A (not) easy run, sunscreen, and marshmallows

Today's run was not one of those ones where I feel awesome and want to keep running forever. I wanted to stop at a half mile, and at miles 1, 2, and 3. But I chugged right along and got an annoying text from work that made me finish up fast and strong. Whatever works.

5 easy miles in 50:07. I'll take it.

It wasn't so much the running that was the problem as it was the pain in my neck/shoulder. It's back. Again. I think I may need to look into getting a massage or going to a chiropractor or something. It seems to keep happening and it really makes it difficult to run - it makes it hard to take a deep breath! I don't need that.

Buddy was tired from all the sleeping next to the treadmill while I ran.

A while ago I posted about my favorite sunscreen - I realized the kind I have is only at Sephora and it was out of stock forever. I just got an email that it is back in stock! You can find it HERE.

I recently learned that having a phone that actually works makes me use a TON more data than I had been using before. Weird, right? I think a phone plan change is in the works.

I failed to take a picture, but dinner was cedar plank salmon (Alaskan salmon, none of that sketchy east coast stuff) and cous cous with onions, zucchini and beets. I will very shortly be partaking in some ice cream.

Oh, speaking of sweet things, I forgot to tell you about these:

I turned them in to rice crispie treats. They're good, but they're not really very chocolatey or minty, which is odd. I think the marshmallows would be good in hot chocolate. You know, when it's not summer anymore.

Sugar high

I'm looking forward to the days when I don't have to be at work before the sun is up.

We have been talking about our five senses during circle time at work this month. Today we used all five to explore marshmallows. The kids were pretty excited. I had them look while the marshmallows were still in the bag so they couldn't instantly pop them in their mouths. We smelled them through the bag and then again after I passed them out. Only a few chowed down right away, the others humored me by shaking their marshmallows to see if they made a sound and squishing them to feel them properly. They all enjoyed the tasting part the best (of course) and I had to cut them off.

Then we ran them around outside for half an hour before music so we didn't have them going on a sugar high rampage through the classroom.

I had over 18 hours of overtime on this paycheck, so I don't feel guilty at all that these came today:

They were on sale and I wanted to make sure I got another pair of PureFlow 2s before they were all gone. I am going to try my best to not wear them until I need to retire my purple PureFlows, but we'll see how that goes!

I actually get to go in at 7:30 again tomorrow (instead of 7), so I'm pretty excited for that extra half hour.

I'm really happy that tomorrow is Friday. Fridays are my low number days (only 8 munchkins), and they're more laid back than the rest of the week. They're also the only day I get to work with my other assistant (they're both part time), and she is super high energy and a lot of fun to work with.

What makes your Friday great?