Relaxation in strange places

If I am good to my body and my mind, I get up at least 3-4 days a week and go to the gym before work.  I never thought I would be one of those early morning gym rats.  I thought I would loath showering and getting ready in a gym locker room.

I was wrong.

I LOVE getting ready at the gym.  There's no waiting for shower space, no jostling for mirror/counter space, no juggling dog and baby to make sure everyone is changed, walked, fed, and set while my hair dries strangely on my head.  I get ready in record time in relative silence.  Occasional footsteps, showers, and locker noises provide a nice buffer to the outside world.  I don't feel rushed and I'm always on time or early to work on days I go to the gym.

The downside to all of this is small but there.  It's so hard sometimes to get out of bed at 4:50 or 5am.  I miss seeing my baby girl in the morning but I pick her up from daycare and get to spend more time in the evening with her. 

This is a relatively pointless post but I was thinking in the shower on Monday that I am such a happier, more put-together person on days I can haul my butt out of bed and get to the gym.  Teh awesome.  ;)

Snow!

I'm sitting at my In-Laws' house in West Virginia on an April morning watching it snow, and I mean really snow, outside.  It's completely awesome!

We arrived on a warm-ish sunny Saturday.  Sunday was lovely - mid 60s and all that.  Monday it turned cold, clounds moved in and it rained.  By evening it was sleeting a little with tiny bits of ice raining down on us which tinkled like glass upon hitting the pavement.  It began to dust snow later at night and we all woke up this morning to almost an inch of snow and more on the way.  It's apparently "wet snow" as I've been told so it makes really nice snowballs.  Brigid, our dog, wasn't too phased by it while she was out in it though watching it fall from insides seems to confuse her a little.  Belle, our parents' dog, isn't phased at all.  :)

I'm thinking of taking Brigid on a bit of walk today, looping the mile up and around this neighborhood.  I think she'd love to walk in the snow and I know I would!  The only thing deterring me is the rather obscenely steep hill/road to get around the circle.  This town, like apparently all towns in West Virginia, is anchored around and atop mountains.  This makes driving rather nerve-fraying but always interesting.  

Today is a lazy day.  I plan to read, rest, and watch the snow fall.  There is an electrician coming to fix the new hot tub out back and I am very hopeful that I will be able to sit in a hot tub tonight while it snows.  We shall see.  The rest of the week involves driving into Pittsburgh to see a variety of people.  It'll be busy but until then - I'm going to go look at the snow.