I went out and did my eight mile run today. Third run in five days. I was feeling it by the end of this one, but my knees didn’t complain very much. The night was warm and humid, but flowers were popping up all over the place. There was a nice breeze blowing as the sun was heading down. Storms may roll through tonite, and spring temperatures may return.

Yesterday I went out shopping and bought my first Tivo-ish device. I got the DirecTV HD DVR. I must say, I like it. It has some issues that I sort of hacked to get around, but being able to record one HD program while watching the other is rather nice. While out shopping I also bought a Sonicare toothbrush, a new “fancy” alarm clock that holds my iPod and does lots of cool stuff with good speakers, and several lamps. I’m trying to remember how to spend money and make an overall improvement to my life.

Therein lies the challenge. It is always easy to think about getting things, but I tend to think too much and nothing ever happens. I’m getting sick of that. Between shopping, putting together lamps and new techno-geeky things yesterday, and doing a ton of house cleaning I was wiped out by the end of the day. I got some new things, but there was far more purging going on. The pile going out is so much larger than the pile coming in. And not all of it is physical. I’m also working on changing the mental side of things. More on that in a future post. Cleaning house is definitely both a mental and physical challenge.

Trying to improve conditions in your own life is so tough. It is always easy to look at others and say do this, or do that…but when doing it for yourself it is a different story. This spring/summer I’ll be spending a lot of energy on this current task…we’ll see how it goes.