I'm still alive!!!! - but been a bit busy!!

Today is day 8 without a run, and it would appear that Mr hurty foot is loads better..

Imagine that - I have ACTUALLY rested an injury..

[sits down in a state of shock]

Thinking around it (as I do) I have come to the conclusion that a quick play with a FootScan machine would be a good idea - and have someone at Sweatshop look at at my foot type and watch me running - and get some new shoes that are flatter in the footbed than the Asics that I've been using up until now..
It's been hard not being able to get out in the crisp morning air, running is my *me* time, and with having done 5 Weeks of Night Shifts over the last 6 weeks - and not had enough sleep in between - the effects of sleep-debt have been a bit nocticeable!!!!
Add to that the niggling bruised instep, and I could have been pretty grumpy..

This weekend just passed was the first one that I've seen my kids for 3 weeks. They are pretty settled these days, and have well and truly made themselves at home.. they really get on well with the larger small people that they share the space with.. and we are all finding our feet which is good..
I have worries about them of course, and interestingly my concerns are slightly different to those of their Mother - just a different perspective I guess.
Next weekend I'll only have the Li'l Prof and Princess, as Mr Speedy wants to go to a party and sleep-over with one of his friends. It'll be strange not having the three of them together, and I'm not quite sure how I'll feel about it. On the one hand, I'm really proud of him for making a decision on his own about what he wanted to do - on the other hand I will REALLY miss not seeing him and having all three together. I guess as they grow up that it will happen more and more, that they choose to do things other than come and see their Dad - part of the natural order of things I suppose..

For anyone who doesn't know yet - I have a new job!!
Back to doing something I really enjoy - in a role that befits my experience - on a unit where I was really happy..
and the Big Move is happening in just over a weeks time

Life is too short...
Make the most of your opportunities..
Life is there to be lived..

Clichés perhaps...

But I don't want to waste a single moment of my life...
Neither should anyone else