2.5 miles in 28 minutes!

Plus, a dream and a toaster, too.

When they say that exercise helps with stress, they aren’t kidding. I had a long, crappy day that had me wanting to dive face first into a vat of cookie dough. And then, right at the very end of my day, I got news that made me wish that I belonged to some sort of fancy gym that served cocktails.

Unfortunately, my gym is just the regular fitness oriented type, so instead I met up with Becky and we did 30 minutes on the elliptical and then 35 minutes on the treadmill. And miracle of miracles, I managed to run 2.5 miles in 28 minutes. I’m pretty sure I couldn’t have kept up that pace for an entire hour, but at least I’m getting better.

In slightly older news, I had the oddest dream last night. I was riding on a train to go see the pyramids at Giza with my mom and my brother – and if you know my mom, you know just how silly the notion of her traveling to Egypt is – when our train was attacked by bandits. For some reason, I had our new toaster oven with me, and I was very worried that the bandits were going to take it. Interpret that one, Freud! Exactly what does the toaster signify?

Speaking of our new toaster oven, when did toaster ovens all become super fancy convection ovens with 27 dials and 15 different accessories? I like our sleek new toaster, but even as a fairly basic model, it is more than we need. All I want a toaster oven to do is toast stuff, roast garlic, and heat up the occasional slice of pizza. It does not need to be capable of cooking a meal for 12, provisioning a space shuttle mission or baking a pie.