The Un-Lent

If February and the beginning of March were all about sacrifice, then the end of March and April were all about indulgence.  And, may I say, in reaction: meh.

Oh, the distractions, the travel, the fetes and exceptions.  Let me count the ways!

2 Bridal Showers (1 involving loads of cheese!)

Bridal shower, sisters!

Post-Bridal-Shower at Irina's

1 Tiger Birthday--with beer making and burgers

Birthday Waffles!  A fine Tiger tradition.

Birthday beer making!

1 English Teacher Conference, 6am meeting time + conference food

Learning!

1 Celebration of the Literary Arts Festival, including dining and drinking wine with fabulous writers (worth it!)

63 flights of stairs, followed by a similar number of beers at the Library

Crumpled, for maximum aerodynamics

Look at this building I just climbed to the top of, from this other building I just climbed to the top of.

6 gallons of wine made at Bachelorette party

Tail Making!

Wine Making!

Post-Bachelorette Party Breakfast

2 bottles of wine and French food at post-final-wedding-dress-try-on-dinner with the girls

2 friends in from out of town to celebrate the wedding

17.5 hours of Maid of Dishonor Mayhem

Good hair was only the beginning

24 hours of post-wedding hangover (mainly from dancing, I swear)

3 days of 0 cycling this month!

several days of .1 miles of cycling on the trainer

And, way too many days of rain and 40 degree high temperatures.

April really has been the cruelest month.

Now, it is finals, and all those people who told me I shouldn't take on so many classes this semester were right.  (I knew they would be).

And, I am just finding that I can't manage near-perfect eating, hardcore fitness, wedding-ing, and end-of-the-semester-from-hell and beginning-of-extremely-challenging summer.

In the midst of all of this chaos, I am working on two things, okay three.

1) Remembering, I've got a lot my plate, and while you can be good at some of the things some of the time, you can't be good at all the things all the time.  This is not my time to be good at eating healthy and exercising like a champ.  That time will come again.

2) Summer, I have learned, is not a magical panacea of time and motivation to exercise.  It is probably going to be just as hard, in different ways, to get 'er done.  I need to practice good expectation management, whilst also getting my sh!t together.

3) I've got a Pie-A-thlon coming up!  And, I've got to bring it Bad-Ass-Unicorn-Style for Goldie!  That means: some treadmill/running and some swimming need to get into the rotation of spin classes I have been dragging my biscuit to in the middle of all this spring-mayhem.

Oh, yeah, and only 88 days until the best week of the year.