I usually have the true definition of monday blues, but today was different. Although I woke up in the usual monday fashion (8 minutes until we had to be out the door without my breakfast or lunch) I managed to look somewhat put together at work and was in a decent mood. My manager is on vaca for a week (lucky duck) and we have our (without getting too technical) team lead sitting in-. i.heart.her. and she decided to do my coaching today. I usually get super nervous when others coach me (ok- it doesn't matter who coaches me I'm always incredibly nervous) but she made it incredibly painless. In fact it's probably one of the best coaching sessions that I've had on the job. And it wasn't that my call was amaze-balls, because it most certainly wasn't, but she really gets me and knows how to focus my thinking in the positive and gave me concrete things to work on. So it was a really good feeling to finally walk away not feeling beat up. And for me, that's all I need.

 

I had all intentions on coming home, doing laundry, bathing a feeding my child a very healthy great meal and sharing the recipe here- but life happened. We unexpectedly ended up at Olive Garden (what really happened is our car just drove us there- crazy huh?) where I ate entirely unhealthy and then came home to a filthy house and put Cam to bed.

I did however go for week one, day one run and used the handy dandy APP.

And this is what I listened to: