“Your guilt-meter is so jacked up”….actually said to me by my shrink today. She pulls no punches and I love that. We talked about guilt, which seems to be a theme in my life. I am full of “shoulds”…I should feel this way, I should act that way, I should believe such and such, I should do this, I shouldn’t do that…and when I don’t … Continue reading guilt, uselessness, and two kinds of bikes
Today’s run was much much much better than my last one. My only goal was to finish the scheduled training day (5 min run/1 min walk for 48 min, plus warm up/cool down) without crapping out. Goal accomplished. 4.1 miles in the rain. Have I mentioned how much I love running in the rain? Minus any lightning of course. It just feels…good. Oh, and the … Continue reading Rainy run
Just finished Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close by Jonathan Safran Foer. I’d tried it once, dropped it, and then picked it up again a few months later. I gave it 5 stars. Its been a while since a book has made me cry and this one did towards the end. Not that it’s exactly difficult to make me cry, but for a book to do … Continue reading the latest on my reading plate
Today = the dentist = nitrous oxide = I AM THE MOST HILARIOUS PERSON IN THE UNIVERSE. For about 40 minutes anyway. Some thoughts while floating… Don’t stop breathing, keep breathing, take the deepest breaths you have ever taken in your life, don’t waste this precious sh!t. Oh wow, hands and feet are so numb…OMG do I even HAVE hands and feet??? I must be … Continue reading brain float
Some photos I like from Sunday’s outing. Continue reading city pics
Because you care. I decided to give the foot another day off. Plus, I’m scared I will go crazy if I run on it and it acts ugly so I’m delaying expected disappointment. Such a great attitude I have, I know. Anyway, the gym was good for me as it always is. Mind clearing and blood pumping and stress reducing. Good stuff! Tonight…an attempted run … Continue reading Yesterday’s workout
Kiddo loves spray parks and we are lucky to have some great ones close by. Yesterday afternoon we ventured to Cumberland Park in Nashville. It was the perfect day for it, not to hot, not too sunny (although I did get a little crispy on my nose and forehead). The park is beautiful, with lovely views of the city. Hopefully we’ll go back at least … Continue reading Sprayground fun
It was a gorgeous weekend to be outside! I put my bad run out of my mind and kept busy with other things. The Accountant and kiddo went grocery shopping and came back with pizza makings and flowers for me, just because. They then proceeded to make the ugliest pizza I have ever seen. But, it was delicious, after we peeled the “tin foil” off … Continue reading Yummy ugly pizzas, blue skies, and flowers
So, we entered Pathetic Town on the run today. It didn’t start off well, nor did it end well either. I had downloaded my intervals onto the Garmin, got dressed, grabbed my gear, got to the greenway and realized that I’d forgotten….the Garmin. No biggie, I have Runkeeper on my phone. Yay for backup plans. I felt sluggish and not into it at all and … Continue reading dud of a run
I’d love a nap but its already 4pm and that would just be bad news bears. Its been an extremely full day already. Kiddo had yet another birthday party to go to, this one all the way across town at one of her friend’s homes. They had water slides and kiddie pools set up and they all had a blast. But I am really hoping … Continue reading saturday busyness
Soooooo, today was interesting. I was already planning to spend a few hours at the wildlife rehab place doing laundry or dishes or whatever they needed. I was getting ready to go and saw an email that someone had four baby opossums that they’d found orphaned alongside the road because guess what, momma opossum had done got herself run over. Imagine that. The lady that … Continue reading why did the chicken cross the road?
Texts this morning from yet another friend who is struggling for different reasons. Sometimes people are incredibly mean, closed minded, and heartless in their well-meaning-ness, if that makes any sense. I know life is difficult and there are struggles to be had. Its not all peachy keen, hunky dory, sunshine, rainbows, and unicorns, but I really don’t think it should be THIS hard for some … Continue reading this is why i’m in therapy folks
I managed a decent cross training workout at the gym last night. See? Yeah, I know. Arm strength is pretty sad. Tonight, we run. Continue reading sweat
Brain won’t shut off or shut up. Sometimes it screams at me, things I don’t want or need to hear. Or maybe I do, I don’t even know. I was going to text a friend who would get it but my cell service seems to be down. Throat is feeling a tad swollen so I’m hoping I’m not getting sick. Having lunch with a friend … Continue reading Heeeeeey 2am
Five years ago today I endured hours of labor and came out of it looking pretty rough. (see photo evidence) I’ll never do THAT again. Heh. No, I’m not kidding, seriously, I won’t. One kid and done with that, so y’all can stop asking me when I’m having another. For real. Stop it. Right now. Zip it. I was looking back in the archives on … Continue reading more than princesses
A bit tired today because of my late night but not too bad. Today has been another quiet one. I was feeling cooped up at work so I grabbed lunch and sat in my favorite park for a while. Haven’t been in ages. Trying to reclaim it or something I guess. I do love to go there and just sit and think and zone out. … Continue reading zombie brain
Nice night out to get some miles in. I almost skipped and went to bed but the dog was begging to go for a walk so I walked him 1.4 and then went back out and ran 3.5. Of course, now its nearly midnight and I’ll be tired in the morning but I needed this. Today was long and I ate junk because, feelings. The … Continue reading running by the light of the moon
Not really but it sorta rhymed. Here’s some random stuff. I went to bed semi-early last night. Because I’m old and tired and love sleeping almost as much as chocolate. Almost. Now if I could eat chocolate WHILE sleeping, then I’d really have something. I’m having an extraordinarily bad hair day. I’m trying to grow it out and its in a weird stage. Not sure … Continue reading Monday Funday
Run/walk/sweatfest/triednottodie on the greenway today. I got four miles in and was happy with it for the most part. I didn’t make it out the door at 5:30 as planned, as I’m not good at plans apparently. So it was hot as blacksmith tongs by the time I did get out there. I did decent for the first couple of miles and then psyched myself … Continue reading Four miles
Today…kiddo’s wild birthday party with some of her friends at “the bounce house place”, as we call it. Whew. It was a hit but, whew. Kid was SO stinkin’ excited. This is a really fun, if exhausting, age. Her actual birthday isn’t until Wednesday so I guess we’ll just consider this her birthday week since we are kind of celebrating it over this weekend and … Continue reading party central
I’m exhausted y’all. It was my day off but I did anything but relax. I spent three and a half hours baking in the hot sun (sunscreen happened this time though) unpacking/opening boxes of food and then distributing said food to local folks in need and making sure there was enough for the line of people that snaked around Our Lady of Guadalupe Catholic Church. … Continue reading the good kind of tired
No workout tonight. My head is splitting. Pain. I’m guessing a combo of being a girl (yay, lucky me, men are stupid*, don’t look at me in that tone of voice, etc), and the fact that I ate weirdly and non-healthily today. And did I mention the cramps? TMI? Oh, I’m sorry but this is my blog and I’ll talk about my female issues if … Continue reading head meet ache meet perspective
I would do this IN A HEARTBEAT. Do you know how many times I have said that I would love to go to the airport, walk up to the ticket counter and tell them to give me a seat on the next available flight to anywhere? A million times. But this is even better! Want. http://www.wfsb.com/story/22875950/heineken-asks-travelers-at-jfk-to-drop-everything Continue reading This this this this this!!!
A friend took this picture of me and told me to post it on my blog. So here you go Liam, you weirdo. You owe me a latte. Heh. Today has been ultra long for some reason. I did get to meet my college roommate from back in the day for lunch. She is uber smart. Like a rocket scientist researcher surgeon professor genius or … Continue reading this post has no title
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