Wellness is swellness

Today at work, we had Wellness Day. What is Wellness Day you ask? It's essentially field day for adults. We've been signing up for activities like corn hole, basketball, and volleyball for the best month. I got paid today to run 5k, play ping pong, corn hole, and volleyball. Not too bad if you ask me.

I did make the mistake of running 5.5 miles the night before. I got a little beat up in volleyball, but overall, a fun day except when I was borderline sexually harassed. My entire body is sore and I've got to run all day on Sunday.. Wheee!

Cornista

If you saw this term at a movie theater, what would you think it meant? For example, for your 20 oz icee cup, please see the cornista.

If you answered the popcorn maker, then you are as smart as I am, but not right. A cornista works at the ice cream counter at the AMC theater. WTF. I don't get it...

Seriously

I find it hard to believe that people can't put their phones away for 2 hours when they paid to watch the movie. Because that text is sooo important.

In other news, Moneyball was good.

I Married a Crazed Mental Patient

Not really, but this picture of the hubster says otherwise.




He sent me this the night of his sleep study.  He looks like he's about to undergo electric shock therapy.  His expression doesn't really help his case either.

I hate my job

...today.

I don't really, but I kinda do.

I think I finally get something and I'm making progress, but really I've missed a whole level of complexity and it blows all of my work out of the water and I have to start essentially from the beginning again.

That sentence is so grammatically incorrect I don't even want to try and fix it.

This is going to be sappy

But I miss the hubster. I'm not going to be one of those women that need to be with their husbands all the time. Hell, I went to Vail without him, but I miss him tonight. I think it's because I worry about this sleep study. He's already in bed (he called before lights out) and I know he'll be tossing and turning for another 5 hours before sleeping and I don't want him to be stressed out or uncomfortable. Resent me a picture if his setup. It doesn't look very comfortable. I'll post it if he let's me.

So I guess it's bed time for me. At least I have the girls to keep me company. *hugs Egg Roll and Red super tight*

Must ... Find... Motivation

I just got home from a busy day.  Semi-long day at work, trip across town to open a business account (yay for one more step to becoming legit for Cap City Lax), stopped at Target to buy my out of stock online bins for the Expedit book case, got stuck behind two ridiculously slow red Civic (hate them now), got stuck behind imaginary traffic (you know the traffic you sit in and when you reach the bottleneck see that there was NO FUCKING reason for traffic to have been slow, had a nice long chat with a friend to catch up, stopped at the grocery store for necessities (vanilla ice cream and biscuits for my applely baked goods - I got salad, fruits, and veggies too), and finally got home, put away the groceries and walked the dogs.

I'm starving, but now I must find the motivation to change into my workout clothes and go to the gym for a short run and weights....

I'm looking really hard.  Really I am...

There's Something About Babies

that makes me want to buy them things.  My sister in law had a baby last October and my cousin had one this past August.  Ever since I've met the two, all I want to do is buy them stuff - baby clothes, toys, anything.  Very dangerous for my wallet.

Florida Room Remodel Has Begun

After my lacrosse games on Sunday, I swung by Ikea since the field was like 3 miles from Ikea.  I swiftly maneuvered my way around the maze that is Ikea and bought my bookshelf, desk, and rug.  I opted not to buy the chair because I was not in love with how it wheeled around.  Instead I bought this from Walmart:

I put the table together while dinner was cooking in the oven, and the hubster put together the bookcase after dinner.  I think he was being nice to me because we started doing it together, but he took over so I could finish watching Death Race (don't ask, it's not a good movie, but I started it on Saturday afternoon and wanted to finish it - besides, Jason Statham can't make a bad movie according to my brother).  This is what the room looks like as of last night (dog included!  I can't believe she actually sat and stayed for this picture even though she doesn't look too happy to be staying.  She's getting to be so smart - she's a late bloomer.)




The room seems a lot smaller now that there's furniture in there.  It doesn't help that there is a bunch of junk that needs to be moved.  This room serves double duty as my craft room and the storage area for all of our sporting goods  You can sort of see the wire rack in the right corner.

