Charlie Foxtrot

Now that school is back in action, and for this I am referring to my children are beginning their pre-school and I'm back teaching (plus taking a class for my MBA), life is a little bit of a clusterf--k.  The days are long and the nights are too.

What's about to become the rundown of my wife and I's life is going to be simple (on the surface) and complicated otherwise.  I'm usually in at work around 7, with some of the days shuttling back and forth between training & teaching.  She's usually in about 8 and most days done at 5, unless they call a meeting.  I'm done at around 5 or 530 each day.

Sometimes she has the luxury of walking while on her lunch break.  Usually I take advantage of a workout if someone cancels.  When we get home it's straight to cooking dinner, getting the kids a bath, and getting them off to sleep.  Then we usually clean up the house and look forward to all of it the next day.

This time of year also begins fall sports.  This past weekend I had the girls at gymnastics, after a fitness class I taught where we live.  This week begins soccer (which I won't lie, I love due to all of the running).  So we'll have that to look forward to in addition to everything else that goes on in life.

Right now, it's 10pm on Sunday and I'm writing this in preparation for beginning my own class in the morning.  It's online, which grants me some degree of freedom to do the assignments on my own time, but nevertheless it's still brutal.

Our workouts become opportunity.  Now I remember how the dad-bod gets built in the first place, it's not due to the lack of desire, but the lack of opportunity.  There's also the chicken nugget and mac & cheese diet, but more on that later.