Day 74 - Crying at a parkrun documentary

Wow, this whole thing is quite the emotional rollercoaster! Today started out with a nice walk, as it’s a rest day on our running plan. The paths are getting a bit tricky to walk along in places, though, as the weeds have grown loads and I don’t think the council are working to clear them at the moment!

I also power washed our patio today, and it’s really brightened up. Peter climbed into our recycling bin to squash it as it’s getting very full. I did not approve of this method - it looks a bit high risk!

In the evening, we sat down to watch some television, and a parkrun documentary (that I’ve actually seen before) came on. I was delighted to see it! The strangest thing happened though. About ten minutes into watching the programme, tears started coming out of my eyes. It took me so much by surprise that I had to ask myself “what is this?! Am I sad?” I think it was the fact that I was watching images of a life that we can’t have at the moment. I was crying because I missed it so much. Parkrun is one of my favourite things to do, and we don’t know when it’ll be happening again, but it was only this evening that I realised just how much I deeply missed it and all of the lovely socials aspects that it brings! I turned to Peter, with tears in my eyes, and said “I’m finding this quite sad!” Before I could finish the sentence, though, I was laughing. And, next thing, we were both laughing out loud at how I was crying while watching a parkrun documentary! I was laughing so hard and so loudly, that I didn’t know whether to be happy or sad. It was just a massive outpouring of random emotions!

In the evening, the switch on our cooker’s extractor fan broke and it got stuck in the “on” position. We managed to switch it off at the switchboard, but it means that we’re going to have to contact our landlord again, just two weeks after she had to come out to replace our washing machine. Very annoying!Read more