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Well, here it is, my birthday! I feel wonderfully loved and celebrated from all the cards, emails, phone calls and happy wishes. The Sheldons are staying with us this week, so I even got a happy birthday from my godson Max this morning before I went to work. I’m sad that I have succumbed to a cold, so I have a bad cough, not very festive. It makes me wonder if I’d rather get performance reviews done or sleep. (Any chance the performance reviews will write themselves while I sleep? No? bummer.) Yesterday I picked sleep. Today I’m choosing performance reviews. Luckily we have multiple days of festivities planned, so I’ll have time to perk up before dinner tomorrow at 10 Center St, dinner with the Hines/Phillips on Thursday, and Red Sox festivities on Saturday.

What else is new? The weather is cold enough to deter me from running, but too warm to have much snow for snowshoeing. I declared a tiny success in exercise last week – I did 4.8 miles on Valentine’s day, a Martina workout the 15th, 6 miles on the 16th (vacation day!) and got in a Jessica workout (she was my trainer at Fitcorp when I was training for the Danskin Tri) and a Yoga session (thanks to Rich and Sarah for my mat + DVD!) last week too. I figure if I get in a long run each weekend and a couple short morning workouts indoors, I will be building sufficient momentum going into spring. This week I did a morning stationary bike and yoga workout so far. Hopefully Heather and I will kick our colds and get in a run this weekend.

Between house cleaning and church meetings and various other activities, weekends have been uneventful. I am really enjoying cantata rehearsals – the piece for Palm Sunday is contemporary but easy to learn, and is thus a lot of fun to sing, as well as being in a good range.

I’ll bring the camera on Saturday to share pics of the official b-day celebration!