Off with a Bang

What do you call a characteristically positive, robotic, bloodsucking arachnid who leads a band of autobots?

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I'm not kidding. Try to figure this one out.
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Optimus-Tick.

That's for my husband. Who will hate that joke when he reads it. But seriously... attitude is everything, right? So I took a week off of running in the middle of a sort-of-a training period. The weather was crappy, I felt crappy, I just took a week off. I felt horribly guilty about it (especially since I'm experiencing some serious imbalances in my caloric intake vs burn off). But I crawled back on the horse today with a five mile run.

And it felt so good, and I had so much extra time left over, that I tacked on an extra mile.

Second [semi-related] story:
I was at a 3-day class last week and one of the other students came up to me and said, "Hey, are you a runner? Because I just noticed your legs in those jeans."

She wasn't hitting on me, she was just noticing that my quads looked enormous. Thank God for Levi. But it made my day. Actually my week. Heck, that might have just made my year. That I can fool people into thinking that those are actually muscles wrestled into those size 6's... Sweet! I'll take it!!

These are all good milestones for me right now, especially since I've hung myself out on a limb professionally. I'm doing a lot of good work (I'm a massage therapist) but just not for money yet. Ok, a little money. I'm putting together a new program that integrates massage into a mental health setting. It's not crazy, but it's definitely revolutionary. And it's going through all of those stages that any amazing plan has to grow through before being born into the awesomeness that it will be. Which is making me nervous, and leaving me with large gaps of time that are unscheduled, and yeah.

I still wander around my house at random intervals muttering, "It's fine. It's going to be ok. It's fine." Because it will be fine. And if my work-ethic has anything to do with it, it's going to be fantastic. And really, really, really, will change people's lives, and the way they view hands-on therapy.

Yes. This fall is going to be good.