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All We Can Do Is Try
Nov. 14th, 2019 11:37 am I am now the happy owner of enough miso to last me at least until next summer. The mabodon or tofu and rice bowl I made last night came out very well, and I would happily make it again. It needs to be a bit spicier, but that can easily be fixed. I should probably be making some of these dishes in cast iron skillets, and now that it's cool enough for the windows to be open, I may get Fox to work on the pans. He's very good at seasoning them, and I have three right now that I'd like to use, but which need some TLC to perform at their best.
Recently I started picking up my neighbor's daughters at the bus stop. She's worried about them walking home alone, and as it's about a mile, I can understand why she worries. I started doing this last week, Monday through Thursday when she's still at work. She is off on Fridays and gets them herself those days. The ride isn't long but I feel a little awkward because we don't talk to each other. The girls seem okay with this, I guess? I suppose if they wanted to talk they'd start asking me questions and stuff, but maybe they just want to decompress after being at school. I am a little paranoid about it, because I have had people get furiously angry at me for "how I treated their kids," and I, of course, have no idea what I did or didn't do. I tend to treat children like small adults, so maybe that's the problem. I know next to nothing about kids. But no one has complained so far, and they usually say hello, goodbye, and thank you, so I guess we're all good.
I'm back to running routinely again. I need to be - the runDisney marathon weekend is coming up in less that two months and I need to be ready for it. I'm conisdering next year dialing it back to the Goofy Challenge - half and full marathons - then doing Dopey again in 2022 which ought to be the tenth year. I'm also looking at freeing up that time to run other local marathons like Jacksonville. I'd like to find some nearby halves but the closest on is St. Augustine and it's too close to runDisney to be a good idea, and the Hastings Half isn't done anymore. I think they just do a 15k now. I'm not looking to do the Gate River Run again as that field is way too crowded and I feel like I can never run as well as I'm capable of. I did eight miles yesterday at a slightly faster average pace than what I hope to do the full marathon at, and today I "just" do four miles.
I guess I should go ahead and do that. I feel a little anxious and just generally unsettled, so perhaps a good short run will knock some of the jitters out.
Recently I started picking up my neighbor's daughters at the bus stop. She's worried about them walking home alone, and as it's about a mile, I can understand why she worries. I started doing this last week, Monday through Thursday when she's still at work. She is off on Fridays and gets them herself those days. The ride isn't long but I feel a little awkward because we don't talk to each other. The girls seem okay with this, I guess? I suppose if they wanted to talk they'd start asking me questions and stuff, but maybe they just want to decompress after being at school. I am a little paranoid about it, because I have had people get furiously angry at me for "how I treated their kids," and I, of course, have no idea what I did or didn't do. I tend to treat children like small adults, so maybe that's the problem. I know next to nothing about kids. But no one has complained so far, and they usually say hello, goodbye, and thank you, so I guess we're all good.
I'm back to running routinely again. I need to be - the runDisney marathon weekend is coming up in less that two months and I need to be ready for it. I'm conisdering next year dialing it back to the Goofy Challenge - half and full marathons - then doing Dopey again in 2022 which ought to be the tenth year. I'm also looking at freeing up that time to run other local marathons like Jacksonville. I'd like to find some nearby halves but the closest on is St. Augustine and it's too close to runDisney to be a good idea, and the Hastings Half isn't done anymore. I think they just do a 15k now. I'm not looking to do the Gate River Run again as that field is way too crowded and I feel like I can never run as well as I'm capable of. I did eight miles yesterday at a slightly faster average pace than what I hope to do the full marathon at, and today I "just" do four miles.
I guess I should go ahead and do that. I feel a little anxious and just generally unsettled, so perhaps a good short run will knock some of the jitters out.