So the plan for that brown thing on top of the book case is to sand it down and paint it white.  It's a little bit longer than the book case, but not noticeable longer.  It used to be part of the headboard of the hubster's old waterbed.

I have a black filing cabinet that I bought from work that I need to paint, add casters to, and add a bar to hang some jars from (also from Ikea).  I better get on with the painting while the weather is still somewhat warmish.  I just need to decide on the color of the file cabinet.

I like how it's turning out and I hope to be getting a lot of use out of them room.  I even picked up a space heater from the office auction to warm up the room in the winter.

Hubster-less for 36 hours

I realized this morning when I was getting ready for work that I won't see the hubster for another 36 hours.  He's doing a sleep study that starts at 7:00 tonight.  He'll be leaving straight from class to the study and going from the study to class the next day.  I'll probably see him at 8:00 tomorrow night.  It made me kind of sad.  It's usually me leaving him for trips, not the other way around.  Now I've got to figure out what to do for tonight.

I'm meeting my friend to open a bank account for Cap City Lax this afternoon.  I'm thinking about running around to different Targets to find the fabric bins I want that are sold out at the two locations close to home and work and are sold out on line too!  I don't know if I'll make it home in time for spin class.  Maybe I'll do a short run and lift weight.  That should kill most of my night.  I do have another load of laundry to do as well.

I'll figure it out.

Greasy Egg Roll

Right now I am watching Egg Roll rub her greasy head all over the hubster as he sleeps. She is getting under his pillow and pushing it towards his face and stepping all over him in the process. That silly dog!

Dog picture of the day

Red's favorite spot: right on top of the stepson.

Busy day in the kitchen!

So far I've made:

1. Apple butter
2. Apple crisp
3. Meatballs
4. White chicken chili
5. Teriyaki chicken

Oh man, first apple crisp was super tasty!




Apple butter is still in the slow cooker, but it also has promise.

All that cooking plus a golf lesson and a 7 mile run!

So productive!

Tomorrow charity lacrosse game and Ikea!

Eggs!

I bought some eggs from a coworker this week. Two of them are huge and one is green. I guess they are breed specific. I hope they taste yummy.




Look at the two on the left. The green one is front right. You cant really tell from the picture.




Close up of the biggies




The "green" one

Who wants an omelette? Scrambled? Hard boiled? I love eggs.

Random

Why are they launching fireworks outside? Did I miss a holiday?

The happiest dog ever

Happy dog in my face!

Why am I so hungry?

I had Jimmy Johns for lunch and was still hungry after my sandwich.  I just ate the small salad I had originally brought for lunch and my yogurt.  I still want to eat, but I'm probably not actually hungry.

This is not good since I think we're having pizza for dinner tonight =(  Maybe I'll skip the pizza and have something else... like breakfast!

Columbus Cap City Lacrosse

Lacrosse has been always been close to my heart and is the one sport that I have stuck with through adulthood.  This year, I'm helping form the first executive board of Columbus Cap City Lacrosse: Central Ohio's Post Collegiate Lacrosse Club.

Big things are happening right now, and I'll be using this page to promote the team.  I'm very excited about this.

Gimp

Which one doesnt look like the other? My shoe broke in the middle of boot camp during a "crab walk". The heel of my right shoe just fell off. They are only a year and a half old. It was odd to be uneven. What was interesting that when I was walking into the gym, I was thinking how walking in my Nikes is like walking on pillows compared to my Mizunos.

So Indecisive

So we're having a wellness day at work where we take a whole day and do physical activities (not really that physical - cornhole is one of the activities....).  Anyway, my manager created tshirts for our group to wear.  I just spent 45 minutes deciding on the type of shirt I wanted (men's vs women's), tshirt color, and print color.  45 minutes!!  I wish he would have just picked it because now I am second guessing my choice.  You never know if the color you see on the monitor is the same as what you will get in real life.

The fact that most colors were not available did not help.  I was stuck between lime (which looked like a mint color) with black print (even though I wanted white, I wasn't sure it was going to show up) and teal (which was more blue than teal) and white print.  Oh the agony.  One was a men's shirt, the other a women's.  I have an American Apparel t-shirt from a previous tournament, but I don't know if it was men's or women's.  It's cut like a regular t-shirt.  So I went with teal/blue.  I hope it was the right decision.  It probably wasn't with my luck.  Oh, well.

