Sunday Update: Reading, Sports, Sleep

This week was a much more... sustainable one.  I feel perhaps the last post should have been titled "Icarus Week" as I'm not sure what insanity prompted me to leave the house for social and sport on 4 of 7 evenings, after nights where I was randomly waking up at night, and during a buy week at work where I spend one day doing baby jabs (as in, two appointments, taking up 2+ hours of my work day).  

It turns out, condensing my 37.5 hour workweek into a 30 hour one, and then condensing that into a 25 hour one working around family commitments, is not really sustainable.

This week, although I had the ability to leave the house in the evenings, I did not. I didn't see my gym buddy because our schedules didn't line up.  I didn't see my mom sports buddy because I was too tired.  I did have a long planning session with Andy on Wednesday evening (there is so much to organize in life and kinds right now)

I did get out mountain biking for a WHOLE DAY with Andy and it was great.  We both took off work on a school and nanny day.  The last time we went biking together was March of 2023 and I was super slow and also knew I was pregnant but not yet aware it was twins.  Mountain biking while not first trimester twin pregnant is sooo much more fun.

Reading

One Day in December is cute.  Will they? Won't they?  I love how people write about how twenty year olds think about true love.  It's cute.

Sports

First, my gym session on Friday last week destroyed me and I could barely walk on Sunday.  New gym friend is very into gym, has a baby younger than the twins, and is super awesome, but my enthusiasm got the best of me and I lifted far more than I probably should have.  I did not do any sport on Monday or Tuesday because I could not really walk up stairs very well.

• Wednesday
• 20 minutes HIIT and Hills with Robin Arzon (Peloton, during a lunch break, good thing people can't smell me on Teams)
• Thursday
• 20 miles of mountain biking at our local trail center.  Pedaled up the mountain twice and took the uplift van 3 times.  So much fun.
• Friday
• Lots of walking
• Saturday
• Parkrun 5k! I managed my 4th 5k this year, yay! I also completed one of my yearly goals which was to do a Turkey Trot, and althoug
  h this wasn't on Calendar Thanksigiving I think it still counts because I listened to this Turkey Trot Track:

Sleep

This week I have a respectable average of 7.67 hours of sleep.  Andy has started tracking his sleep and has realized he needs 7.5 hours a night, so we are both being better about being in bed by 9:30pm.  It's a lot easier to be in bed by 9:30 when you don't do anything in the evening.  Mornings are not yet a viable "do something" time because Audrey still loves a 5:30 wake up, but I am optimistic that this is not my life forever and someday I can go back to waking up at 5:30 and doing sport, rather than waking up at 5:15 and watching babies and kids for the next 14 hours.

In other news:

This week Birchie has been posting her weekly eats and reading and workouts and watching for SEVEN YEARS now.

I used AI to plan our meals this week! Sort of.  I wanted to have hot dogs for dinner one night and I asked Chat GPT what side dishes went well with hot dogs and it said corn on the cob and also baked beans.  This dinner was a phenomenal family success.  This is the second real world application of AI in my life and if AI can do my meal planning then yay, sign me up for my robot overlord life.

Have you ever used chat GPT? Do you get overexcited at the gym and suffer from mega DOMS? Did you do a turkey trot this year?  Do you like leaving the house in the evening?