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Good Training Day

Monday, November 10th, 2008

Today at lunch I went swimming and had a good day. The main part of my swim was 750 meters and I felt good. Most of my swims lately have been slow and easy, around 15 minutes for 750 meters. Today I was still going easy so I was surprised when I saw my time of 14:16. Not my fastest swim ever but much faster than I have been going lately. When I was done I knew I still had a 5K run tonight, but I also knew from experience that a good swim doesn’t always translate into a good run.

When I got home I really didn’t feel like going running but when I finally got myself out the door I was going really fast. The 5K route at our house is very hilly and hard so I backed off the pace slightly after just under a mile to be ready for the first long hill. The turn around is on one of the hills and I got there at 13 minutes, which is fast for that run so I knew I was doing pretty good but figured my time would slow a lot on the way back because there is a long hard hill. With all the hills on this run a fast time for me is usually around 28 minutes, so I was surprised when I got home at 25:47.

So Bryan…even though it wasn’t my fastest time, I just beat your fastest time again tonight on a very hard course. If I would have been on the much flatter lunch time run course I would have been very close to that 22 minute time that we are trying to see who can make it to first (I also held back slightly because we have a 12 mile run tomorrow). Time for you to pick it up or this is going to be too easy to win!

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Here we go again…

Friday, November 7th, 2008

I met w a realtor today to put my house back on MLS listing. I listed it w 2 realtors in 2007, then FSBO in 2008 until now. No serious offers in about 20 months. I clearly am not a real estate agent so I give up. I feel like a sell out for a few reasons:

1–I will have to take a loss b/c of the crap housing market.

2–My HUSBAND has to sign the paperwork in order for me to list it. Stupid sexist NC laws. No, his name is not on the title, loan or even utility bills. Whatever.

3–I cannot even remember what #3 is b/c 1 and 2 suck so much.

So this weekend will be pretty intense: Tonight I have a scrapbooking open house at Shirley’s. Saturday Biz and I are going to the holiday market, then Paul, the kids and I will go to the house to fix up some things including but not limited to: emptying the attic, touching up some paint, taking down the pool, mow and trim bushes…all while trying to keep Anna and Tyler from killing each other. Oh, and we have a 5 mile run on Sat to do.

Needless to say there may not be a post until we are back at work to rest on Monday. :)

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Am I Being Punished?

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

I was helping Anna do her homework tonight and she really didn’t want to do it. The whole time I kept thinking about how ironic it was that I was making her do her work when I never did mine. I love to learn on my own and got good grades but didn’t like doing homework for school. Now I have a daughter that always gets good report cards and loves to read…only she hates to do it when it is homework.

This must be my punishment for all those years of my mom trying to get me to do my homework.

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I HAVE to Start Stretching

Thursday, November 6th, 2008

I have had this ongoing problem with IT band pain for several years now. It started several years ago with cycling as pain in my knee and now I am having the problem in my hip while running. When ever it starts bothering me I start stretching it and everything is fine again after a few days. Of course once it gets better I forget about it and stop stretching so the problems comes back. It’s been this crazy cycle that has been going on for about the past four years. You would think that after dealing with this for so long now I would just keep up a stretching program and avoid the problem all together. Maybe I will try that this time…but I wouldn’t count on it.

I did a 3 mile run at lunch today and my hip was killing me, so back to stretching. On the plus side it is a BEAUTIFUL day here. It is in the mid 70′s and not a cloud in the sky. I couldn’t pass up a day like this because of a little hip pain!

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Nerd Poll

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

My sister told me today that if I was going to add a “nerd” tag to the post about marrying a nerd that I should also tag may post about Ubuntu with “nerd”. I did that but told her it wasn’t a nerd post. She said that I should create a poll to see what people think. Susan and I decided to make it a competition as to who is the bigger nerd, so cast your vote and let us know.

(Bridgette, if you are reading this please get Brendan to vote…I have a feeling I am going to need his help on this one).

Who is a bigger nerd, suspender girl or Ubuntu boy?

  • Ubuntu Boy (78%, 7 Votes)
  • Suspender Girl (22%, 2 Votes)

Total Voters: 9

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Our Civic Duty

Tuesday, November 4th, 2008

In all seriousness… Paul and I voted early and the most important thing I will be wearing today is my, “I voted early” sticker. I felt so proud and powerful waiting to cast my ballot last Friday. I think I was even taller when I walked out of the polling station. This was the longest I waited–1 hour 15 minutes, but it also was different–I waited among people of all races, ages and all THREE parties. The guy in front of me was a white haired cranky Republican smoker and the kid behind me could have been Coolios brother (complete w gold teeth and braids). THIS is what America is all about! No matter who your candidate is–go out and vote!

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Anna’s first report card!

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

Well, Anna must get her brains from me…she got her first report card today. She got all S’s (allegedly Satisfactory, but I think it might really be Susan-like).  She is reading above grade level and doing math at grade level!!! GO ANNA!

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My Picky Eater Is Growing Up

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

From the title of this post most of you will probably think this is going to be about one of the kids, instead this is about Susan. When I first met Susan I think the only things she had ever eaten were pizza, hot dogs, macaroni and cheese, toast and eggs. It was so bad that shortly after I met her we were talking about something she had never had and I said “that is like saying you have never had Frosted Flakes”. Well it turned out she hadn’t had Frosted Flakes (yes I am talking about the cereal that everyone else in the world has had). So we promptly went out and got a box for her to try.

Since then she has (reluctantly) tried all kinds of new things. She has tried everything from pana cotta to Foie Gras Mousseline. She even regularly eats (and likes) spinach. There have been all kinds of new things that she has tried and loved, which is good because it helps me convince her to try more things. We still have our set backs, like when I wanted to make the pasta fagioli recipe that Lauren sent us this week to try (she was not happy so I haven’t made it…yet), or when she found out that McDonald’s doesn’t have honey for her chicken nuggets any more (this was a major dilemma for her). Overall though, she has been really good about trying new things.

Still I was shocked when she sent me a message this morning asking if we could have cedar plank grilled salmon tacos for dinner. I love trying new foods so I was excited to hear this!

Well…I’m off now to make some fish tacos.

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Carolina Preseason #1

Saturday, November 1st, 2008

I was checking a few sites before I went to bed and saw this article that I thought some of you might be interested in. Carolina just became the first AP top 25 unanimous preseason number 1 ever. They are also only the second team ever to be the preseason number 1 two years in a row (UNLV is the other). The icing on the cake is that this breaks a tie with Duke, giving Carolina the most preseason number 1 rankings of any team.

To be number 1 AND to go ahead of Duke all at the same time…it doesn’t get any better than that!

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