Filed under: Ordinary Life | Tags: church, fitness, Leslie, sports, wedding, work
This weekend was humid and I don’t think I stopped sweating the entire time.
It all started with the Angel Game on Friday night. We just sat there in the nosebleed section sweating for like 3 hours. It was a great game, but I definitely needed a shower by the time I got home.
Then on Saturday morning, I helped my friend J-Lo move. They’ve had almost all of their earthly possessions packed up in a storage unit in Hawaiian Gardens. There is nothing remotely Hawaiian, or at all Gardenish about that place. It’s mostly just hot. But, moving everything with a bunch of really cool people made for a fun morning. A decent workout and a free lunch were both an added bonus.
Saturday night Leslie and I went to a wedding. It was one of the most beautiful weddings I’ve been to since our wedding three years ago. But, again it was just really hot. I didn’t stop sweating the entire night. At one point, I wound up sitting across from an NFL hall-of-fame lineman who is also a very funny man. Needless to say, he’s still a pretty big guy and he was sweating, too.
The next morning we had a big combined service. With many people really involved helping with the wedding the night before, it seemed like there were a lot of things left undone that had to be pulled back together at the last minute. That created frustration and more sweating. The service wound up being really good, but I get to have some follow up conversations this week about what surrounded the service. I didn’t have the best reaction to some of the distractions that morning, and I want to make sure we’re all on the same page going forward.
Then, to top it all off – while I was at work today, Leslie was grocery shopping and came out to find her car had a flat tire. For the first time all weekend I decided to just not sweat it. I’m completely capable of changing a tire. But, we have AAA for a reason. I let them put the spare on while I stood in the shade and kept my cool.
The long, hot weekend ended with laps across a pool, lounging in the shade, eating some delicious food and watching “What About Bob?” – the best Labor Day movie ever. The week ahead looks really full. I hope I can keep my cool through it all.
I decided this week that I was going to work out every day. Not if I felt like it, or if I got around to it, or at least every other day – I wanted to work out every single day. I really surprised myself. I actually did it. I stuck to the plan and had a real work out of at least one hour every day this week. I feel like I had more energy all week, a greater sense of purpose and accomplishment each day and I just plain felt better. Now, the real catch is can I do it again next week? 
