Running... or really walking...

I have been running just about every other day for a few weeks now. A definite help is my soon-to-be-hubby going running 'with' me ('with' is a term used loosely... he leaves around the same time as me, but I have no hope of keeping up with him so he runs ahead and then comes back to run/walk with me). Another draw/motivation is the idea that we are running by our soon-to-be new house! It's about 2.5 miles round trip, with a healthy hill as well as nice flat areas.

I have tried to be a 'runner' a few times in my life but it has never, ever worked for me. Back in grade-school, I was the one who always wanted to be goalie... because I hated to run, and I was always the last picked in gym (yeah, I'm over it). In volleyball I could never run all of the laps (and there were lots and lots of them... I remember having to do about 50 one day when we had to run 5 lap for any serve anyone missed....) I just never could run.

I've always wondered why it was so much harder for me than for everyone else? I never gasped for air like I had asthma... my legs weren't in excruciating pain... my biggest problem has always been awful awful sideaches...

So here I am today. I'm trying again... but I still can't run for a long distance... though I will keep trying. At this point I can go maybe 1/2 a mile without stopping to walk. After a bit of walking, I run again, for a shorter distance. But I'll keep trying. Maybe... just maybe.. by the end of summer I'll be able to run the whole 2.5 mile loop. At the very least, I'll keep trying!

I am NOT lazy...

Ok, I disagree with myself, I admit... But I have been working hard at being NOT lazy. Here's my proof...

Since my lazy post I have: looked at 20+ houses, made an offer, accepted an offer, scheduled a home inspection, been to a home inspection, scheduled appointments with the loan people, been to an appointment with the loan people, scheduled appointments with the home owners insurance people, other bank people, talked to my entire family about the house, moved my car insurance to a closer provider (to coincide with the home owners insurance provider), gotten a permit for my 'paperwork' wedding at the Capitol building (I don't want to go through the hassel of a legal Mexico wedding getting transferred to be legal in the US), lined up a judge to do the 'paperwork' wedding, registered at two stores, signed a whole lot of papers, been running 3 days this week, fit in tanning so I don't turn into a lobster at my wedding, contacted my wedding coordinator about travel insurance in case I can't go to Mexico because of the flu, paid for the resort part of my wedding in full, as well as the usual day-to-day shopping trips, work projects, and self-sanity activities (watching a movie that made me BAWL... Marley & me :'( )

I think that counts as not being lazy, right? (buying a house is SOOO much more complicated than getting married)