I think I finally have a life in Ohio

After 5 years.  That's a long time and quite sad.  My metric for a "life" was simply looking at my calendar over the next few months and realizing I have almost no free weekends.  I think the fact that I need a calendar is also a testament to my "life".  I'm not surprised it took so long to feel at home here.  I hate change.  I like to be comfortable.  I personally view myself as shy, timid, and a social wuss.  I hate making new friends and making small talk.  Most of my week nights are open aside from going to the gym and planning runs, but I'm ok with that.  A busy weekend life is good enough for me.

Baby Dreams

I had the weirdest dream last night.  I dreamed that I was pregnant and gave birth to a baby.  That in itself may not be weird, but what came after was.  First off, I gave birth and I felt fine and went to sleep.  (Is this normal?)  I vaguely remember a baby-like form next to me.  When I woke up, my boobs were all weird looking and I was definitely lactating.  I picked up my baby which went from normal looking baby the night before to a full grown baby - like it had teeth and hair and could even say some words.  Not normal!  It was kind of telling me what to do like it was hungry and started reaching for my boob.  It was odd.  In my dream, breastfeeding did not hurt like I was told, but then again I was breast feeding an imaginary baby that grew overnight.  I remember my mom and aunts being in my dream along with my cousin and having to travel with my baby.

I guess the overall dream wasn't that weird, but for me to be having baby dreams is weird.  I think the fact that my baby grew overnight completely freaked me out.  Hopefully, I won't be having any more appearances from my mutant baby in dreams.

Dog picture of the day

Look who can't find her way home. She was scavenging for any of Red's leftover dinner which Red conveniently knocked over.

Doggie Pool Day!

Today we went to the local community pool because they having a dog day since the regular pool season had ended.  It's an easy way for the city to make some money before closing the pools.  Ever since Labor Day weekend when Red took a dip in the pond, I've been wanting to take her to the pool to see if Labor Day wasn't a fluke.  Well, it took her about 0.5 ms to race to the pool and take a flying leap once she was unleashed.  I guess she does like the water.  What she didn't like was that she couldn't get out of the pool.  She took about 3 more dips in the pool throughout the hour we were there.  Egg Roll, on the other hand, was not having any of it.  She would follow me around the pool for little walks, but would not go in.  I placed her in the wading pool and she just scrambled to get out.  Here are some pictures I took while we were there:

Egg Roll, Red, and a malamute ambushing a poor dachshund that just came in 

Egg Roll letting the dachshund that she was boss at this pool 

Red testing the water 

Red saying hello to another dog in the pool 

Egg Roll not getting into the pool 

Red's butt.  The majority of my pictures looked like this. 

Red's butt again 

The hubster, Egg Roll, and Red

We left after an hour because Red was not playing nicely with the other dogs.  I'm glad we went early when there were less dogs and people around.  I think it's too much for Red.  Egg Roll was also being a queen biatch at the end too.  She took her place on the hubster's leg and proceeded to bark from her position at each and every dog that walked by.  The hubster said that Egg was starting shit with the Malamute and Red came back to the table to save her.  I hope that's the truth to why we had to leave the pool early.  I hope Egg appreciates how much her little sister cares about her.  Both dogs were sufficiently tuckered out by the time we got home.

Finally!

Weighed myself this morning and I'm finally back down to pre-California weight.  It only took 3 weeks!  I must have more self restrain when I go home.  Well, I did also pig out when I went to NJ so that didn't help.  It's still on the high end of my "normal" weight, but it's better than the numbers I've been seeing for the past 3 weeks.

But what is a normal number?  In my mind, I would think normal would be a steady state number where the conditions would be: 1. you are what you wanted, 2. exercised as much as you wanted, not how much you needed to.  It should be were your body naturally settles in an effortless life (i.e. not withholding food and not forcing yourself to run a million miles or hit the gym 7 days a week).  I think if everyone followed that, then a lot more of the population would be overweight or obese.  I definitely would be.  I love food too much. It's too bad that I've also fallen into the trap of the perfect female body.

