hill is a four letter word

This is BIG HILL!

click on "show elevation" in the upper right hand corner!

Alma and I are doing it at least once a week.
This week we are doing it twice.
Tuesday and Thursday.
Why? Cause we're BAD ASS.
And, I don't want to die on 'the hill' in San Fransisco.

I am going to beat that hill.
269ft elevation increase
I am.
over one mile
Someday.


The hill is comparable to mile 6 of the Nike Women's Marathon.

HERE *check out the elevation chart on this baby*

Now you can see why we are running the hill. Not just to torture ourselves. To prepare ourselves. So we aren't too beat up to sight see in San Fransisco Sunday night, Monday and Tuesday morning. I can't WAIT...oh yeah...just have to run 26.2 first.

cheers.

running + renovating = insanity

"Running is a lot like life. Only 10 percent of it is exciting.
90 percent of it is slog and drudge." Dave Bedford


Sorta like home renovations! It's a lot of fun talking about it...
picking tile...paint...granite...stain...imagining how beautiful it's going to be when it's done...
not to mention the new furniture!

Then there's the work.
Removing the carpet, linoluem, baseboards, outlet covers, light fixtures...

Then there's the work.
Packing up the entire living room and (ah!) kitchen...except my blender of course...
and by the way...where did all this shit come from???

Then there's the work.
Sanding, floor scraping, filling holes (damn, who put all these holes in the WALLS?! I know how my dad felt now! ERRRR!) and basically being my husband's "helper" aka fetching him everything he needs, when he needs it...including being the beer bitch...fun!

Renovating is like training for a marathon.
It's rough and tough and involves a lot of grunt work.
And though the end isn't near yet, I know it will ALL be worth it.

the light is there...dim...but there...

:) Have a wonderful day! :)

4 miles of hills and sanding tonight...yippEEEE!

What's a blog without...

PICTURES!

I know, I know! I got a new camera as a surprise from my hubby. And I have been using it!
I have a LOT of great pictures to share...
Now I just need a computer. One that doesn't take about 5 minutes to load ONE, yes one, webpage. Needless to say, I do most of my blogging and web surfing at work. ;) dont' ask...

I can't blame the HP though. I mean, it's practically a DECADE(!) old.
It's been with me through nursing school.
Learning to do my own taxes.
3 houses...
I can't think of many things I've had as long as I've had my 'ole HP
House, no.
Car, no.
Husband, no. ;)
3 Labs, no.
Off the top of my head, I KNOW I have one T-shirt I got in New York on my HS trip that I do, in fact, still wear. I know. wow. but in my defense it's a really cute shoft t-shirt. And I only wear it around the house.
Other than that, NOTHING over a decade old in my house...

maybe someday I'll convince DH about the new computer thing...but for now it's not going to be happening...I will carve out some time to put the most interesting, cool and entertaining pictures on this blog soon...

Anyway.

I'm looking forward to this weekend...it is going to be PACKED with fun stuff!
Tool concert tonight, 15 (LONGEST RUN EVER!!) mile run in AM, house renovating (PROMISE pics of this!) and more fun with a friend's b-day/happy hour Saturday evening...

Have a great weekend!!

"You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement." - Steve Prefontaine

Happy Thursday!

Thursday's are great. You're so close to the weekend. You can practically feel it. Just one more little day...and no one works that hard on Friday's anyway, right!?
Usually, nothing can get me down on Thursdays!! Happy Thursday!!

Things I am love with RIGHT now:

my superman husband
home renovations: tearing out carpet, picking tile and paint
running hills
having a nice tan
watermelon
river trips with labradors
running blogs
victoria's secret swim suits
peanut butter and jelly sandwhichs (ok, I always love these)
great friends to run with (alma!)
snuggly comforters in dark bedrooms with the a/c on 70


I'm looking SO forward to the weekend!

Friday night is the Los Chupacabras De La Noche 10K Trail Run!
I can't wait!
It starts at 9pm, and afterward we'll eat and drink beer! Yippee!
Alma, Brian and I ran on Friday Feburary 13th in the Cupid's Valentine's Night 10K Trail Run and we had a blast, got a great shirt and had some delicious food. So we're back for more nighttime trail running...I'm heading out after work for some glow in the dark bracelets and necklaces :)

We are having a combined garage sale Saturday morning with my in-laws. (ah!) It should be interesting...hopefully I'll make some money to either put toward my Team in Training Fundraising (it's not too late if you haven't made your donation yet!) or toward our home renovation project! And, DH said I could sell the couch (!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)
I am SO excited to get a new couch! shopping!!

Here's a quote from Mark Twain to take you into the weekend:
Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.

blog stalker? or just a blog crush...

I totally love this girl!

Excellent

...let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.
Hebrews 12:1


ps remind me to never train for a marathon during the summer again

Life is hard...

but it's even harder when you're stupid."
-John Wayne

Sometimes I wonder if life would be easier if I was stupid.
I know this sounds bad.
Really bad.
And let me clarify (just in case you didn't know, ha!) I am certainly NO genius.
But I'm not stupid either.

I am
very forgetful, and I have a terrible memory,
absent minded and easily distracted,
silly and goofy,
and sometimes things that are "adult subjects" that I think I should be interested in and knowledgeable about (and things I WANT to be interested in and knowledgeable about!) just plain
bore
me.

But I am still not stupid.
I usually can't claim "I didn't know" or "I had NO idea!"
I know there's a lot of things I don't know, and many more things I will never understand.

I didn't do great on my ACT or SAT.
I got good grades in high school because I tried. I did well in nursing school because, well...it was easy...and I enjoyed it.

I have sufficient common sense. Enough to get me by.

This past weekend I had an interaction with a stupid person. It was frustrating! And though it's mean, it's true! I wondered how on earth she (yes, it was a woman) functioned on a day to day basis. Really and truly, I was stunned. Every interaction with her left me disturbed. She was completely, utterly stupid. WOW! And as DH and our friend would agree, she was a cutie. Guess she has that going for her.