If it ain't broke, don't fix it.

This weekend was full of such fun with good friends :)  I am so happy I got to visit College Station this week, and get away from Houston for a little while!  It's so nice to get to leave my to-do list behind in Houston and just enjoy life a little bit :)  SO excited to be headed to Austin next weekend!  I am going to need a major nap (borderline coma) after all of this!

I always forget this.  If I would remember not to fix what isn't broken I would have so much more time on my hands.

My favorite example:
My mother has been making the exact same banana bread muffins for the past 25+ years.  NOT kidding.  The recipe made the move with she and my father from Kilgore to Houston before my sister and I were born.  Over the past year I have tried multiple different recipes, trying to find another one that is equally as good, or one that has some special zing that will fill some void in the banana bread that isn't even there.  Well, one evening my mom and I decided to have a bake-off.  I made one recipe and she made another.  Naturally, she finished in half the time it took me since she's memorized her recipe.  And of course, her recipe was still better.  I have since given up on ever trying another banana bread recipe.

Dear Bobby Flay,

Please come have a throw-down with 

my mother.  Somebody needs to . 

Love,

Kelly

For the past couple of months I have learned a huge long overdue life lesson:

If you're happy.  Don't worry about it.  If you're not happy.  Something needs to change.

I'm making one change currently.  Swimming with a masters swimming group.  I still love swimming, and although I don't swim nearly as much as I did in high school (and do not miss waking up Saturday mornings...oh wait almost every morning and some times again in the afternoons of senior year to do 100 fly repeats) I still enjoy going to the pool and seeing what I can do.  I am hoping that getting up at 4:30 in the morning a couple of days a week and swimming before work will leave me more time in the evening to enjoy other things.  

Sooooo waking up at 4:30 am tomorrow please work out as well as you did on Friday! But I could go past the whole waking up at 4 am and being antsy for 30 minutes about sleeping past my alarm clock!  I need to catch up on sleep here!!

I've already decided what's coming up next.   Beethoven Sonate Pathetique 2nd movement  I've always wanted to learn this movement on a better level than I already know it.  The Pathetique Sonata is one of my favorite pieces to play on the piano.  I've already learned the first movement, and although I can easily sightread the 2nd movement, working on technique would do me some good.  And with how much it is raining I need something to do inside!!  And I can't play claire de lune forever.... And it's probably a good idea to refine some other hobbies besides triathlon and running.  I don't even talk that much about how much time I spent at the piano.  It always seemed as if I could spend soooo much time practicing but somebody else would out-practice me, there wasn't a big feeling of self accomplishment in piano for me when you're being critiqued by judges all the time.  And I still stand behind wondering why it was important for me to be ear trained, because I seriously haven't used that skill in a solid 7 years..it def didn't improve my car-singing... If anything I'm just overly sensitive to noise now...

So about 6 weeks out from Galveston 70.3.  I'm guessing I'm pretty well trained, and am excited for this race!  After a ~60mi ride this weekend and feeling good enough to run strongly after, that's gotta be a good sign!  I know that I need to ride more though.  I am starting to enjoy riding so much more than I used to, but have 6 weeks to see what else I can do before the big day!  Sounds like some more upcoming changes!!

The past few months have been full of ups and downs and challenges for myself.  But for once, I am completely at peace with all of the overall aspects of my life.  I don't have lingering questions in the back of my mind and know that I am headed in the right direction.  It's a different confidence that I haven't always had, but am loving it!

Tomorrow starts another long work week.  44 hours (to cover part of next week since we work 9 / 80s) and possible overtime since we have a deadline coming up.  But pay day is Friday too!! Seriously, I sometimes think I'm insane trying to keep up training for a half iron (or marathon since that just passed) and work so much and keep a social life.  A nice long spa day would be quite nice!

Now I just need to find a recipe to try out this week...

Life is good.