Frustration

Grrrrrrr.

I am quite frustrated at the moment.

For one, this silly blog is driving me bananas!  I am currently in the process of trying to switch to a new email address.  It is also a gmail address, which I thought would make things simple for the blog.  Instead of having to sign in and out from one email address to the other, I decided to make my new address an additional author for the blog.  Not as simple as it sounds.  After hundreds of sign ins and outs and invitations, I got nothin'.

I decided to try to invite someone else.  So, I sent an invitation to my new address and to my mom.  Sure enough, her invitation popped up as pending.  But where was mine?  Great question.  Because I have absolutely no idea!  So, I cancelled my mom's invitation.  Sorry, Mom!  Fake out!  But why can't I invite myself?  I just don't understand.

On top of the silly blog, I am having ipod issues.  After I lost all of my ipod music when I moved here, I made a conscious effort to be less dependent on my silly mp3 player.  I must say, I have done a pretty good job.  Losing music, restoring the ipod, and clearing the playlists don't bother me in the least.  But an ipod that doesn't work at all?  Yeah, that's a problem.

Last Christmas my parents gave me an ipod shuffle, and it has become my running lifeline.  It is super tiny, holds more music than I could ever run to, and has an extremely long battery life.  All of these things were true until about a week ago, when it stopped working.  After charging, restoring, connecting, disconnecting, adding music, taking away music and every other troubleshooter tip that I could find, I got nothin'.

The run that I used to look forward to every morning, is pretty unbearable now.  My old school ipod doesn't fit properly in the running case that I have.  It bounces around, slides down my arm, skips, and is generally uncomfortable.  I just want to go for a run without worrying about my ipod!  The outrageous temperatures, stares from Thai people and street dogs are enough things to worry about when running around the lake.  I don't need silly ipod problems too.  Thankfully, my shuffle is less than a year old, so I think I can still send it back to be fixed.

I am going to try to run and sweat out the frustrations.  Half marathon training!