Let me start by saying I was a grumpy bear today..... I woke up with a stuffy nose and head ( picture the Mucinex commercial with all those green guys running around)
I am up for less than an hour and it is clear to me that my Big Dysfunctional Family have decided the holidays are over and there is no longer an expectation of good behavior, all filters that were on are now off.
I have a usual routine and it involves getting in my car and driving to my mom's house fifteen minutes away and making sure she is fine, up and healthy, I do any chores she may need done. I usually muster a grunt of a hello to her husband ( yes technically my step dad) and than head out, it is a lot pleasanter than it sounds! I am her caretaker and another sibling is his and that works great, fantastically, ect ect ect.,..Today not so good, it seems he needs a ride to a Dr appt and the other sibling his caretaker is not answering her phone. I should know that before walking in the door though as I know from this morning half in hour into my morning that she is too busy causing trouble elsewhere than to be bothered with this appt. When asked if I could do it, I suspect my face looked like I had suddenly been spoon few fresh squeezed lemon juice and my eyes darting around as I searched in my mind for reasons why I could not.
By noontime all the morning unpleasantness behind me and I actually managed to escape escorting Mom's Husband to the Dr, I decided to go to back to bed and start afresh a two and half hour nap. I awoke earned myself some Ap's by carrying all the Chrismas decor that had been packed yesterday down to the basement., spent in hour trying to figure out how to deactivate my Facebook account in advance of the upcoming turmoil that the dysfunctional family just might generate ( it is still up, that is how well that went) and headed off to the gym. Yup, the gym, in hopes to raise my endorphins to take over where the Mucinex left off and rid myself of the offending cold, and maybe work off some anxiety created by the day and oh yeah, lose weight this week.
I am better natured, and the family is the same, the cold remains and Facebook is still up, but I had a great humor break. While using the treadmill I had a a young guy come in and take the treadmill in front of me, he was 20 ish, scrawny side, with some arms that looked like they had seen some weights at some time, but a shape more like Adam Sandler than let's say Mcsteamy( love him) from Grey's anatomy. So this guy is wearing a white tank and sky blue satin gym shorts and talking on a cell phone with a head set on! He begins to rub his whole buddy like he is applying sun tan lotion and running at the same time! I start to look around for John Quinones, from the show on TV called " What Would you do?" instead what I find is other gym participates trying to stifle a smile if not an outright giggle! I have and had no clue what this guy was doing and why he stayed about 5 minutes doing it, and I just continued to work out. There were quite a few new people at the gym maybe as a result of the New Years's Resolutions, and maybe working out was one of this guys, but it was great humor break for me as it was funny and he seemed to be in his own world even attempting to impress some of the young cuties there but it really made me think. Sometimes I need to take life a little less seriously and just roll with it. I am glad that I went to the gym, I did not let the family stressors change my good intentions for getting back on track and despite them still happening and the cold I did something that made me feel good about me. I also will watch the news and see if somewhere John Quinones, was there and wondering" What Would you do? "
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