EndorphinGirl™’s endorphins have been all over the place this week.  She is in between Jillian Michael’s workouts! While the 30-day shred is done, ripped in 30 will start in September. This week she has been mostly focused on ‘the back to school’ routines which bring on a whole set of endorphin emotions. There are the natural happy endorphins that appear by seeing your EndorphinDaughter happy and settled back in dorm life. And there is the endorphin depletion that takes place in parallel through the generated tears (tears of happy emotion and emotion emotion) when seeing your EndorphinDaughter settled back in dorm life. EndorphinGirl™ never expected to be crying uncontrollably during the drive from Ann Arbor to Wayne-Metro Detroit Airport to get to her flight back home after the ‘drop-off’. Yes the tears are all part of the process, but are you ever really ready to let your kid go into the world? 

And then that poor Security Guard at Airport Security CheckPoint.  When he asked EndorphinGirl™ ‘how are you today’ he certainly  didn’t expect a tear filled, gasping for air, sobbing woman say ‘thank you, sob sob, just fine. . .sniffle sniffle. . . haaavvee a nice . . . .gasp gasp… day’. . . with a crooked half moon smile. Yes, it went something like that.  She knows that in the days ahead her endorphins will ease back into normalcy, she will get back to her exercise routines, start the ripped in 30 program, get back into a running schedule and knows her EndorphinDaughter will have an endorphin-filled awesome sophomore year!. . . And then it sort of happens again in two weeks when she will watch as her EndorphinSon starts his sophomore year (of high school).   She needs to endorphin replenish for sure!. . .

It is hard to fathom that the summer is winding down.  There has certainly been a lot of endorphin activity this summer. The challenge now really is what is the next endorphin-enhancing goal. Yes EndorphinGirl™ is still blogging about this.  She has not yet decided what that next challenge will be.  Yes, of course ripped in 30 will certainly be one challenge.  However, she feels there needs to be another.  It is likely going to do with running.  She thinks it may just be a 10K.  Wow, she never thought she’d hear herself say ‘just a 10K’. Nice! She will keep you posted. Meanwhile, she is about to board her flight back home, the tears are flowing again, so upon landing at LGA she plans to go from the runway to the treadmill straightaway - - - because a serious endorphin workout / replenishment is calling.  And aha a perfect start to her 10K training! 

Today’s image is courtesy of EndorphinSon whose images you will be seeing a lot more of in the weeks ahead now that summer vacation is over and EndorphinSis is back at school . . . oh but surely she will share a few now and again too!  Guess what EndorphinGirl^™ is up to in this image. 

Until next time, guest comments always welcome in guestbook and keep on endorphin’.

EndorphinGirl^™