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Day 27:

When you go to the grocery store before a big storm you will find people buying milk, eggs, and bread. Why? I can see granola bars, dried foods, canned foods, pop tarts, even the bread - but the milk and eggs? Don't you run a chance of them going bad? I don't know. The only reason I could think of for so many people buying the milk, eggs and bread was that they all really want French Toast when there is a snow storm.

Snow Day

Day 26:

Still going strong and it is just now coming to noon. Still finding it hard to believe I woke up at 7:50 and got out of bed!

It can't snow, I'm in short sleeves

Hard to believe we are going to have all the ice and snow that they are calling for when it is currently 67 outside. Prediction of at least an inch of ice followed by at least 4" of snow. Some call for more. Our resident meteorologist at OSU says it is going to be much worse than being predicted by the local media. His models show something more severe. Who knows. If I keep power and don't have to go to school it is all a bonus. If I loose power and don't have to go to school it will still be good, but not my favorite thing to do.

Day 24:

Run Time: 5:00, 22:45, 5:00
Run Distance: .25, 2, .25
Feeling: I love iron, it's my favorite
Soundtrack: Margin week 2. I know we are through week 3 but I like them all. http://www.lifechurch.tv/message-archive

When I Grow Old, I Shall Wear Purple

but I will retire when I say I will retire and stay retired and won't keep coming back. I'll be honest, I liked Bret Favre. I did. But I quit liking him when he left Green Bay and tried his hand in every other team that would take him. He DID have a really good season this season, but that season is finally over. Any time the Vikings played this year I rooted against them. I think a lot of people had that same feeling. Did the Saints deserve the win last night? Who knows, but the Vikings are not going to be in the Super Bowl and that makes me happy.

So, I have been absent for a few days. Why? Not really sure. Friday I found out I am anemic. That explains quite a bit. Why I am tired, why my last two weeks of running has been terrible, and why I feel like I could sleep all day everyday.

Day 22:
Run Time: 5, 17:20, 5
Run Distance: 1.5
Feeling: Better. After about 3 days of 150% of my daily supply of iron I feel better. Hoping that the feeling continues to get better. I am a part of a study being done for middle distance runners. It is starting this week.
Sound Track: The Killers, Hot Fuss. Always good to run to the Killers, those Mormons know how to sing rock.

Crazy Nights

I forgot last night to post. Probably because I was asleep. I got home after my night class (only about 7:30) ate dinner and pretty much fell asleep. I don't know if it was the day or the week, or what.

Day 17:

• In an effort to take a picture while walking back to my car after class I got the library. I need my camera with more functions on it to get a good picture of it I think. Or this may be the best I can do. So maybe in the future I will have more of these night ones that will turn out a little better.
• Run time: none
• Run distance: none
• Running on Friday. I was playing with running Tuesday and Thursday with a weekend day, but I think I am going to go back to Monday, Wednesday, Friday. Who knows where I will land for sure, because I sure am hating it right now.

Welcome Back

I am a bit overwhelmed today. Maybe it was the three day weekend where I did nothing school related.




Day 16:

• Yesterday I went to the library to pick up a book I requested from Inter Library Loan. While I was at the library I went up to my favorite spot in the library to show my visitor the view I love so much. The view that I can not sit in front of very often or I will not get any work done. Anyway, at one of the chairs was a plain gray book with no title on it. I put it to the side. While sitting there for a bit looking at my green roof book I decided to open the cover just to see what the nondescript book was all about. It was a C.S. Lewis book. I think I'm suppose to read it.
• Run time: 25 min (5, 10, 10)
• Run distance: no clue, another bad treadmill day.
• Feeling: I can't decide what is really up with me right now. I don't know if it is the sporadic schedule and not really knowing daily when I am going to work out and when I am going to get my studying done. I know it is all in my head.
• Soundtrack: Jennifer Knapp Live. I like to think she was putting on a concert for me in the gym, but she wasn't. She was in New Mexico like 10 years ago. OK, just 3 - or maybe that is when they actually released it. She is still working on her new album. Not that I keep checking or anything.

Introductions

I thought today would be as good a day as any to make an introduction.





Day 15:

• Internet meet Adam, Adam meet Internet. Adam has been a fixture here in Stillwater. Addie has taken quite a liking to him as have I. Not a good picture of him, but I was shocked that Addie got up on the couch to get him to pet her. She usually sits on the floor for attention.
• Run time: None
• Run distance: None

Walkabout

Day 14:

• Run time: None
• Run distance: None
• Hiking today, I think about 7 miles. I was exhausted.

Saturday! Not in the Park

Backdating is a beautiful thing! I had my first visitor this weekend so I didn't really spend much time on the computer.



Day 13:

• Spent the day picking up my apartment and getting ready. Addie pretty much did this all day, and I did some of the day.
• Spent some time deleting pictures from the rodeo last night. I probably took about 500 pictures, deleted some on the way home (too blurry, or empty shot, etc.). Then today I spent the morning/afternoon spent deleting more after looking at them on more than a small screen (more blurry, more off shots). Down to about 300 now. Still need to cut out more repeats.
• Run time: None
• Run distance: None
  

Friday At Last

Not Sleeping At Last, but Friday at last. This week has really flown by and wasn't that hard. Maybe because I am only working one job right now and all the classes were focused around getting started. Two of them are suppose to last about 3 hours and each lasted a little over an hour, so that added up to more free time than I am going to have next week (if you don't count my Monday day off).



