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16 Januar 2008

Erster Alltag

I met Ashley so early today – at 7:30am – that I didn’t run in the morning but when I came back home around noon. Work wasn’t great today, one of these days that you just want to get over with.
But it was nice spending time with my parents when we took Brownie for a walk in the jungle later in the afternoon.
My dad and I cooked dinner together. He’s a very good cook and it was fun. Everybody loved the butternut squash mac’n’cheese!

Besuch aus Deutschland

My schedule was so full today, it was almost overwhelming, but somehow I got it all done.
Intervals early in the morning went well. I really like this plan that gives me different workouts every Tuesday. That way it never gets boring.
Working with Ashley and Lori was also successful. We did the presentations and got more appointments set up.
The farrier who was was supposed to be at the barn at 4pm didn’t show up, of course. But as much as I’ve learned so far in the horse world over the past 20 years, farriers usual don’t show up at the time they said they would or they just don’t show up at all. So I waited until 4:40 and went home because we had to go to Orlando to pick up my parents at the airport.
I haven’t seen them for a year and they’re going to stay with us for the 90 days their visa waiver allows them to stay.
It was great to finally see them. We’ve been talking on the phone every week though, so it didn’t even feel like we haven’t met for that long.
We took them to Chipotle for supper and went to bed early. They were exhausted from the long flight and the jet-lag.

11 Januar 2008

Back to business


I’m back to almost normal again, just a tiny little bit of stomach sickness left, but I’m eating normal. Just can’t see some foods that I usually like.
Anyway, I was able to do my tempo run, work all morning with Ashley and ride the horse in the afternoon.
It was pretty warm today and I enjoyed lunch on my favorite bench underneath the orange tree in the garden.
Now it’s Friday again and we’ll be going to Sarasota tomorrow to watch a working cow horse show. That should be a lot of fun!

10 Januar 2008

Ruhe und Erholung

Den Morgen habe ich größtenteils im Bett verbracht, um diese blöde Krankheit auszuschlafen und das ist mir auch relativ gut gelungen.
Ich wollte mich absichtlich schonen, damit ich nachmittags mit Ashley zu den beiden Terminen gehen konnte, die wir ausgemacht hatten. Eigentlich waren es ja drei, aber ein Arbeitgeber hat – zum Glück aufgrund meiner Situation – abgesagt und so war mein Arbeitstag heute nur etwa eine Stunde lang. Das kann man ja ganz gut aushalten.
Um meine Laufserie – seit März 2007 täglich – einzuhalten bin ich dann noch zum Rockledge Park mit dem Fitness Parcours gefahren und den Weg zweimal ganz langsam gejoggt. Dabei sind zwar nur 2,4 Meilen zusammen gekommen, aber ich wollte es ja nicht gleich übertreiben. Der Trainingsplan war mir da heute mal egal und wenn ich morgen wieder richtig fit bin, kann ich die Tempoeinheit immer noch nachholen. Wenn nicht ist auch nicht schlimm.
Jedenfalls hatte ich heute einen sehr geruhsamen Tag, so dass ich Jon, der völlig fertig von der Arbeit kam, das Kochen erlassen und mich alleine am T-Bone Steak versucht habe. Sehr nett fand ich dass es warm genug war um auf der Terasse zu essen.
Jon ist dann auch gleich ins Bett gefallen, eigentlich ganz untypisch für ihn. Ich hoffe nur, dass ich ihn mit meiner seltsamen Krankheit nicht angesteckt habe und dass wir beide morgen wieder fit und fröhlich um halb sechs aus dem Bett hüpfen können!

Bisse krank musse in Schrank!

After a short work morning I went shopping and had lunch on the beach. Everything still seemed fine when I called Jon and started driving to the barn to ride Brownie, but my stomach just began feeling sick and sicker and I was so tired I could barely think.
After a short attempt of riding the horse I had to go home and to bed for almost the rest of the day and night. I even had a fever.
Maybe it’s a weird kind of the flu or something like that.
I hate being sick!

08 Januar 2008

Von morgens bis abends

Den Sonnenaufgang habe ich auf dem Rennrad erlebt, den Sonnenuntergang beim Laufen. Dazwischen habe ich viel gearbeitet und zusammen mit Ashley einige Arbeitgeber überzeugen können, dass es sich auch für sie lohnt, ihren Angestellten die Möglichkeit zu bieten, eine Krankenversicherung abzuschließen.
Sogar nach dem Laufen musste ich noch weiter arbeiten und neue Betriebe für morgen heraussuchen. Da war ich ganz froh, dass wir statt zu kochen einfach mal Pizza bestellt haben. Da konnten wir gleich unseren Coupon nutzen und haben für $12.99 zwei große Pizzen mit Pilzen und Paprika bekommen. Da ist sogar noch genug fürs Mittagessen morgen übrig geblieben.

04 Januar 2008

Horse, Bike, Run

I am seriously tired now!
After getting up at 5:45 I ran 10 miles in the morning and did some core strength training, worked with Ashley from 9 to 12:30, put my bike in the truck and rode it for 17 miles on SR 520 and Nova Road, Florida’s back country, rode Brownie for an hour and then stacked 34 bales of hay with Stephanie.
That was a strenuous amount of cardio and strength today and now I’m ready to eat the mushrooms with ham and cheese that Jon is making on the grill and not move away from the couch for the rest of the evening. We might watch a movie and I’m going to bed very early tonight!

03 Januar 2008

Stromausfall

Not only cold, but windy, ugly, dark and some raindrops. This was definitely no typical Florida day and the cold was the main topic on small talk among most businesses I went to with Ashley.
We worked until 2 or so today and after updating everything at home I went out shopping to get some groceries and utilities, although I was neither very efficient nor successful.
The first store, Dollar General wouldn’t take credit cards and there was no ATM available, so I had to leave everything that had taken me a long time to pick behind and went to the next place. They didn’t really have what I wanted and while I was browsing their crammed shelves suddenly the power went out and everybody stood in the dark. It didn’t make any more sense to stay there, because I couldn’t see anything and the check-out would of course not work either.
Police was controlling traffic, as the traffic lights were out of power, too but fortunately Publix and the Dollar Store still had power and I was able to get all the groceries I needed and some of the other stuff.
It was already after five when I started driving back home, I was hungry, tired and cold and when I came home Jon wasn’t even back with the truck yet so I decided not to go to the barn today but just start cooking dinner with Jon who came home shortly after me.

02 Januar 2008

Abgekühlt!

It got cold today! I ran with a warm shirt, long tights, gloves and a hat in the morning and did the same on the bike in the afternoon. I can’t believe how cold it was. We even had to turn the furnace on in our house, for the first time since we moved in in June.
For Shelly it was good that it was so cold. She had to run a mile in 10 minutes which she had just barely accomplished on Monday. Today her instructor was there to take the official time and due to the cold she was able to run the whole time and do the mile in 9:42 with me pacing her.
I also worked a lot today, went cold calling with Ashley and got my spreadsheet updated. That took a long time, but now I’m back on track.
After running with Shelly Jon and I made a good hot stoup – thicker than soup and thinner than stew – that warmed us up pretty good and I went back to work. It’s been a busy day today.