Sunshine!

I woke up this morning and felt sad. Negative thoughts flowed through my mind. Not good. I hadn't run in two days - too busy with my son's high school graduation stuff. Not sure I'd be able to run today either. Our plan today was to get the boat out of storage and get it cleaned up and ready to put in the water for the season. Usually this is a big day for me - the start of waterski season. Usually this day is sometime in mid-April though. Not this year. We've had an extremely wet and cold spring. Even the locals are complaining. Anyway, it was another grey, cold morning here and getting the boat out seemed like an exercise in futility. We ate breakfast and then headed to the storage area. A quick hook-up and short drive and it was on the driveway and ready to be cleaned. We bought a new cover last year and now I know why I'm such a fan of Sunbrella fabric - the interior of the boat looked almost as good as when we parked it for the winter. I was able to quickly clean the front interior while my husband worked on the exterior. I went inside for some supplies and my running partner called wondering about the 6 miles we had talked about yesterday. Yes, I was was ready to go. I was still feeling gloomy and the cleaning was going fast so maybe a run would make me feel a bit better without setting back the boat-cleaning timeline too far. Even if we put the boat in the water, I wasn't going to ski anyway - it was too cold even for me! So we ran. Grey, gloomy, cold. After a mile, some blue was spotted in the sky. Another mile, more blue. Mile 3 I took off my long-sleeved shirt. Mile 4 the sun popped out. Mile 5 - a bit warmer. Mile 6 - my running partner is slowing down because of the 'heat'. Wow!! Finished in sunshine! Felt like spring! Yippee!! Who knows - maybe I'll take a first-day ski after all!! I think I found my sunshine!!