Day 12:

• I did today what all good Oklahomans should do and went to a rodeo. I love the barrel racing the best. Probably because I am a girl and it is the only girl sport there. Don't see any barrel racing, much less rodeo-ing going on in this picture?
• Run time: 28 min
• Run distance: 1.75 mi (.25, 1, .5)
• Feeling: honestly I don't remember the exact time I ran/walked overall, but I do remember I only ran one mile before calling it a day. There are several excuses I could use for that and I will list them now: I gave blood yesterday and I had a blood giving hangover. the treadmill I was on was right in front of the TV that had MTV Real World D.C. on and while I was not listening to it there was no other place too look if I didn't look at D.C. than the counter on my treadmill. I had a semi stressful morning and I was trying to fit running in between working and my class and my head was not on the class or the running but on the morning before. It was Friday. I am lazy. I ran the mile much faster than I normally run (11.1 min - slow to most humans but fast for me).
• Soundtrack: Madonna Greatest Hits. I know, I am a heathen, but Papa Don't Preach she has a good beat.

Twilight

Day 11:

Not only do they want my time, my knowledge, and my money, they want my blood too.

Just a blood drive, no big deal. I just hadn't given any time in the last 5 or 6 years so I thought I would get back in the habit. Last time I tried to give I had low iron - go figure. The time before that I sat there and sat there and sat there and they could never get all the blood they needed. Since those two times I have been reluctant to give. Anyway, it was quick and pretty painless AND they gave me a pink bandage. This picture is taken in the library where I was studying for a bit. Trendy carpet. I made an executive decision NOT to work on my thesis today. Doing other reading for other classes today, I will pick up tomorrow with more reading and thesis work. I need someone to teach me how to write a thesis, I have this feeling I am walking around in the woods without a trail using a broken compass to find my way. In this feeling I think my head lamp is broken too.

• Running time: none
• Running distance: none
• Soundtrack: they were playing country at the blood drive, but I didn't bring any music today.
  

Wednesday

Day 10:

• Run time: 33 min (5, 23.5, 4.5)
• Run distance: 2.5 miles (.25, 2, .25)
• Feeling: I was able to run at my slower pace and bump it up a notch for about five minutes. On the treadmill again, I think I'm growing to really like it, I can control a lot of things and know at all times my pace.
• Soundtrack: Craig Groeschel intro message to Margin http://www.lifechurch.tv/message-archive. A good way to spend about 30 minutes, and I was running. I don't think that is what he meant by having margin, but I'm learning.

Tire-d

I got a new tire today! Always a fun when you get to buy new tires. I bought it's partner sometime in November . . . maybe, something like that. Anyway, I saved up enough for his friend. They are awesome tires. I don't know that I have ever felt that way about tires before, but I do about these.

Day 9:

• Run time: None
• Run distance: None
• Feeling: strangely fine. Thinking about doing a few sit ups before bed for my wimpy abs. And they offer Pilates at school on Saturdays so thinking about going to that as well. If my schedule will allow I would go during the week too, but I am still waiting to see how that will all pan out.
• Soundtrack: Music-less today.

Back At It

Day 8:

• Back to the grind today. Only one class but there is so much going on around the classes and work and thesis, gosh.
• Run time: 30 min
• Run distance: 2.2 (1.8 actual running)
• Feeling: My pace was all off. I was running pretty well about 11-12 minute miles, but I kept feeling myself pull back. It was odd. Also didn't run treadmill and I decided I actually like the treadmill because you HAVE to run that speed or you fall off the back of the machine (done that before, don't want a repeat).
• Soundtrack: Fatboy Slim album Halfway Between the Gutter and the Stars. It is alright, good to run to, but not a great CD. BUT it does have Weapon of Choice on it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sMZwZiU0kKs because it won't allow embedding for this video.
  

Lazy Day

Today was a lazy day. Church yesterday, no work today, just nothing really going on. Tomorrow is school again. I was not nervous starting school last semester, but for some reason I am this time. Maybe it is the fewer hours and thought that I will use that spare time on my thesis, and knowing the way that I sometimes operate (as evidence from this last break) that I won't get done what I want to get done this semester. I do think though, that as I get more and more direction when it comes to my thesis that I will be able to work better because I will be writing and experimenting not just reading.

Day 7:

• Much warmer today. 40 felt down right balmy compared to the last weeks. I took this picture after dark and it was still 36! That, my friends, is amazing.


• Run time: None


• Run distance: None

You Sunk My Battleship

Tonight was the premiere night of Battleship. A game of strategery and mayhem.

Day 6:

Tonight was also the kickoff for a series at my church called Margin. I think it is going to be a really great series with the potential to really get people thinking about how we live our lives in this day and age and how, maybe, we can change. http://www.lifechurch.tv/current-series

• Run time: None
• Run distance: None

$75? For That?

