How To Not Sell...

I can't stand when people try to sell me something and do it poorly.  I am actually pretty easy if you try to sell me something but act as if you don't care if I buy it.  Those who try for the hard sale never get it with me.  I say this because I went to the gym to pick up a guest pass to see if I would go at all during the week before I spent the money to sign back up.  I was supposed to meet up with the guy who sent me the deal via text last week but he wasn't there.  I ended up dealing with another sales guy who was a complete douche.  I explained that I was there for a guest pass to try things out before I signed up for the deal I was told about.  He proceeded to rudely tell me that that particular deal should have ended already and that I better hurry up and sign up because I shouldn't really be getting it anyway.  I thanked him for the guest pass and promptly threw it away once out the door.  That was last week.  Today I just got a flyer in the mail from the same gym offering me the same deal.  So I guess the deal is still going on fucker.  What kind of dumb fuck does this guy think I am?  Oh gosh, I better hurry up and sign up for the gym or the deal will go away.  So that is what happened with the gym.  Maybe someone should teach these guys better tactics on selling because scaring prospective members into signing up isn't the best idea.
As far as my running goes...it doesn't.  I went out last Friday, which I already wrote about, and haven't been out since.  I suck.  I have lost 2lbs though and have been eating really clean.  So not all is lost.  David, the girls, and I went to the grocery store on Monday and really spent some time picking out good things.  I feel really good about my choices this week and I guess it has showed in my weight.  I did get a short swim in today which felt really good.  I hope to be back outside next week.  I may write a nasty email to the gym's corporate office and maybe I'll get a even better deal.  I'll let you know.

Injury

I knew it would happen at some point.  I figured it would happen while I was running.  Last week I was walking around my living room and slammed my left foot, more specifically my 3rd toe, into our ottoman.  It hurt like hell and I limped my way to the couch.  My little one saw the whole thing and made me feel better by asking "Oh momma, are you ok?".  It totally made me feel better but within the next thirty minutes my toe turned a shade of dark purple.  I thought I had broken it.  It was very sore and I took some tylenol and went to bed all the while my toe was pulsating pain.  The next few days I limped around trying to keep most of my weight off that foot.  It got more and more purple as the days went on.  By Friday though I thought I would try to get a light run in.  Because I was limping around keeping the weight off my  leg it went out of joint and a weird pain that has been bugging me since I was pregnant with Annabelle came back.  David looked it up and said it could be a few different things but we think it is sciatica.  It went out because of me favoring it and bothered me until yesterday.  When I went out last Friday it was for a 2 mile run and I was barely able to finish.  Today was my first day out since (a whole week) and it wasn't good.  I really thought that by this time I would be a little further along.  I at least thought I would be enjoying it more.  Thinking back to my childhood it annoys me to no end that I never exercised.  I am now trying to turn around 30 years of inactivity.  It depresses me to think that I may never get to the point where I want to run.  I think it would have turned on by now don't you think?  I was thinking about going to the gym again.  They called to offer me a good deal to sign back up but I don't know.  I like the idea of running in air conditioning but hate the idea of having to deal with people. I am still as of yet undecided.  On a different note I finished watching LOST.  What a ride that was.  I got interested in May when the series was ending at it was all over the web.  I started watching just after that and enjoyed the series very much.  As far as WTF moments...I do have one.  We ordered outdoor furniture seven weeks ago from COSTCO.  We were told it would take 4-6 weeks to be delivered.  Well it was six weeks ago last Friday.  We had company over for the 4th of July and really thought the furniture would be here by then as it stated on the website.  Generally they overestimate the time so you will be pleasantly surprised when it gets to you early.  No luck there.  It comes today - a week late.  Apparently it got held up at customs in California.  Then when we got the email to schedule the delivery we set it up for today in the morning.  We got a call telling us that they don't deliver to our area in the morning so would it be ok for them to deliver this afternoon.  My reply was "do I have a choice?"  What the hell kind of question is that?  You are telling me that they don't deliver to my area in the morning, so what the hell choice to I have then?  I just want my fucking furniture!  So I leave you hoping that I can get back to form with my running.  I hope that at some point I will start enjoying it.  Or at the very least understand why I don't.  I will try again tomorrow or maybe I'll go into the gym to see if I like that better.  I have to do something.