*sigh*  I should just be happy I'm back to where I am, but it's still takes a lot to maintain that.  Almost too much sometimes.  I can see how people develop eating disorders if they aren't careful when trying to attain or maintain an "ideal" weight.

Crippled Dog

I swear if a stranger saw Egg Roll when she just had her cone taken off, they'd think that she had no use of her front legs.  She just pushes her head along the ground using her back legs.  It's the oddest looking thing.  She rubs her greasy, stinky little head everywhere.

The cool aunt and uncle

That's what the hubster and I decided we would be since we aren't on the baby train. Hell, we're not at the baby train station or even on the way to the baby station. So look what we got for our niece, Piper.



A 53" plush bear from costco! I think the hubster's sister might kill us, but we've been walking passed this guy for like 4 months. We finally got him for her for Christmas. I wonder where we'll store him. But I can already see shenanigans in our future. It's already begun.

Maybe a not so good run

I woke up in a lot of pain this morning.  I think I tweaked/sprained/strained/pulled my hip flexorS.  Yes, flexors.  My right one was bothering me about 6 miles in and then the left was feeling funny by the end of the run.  This morning I could barely get up and putting on pants, forget about it.  I'm sitting at work with a heating pad covering my right hip.  If I could get away with it, I would not be wearing any pants and just have the heating pad directly on my skin.  It is giving it some relief, but I'm going to have to stay off of it and keep stretching.  It sucks getting old.

2.6 miles to go

Best run yet! I think I could have done the whole half if it weren't getting dark and the hubster wasn't waiting for me. Silver strand being it on!

Tagg - the pet tracker

I think I need one or two of these.  It's a Tagg pet tracker which allows you to track your dog with this GPS collar.  After a few of Red's unauthorized outings, I'm wondering if a system like this would bring me peace of mind with Red.  It wouldn't make the event of losing her less traumatic, but recovering her would hopefully be easier and less stressful.  Of course, she could still be hit by a car or attacked by a raccoon, but at least, we'd be able to find her.

It sounds pretty neat, but it hasn't been out on the market.  They are currently taking pre-orders.  The system comes with a tracker, docking station, clips, power kit, and one year of service for $200.  Each additional collar is $140.  This is recommended for dogs over 10 lbs (which Red and Egg Roll both are).  Subscription fees are $5 a month after the one year period is over.  The trackers come in white, gray, pink, and blue.

It's a bit pricey, but I'm tempted to try it for Red.  I couldn't put a price on my furry little family members.  Now to see what the hubster says about it.

I don't know how he puts up with me

I have vague recollections of this event, but I'll do my best to recap:

Last night, I went to bed around 11:00 pm.  I awoke in the middle of the night from what seemed at the time to be a hunger pain accompanied by waves of nausea.  When I woke up, I was burning up and I just knew I needed to eat something.  (Side note: When I do wake up in the middle of the night, I am almost 100% of the time overheated.)  So what do I do?

I get my phone, unlock it, and call Brock who is in the office a mere 5 ft away.  I say in my most shameless, "poor, helpless me" voice, "Can you get me some grapes?"  He comments that I didn't have to sound so pathetic and that he would have gotten them for me anyway.  Next thing I know, the hubster is feeding me grapes one at a time.  The process is kinda like this: tilt head toward hubster, accept grape in mouth, turn head away to chew and swallow, repeat until grapes are gone.  At one point, he had given me a bad grape and I spit it out.

I really don't know how he puts up with this kind of behavior.  I'm almost appalled at my own requests.  For the record, I did not ask him to feed me my grapes.  I could have fed myself.  I just find this whole exchange to be very humorous.

