New shoes! Great fortune!

Despite some rather shitacular things happening this week —mostly involving work and arena planning, nothing directly related to my dedicated albeit sometimes nutty co-workers—I stumbled across a bucket o' luck today. All in relation to REI, which I mentioned earlier.

So I ordered an impressive amount of socks from REI when their winter clearance began, beginning of February-ish. Lame, I know, but I love great socks and they had tons of SmartWool pairs on clearance. Both Dicky and I can go through an enormous amount of good boot socks in a week. Something got jacked up with my REI accounts; the package got shipped to my mother's old house in San Antonio, was delivered to a person.. yet the people there (who I managed to get in touch with) swear they don't have it. I mentally labeled them sock thieves and called REI to see if there was anything I could do, as my mother urged. They refunded my money, sent me the two pair that were still in stock, AND gave me a 20% off coupon. Brilliant!

So what did I do?

Bought shoes!

The shoes from the prior post! Originally $126, I got them for $66!

The only drawback.. If it can be considered a drawback.. Is that I bought them in the most heinously vivid color imaginable. Because it was on sale. Because clearly nobody wanted to buy it. I present:

The exciting news being, I was feeling impulse-y at my optometrist appointment this week and bought bright coral glasses. (Train of thought: "I love my CK tortoiseshell frames, but they're kind of mellow. Ah! Hot pink! Much better! I'll just never actually wear them!") So now I have matching.. Glasses and shoes? Whatever. 2012 is turning out to be quite a fortuitous year in terms of weird purchases!

So, on to the actual exercise log today. I was on my favorite workout machine for 30 fierce minutes after work in this stunningly perfect pre-spring weather. Observe:

Liking this riser pad; wish I'd gotten it in black.

And after finishing up with Bandit, I took the pups up to Mt. Vesper. A nice, getcher-heart-pumpin' hike to the top and meditative walk to the bottom. 

Felix takes a look-see out at the Guadalupe River.

I've been enjoying the buddhify app. One of the goals I set for myself last summer was to begin to practice meditation, which I've tried before and royally sucked at. I put buddhify on my phone a couple of months ago and have begun using it again. Each meditation runs between 5 and 10 minutes; I think you can download longer ones. Each one delivers a meditation exercise catered to your current situation (walking, sitting, working out, etc.) with a clear purpose and simple rhythms. I love it. Great way to wind down and stay out of my head while trying to meditate. 

Can I just say, I'm feeling fantastic right now? I want to feel like this always.