Happy Easter to Me!

Yesterday, DBF had a buddy over to watch F1 Racing (his favorite!), so I opted to make myself scarce for a few hours. I had intended on running a whole bunch of shopping errands that have been piling up, but alas due to the holiday not a whole lot was open.

I decided to head downtown to a different, bigger Starbucks on Spring Garden Road and read my book for a while. It was crazy busy, but I managed to secure one of the big, comfy chairs so I was pretty content with that. Unfortunately there was a couple of super loud chatty Kathies beside me that were actually really distracting. They seemed pretty excited to see each other, but for over an hour they were regailing the whole cafe with stories of their trip to Europe. Slightly annoying after a while.

So, I decided to grab another coffee and get out of there....and while standing at the counter I picked up an Easter giftie for myself.


I do already have a travel mug that DBF gave me last Christmas, but it hasn't shown itself since the move. And now that I'm stopping for coffee after the gym a few mornings a week I wanted a mug to carry with me so I'm not always using more paper cups. (ya, and it's like the perfect shade of pink so it wasn't that hard to talk myself into it!)

I then decided to go for a walk up the street and see if The Running Room happened to be open...and it was! Finally, a place to find some new gym shoes that might actually fit properly. It is so nice to find salespeople that actually know their product, rather than just sell the product. Conveniently it wasn't busy (probably because most people would assume they would be closed) so the incredibly helpful sales guy spent about 20 minutes with me picking out different styles to try on. He watched me walk to check the pronation of my stride (which is pretty normal, but due to my narrow heels he recommended and mid-range stabilizing shoe). I tried on about a half dozen different shoes, in different brands and such....but chose the first pair he had picked out. A couple of the pairs were comfy, but the Asics were the only ones with the heel support I liked. They are made with that memory foam stuff so they mold to fit my heel and just really felt like they fit me. I hope they are as comfy for running at the gym as they were for walking around the store. I guess I'll find out this afternoon!


I also picked out a pair of double-layer breathable wicking socks, to hopefully help keep my feet drier when I work out. The cotton socks I have been wearing make my feet sweat extra-hard, and I can only imagine that won't be good after some time passes.

I spent more on the shoes than I had planned, but isn't that always the way? I plan to continue on this running/gym path though, so I think it's money well spent.

After leaving the store, I was stoked to head to the gym and try them out....but ooops, I had the holiday hours wrong in my head and I got there too late. Booooo! So instead, I came home and took Mojo for a much needed walk around the neighborhood. It was windy as hell, but the sun was up so we had a good time.