patriotic iPod

The first song on my iPod this morning was “When Johnny Comes Marching Home”. That seemed appropriate for a Memorial day run.

Work has just been crazy the whole month. And a major deadline I’ve had looming has changed 3 times; who knows if the one in June will stick or not. But as many hours as I’ve spent working, I have equaled it out with not even turning the notebook on this weekend.

It always looks darker out our windows than it is because we have so much shade; I decided to wait until the sun was up a bit before heading out, but as soon as I got out the front door I realized I could’ve left half an hour earlier and been fine.

There weren’t too many people out yet; enough to feel like I had some company out there but it wasn’t crowded. There was a guy who was trying to keep up with his wife on a bike and she was keeping a pretty good pace. Then there was a girl who was dribbling a basketball along with her walk.

There was another guy jogging backwards; a talent I definitely do not have. A couple of women who thought every once in a while maybe they’d go for a jog instead of a walk.

And then there was me. I made up a game to walk a minute and then run the rest of whatever song was on my iPod. So it could be a shorter 4 minute song…or it could be a 10 minute song. That actually was more of a challenge trying to get the pacing right for each song to maximize the time and get it to a point of feeling like I needed a walk break.

Anyway, lots of fun. We have a crack in our outdoor fountain and at 7:45 the day’s half over so I’d better get out there and fix it.

-- Weather When Posted --

  • Temperature: 67°F;
  • Humidity: 90%;
  • Heat Index: 66°F;
  • Wind Chill: 67°F;
  • Pressure: 29.8 in.;

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Posted on May 25th, 2009 by me...of course
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30 was enough

That wasn’t the longest run I’ve done. It is just sticky out there. But 30 minutes is better than no minutes!

-- Weather When Posted --

  • Temperature: 74°F;
  • Humidity: 84%;
  • Heat Index: 73°F;
  • Wind Chill: 74°F;
  • Pressure: 29.95 in.;

Posted on May 14th, 2009 by me...of course
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Monday run

I hope everyone had a good mother’s day yesterday. We were busy rearranging furniture much of the afternoon but it’s worth it.

I did not do a good job of stretching afterwards on Saturday and my right shin felt it this morning. I started off doing some intervals but the truth is, it was a lot more comfortable running rather than walking so I picked up the pace.

I am way behind in reading everyone else’s blogs and I’m really sorry for that. It is an extremely hectic month at work and I don’t have enough hours in the day to get everything done. Don’t be surprised if it’s the first of June and I’m finally commenting on something you wrote in April!

-- Weather When Posted --

  • Temperature: 78°F;
  • Humidity: 87%;
  • Heat Index: 80°F;
  • Wind Chill: 78°F;
  • Pressure: 29.99 in.;

Posted on May 11th, 2009 by me...of course
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is it June yet?

This is such a busy month. I set the alarm to get in an early run but must’ve turned it off. But by 6:30 I was wide awake and bored so I needed to find something to do.

I know! That girl left an ink pen around that boy and now there’s a huge spot of blue ink on his very cool Astros bedspread. I’ll have her repay me with hard labor! So we did yard work from 6:30 until 8 this morning. Trimming crape myrtles and disposing of the branches, sweeping the patio and then my all time favorite form of punishment.

I made her clean the outdoor grill.

That’s right. It has grease on it. And some pollen. And dirt. Or should I say past tense - Had - all that on it. It’s sparkling now!

In the meantime of course I was online googling how to get the ink out. Spray hairspray on the area and blot it out (be prepared to throw out the rag I used to blot it though since it’s now covered in blue ink).

Then we headed to karate practice, which is outside on Saturday mornings. So while she was out there doing that, I finally got around to getting some loops around the park. That’s a win-win situation; she gets more karate practice in plus some good physical exercise for all the parents. Some were running, others were walking but everyone was doing something.

I worked up a sweat within the first half mile; the temps were 75 with 89% humidity with a minimal 3.5 mph wind.

Now I have her busy doing laundry and cleaning out her closet. I may run out of things for her to do if she keeps up at the same pace she’s been working this morning. :)

-- Weather When Posted --

  • Temperature: 80°F;
  • Humidity: 74%;
  • Heat Index: 83°F;
  • Wind Chill: 80°F;
  • Pressure: 29.94 in.;

Posted on May 9th, 2009 by me...of course
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Ben Franklin

One thing I always like about this year is I don’t feel to compelled to stick to a schedule if I want to pick a day to not stick to it. I woke up this morning and said I’d rather go for a walk instead of a run.

So I walked. At least for the first 5 minutes, then I finally got around to a bit of a run. Just that little mental break was enough to get me going this morning, regardless of the temps out there.

Our lighting around the front of the house was acting strange the other day…well as in half of it wasn’t working (it’s on 2 different transformers and one of them wasn’t kicking in). Turns out either when they built the house or somewhere along the way, some yahoo decided to put a GFI outlet outside (no problem), that ran off a line inside the house…that’s also a GFI outlet.

