Near-perfect Saturday

I started the weekend off right....with a clean house.
As stated in the previous post, we had some friends over last night...kind of welcoming a new couple into the neighborhood, and we prepared by vacuuming up all the dog hair and dusting and mopping all the surfaces. Actually, we didn't do all that; my husband and kids did all that. And all the surfaces weren't covered, just the ones that the guests would see. But I digress.

When I got up this morning and walked into the family room and saw, well, nothing, it was an amazingly peaceful feeling. No one had left their shoes out. No mail stood unopened on the table. No ice cream bowls littered the coffee tables and no dust bunnies scurried after me as I padded to the kitchen to make coffee Talk about bliss. To a mother of 2 teenagers and 3 canines, this is absolute, unadulterated heaven. I got up before anyone else and was able to enjoy the quiet just as the sun was starting to peek over the horizon. It was just a marvelous start to a great day.

The fact that the house was already (mostly) clean energized me to do more. I cleaned the master bathroom (that didn't get cleaned yesterday because the guests wouldn't see it), dusted the master bedroom and cleaned my silver jewelry. I even switched out some pictures in frames to some more current ones. Then I took a nap. Isn't that what most industrious people do on Saturday afternoon?

The waning hours of my SaturDAY involved running 3 quick errands (delivering SBR clothing) and dropping off jewelry to be repaired, and a great swim. I worked in sets of 300's. In the off season, it's fun to mix things up - still getting in some good yardage, but not worrying about doing any really long sets. I did a warm-up, some drills, some strength work, an intensity set and a cool down. I felt wonderful! It's amazing what swimming 3x/week can do for your swim confidence. I even dabbled with a bit of backstroke and fly. (I know, who feels good enough to tackle fly if you don't have to.)

Now I'm back home. I'm hoping to enjoy a quiet evening, a home cooked meal and an early bedtime. I have an 8-mile run planned for tomorrow and it better go well. This is kind of the benchmark run for my half marathon in December.