Mollifying myself with some lists

Things I got done yesterday:

• Went to choir rehearsal for "Heritage Singers" (we have a way-talented guy in our ward who is getting a Ph.D. in choral conducting and who put together a sort-of-auditioned choir, many of whom are former members of BYU or BYU-I choirs. It's super awesome. He is going to conduct the MoTab someday, I bet. Actually, one of his arrangements is going to be sung in General Conference this time, I hear!)
• Made breakfast/lunch of scrambled eggs and toast
• Refilled handsoap container with "homemade" foaming soap (did you know you can just dilute bathwash or even regular liquid soap and put them in one of those foaming pump bottles and it works just as well as the twice-as-expensive-as-normal-soap stuff you usually have to buy for those?)
• Took a nap (should have exercised, but I was so tired!)
• Went grocery shopping
• Wrapped and mailed my sister's birthday present
• Cleaned out MOUNTAIN of water bottles and other trash that have been in a pile in the back of the Focus for months
• Took a shower (finally) and got dressed in a skirt
• Decorated for and prepared food for our Stake YW Mother/Daughter Dinner which we had yesterday in conjunction with the General YW broadcast
• Attended the aforementioned activity
• Cleaned up after the same
• Did 2 loads of laundry (still one down there waiting for tomorrow)
• Took out the trash and recycling
• Returned 6 library books
• Wrote my "weekly report" for my advisor
• Sorted through a week's worth of mail
• Tidied the living room and kitchen (mostly because my visiting teachers are coming Monday morning!)

Things I didn't get done yesterday (but wanted to):

• Exercise
• Turning over soil and composting our garden plot
• TAXES (eeks!)
• working on my book chapter which is due on the 31st (eeks again!)
• sewed that button that fell off my dress last week
• Finish putting away the laundry
• Wash my winter coat (been meaning to do it all winter..now it's spring!)

*Sigh* Saturdays always go so by so fast. But I feel better now that I made these lists, because the first one is longer. :)

Goodbye, Half-Marathon.

There. I said it. I'm officially giving up on the idea of running the half marathon in Champaign in May. *Sigh* It's all because of my dumb knee. I trained all the way up to 8 or 9 miles (I forgot exactly) , which is actually really close to being done because most training programs only have you train up to 10 miles before you run the race. But then, my knee started hurting and it hasn't really gotten better. I mean, it got better in that it doesn't hurt unless I run. Then, it starts up again. It's so frustrating! I was really enjoying the running and I'm sure--cardiovascularly speaking--that I'm totally up to the distance. I kept harboring a secret hope that my knee would get better and I'd be able to catch up with my training and still run the race. I find myself looking at the joggers outside or in the gym on the track with longing. I just want to run! The stationary bike is so, well, not-that-fulfilling. At least it'll be spring soon and then I can ride outside. *Sigh*