That’s a problem. If either of them tripped, then it was going to go out. If there’s a logical reason for that, I’d sure like to hear it. It’s all fixed now though and I’m back to being happy with our electricity!

-- Weather When Posted --

  • Temperature: 78°F;
  • Humidity: 87%;
  • Heat Index: 80°F;
  • Wind Chill: 78°F;
  • Pressure: 29.85 in.;

Posted on May 7th, 2009 by me...of course
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fetal position

Good thing I went off when my alarm went off the first time this morning. I went into the bathroom and turned on the light to get ready, when I saw a little boy, curled up in the fetal position underneath the cabinet where my chair is.

Sound asleep, with 3 hot wheels cars perfectly lined up next to him.

I’m guessing he was sleep walking and didn’t end up where he thought he was. Long story short was there was a slight delay before I got my shoes on this morning. :)

-- Weather When Posted --

  • Temperature: 73°F;
  • Humidity: 88%;
  • Heat Index: 73°F;
  • Wind Chill: 73°F;
  • Pressure: 29.88 in.;

Posted on May 5th, 2009 by me...of course
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hacksaw

I ran. I ran this weekend, I ran this morning.

I also had a little mishap with a hacksaw this weekend that involved my thumb and it makes typing very….very painful.

-- Weather When Posted --

  • Temperature: 66°F;
  • Humidity: 72%;
  • Heat Index: 66°F;
  • Wind Chill: 66°F;
  • Pressure: 29.91 in.;

Posted on May 4th, 2009 by me...of course
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3 day work week

It seems like Monday all over again. Yesterday was crazy. First, I woke up before 4am from the terrible storm - it was so loud. You know when you’re half asleep and not thinking, then you wake up and wish you could do things differently?

I was thinking at the time it was sounding a little bit train-like out there and I wish the kids would come downstairs. I wish I had gone up to get them and just brought them down, even if it would’ve woken everyone up.

It was bad enough at our house at 4:30 that even though we have a treadmill, I thought better of running because I wouldn’t be able to hear anything else that happened in the house and it didn’t seem safe at the time. I thought the roof was about to blow off at that point.

-- Weather When Posted --

  • Temperature: 73°F;
  • Humidity: 88%;
  • Heat Index: 73°F;
  • Wind Chill: 73°F;
  • Pressure: 30.1 in.;

Posted on April 29th, 2009 by me...of course
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fun run

Something about not running on Saturday made me feel this morning like I hadn’t run in a week. I had lots o’ energy today. Overall it was just a great run. I was trying to hit a particular pace goal this morning and made it, so that was cool.

I do have to search through the rest of the family’s laundry though because I was just 1 shy of the same situation I had yesterday morning. Where are all the sports bras? Where do they all belong? Sing along as I change some more lyrics!

Speaking of music, part of the sermon yesterday included a comment about people who clap v. people who don’t clap during the music. I could write a book on that subject!

-- Weather When Posted --

  • Temperature: 73°F;
  • Humidity: 81%;
  • Heat Index: 73°F;
  • Wind Chill: 73°F;
  • Pressure: 29.97 in.;

Posted on April 27th, 2009 by me...of course
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something’s going on

Why do people have to tweak their servers, their software, their…whatever keeps randomly blocking me from posting here when I actually have 5 minutes to spare?

I had to tell the gang I would not be around for the long run yesterday; we were headed in the direction of Sugar Land for the day for karate testing.

The daughter opted to wait 6 months to test for her black belt, which should happen probably in October or November, but it is strongly suggested to observe a test at least once to get an idea of what they expect.

I missed the running, but we got a lot of knowledge out of that. She was able to see first hand the actual time spent that they go through probably every form they’ve ever learned and all sorts of things that I know little to nothing about because I never took karate. I should’ve counted how many total people were at the table judging them; it was a lot. Needless to say, if someone forgot something, there was a strong chance they got caught and lost points because of it.

Each person had 3 chances to break their boards (boards are stacked 2 deep for the black belts) and then that was that. Either you got it, or you didn’t. That part is always nerve wracking too. We’re not supposed to clap when they actually break the boards, but all of us watching practically leapt out of our chairs when it happened.

They had long since turned in a 1000 word essay; we have the outline figured out so now she just has to write it. I don’t know when they review those. So the only thing left was the oral test where each person answers questions individually.

It will be about 6 weeks before they find out if they passed and it is definitely not a given thing that they did.

After a late lunch, they had a clinic. After leaving the house at 7am, it was probably 4:30 before we ever got home again. Some of the students were just drenched in sweat from that many hours of physical activity.

I thought I’d go for a run this morning but guess who hasn’t done laundry recently? I have zero clean sports bras in my house right now. I kinda need one of those, so instead I am just now doing laundry…and blogging instead.

-- Weather When Posted --

  • Temperature: 72°F;
  • Humidity: 84%;
  • Heat Index: 72°F;
  • Wind Chill: 72°F;
  • Pressure: 30.01 in.;

Posted on April 26th, 2009 by me...of course
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