Bee-utiful Day

This morning I got up at 5:20 to bake the casserole for my husband's group this morning.  I had woken up at about 12:30 with a bad dream about not waking up in time to bake the casserole, so I slept pretty lightly and woke up often to frantically check the time.  After it was out of the oven and my husband left, I went back to bed until a little after 8 and felt much better rested.

After breakfast, I did some more cleaning.  I have found that cleaning keeps me busy and moving some, which is better for me than sitting at my computer for a good chunk of the morning. I finished vacuuming the main level and then tackled the basement.  I dusted, organized and swept.  Thankfully, I have my Roomba to vacuum the basement for me, so that it one chore I don't have to do.  I make up for it with all the dusting to be done.  The basement has 7 bookcases lining the walls that I get to dust. Oh joy! (Dusting is my least favorite chore.)

After I cleaned, I decided to re-map out the route I run with my friend in the afternoons.  I know how long the whole route is, but I have been meaning to find out where we hit our mile marks.  It would be helpful to know that so at at least 2 places I would be able to check and see if I am staying approximately on pace.  I did a rough sketch of it so that I won't have to re-look this up. (I will remember for a while, and then forget and then have to look again).

My standard route, wildly not to scale, probably.  (The little circles are all the cul-de-sacs we hit).

After lunch, I did some more research on GPS watches and then went to go pick up the pictures I ordered yesterday.  While I was out, I had the scariest experience I have ever had while driving.  I had my windows rolled down to enjoy the nice weather and a huge bee flies into my window and crash lands on the floor of my front passenger seat.  I hate bees near me!  I will move away or inside to get away from bees so it being inside my car while I was driving was like a nightmare since I couldn't get away.  After it crashed landed on the floor it moved for a bit and then stopped.  I scooted in my seat as far away from the bee as possible and kept glancing from the road to the bee and back.  After it hadn't moved for a while, I decided it must have died and that when I came to a stopping place in about a 1/2 mile, I would pull over and somehow remove the dead bee from my car.  I was almost to my stopping place when the bee started to move again!  I was terrified!  I had almost calmed down and now it turned out the bee wasn't dead, only stunned.  It started to crawl towards me and I had to turn away and not look at it.  I heard it start flying and hunched my shoulders up, hoping it wouldn't fly towards me.  I ended up, very fortunately, flying towards the passenger side window (which I had by now rolled up to keep any other kamikaze bees out) beating itself against the window trying to get out.  I rolled down the window and out it flew.  I rolled the window back up and then reached the place where I was able to stop.  I stopped the car and waited for a few minutes to be able to breathe.  I then drove the last 1/4 mile, got my pictures and went home.

When I got home, I told my husband the story of the bee and he hugged me to make me feel better.  After that I worked on a crochet project.  I bought the patterns for some Star Wars dolls (amigurumi is the proper name) from this site on Etsy.  I have made all of them for my friend's boys (who all love Star Wars) and they had a request.  They wanted me to make a Luke Skywalker and a Han Solo dressed in storm trooper costume.  I decided to see if I could just kind of combine the two patterns and it seems like it works!  I have only finished the body and head of Han, but it looks pretty good.  They asked for them at least two months ago so I am hoping to surprise them with them when I, hopefully, see them tomorrow.

I went with my friend for our run at 5:00ish today.  The high today was only 73, and it was more like 70 when we ran so it was gorgeous weather.  I had been looking forward to running in this nice weather all day and it is likely that if I hadn't had a run scheduled today, I might have moved stuff around and ran anyway.  The weather was just too nice not to take advantage of.  We made really good time today, going 2.6 miles in the 30 minutes.  So my pace was 11:33.  That meant if I could have kept up that pace for another 1/2 mile, I would have set a new 5K record for myself.  Not too shabby.

After the run I had dinner, called my mom and hung out with my husband.  We didn't do anything special, just watched NCIS and The Big Bang Theory on TV before we went to bed.  It was a nice relaxing end to the day.