Striving for balance: too much exercise or too little, speaking out or preaching hate

Dear James, Daniel and Emily,

Had a mixed weekend, although it was good overall. Had a great run on Saturday morning, then took Sunday off. Watched enough football to be ready to stop watching it (after the playoffs of course). Got some little projects done around the house, changing things up for the kids. Started what should be good phase of family exercise time.

Training

My schedule said to do a short, but tough interval run on Saturday. Instead I took a long run, 5.7 miles in an hour, running on a new route. That felt real good, and even thought about doing the same on Sunday morning. Instead I did not run at all Sunday, mainly because we took the kids swimming Saturday afternoon, and an hour or so of jumping around, and wrestling with the boys wore me out, so Sunday I had an excuse to take a break.

Had to remind myself that this is all about habits, changing things up, and missing 1 workout as a result is not the end of the world. And with good exercise habits, and eventually better eating habits, weight loss and overall fitness will come.

Football

I watched basically none on Saturday, and then one full game on Sunday. Just enough to realize that while I will watch the games as they get more important, my interest is definitely waning. I'm ready for the season ending break, and making progress in my goal of making the games less a part of my life.

Of course all of this won't stop me from watching the game tonight. I am very intrigued by this game, and kind of excited to watch a game with zero rooting interests. As always, just to make thing interesting, I will follow my grandmothers philosophy of rooting from the farthest team west, but that's just to give myself an interest an angle.

Politics

Still in shock from Saturday's events. Had to really check myself, keep myself from jumping into the very active fray on Twitter. Because I definitely had my ideas, and opinions. But I held myself in check for 2 very different reasons. First, it is easy to jump in when something happens like this, and politicize it, but doing so accomplishes little, and until we know the full story we won't really know what happened so much of what could be said could be totally wring. Second, and  more importantly, in my quest to focus on the positives, not the negatives, there was really nothing positive to say. So, in keeping with those 2 points, for those who were surprised by my silence, that is why I was, and will remain so.

Family

Sunday we had a very quiet family day at home. We reorganized the kids rooms, shifting the boys beds back to bunks with Daniel now on the top bunk. This was so they could have a little more room in their room to actually move around and play, and room for their stuff, which means more room for clutter, but there will be clutter, it's better to have open space for it, than having ti fill up beds. We made some changes to Emily's room as well, along the same lines, just getting some of the clutter out, and removing some furniture that just attracted clutter rather than helped.