.
PS Our new indoor bike trainer is amazing. I highly recommend something like this for anyone struggling w/these short daylight hours and a commitment like pups that keeps you from riding on weeknights.