I really wanted to go to spin class today. I set out my clothes last night, set the alarm, plotted what I’d eat for breakfast, what time I’d leave, and then got to bed an hour early! Sometime around 4am I learned that I would not be going to the gym because my burglar alarm started acting up. Every minute passed with a shrieking beep that would not be ignored. Every minute! What is going on out there? The battery was low, it said, so I acknowledged that and went back to bed. One hour later the beeping started again. What am I supposed to do about a low battery at 5am? I hit the cancel and went back to bed knowing that I was going to have to skip class and go get myself a battery at Radio Shack as soon as it opened. I was reminded of this information at 6am, and again at 7. How completely infuriating! I get it! The battery needs changing, now shut up!
I decided to turn running my errands into Running & Errands. I put on my running clothes, grabbed my credit card, iPod, BodyBugg, old battery, winter hat (it was very chilly this morning), and decided to run to the store for my alarm needs. The old battery was heavy, so I had a 6 pound buddy with me the whole time. I stopped at the store, swapped my dead cells for their live ones, and then ran to the bank to deposit a check. After that I ran home to install the new battery, which set me back almost 40 bucks. Ta dah! Mission Accomplis….hey, what’s the problem here? Huh? Of all the things, now that I look at my display panel more closely I see that it was the smoke detector battery that was low, not the burglar alarm battery. Oh for Pete’s Sake! I just gave away a perfectly good battery and wasted $40 in the process. Looking at the bright side, at least I was able to get started on my training for the 15K run I’m going to do on November 1st, right? I threw up my hands in defeat and decided to get back outside and finish the 4 miles that I had wanted to do today, and then I came home and got to the business of fixing the problem with my smoke detector.
Spin class will have to wait.
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