So you know that I actually started this blog in March 2009, bumbled along for about a year, pulled the plug I think in May 2010, and started over in June 2010 like my sweet Audrina, a joke I'm sure I have used before. Some of the better posts from back then have already been raptured into this new incarnation, like my work/play series and actually also my racerback dress, of all things, is heading up the charts like a bullet, thanks to Pinterest and Stumbleupon, and now and again I think about repopulating the back end of this blog with the rest of the best of my old posts as a record of where I came from. I took at serious cut at this and then decided against, because I was just too out of control back then. I just wouldn't want any of my struggles to be accidentally construed as advice. In this incarnation I have been wrestling with reducing my workout schedule and always ending right back up with five practices per week, which I like to think is lovably ridiculous, but where I came from wasn't even funny with me wild-eyed trying to manage up to eight practices and the twenty different vitamins I was taking, man, my vitamin chart was off the chain.
At long last, a glimmer of sanity:
| SUN | MON | TUE | WED | THU | FRI | SAT |
| SLEEP | SLEEP | SLEEP | SLEEP | SLEEP | SLEEP | SLEEP |
| HOBBY | HOBBY | WORK | HOBBY | WORK | HOBBY | PLAY League |
| HOBBY | HOBBY | WORK | HOBBY study | WORK | HOBBY study | HOBBY |
| PLAY Leag/Ref | PLAY Fury | PASTIME | HOBBY study | PLAY Scrimmage | HOBBY study | PASTIME |
| PASTIME | PASTIME | PASTIME | PASTIME | PASTIME | PASTIME | PASTIME |
| SLEEP | SLEEP | SLEEP | SLEEP | SLEEP | SLEEP | SLEEP |
...or well, insofar as a color-coded chart of one's life represents sanity.
Actually down to four practices a week, though. I know it looks like I'm trying to squeeze in two practices on Sunday. Those are practices that I lead, they count as recovery not key workouts. Lead means lead, Munt. I have a slight ego problem with this that I am working on.
What I got rid of is Wednesday practices. Mainly because my certification exam is coming up in April, so I study instead of practice. I've been doing this since being back from break, and it's been an eyeopener. It's so awesome. It's not even that I need the whole night to study, I just need not to have to wrap it up at 5:00 so I can eat and get dressed. I can press on points that I don't quite get, and wind naturally down by 6:30 or 7:00. And also, I can leisurely cook dinner.
If I don't do all the practices, I actually have the energy to pick up my kettlebell. Which is fun and something different, and which I don't have to bike for twenty minutes to get there. I actually already feel stronger, I only do it for fifteen minutes twice a week.
I mean, whatever. Poppy discovers sliced bread, film at 11.
I'm just saying, I'm so happy. I'm playing better, too. I said this in the car on the way to Naptown and Go-Go paused and said, "I'm glad you finally realized that, Poppy." Ahhh kids, they never listen and always have to figure it out for themselves, and now I have kids who don't listen.
