Run like a Xenomorph is after you.

Some days, despite all my best efforts, I'm just so damn tired.

I just want to go back to bed. For the rest of the day.

And yet I also want to be up and doing things. Writing, drawing, riding my bike.

I was considering doing the first day of week five of C25K today, or a fourth day of week four training. I don't HAVE to do it; I've already done the three days for week four and the training schedule allows a second day of rest before starting week five.



"Look into my eye!"
Aliens, 20th Century Fox

I need Sarge from Aliens to motivate me today. I need Sarge yelling, "Get on the ready line, Marine! Get some! Move it out, goddamn it!"











I would love to lift Sarge's whole ooh-rah pep talk from the movie and make a sound file thingie for my mp3 player, if I knew how to do such things. From 1:04 where he starts out, "All right sweethearts, we're a team and there's nothing to worry about." to about 1:56 where it fades out with him counting.

But I don't know how to do such things, plus I think it's illegal. I wouldn't sell it or anything, that's rude, just use it to motivate me. I guess I'll just have to watch the video clip a few times and not concern myself about the fact that later in the movie... Sarge (and all the rest of those Marines except Hicks) is killed by those damn aliens.

I think I'll make some tshirts. Handmade, I mean. I took TheDaughter to Hobby Lobby yesterday so she could buy fabric paint and a tshirt to try decorating. I think I'll get some of my own fabric paint and tshirts in nice neon colors (safety first!) and make a bunch of running shirts with Sarge's lines on them. Yep, that's the ticket.