Hammer Pants

Nothing really exciting to blog about.

I'm not motivated to do anything but shop. I can't justify it right now...except that it is spring and as I scour my closet every morning looking for something to wear I see NOTHING. I've got nothing to wear. And I'm not excited about the prospects that are filling the stores. What is it with the shapeless mu mu's they are trying to pawn off on us this season? Don't even get me started on the tights. I was a child of the 80's and I do not wish to revisit that fashion debacle. Next thing you know a model in M.C. Hammer pants will be on the front cover of Vogue. I shutter at the thought.

Running...nope. Just nope. I don't know what my problem is. Well...I know what it is...I'm not making time to do it. I just don't know how to get out of the funk. I'll start by just doing it.

Like I said...not much to blog about.

I'm coming home...

Well...much to my disappointment I did not run at all this week. As much as I planned and prepared to run I did not. My schedule wasn't very friendly and I didn't have my own car to go do my own thing so I was at the mercy of others. Enough excuses yet? I will start again on Monday when I am back to my routine.

I will be back in Florida in a few weeks for work again along with a lot of others including Spring Breakers and families. I know this because every freakin hotel room is sold out. Thankfully I managed to secure a hotel on the beach and I will have my own rent car. SWEET! Now I just need to figure out my schedule. Shuttle launches at 6:30a make it very challenging to function on a "normal" schedule. I originally thought the fam could come down and we could do a sidetrip to disney but the ugly schedule did not really make that possible. Oh well...perhaps next time.

Nothing really news worthy to report during my stay this week in Florida. The weather was outstanding although I didn't make it to the beach. As I said before...we do actually work over here. Dinners were good...and I had Wahoo for the first time. That is a fish that I always see on the Babin's list of fish but they never carry it. It has a Ahi texture and flavor which causes me to pause and think that perhaps they used Ahi in stead of Wahoo. Who knows...whatever, it was still a great meal.

I am heading home today. Reports from home say that the boy has had an outstanding week. No trips to the office and he hasn't been giving his dad a hard time. Looks like we'll be making a trip to the Houston Museum on Saturday as promised. YAY! Jodie and her son may be joining us.

Defensive Driving is complete! That was the most expensive trip to taco bell I've ever had. Thank God it is over.

Be safe this weekend. Good luck to those running.

Coming to you from Sunny FL!

I can't believe it is already Friday. Time as gotten away from me as is apparent in my postings. So...going back to Saturday and the Mardi Gras Beach Run.

Galveston was beautiful. The race started at 8:30 which was perfect for those of us who had a bit of a haul to make the race and it also allowed for warmer temps at the start of the race.

Galveston to me is a place that holds a lot of memories. Trips to the beach growing up, Spring Break in high school and the several historical home tours that I shared with my Mom. I've been to other beaches that blow Galveston away but every time I go to that island a bit of nostalgia comes over me. 61st and Seawall...I can't explain the feeling I get at the stop light with the Gulf before me, it's a beautiful sight with the sun coming up and the water seems to be less muddied.

The weather was perfect. The wind was manageable. Jodie and I were "so cute" in our skirts. She in her black and me in my root beer with matching pink shirt with a white long sleeve and gloves. I had to take my gloves off around 2.5.

My goal was for sub 30 time. I don't know what I was thinking because I haven't been diligent with my training. The first mile clocked in at 9:18. FAST (for me). Too fast because at 1.5 I was hurting and I had to walk for a minute. Jodie went on ahead. Mile 2 clocked in at 20:20. Which wasn't too bad, I was on track for a new PR. To finish the race they brought us off the seawall via a small hill and I believe that was the fastest "kick" I've ever had. The small hill DOWN to the finish was awesome. I would like that for every race please. I finished with a 32:39 and a new PR!! No sub 30 but I didn't deserve it, I hadn't worked for it but a new PR was worth it.

The after race festivities were ok. The standard grub, nothing fancy. They did have hot chocolate to warm everyone up a bit. A live band played cajun music and we stuck around for a bit. Then it was off to IHOP for breakfast. A girl in the bathroom said she saw me at the race. I am sure it was the skirt. Jodie and I were the only ones in skirts and we were "so cute"! Overall I would recommend the race. The mardi gras parade starts a couple of hours after the race so it's great for some family fun.

I was back home by noon, put the boy down for a nap and took one myself. I'm looking forward to March...I gots me some work to do.

Busy...busy...busy. Running first then an update for the week. I ran 3 on Tuesday. I was going to do 4 but didn't "lube" up and I had to stop at 3. I thought about going on but I didn't want to be miserable for the 5K on Saturday. I was able to test the skirt performance with wind gusts and the skirt performed swimmingly. The wind was crazy! If I could have just kept running with the wind I would have had a rockin good time but been somewhere in Galveston by the time I finished. So...I stopped at three.

Wednesday of course was Valentine's day. I took off work early to attend the boy's crack Valentine party at his school. When I arrived the kid's were all sitting in their chairs trying to see each other over the plates piled high with crack sugar cookies with icing, small cupcakes, big cupcakes, cookies with more icing, and cheese. Yes...cheese.