First off - go here: 1979 Electronics Show



Day 5:

• Wishing I had on more layers, or maybe that I was in bed covered with two blankets laying on top of my heated throw (I'm old, I use it to make my back feel like a million bucks). Haven't really cracked the 30 mark all week and the cold front that is sweeping the nation set us back into the teens in the day and near 0 at night. Then there is the wind. OH THE HUMANITY! And you know the wind here just sweeps down the plains.
• Run time: 30 min
• Run distance: 2.2 miles
• Feeling: not as good as Wednesday, but loving the way my body feels when it is running. We will see how long that lasts before I am giving the running bee (the one in my bonnet) the boot.
• Soundtrack: Stavesacre, Album: Bull Takes Fighter EP. Man they are looking old and not so alternative anymore. Short so I got to listen to it twice. Driving beat helped me to stay on track when all the TVs around me were showing replay after replay of the Colt McCoy hit.

Another Day

Day 4:

• Run time: None
• Run distance: None

So Much To Say, So Much To Say, So Much To Say, So Much To Say

So many pictures could commemorate my day today. I started off by taking pictures of one of the cats at work. I was silly and thought that would be the most momentous thing.Well it was NOT! What followed next can only be called an adventure because each event was beaten by the following event in craziness.

First I made only the worst Pad Thai ever made. This, was not totally my fault. It was much better than the meal yesterday - but as with all experiments in the new rice cooker not all of them will be dead on the first time out of the gate. This time there were too many noodles so not enough liquid . . . and the list goes on from there. The bonus? I got a toy for my trouble.

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Oh, but it doesn't stop there. We have been on the hunt for a Battleship game to play. Do you think we can find the Battleship we grew up with in the store? Heck no! They remade the game so now it looks weird and we don't even want to try and play it. The internet has everything, so we started a search. But then Addie had other plans for me. Instead of looking up the game (which, by the way is at a friend's house so we are going to get it in the next few days) I was cleaning up this . . . well I did take a picture but I figured I would spare you. She didn't just throw up a little she threw up a lot. Thankfully I have a lot of rice on hand!

Day 3:

• Back to the gym. Many more people there today, must mean school is getting closer!
• Run time: 30 min (5, 20, 5)
• Run distance: 2.2 miles (0.2, 1.7, 0.3)
• Feeling: I felt much better today about the decision to start running again. It just felt right to be running (even if it was on a treadmill). I am still sore, and I am feeling discomfort in my foot so I am watching that, but overall it was good. I was able to keep up a fairly good pace during my 20 minute run part instead of having to back down like Monday.
• Listening to: Sigur Rios, Album: Med sud i eyrum vid spilum endalaust. The first 5 songs on the album are really the key to a good run. Seriously! Instead of thinking about the running I was wondering what they are saying. Band history here.

Going Through the Phases

Phase 10 that is. That is one of my phase wins . . . no wait, I did get the phase but I lost the hand.

You might wonder what a woman like me does during her last week off before school starts back up. Well she might work on her thesis so she doesn't have to work so hard on it during the semester, or she might get in some extra fun reading in, or maybe she would even get up early and get some of her Christmas presents sent out that she hasn't mailed yet, or maybe her thank you cards out . . . this particular woman did none of those things today. As a mater of fact I did none of those things. I slept in until about 11 (not the record for this break though), worked on cleaning up my office and room, then I made one of the worst dinners on record and kicked booty on Phase 10 (for the first time ever to play, thank you very much). I did have a good teacher though and that makes the difference.

Day 2:

• Found my 3-D glasses from when we went to see "Avatar" before Christmas. They are the best! They look cool and they are so functional . . . if you are in a theater where you need 3-D glasses to see the show.
• Run time: None, doing an every other day thing for now. Thinking about going to the gym on the off days and doing weights. I haven't done that in a few years.
• Run distance: Unless you count the number of steps I took from my office to the living room all day there isn't any.
• Feeling: SORE! I forgot this phase of getting back into it all. I woke up this morning and my abs even hurt. That means I have some wimpy abs.

On The Road Again

As you know I am constantly dissatisfied with my blog. I write too much, not enough, talk too much on a video blog, don't really have anything to say and end up rambling . . . whatever I have said it all. Along with that dissatisfaction comes changes to the overall blog. So, if you see changes over the next couple of days just know it is all apart of the natural ebb and flow of my brain typed out on the internet machine.

Day 1:

• Said "hello" to a couple of old friends that I have kept in the dark for a month or two


• Run time: 30 minutes (5 warm up, 20 run, 5 cool down)


• Run distance: 2.10 (.20 warm up, 1.60 run, .30 cool down)


• Feeling: Good! I wanted to run a bit more, but I thought maybe since I have slacked off for so long it would be best to ramp things up slowly. Looking for a 5K to run in the spring and MAYBE I will get the guts to sign up for the Tulsa run in October. My original plans when I moved of running the OKC Memorial Marathon in April are long gone.