Thinking About A Hiatus

Alas my friends, I’m having trouble keeping up with the blog. According to The Major, I’m not handling the stress of the new job very well. I would argue that I’m handling it fine, it’s just when you add planning a wedding, managing 2 blogs, training for a half-marathon, and various other activities to that list, it becomes a little more stressful than the average person can manage day after day, week after week, month after month.

This being said, I’d like to be able to update my blog at least 3 or so times per week – and right now that’s just not happening. I have so much to write about over the past few weeks, but no time or energy for it. So here are the highlights:

• The tennis tournament was a total blast. I and my partner won the Women’s Doubles 8.0 bracket after a really tough final that we lost the first set 1-6 and had to battle back. My mixed partner and I choked in Round 1, but lucky for us the tournament is double elimination so we had another chance and ended up making  the consolation finals and losing it in a tight 3rd-set tiebreaker to some friends.
• I’ve lost the fire for running, ever since the Saturday morning when we attempted 12 and my legs only allowed for 9. I tried another 10-miler at Kiawah on the beach but again, the legs locked up after mile 6. Since then I haven’t run more than 6 miles. The half-marathon is this Sunday – I repeat, this Sunday. I feel my goal slipping away, but I’m planning to get out there and do my best regardless.
• We had a surprise visit from Michael’s brother Patrick and his wife Marie-Luise this weekend – all the way from South Africa. While it was slightly stressful to quickly pull the house together into a somewhat visitor-friendly condition, I’m happy now that we worked so hard because now a lot of the work is complete! We had a great time hanging out with Patrick and Marie-Luise – played some tennis, showed them the church where we’re getting married, ate good food, etc. I can’t wait to see them again in July!
• I visited Lindsi, Tyler, and little Ty down in Macon last Saturday. It should be illegal for a newborn to be that cute! He looked so teeny tiny in his big crib, just curled up like a little roly-poly…it’s crazy to me that Lindsi is now a mom! In addition, the story of her delivery is enough to make any soon-to-be-married person reconsider the whole process…either no one else has told me the truth or her delivery was especially horrifying…
• Oh, and as if I could forget…we did not win the Lucky In Love engagement story contest. We had a wonderful evening of food, drink, and hearing all of the amazing proposal stories. We also won a couple’s massage, which The Major is simply thrilled about… There were a few stories that we would have been fine with losing to, but the story that ultimately won was, pardon my rudeness, pretty lame. Generally not sore losers, The Major and I have been nursing the wounds of losing to that story all week long…

Well, those are the highlights. As I mentioned, I’m considering signing off for a few months, or making some very minimal posts, while I get my life back under control. I will write on Sunday about how the half-marathon went and if I achieved my under 2 hour goal – if you get a chance and are willing/able, please consider donating to my GOTR SoleMates campaign – I haven’t reached my goal yet, but there are still a few more days left! Check out my fundraising page: http://www.active.com/donate/SoleMates2010/Nadine 

In the meantime, I, along with fellow bloggers, are still doing the GOTR Why We Run blog, so don’t forget to check me out there – www.gotratlanta.wordpress.com.

Until next time…whenever that shall be…;-)

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