The clock is ticking down.  Less than one week to go now. This morning I ran the last Long Slow Distance I plan to run until the big day next Saturday when I run my first 10k. They call it “tapering” were, although you do not decrease the intensity, you do decrease the miles you put in leading up to the event in order to rest your muscles and prepare for the final push.  So tomorrow I’ll do a few fast uphill sprints and a slooow and easy two miles around the high scho...

My life has been like a horror filled version of the Calgon commercial; the kids, the bills, the job search, the hubby (or lack of him) etc.  I've just been a big ball of anxiety lately. 

It's funny how one little comment can just make your day.  I've already been going through major life um...challenges.  I know I have been overly sensitive and can get my feelings hurt if someone says boo to me.  Not to mention dealing with the trauma of a probable Obama nomina...

I think this is possibly the second time that i've tried to start a blog, heavy intoxication over the years prevents me from remembering exactly.

I've never considered it important, because i've always felt blogs were A) never read and finally B) if they are read, only there for a means to fuel the ego of whichever semi-important person (or perhaps important, although you could ask if you were an important person - what you doing writing a blog for? Haven't you more pressing matters to attend...

So the most wanted Hollywood hairdo of the moment is Katie Holmes bob.  I'm considering it.  Of course, I have to consider that if I get Katie Holmes haircut it won't miraculously make the rest of me look like Katie Holmes.  I've really been appreciating the whole 20's, Zelda, flapper, Art Deco thing lately though.  I might even learn how to do the Charleston. 

I have debating on bangs already.  I have had long sideswept bangs for a long time but now they've grow...

Posted May 5, 2008  Currently I am up to 8 mile "Long Slow Distance" runs interspersed with weekly speedwork at the local high school track. So I’m wondering if it is a realistic expectation that I could finish, barring any injuries, a half-marathon by maybe say...October? Definitely do-able Joe! I think so if you follow a training plan. The longest run I had done was 7 miles before I started training for my half. I gave myself 4 months to train, which turned out to be enough for...

Friday fives were started on JU by Miguna, taken over by LW and this week I'm having a go at it.  Actually they aren't my questions but are questions I picked from a site called brain candy.  So let's hear your answer JU.

1. If you had to have one piece of music softly playing in your mind for the rest of your life, what would you want it to be?

2. Which sport would you most like to play professionally?


3. What do you believe is the greatest unsolved mystery of all?
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 Take this soul, stranded in some skin and bones. Take this soul, and make it sing… -U2, Yahweh ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ HE: Ha! So you went skydiving? All I have to say about that is you must not love your life very much. ME: that’s where you’re wrong. I went skydiving because I DO love my life very much.********* Richard Dawkins once made the obvious statement that we are all going to die. But the thing is, he went on to say, is ...

This is just a rambling little update for friends and anyone else who might stop by.

In the Pink:

As some of you know, I’ve been bitten by the exercise bug recently. Having successfully given up smoking and feeling so much better because of it, I went the whole hog and joined a gym. I’m pleased to say that not only has this been a particularly pleasurable experience, despite the muscle soreness, but I’ve also achieved a couple of things in fairly quick time.

First of a...

There they go, blowing in the wind, my inhibitions!  I now understand what all those "talking heads" mean when they say the older you get the more you tend to enjoy your life.  It's not that I didn't enjoy life in my teens, or twenties  or thirties..good Lord no....in fact, my late teens and my twenties were some of the best years of my life.

 

Now in my forties, let me tell you, I've let go of some hang ups, remember I said 'some') and am trying to really live my life ...

Good Ole Minnesota...

it's got two seasons,  Winter and " Road Construction VS the Mosquitoes"!!

Only NOW it's Spring vs Winter vs Road Construction vs Bridge Closings!

Take your pick.  If ya didn't like the 70 degree weather yesterday,  welcome to today,  30 above with gusting winds and blowing snow...

So today has been odd for me,  slept last night from 5 til midnight,  then got up and stayed up til 5 a.m. then crashed until 9 this morning!  Good ...

If your friends that are broke aren’t making fun of you, then you are not on track. I read where some financial guru named Dave Ramsey said that and I thought, hmmm… you could take that quote right there and cross that over to a lot of shit other than just money management. Like… If your friends that are still going to titty bars and driving home shit faced in the early ay-em aren’t making fun of you, then you are not on track. Or… I...

Once were lost these pieces of me, but she brought them all together and her I found.
Now, thrown against the wall I shatter into splinters and chips of all I had found in her.
All the other halves of these pieces were inside her all along.
And there they remain as I lie here among the trash.

This is who I am. A martyr, a loser, garbage to all I love. I used to choose this. Now it is forced upon me.
She tells me I will find someone, she also knows I won't.
Even if everything we were ...

ok so heres something a litte weird

What did people use before toilet paper was invented? <<

*Newsprint, paper catalogue pages in early US
*Hayballs, Scraper/gompf stick kept in container by the privy in the Middle Ages
*Discarded sheep's wool in the Viking Age, England
*Frayed end of an old anchor cable was used by sailing crews from Spain and Portugal *Medieval Europe- Straw, hay, grass, gompf stick
*Corn cobs, Sears Roebuck catalog, mussel shell, newspaper, leaves, sand- ...

 

Ok so as some of you know I Live a Crazy life style never a dull moment in my life....... I want to get everyone ones take on the supernatural as a Christian women it doesn't say anything really anything on ghosts...I had some experiences happen to me that make me lead to believe they are supernatural....I made my basement into a play room for the kids it has a couch TV tons of toys etc. there is three parts to the basement the bathroom the playroom and a back room that has a fridge ho...

Let's talk about ME and MY family shall we?   

 What did I do this weekend?   Lots of stuff.  It was a good weekend. 

First I went to an Extraordinary Women's Conference in Orlando and had a great time with my friend Jody.  We got there really early at 5pm on Friday.  The doors weren't supposed to open until 6 but we just walked in, picked up our packets and headed into the big arena.  To our surprise we were the first ones there....