Good Things Friday

So this week, my foot has not improved, and now I have a cold, so it’s not great, but I went to the physio this morning and have a plan for the week, which is a good thing. I will need to be off my feet just in case it is a stress reaction in the bone, so no running or walking for me, but I can ride and go to the gym once I’m over my cold. I also have some non-weight-bearing exercises in case it is the tendons. We will reassess next week, and if it’s not getting better, I’ll need to go for an MRI. In spite of these setbacks there has still been some good things.

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Angela Taylor Memorial Run/Walk

This has become a bit of a tradition for us. One of our friends is a cop and puts in a team each year. We did the 10 km run. It’s around Albert Park Lake, and this year, I made it part of my long run. I parked near where we planned to meet for breakfast afterwards, ran to the start, entered the race and then did a lap of the lake. Then it was two laps for the race and run back to breakfast for a total of 20 km. It’s been a couple of weeks since my last long run, but I got it done. Afterwards, we went to Jack the Geezer for breakfast. I had their eggs benedict, with bacon and avocado on potato rosti. Yum! Edited to add: I wrote this paragraph on Monday and haven’t run since.

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Sunset over the Water

On Monday, the weather was warm, and the sky was kind of clear, so we decided to go to the water before dinner to see if we could see the devil comet. So, there were clouds on the horizon where the comet was going to be, and we were a bit early. We stayed as long as we could, but I had to get back and finish cooking dinner. The sunset was pretty spectacular though.

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Finished Puzzles

The girls spent a big chunk of Sunday at our place, Monday evening, and then Thursday, which was the Anzac Day public holiday, so we got two puzzles finished. The first was the Dome of St Peters. It’s a 1500-piece puzzle that I found at the Op Shop. I immediately snapped it up because we went there in 2016 with our eldest. Unfortunately she didn’t remember it, she could only remember the outside of St Peter’s even though we went up into the dome. The puzzle was pretty difficult with all the gold pieces, but very pretty. The second one, S picked up from the Sacred Heart Opshop when she was volunteering there. It was also a 1500-piece but had three pieces missing. We’ve decided that we don’t mind too much when there’s a piece missing, and we know not to spend too much time searching for any particular piece.

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Bonus Good Things

• ANZAC Day public holiday. Granted I was sick but it’s still good having a little mid-week break, and it meant I didn’t feel like I should have been doing anything except lazing around.
• Important information to know if you shop online, especially if you practice bracketing.
• If you are like me and need to write to think … that is to wrestle your thoughts into some kind of sense, you might find the post “How to Think in Writing” interesting.
• And another post about thinking: “How to have fun thinking with a paper dictionary”
• It’s fascinating how the same scene photographed at different times throughout a year can change. I feel like this would be an excellent project, especially for those of us who walk or run similar routes most days.
• A big ride down the coast on Tuesday afternoon instead of running. I woke up with a cold the following day. I’m glad I got some exercise in this week.
• I am happy for my son, who is working this weekend on The Red Hot Summer Tour. So exciting for him. He’s bunking in with some of the other workers and we’ve been getting some interesting photos of the food they’ve been preparing.

How’s your week been? Have you been doing/reading/seeing anything interesting lately?