Honeycrisp Apples

are the best apples ever.  OMG, these apples are so good, and I am so glad that the hubster went to pick me 20 lbs of them while I was out of town.  I've had 3 of them so far and everyone has been super delicious.  I almost don't want to bake with them.  I could spend another $10 and pick some other inferior apple to bake with.  I'm going to make apple butter, apple pie (hopefully, I can get the pie crust right this year), apple crisp, and apple cake.  I need to stock up on butter for all this baking.  Maybe I should look up some more apple recipes.  I wonder if the Donut Man will have a seasonal apple donut.  He did have the apple fritter that wasn't that great.  It probably wasn't made with honeycrisp apples.  I gave one to a coworker during our golf outing yesterday.  He's hooked too.  I love these apples.

Dog picture of the day

Suck up

Hubster is the best husband and I am the worst wife

So yesterday I had a mini breakdown and a really bad day.  I had three disappointing things occur and it was just too much.  One was Red trying to run away which started my day off terribly.  The second had to do with babies.  Last, but not least, finances were stressing me out.  I was moping around last night.  I just wanted to go to sleep at 8:30 pm which is not like me and I hadn't even eaten dinner yet.  The hubster knows this is not like me and was doing his very best to cheer me up.  He ordered me dinner and watched TV with me to get me out of my slump.  He even offered to pay for my golf outing this afternoon.  I turned him down because he's poorer than me.  This is why he is the best husband ever.  So after all he does to cheer me up and not stress about finances, what do I do?

I run out to Target to buy him a tie.  A tie he really doesn't need.  Missoni for Target came out today and I went out to see what they had.  I couldn't find anything for me (good thing because it would make me feel even worse), but I had been eyeing this tie since I first saw the images online.  So I bought it.

Yep, after all the money talk, I go out and frivolously spend some more.  *sigh*  This is why I am the worst wife.  It's a viscous cycle.  I complain about money and then I go out and spend some.  I hope he likes it or maybe I should hope he doesn't, so I can return it...

Egg Roll is Pathetic

Egg Roll is a trash digger.  She loves to eat tissues and other such garbage.  I just walked into the office to find her snacking on some tissue.  She stopped chomping, trying to trick me into thinking she was not up to no good. Well, her plan was foiled by her cone!  She had some tissue remnants stuck to her cone.  Ha!

I love my aunt

I love all my aunts, but this aunt is especially my favorite.  My mom is the second of four sisters.  My favorite aunt is the oldest.  I think she's my favorite aunt also because her husband is brothers with my dad!  So two sisters marry two brothers, so the offspring are closer than cousins genetically, I think.  I'm pretty sure.  Anyway, ever since I started returning to PA for holidays (it's been two years), I get these awesomely delicious egg rolls and dumplings every time I go back.  A lot egg rolls and dumplings.  So this past visit is not different.  I made sure to place my order before I even left.  I requested 2 boxes of egg rolls and one bag of dumplings.  I got an extra bag of dumplings.  My freezer is bursting.  It's a good thing that the hubster does not like these because of the veggies in them or else there would be some fighting in this household.  I've already given away a few egg rolls and dumplings to a co-worker, maybe I should offer them to more people.  It takes me awhile to finish them.  I'm having some for dinner tonight.  *drool*

Red, the Run Away Dog

I almost lost Red this morning... again.  I wouldn't say she was trying to run away, she was just exploring all that wonderful area that is beyond the reach of her leash.  I was so upset when she took off.  I think I was crying as I was chasing after her, screaming her name at 7:00 am.  So how did it happen?

I woke up and brushed my teeth like every other morning.  I picked up Egg Roll and walked out of the bedroom.  Egg Roll has been having issues with wanting to go out in the morning and getting leashed up.  She's ended up with a few accidents and I did not have the time or patience with her, so I picked her up.  I leashed her up and put her on the floor.  I grabbed Red's leash and opened the door.  Did you see that step I missed there?  Yep, I didn't leash up Red.

So Red has a sixth sense and she knows when she's not leashed up.  She takes off across the driveway and across the street.  This has happened before.  There is some wooded area past the next row of houses and I was afraid she'd go in there and never come out.  On the other side of the woods is an apartment complex, so she could really have gotten lost of confused.

