Official October Coffee Date

Welcome to the official October 2021 edition of the Ultimate Coffee Date. Fall is my favorite time of year and today is my 33rd wedding anniversary, so I am ready to celebrate. Pour yourself your favorite beverage–mimosa, anyone?–and join Deborah and me for the Ultimate Coffee Date.ultimate coffee date badge

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You also may be joining the Fit Five Friday Link-Up with DarleneMichelle, Renée, Jenn, and Zenaida.
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A Hot Time In Texas

If you have to go to Austin for a conference and won’t have much free time, you might as well go during a record-breaking heatwave, right? That’s what I did for a hot time in Texas last week. I do believe a record was set when it reached 103F on Monday.

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The Texas Capitol, in Austin 

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Back To The Office

For reasons I don’t understand, work blew up this week. I had a 7 am conference call on Tuesday, worked past 9 pm Wednesday and Thursday, and still am behind on several projects. It doesn’t help that I’ve got back-to-back conferences this week, which will make it hard to actually get any work done.

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I Can’t Believe

Often when something’s on my mind I use my weekly blog post to process my thoughts and come to some resolution. This week there’s a lot weighing on my mind, but as far as resolution goes, I got nothing.

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Starting Shockwave Therapy For My Achilles

This week I started phase 143 of my Achilles rehab. Maybe I’m exaggerating, but I have been dealing with a bum ankle for most of 2021. Will shockwave therapy for my Achilles finally do the trick? I sure hope so.

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True story!

I was so grateful to be able to run injury-free throughout 2020. Maybe I overdid it, but it was worth it to be able to start my day with a few Scooby miles before coping with the stress of the lock-down and 2020 election. That said, I think I should be done paying for that by now. Continue reading

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