If it's broke, use duct tape

I'm so sorry I didn't post yesterday.  Saturday night Maddox woke up at 1am and was awake for 2 hours.  I did my normal Sunday stuff, church, clean house, run, make baby food, make dinner and by the time I was done for the day I was EXHAUSTED.  I had the worst headache and could barely keep my eyes open long enough to put Maddox to bed at 8.  I don't even really remember going to bed. 

Anyway, yesterday my blisters from Friday were feeling better so I decided to try to run.  I read online that you could put duct tape on the blister.  And a friend suggested it too to allow you to run.  (I hear all your "oh no she didn't"s.)  I did . . . I kept saying while I was doing it, I'm going to regret this, Damian asked me why I'm doing it if I'm going to regret it, and I said because I NEED to go for a run.  He told me not too . . . I went for a (almost) 4 mile run with duct tape on my right foot (that was the worst one) and it felt fine, until the very end.  I got home and before starting to stretch I felt I needed to get the duct tape off, I could feel the duct tape rubbing in a new spot, so I thought I should just take it off. . . easier said than done.  I pulled, and felt the skin pulling so decided to quit pulling.  Uh . . . yeah . . . well, here's a picture of the result. 

I ended up cutting the excess duct tape off and just left what wouldn't come off the blister.  I know that once you get rid of that protective skin over the blister it just gets worse and is longer to heal.  So I walked around all afternoon and evening with duct tape on my foot.  When Chris got home I showed it to him and he died laughing.  I told him that I may have duct tape on my foot for the rest of my life, the skin is just going to heal around it, and fuse it to my body.  :-)  *sigh*  (Cue laughter.)

I was sitting on the couch last night and was picking at the duct tape and surprise! it started peeling off, so I very, very carefully peeled, and it came off.  Whew! I am not going to have duct tape fused to my foot for the rest of my life.  :-)

Just a quick comment about my stupid weight, yesterday after my 4 3.88 mile run, I weiged myself and I was at 167.0 (yay!)  then this morning I weighed myself and I was back to 170.0.  Ugh!! How can it fluctuate so much??  I hate the scale.

I may post again tonight, just so I stay caught up.  Damian has a baseball game 45 min away this evening, so I won't be running.  Probably a good idea anyway to allow my blisters to heal a bit.  (I just wish they would heal faster, but by continuing to agitate them, I'm probably going to have them a while.)