Retail Therapy....works...

Yes yes...it does work for me !! Ya, today was one of those days where I was missing home, missing friends and generally missing being busy! And it was also one of those days where I truly understood the meaning of the age old adage...."An empty mind is a devils workshop"...so no matter what I did today, the negative thoughts kept returning....and the more I thought...the more negative they got.....No amount of watching fun shops, reading fun stuff...nothing helped...

So I decided I needed some fresh air and since the fresh air was so hot, I decided I would not mind some conditioned air as well..and decided to indulge in some shopping...well it was nothing much....and no...it wasn't the usual clothes or shoes...though I did end up buying two t-shirts, but that was only because they were on sale and I need something light when I run (well..and then its about time to even put an update on the running bit)....and in such moments of mindless buying I keep wondering whether I've turned shopaholic and then the very thought takes me to happy thoughts of all the Sophie Kinsella books and with a smile on my face I return to the shopping...

I bought very small things today...mostly all grocery and stationery (of course those who know me well, will probably wonder, if i can ever shop without buying some stationery...be it even a small pen), but even that managed to lift up my spirits..and I came home refreshed - and even home seemed brighter and cooler..!

So here I am looking forward to tomorrow - with new hopes and plans..!!!

The "Half" this time....

I've been reading "Runners World" a marathon running related magazine for inspiration these days....an interview with the co-founder of twitter caught my eye and provided much needed inspiration. He mentions in his interview that he tweets every morning that he plans to run...so this leads to people asking him whether he ran that day..which of course motivates him to run on those days..so that he can answer them without a guilt and his head held high (well my words, not his..;-))...so in the spirit of holding my head high...I would also like to declare that I plan to run a half marathon this year!!!

The last year when I decided to do the Mumbai Half Marathon, not that I didn't have a good number of people asking me about it and also providing daily inspiration..but this time its a much more public declaration...so am sure it will inspire me further plus I have no excuses too. Taking all sorts of inspiration today...I also plan to use the idea from "The diary of a Fat Man" from Mumbai Mirror where this guys reports every week on his weight loss progress......no...no...don't plan to report on the weight loss progress...though I'd love to do a before and after series of myself....but on the running progress every week, so that I feel compelled at least 2 days before every Friday to start running...!

Anyway the registration for the marathons here is more expensive than our Stanchart Marathon...so am sure there are serious runners..not like hundreds if not thousands of us who walked the Sea link this time...so don't want to enroll and not run or run/ walk and end up in the last few finishing the race...so I'm all serious this time...

So those who read this...pls put a reminder for yourself to check on my progress...lest I try to chicken out....and pretend this blog was never written...will surely owe you for it..and then who knows I may be able to have my before and after series as well...!!!!!