Race Fever

Had a preemptive exciting week! Nothing grand happened, but plans are being made!

To start the week, Steven and I decided to name are wonderful addition Apollo (Ji). We narrowed it down to Jiji and Apollo and in the midst of tossing the names around I realized we can be funny with his name and make him Apollo Ji, Apollo for short. He's been nothing but a ball of joy! Apollo is playful and cuddly. He's beginning to get use to our sleeping schedule, though I'm sure he sleeps plenty while we're gone. He zips to the door as soon as I walk in and was house broken in one night :)

Saturday was his first vet visit at A Valley Animal Hospital. It was fun filling out the new client sheet because it asked for any previous dr.'s name, so to be funny I put down Dr. Ross Engstrom. For those who don't know, my parents are both veterinarians and my maiden name is Engstrom. A Valley Animal Hospital is my mother's practice while my father works at Animal Clinic of Kent. So hence my entertainment in filling out paperwork for a veterinarian who's known me since birth.

Apollo is Feline Leukemia and kitty AIDS free! That has me ecstatic because when getting a kitten without any paper work and and no shot history, it's a gamble as to whether or not he's healthy. Well, so far Steven and I have been lucky. And for his first vet visit he did really well. He had one blood draw, one shot, and was pilled for worms. The only unhealthy thing that he had was fleas so far (which I had discovered on Tuesday). In 2 weeks Steven and I will take Apollo in for his second check up and check his stool for parasites. If he passes that, Steven and I are truly blessed with a sweet tempered and healthy kitten.

After finally getting our kitten home (car rides still being stressful for him), little Apollo tuckered out in my lap while Steven and I enjoyed some free time.

Saturday Steven and I also got some ladybugs to put on our romaine plant since they were infested with aphids. We think they are doing their job well because we haven't seen many aphids yesterday and today. But other than the Romaine being bombarded with aphids, the garden flourishes. There is flowers on the green bean plant and we will be having an over abundance of green beans I'm sure.

Now back tracking a little Thursday and Friday I had the opportunity to be the lead teacher in Pre-K. It wasn't a breeze to be honest, but I never felt out of control. I felt I did a very satisfactory job. It was unnerving to let other teachers take over for my breaks and to let me go home because I felt I was carrying the load for my co-worker and felt responsible for the welfare of her students. But I had nothing to worry about because each time I came back from a break the room was in tact and the kids not being overly rambunctious. 

However Friday I was filling ill. Had a headache practically all through work and as soon as I got home, 101 temperature. So I took some Ibuprofen and went to bed. Felt much better in the morning though later Saturday I began feeling ill again (exhausted) but was well all Sunday. Today feeling like I'm going down hill again with a headache, but no temp (thank goodness!).

I hope I get real good and sick so I can be rid of it and focus on the race I've signed up for! Yep, I am running a race! It's called the Dirty Dash. I will be running 4 miles over obstacles and through mud pits on Saturday August 4th. I will most definitely be exhausted by the end of it, but I feel this will be an experience to remember and possibly make it an annual event!

I'm wanting to start conditioning myself for the race (yes I probably should have started that a month or 2 ago), hence why I really want to get terribly sick then be over it so in 2 1/2 weeks I can go do the Dirty Dash.

I already know I can jog 3 miles in 30, but what about now? I'm 173 pounds! 3 miles was back at 190. Grant it weight loss may not give me super hero energy and speed, but I imagine my endurance may be longer due to the less weight I'm carrying. Plus I have been more active by swimming, biking, hula hooping, and some Zumba for the past month or two, so I would hope jogging wouldn't be too difficult of an activity for me to jump back into.

I'm super excited with my weight lose and the up coming race. I hope I won't be ill for too long and sorry in advance to those who saw me over the weekend if you get sick XD

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P.S. For those interested in the Dirty Dash, you can join my team or come hang out at the race grounds to pelt me with water balloons and cheer me on :) Just comment or send me a message.