Moving March 27, 2007

I am moving next weekend and as a result, have been completely on edge. I did some surface research (aka I googled it) and found that behind divorce and the death of a loved one, moving ranks up there as one of life’s most stressful events. Okay, so I’m not crazy. That’s good. But I have to say that coordinating all the steps of moving from my 5th floor walk-up apartment has definitely made me a bit irrational (there may  have been a flip out over my roommate drinking my orange juice). I guess the bonus is that I get to look forward to some creative logging in my workout log next weekend. Oh, those five flights of stairs. Strength, cardio….yoga? Another positive upshot of all this is that I have noticed that I have been seriously craving workouts as a means to reducing stress. This is a development. Pre-Challenge, a bout of stress would land me on the couch with cookie dough (see previous post “no more cookie dough”). Instead, I have been sweating off my moving woes (like my inability to sell my totally useless and impractical armoire off of craigslist–the bane of my existence, really) on the treadmill. While listening to the new Modest Mouse CD. Which is, by the way, an amazingly good album and great workout music. And it looks like Spring has finally arrived in the city! A definite cause for celebration.