Injuries and family filled week

It's been a whole two weeks since the half marathon now, and I have not once worn my running shoes and gone for a little jog. Not that I did not want to! But Wednesday morning I started with a niggle in my left ankle, and by Thursday morning I could hardly walk! I had to miss my planned little recovery runs and had to miss BMF. By the weekend, I was better, but walking along Loch Lommond on Sunday, the little niggle went back to a sharp pain, and Monday through till Friday morning I worked four killer shifts in ITU that left me standing for most of the 12 hours, and I had little time to recover.

Besides, having family over from Malta this week, meant more eating out, more goodies, and more calories piling up giving me my lovely shapely muffins on my flanks. So now that it's just me and M once again, the eating needs to stop and the running shoes must start working again. Need to test my ankle and start slowly again and hopefully will be running 10k again in 2 weeks or something like that. Well tomorrow, I forgot to mention, there is munro trekking in the plans. And seems like that is going to test my ankle in the first place. Fingers crossed. There is nothing worse than feeling unfit and being lazy.

So we had four extra Farrugias in the house this week. It was good fun, and pretty crowded here. At times we just bumped into each other and got annoyed, but most of the time we just enjoyed each other's company. It's nice having family around. I planned the shopping and the meals from weeks ahead. We made a nice spinach and chicken pasta, grilled rainbow trout and roast vegetables, stir fried ginger chicken with rice, and prawn curry. And ate out the other days. I love entertaining so didn't mind the cooking at all. Now that everyone left, and it's just M and I, I'm loving the silence, having our space back and being free. When family is away you wish they're here, and when they're here you long to be alone. Such is human nature, and I can't decide which one to choose if I had to!

Living away from home and with M, has brought us closer to each other. Although we have loads of friends and a good social life here, M is my only family and having no other commitments is also nice, so I'm learning to appreciate everything in life. That's what I try to remind myself in those rare, horrible moments of homesickness.

Looking forward to the next few days...no work, Carlisle, munros and Lord of the Rings. Diet needs to come in somewhere and I hope there will be some time for a jog.