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I'm running another half marathon this year - actually two. I'm currently training and training (and fundraising) for Boston's Run to Remember at the end of May and for the Napa Valley to Sonoma Half Marathon in July. The Napa Valley Half is part of Team Challenge, so I'm trying to raise money for the Crohn's and Colitis Foundation. I love the fact that I can run, and while I am not the best runner on the block that it is something I can do and see improvement on. Of course, I'm not so good at the fundraising - big surprise there. I was looking at my logs yesterday, and from around the day I signed up for the Team Challenge half marathon, I've run over 43 miles. Not bad for under a month.

This weekend was my first real long run of the season. I trundled along with enochs_fable for just over 6 miles. With some moderate improvement and more work under my belt, I'm happily on track for a sub-two hour long race (I love the race projection calculator). Of course, right now I'm feeling a little under the weather, probably due to changes in same or allergies or a cold. I'm hoping to nip this thing in the bud soon, so I'll feel up to taking on my 4 mile run tomorrow morning.

Yeah, running! (And yeah for picking up a new running shoes over the weekend!)

The song is Self Control by Laura Branigan.  I didn't remember the title, but just enough lyrics to use the power of Google.

Worship the power of Google.  Oooh!

No Skirt!

I wanted waffles this morning, but didn't have any eggs and cobbled something together loosely based on a recipe found from Fat Free (it's a vegetarian recipe archive, some of which are good and a lot of which are pretty odd).  Mine weren't fat free, but I used up a banana that I was too lazy to make into banana bread and a pint of blueberries that would possibly have gone bad if I hadn't gotten to them soonish (like by next Friday).

Yummy. 

I'll be leaving the house around noon to make my way to Lush Beads.  I have a necklace that I need to finish and a few other projects I'd like supplies for.  I'll get my stuff and then come home and bead and knit until my brain explodes.  It's raining here, but I don't imagine that the rain is making the pathways currently any better.  Maybe in about an hour (because it is too late for me to leave and make the 12:10 commuter rail).

Yeah!

The pants I'm wearing to work today are about to fall off. *sigh* Crunches (well, except reverse crunches) don't feel like much of anything anymore. The pilates-style crunches are much more effective (read painful) and exciting to do.

So, I've been looking at the wonderful world of eBay and seeing if there were any treasures that would be appropriate for, well, anything: work, play, dancing, formal...

I've found these items:

• Girly blouse
  
• Silly fun dress
  
• Not completely boring pants
  
• Slightly more basic blouse (compared to one above)

Granted, these are just clothing items I've seen. I'm not really looking with any kind of focus (more of the spastic, ooh, that's pretty method).

meranthi is home today, taking care of thastygliax and the little ones. I am at work, where I have through some drugged up mess with the space-time continuum gotten in shortly after 8 a.m. I intended to be at work for nine to work on the big project that has been eating our heads, but instead I got in an hour earlier than that. Makes me feel very paranoid.

I feel fuzzy and not very alert. It is mostly a side effect of the miracle and all of the baggage that comes with that. My sleep schedule went sideways and my work schedule is going vertical (or maybe plaid), but there is surprisingly low stress with this entire process. I should have gone out dancing on Friday night, but I didn't have any way of knowing that the car was going to pull a sickie on us the next day. Maybe I'll go dancing the next time (I think that is November 10th, correct?), but it is the day before jiggliusceasar's birthday, so I'll just have to see how things go. I need to go out and be more active. My lardy butt ways are causing a little baby backslide (which mostly means hovering around this weight point - not actually too bad but I sometimes feel like I have eaten an entire hungry hungry hippo).

I have my surgery eval on Wednesday, so I will be coming in late to work on that day and probably working late that night. I don't appear to have work on Saturday or Sunday this week, though the project lady might change her mind. Work is this huge glory hole of effort and a lot of it feels like it is finally bearing fruit. Until then, I am going to putt about my normal tasks and wait for the powerpoint gods to smile on me and say, this is done, send it in.

I expect that this is more gross than most people want to read, so behind the cut it goes.
( do you like blood? )

To thastygliax

Many monkeys to you (and hope that you are enjoying meranthi's vacation!

We finally got our box of stuff that we mailed from Canada! So, now I have a L'arc~en~ciel dvd and a few other random things (some clothing, the beaver, etc.) including the yarn I shipped from Canada that I bought in Vermont (that is kind of silly, isn't it?).

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And someone will actually check the catalog for the information they want before asking me a question.

It will be great, because the information is in the catalog.

It will be horrible, because I will never actually know the miracle has occurred.

But it will be a miracle.

And I'm not holding my breath.