I drop Egg Roll's lease (potentially losing both dogs, but Egg Roll is usually pretty good and stays put) and I take off after Red.  She decides to hang a left and run along the grassy area between the houses and woods.  That's a good thing, but she keeps stopping, laying down like she wants me to catch her, and when I am close enough, takes off like a bat out of hell.  This happens a few times and I lose sight of her a few times as she keeps running away from me.  She takes a right turn back into our community and I follow after her.  LUCKILY, one of our neighbors is getting ready to leave for work and is in her garage with the door open.  Red being Red can't resist and stops to say hello.  This is where I catch up with her.

I apologize profusely for the neighbor as Red jumps up onto this poor woman.  Red also decides she wants to go to work with this woman and jumps in her car.  All the woman is saying is "Not in the car!  Not in the car!"    Omg, I feel terrible.  I lease up Red and run back home.  Now that I'm typing this, I hope the woman doesn't report me to the condo association for not having my dog leashed up.  I mean it was a mistake, but Red did go into her car and she was kind of elderly and you know how some elderly people can get.

So that is my story about how Red tried to run away... again.  This was the most upset I've ever been about a run away.  I don't know if I can take her to PA for Thanksgiving and let my aunt watch over her.  What if she tries to run away again?  I'll be an hour away in NJ at my cousins....

Don't try this at home

Can you see the DOUBLE RAINBOW?

Taken while driving somewhere in PA on Thursday during the flooding. I'm beginning to think double rainbows are not that rare because I saw one on Vail in July. FYI it was much more glorious than this one.

My niece is the most adorable baby ever!

So cute, I'm not quite her favorite aunt, but I'm working on it. More pics of my whirlwind NJ/PA trip when I get home to my computer and USB cable. Yes, I remembered to take pictures with a real camera or else my mom would kill me since she couldn't make it to the bridal shower.

Ready for another 9 hour car trip

X 2

$14 worth of yummy delicious junk food

A Pony

Look what I ran by this morning! Also a llama farm, but llamas aren't as cute.

This is love

Waking up at 9 to pick apples for his living wife. Not just any apples, honeycrisp apples!

Disappointing News

My quick jaunt to New Jersey has already started with disappointing news.  From reading this blog, you probably know that I love fried chicken.  Well, growing up, my family ate Roy Rogers chicken in Pennsylvania.  It was glorious.  I love it.  There aren't many around, but the ones that I know of are all on the Pennsylvania Turnpike which I will happen to be on today.  So guess where I am eating tonight?  If you guessed Roy Rogers, you'd be wrong.  I know, I was heartbroken too.  All the service plazas on the turnpike that have Roy Rogers are CLOSED for renovations!  What?!?  So not only do I have to deal with flooding and traffic today, I have to deal with it with NO fried chicken.  Le sigh.

Chocolate Milk

I love chocolate milk.  Yes, it makes me sound like a child, but after reading some articles on the benefits of chocolate milk for exercise recovery and being recommended it by many friends, I was hooked.  I love drinking chocolate milk after my long runs and grueling playday/tournaments for reffing.  Yes, officiating is hard!

Anyway, I'm headed to New Jersey tomorrow and am planning my 10 mile run for Friday.  I figure I don't want to worry about having delicious chocolate milk after my run while at my cousin's, so I went to Kroger after work to pick some up.  I'm standing in front of the dairy section and I reach in to grab the Hershey's chocolate milk.  I turn it over to look at the ingredients.  At this point, a man behind me reaches for some chocolate milk of his own (Nestle) and proceeds to tell me, "It's chocolate, it's milk, it's chocolate milk".  I am stunned.  All I can do is smile as he walks away.

Yes, I know it's just chocolate milk, but I had the un-enjoyable experience of drinking chocolate Muscle Milk which is NOT chocolate milk after a run while on a business trip.  It was either that or Yoohoo in the hotel sundry store.  The bottle said chocolate milk shake too!  I wanted to be damn sure I was buying chocolate milk.  Anyway, I'm sure I looked silly looking at the ingredients of chocolate milk, but did I become one of those people?  You know, the ones who preach to you about all the preservatives and cards you are eating.  You know, "OMG, do you know how many grams of sugar are in that strawberry frosted pop tart?"  Because I am definitely not one of those people.

