Feeling alright these days, no IT shadows since last week, though the farthest I’ve gone in the last few days is an 8-miler. Tomorrow I’ll go for 11 and hope for the first double-digit in a month that doesn’t require a stop for stretching. I’m seriously pooped though and the heat doesn’t help.
I haven’t been sleeping, mostly because of an evil red cardinal living in our courtyard that loves taunting Kitsia, our cat, who’s always laying out on the deck. The cardinal will stand on the deck rail starting at 5am and chirp loudly and unceasingly to get a rise out her, but the cat doesn’t give a shit. I’ve taken to scaring it away myself by storming onto the deck with a really mean face, yelling “Go away you stupid bird!!” But the bird doesn’t give a shit.
In work news, I got that voiceover job for the Rita’s commercial (the funny one requiring a bit of Swedish pronunciation) so I’m doing that this afternoon. Yay.
Other than that, been doing a lot of designing and redesigning for Adorableshirts.com so I hope to get those up in the next day, then do a couple more running shirts for Gifted Runner, then the big job after that will be getting my music section off Fishpie.com and make its own seperate shop/website. So I’ve gone from not doing anything designwise for a year to giving myself enough work to be steadily occupied for the next few months and beyond. I wish I had more of a money-lust, then I’d work hard all the time. As it is, I wait until some dwindling has occurred, then hurry to catch up.
On a funny note (though entirely aggravating to me), I discovered that after redoing my x-rated shirt site using Zazzle products instead of Cafepress, someone else on Zazzle had immediately copied two of my designs! With great joy I submitted a copyright violation report with Zazzle and they removed the offending copies without ado, but still. People are so stupid sometimes.
As far as running goes, I’m hopefully going to get my mileage back to the 60s starting this week. June saw weekly averages of low 50s thanks to the IT band adventure. This actually worked out well in the end, since a cutback is a healthy thing anyway and I wouldn’t have done it voluntarily. So now I’m crossing fingers and toes for a strong mileage return without incident (though keeping toes crossed sounds like another cause for injury, so maybe I’ll stick with fingers).
Oh, and I never did share a chuckle at the havoc my IT rehab ended up wreaking. Overzealous stretching awoke my dormant ankle bursitis (I’ve since laid off the heavy stretching so my ankle’s back to normal, thank god) but I also burned the side of my knee by icing it so much and not using a cover over the gel ice pack, so I now have a large scabby circle there.
If it’s not one thing…
). After all this re-making of old crap, and to wipe the nasty off, I was inspired to do a brand new t-shirt site based on sweet, innocent kiddy designs. I’m still working on adding stuff, but here it is, 
It’s especially good because it’ll also strengthen my weaker ankle (last year’s bursitis adventure).
