Running indoors is great - once you get there

I went to the gym twice today - to workout and to join - in that order.  The person who told me on the phone to "just show up" might not have been someone I should put my faith in.  Oh well. 

Nothing I did in the gym was as difficult as getting there.  Tuesday is garbage/recycling day and so I walked out the door this morning with a pizza box, a bag for the green bin (I'll explain later), my morning tea, a breakfast sandwich, and my gym bag.  Put the pizza box in recycling, the green bin in the green bin (I told you I would explain later), and then went back to the porch for the other stuff.  After I drove for about 10 minutes, I realized that my gym bag was still on the porch.

All this I blame on the raccoons.  The green bin is for all your compostable garbage - so all your banana peels and stuff you left in the fridge too long goes in there, and then they take it to Michigan and burn it.  Or use it to fuel the socialism machine they have downtown - I don't really know what they do with it.  But, we are trying to blend - so we participate.  The problem is that this green bin of nastiness is really attractive to raccoons - so you have to keep you green bin sealed up with straps and bungee cords and all kinds of things (beacuse if they get in, they make a mess of all this nastiness).  The unionized garbagemen will not undo any straps (not that I think they should - please don't go on strike AGAIN) and so all this must be done in the morning.  Hence the too many things to do and the forgetting.

But I ran 4 miles and didn't get upsold into a platinum elite super membership (which happened to be on sale today and today only).  That counts as a win.