Adapting to real life

Buzzfeed has been even more dead on than usual lately. When we returned to land on Saturday and I was asking people what I missed in the world, someone told me "well, not much, but there were a lot of really funny Buzzfeed articles". PS I'm so sorry I can't remember who said that, so feel free to take credit in the comments. I missed A LOT in the blog world and even the real world and was trying to catch up really quickly.

First of all, finally my love for Wegmans has been documented, and I think everyone from Upstate NY will agree 100%. The one about Wegmans being your "night out" as a teenager - this was my life from ages 13 to... well let's just say for awhile.

Then I'm going to tag along to Kari's post about being in introvert, because Abbi linked to an article in her comments that seriously is my whole life. This might as well have been written about me and me alone.

YUP

As always, returning from vacation and adapting to real life again is HARD. Like, tonight I wanted to eat dinner. Not only did I have to cook the food myself, I had to go to the store to buy it first. I even had to clean up afterwards. Total BS. 

To compound that problem, today was my first official day back to work. If you've been paying attention at a level that people rarely do when it comes to blogs, you'd be wondering "back to work? you've been whining about having to work all summer". Well yes, I have, but that was summer school, my second job, and other optional, low stress work. (Not optional in terms of paying bills, but optional in terms of contractual obligations). Today was actually the beginning of the new school year (for teachers), which is a horse of a different color. Did that make sense? No? Let's move along anyway.

I am very lucky to:
a. have a job
b. like my job

but I think anyone who has experienced a Sunday night will agree that not working will always be superior to working, if for no other reason than it means more sleep and less pants with zippers. Returning to work is even harder coming off a week where every day the biggest problem was deciding which activity would be the most fun.

Luckily, my life doesn't suck, it's actually pretty good, so I think I will adapt. In time.

Yesterday I ran 5.25 miles. It felt pretty much how you might expect after 10 days of nonstop rich food and hydrating with liquor almost exclusively.

This morning I was up at 5:30 to attempt to get my back into my routine. I ran 7 miles with no watch and actually felt pretty decent. Now I've probably jinxed myself for tomorrow though.

What's your favorite thing about not being at work?