Sleepless Nights

If you talk to the hubster, he will tell you that I almost never have any problems falling asleep at night.  Usually, I turn off the light and I'm snoozing within 15 minutes.  I fall asleep reading and watching TV all the time, but these past two nights have been pretty restless.

It's weird because right around 9:00/9:30 I can feel my eyelids getting heavier and the sleepiness settling in, but when I finally go to bed around 11:00, something has happened and I'm not that sleepy.  My body tells me I'm tired, but my brain doesn't want to fall in line.  It's been taking me an hour or two to fall asleep and then I wake up in the middle of the night or 30 minutes before my alarm is set to go off.  The sleep is not restful at all.

Nothing has really changed within the last few days or even weeks.  I wonder if my brain is subconsciously worried about something.  The only thing I can think of is the drive to New Jersey tomorrow.  I'm not looking forward to it and there is some apprehension about falling asleep on the drive knowing now that I have not gotten a good nights sleep in the past two nights.

Hopefully, tonight I'll be back to my normal self.

Dog picture of the day

Surprise surprise to see Egg Roll sitting on some clean folded laundry!

Not a Young Pup Anymore

It could not have been more apparent on Monday that I am getting old.  I'll be the first to admit that I do not stretch before or after working out except when taking a class or playing in a lacrosse game/scrimmage (only because everyone else is doing it).  Well that needs to change.  After my 9.4 mile run, my legs were dead which was forseeable, but later in the day, my leg/hip was bothering me.  I'm pretty sure it was/is my hip flexor.  It's hurt before, but not as bad as yesterday.  I need to start stretching.  The hubster yells at me when I don't and I should know better.  I guess I'll have to start this week.

On another note, I need to find a better way to recover from my long runs.  Currently, I drink a glass of chocolate milk after the run and that's about it.  I need to do more because I'm starving for the rest of the day, I crave soda and give in to binge eating and soda which ruins all the great things that come from running.  For example, yesterday, I dropped about 2.5 lbs from my run, but when I weighed myself this morning I was higher than my pre-run weight!  WTF, it had to be the Skyline I had for lunch and the beer and chicken parm I had for dinner.  In my defense, I did not finish my usual order of two cheese coneys and 1/2 order of chili cheese fries! I blame the dinner.  The wedding soup I had with my meal was way salty.  Maybe it's all water weight....

New Ornament

Continuing the tradition for picking up Christmas ornaments when we travel. Here is our latest addition:

Red is a nut job

I just gave her a piece of plum to eat and do you know what she does? She walks it over to the coffee table, pops the plum out of her mouth, and proceeds to ROLL on top of it. Red is a picky eater. She taste tests all new foods. She likes to roll it around her mouth for a few minutes before deciding to eat it. She's never tried to put her scent on it. She eventually puts it back in her mouth, but it doesn't last long. She drops it again and rolls on it again!

That was it. I gave it to Egg Roll who gulped it down like a regular dog. Red is still wondering where the plum went. What a weirdo!

Dog picture of the day

Zzzzzzz




Once Egg Roll gets the cone off she rubs her dirty head on anything like my boobs.

3.7 miles to go

It wasn't pretty. Couldn't get out of bed. Set alarm for 7:30, but didn't get out until 9:00. My legs were dead after 7 miles. I'm having doubts if I can go any farther.

Ugh

I started my half marathon training a little early... Like a month. So I'm way ahead of schedule. This week is my 9 mile run and I have been dreading it. I don't know why. My last long run was 8.5ish miles so 9 isn't that much farther. I felt fine at the end of the run, so I don't think it's because I didn't think I could do it. I think it has to do with the weather lately. I only did two 5 miles run in California, but it was hot and I kinda struggled on the second one. The weather here in Columbus has been miserable. The last two days have been in the upper 90's and humid. I was supposed to do the long run Saturday and I pushed it back because of the weather. So tomorrow's the big day and it's supposed to be 60's with few showers. Lets see if I can motivate myself to get going.

How to cool down on a hot and humid day

With a frozen Capri Sun! Duh.

Necessary Roughness

The TV show: How can one woman own so many one shoulder dresses?

Deja Vu