The boy and I managed to escape with a small cupcake and some cheese...yes cheese. He didn't go to the office so we were very celebratory! He was so excited.

The hubby made a great dinner for us. Chicken stuffed with portabello and wild rice, asparagus and cous cous. It was fabulous. The roses were gorgeous and I love my "Daughtry" CD and of course chocolate. We had a very nice evening.

Not much else is going on...well alot is going on but it is more tedious mentioning EVERYTHING. I'm running in Galveston tomorrow...I will be seen in my sassy root beer colored skirt. The temps seem manageable. Last time I ran in this race it was in the sand, against the wind. Thankfully they decided to keep in on the sea wall. I even more excited about breakfast afterward. I love running but I love eating even more. I think I heard before...I run to eat. That would be me.

I'm off to Florida for most of the week next week starting on Tuesday. It's not a vacation it is work. Yes...we do work contrary to popular belief. I'm excited to have a new location for my training runs. Early mornings running on the beach seem really relaxing and motivating. That reminds me...I need to get that massage I was planning a few weeks ago.

Oh...they unrestricted access to blogging at my work...THANK GOD!

Happy racing this weekend.

Happy Valentine's Day

Ok...real quick...here is a Valentine's Day present if you are married, single or with a significant other.

Skirts Sports.com is have a 50% off sale on most of their skirts ONE DAY ONLY. I think I just bought everything they sale. I'm on a mac and I'm not sure why I can't link anything...and I don't have time to figure it out. So...

This one is short. Work disabled blogging so I am going to have to carve out another time to blog. Frustrating...it's like they want you to spend your day at work working! Whatever. At least I can still read blogs if they would have disabled that...I would have to quit.

Have a great day!

Fabulouso Family Weekend

Saturday the hubby and I took the boy to the Woodlands Childrens Museum at the Woodlands mall. The boy LOVED it. It is a great place for toddler's and young school children. They can play make believe to their hearts content and they had something for everyone. A grocery store, operating room (complete with guts), school room, dinosaur pit. The boy didn't want to leave and now he asks us when is he going to get to go to the museum.

Sunday we took the boy to ride go-karts. Oh My gosh! It was totally amazing. The boy had a smile on his face from ear to ear the entire time. He rode with dad first then with me. The boy would look behind me and tell me to go faster. It was really awesome. We had a great family weekend.

Monday was busy but I did manage to run my 3. I wasn't looking forward to it because it was pouring rain which meant I had to run at the Gilruth gym. Normally, I'm not a sweater even in 95+ weather...I glisten. However, because they keep the gym at 80 and the fans are pointing above my head I am now a bonafide sweater; and not the kind that keeps you warm when it is cold. As I tried to keep the pouring sweat out of my eyes I did a bit of speed work. Man...I'm feeling it in my quads today. I like it.

I got my skirts in yesterday!!! YAY!!! I can't wait to run in them. I am so happy I now have added Root beer and Sangria to my collection.

I'm running 4 today. It is especially windy...but it will be nice to run outside and avoid potentially dieing from a heat stroke in February.

Oh...My hubby, the chocolatier, got a call from the folks at CSI: New York and his company's truffles are going to be in an March 21st episode...and it sounds like they are going to be part of the main plot AND poison is involved. How cool is that!!!

Good luck to all those running at Surfside this weekend.

Nothing big planned this weekend. I'm hoping for some quality family time and perhaps a spontaneous day trip since the weather will be nice. Hmmm...

I've slacked on the running. No excusable reason. I just didn't make the time. Monday is a new week.

Have an outstanding weekend.

Your 2007 Vocabulary Words

These were too funny not to share and unfortuately I think most of us can identify with all of them. How refreshing, there are actually words to describe crap we all experience via the daily grind. Enjoy!

Essential vocabulary additions for the workplace (and elsewhere)!!!

1. BLAMESTORMING: Sitting around in a group, discussing why a deadline was missed or a project failed, and who was responsible.

2. SEAGULL MANAGER: A manager, who flies in, makes a lot of noise, craps on everything, and then leaves.

3. ASSMOSIS: The process by which some people seem to absorb success and advancement by kissing up to the boss rather than working hard .

4. SALMON DAY: The experience of spending an entire day swimming upstream only to get screwed and die in the end.

5. CUBE FARM : An office filled with cubicles.

6. PRAIRIE DOGGING : When someone yells or drops something loudly in a cube farm, and people's heads pop up over the walls to see what's going on.

7. MOUSE POTATO : The on-line, wired generation's answer to the couch potato.

8. SITCOMs: Single Income, Two Children, Oppressive Mortgage. What Yuppies get into when they have children and one of them stops working to stay home with the kids.

9. STRESS PUPPY: A person who seems to thrive on being stressed out and whiny.

10. SWIPEOUT: An ATM or credit card that has been rendered useless because magnetic strip is worn away from extensive use.

11. XEROX SUBSIDY: Euphemism for swiping free photocopies from one's workplace.

12. IRRITAINMENT: Entertainment and media spectacles that are Annoying but you find yourself unable to stop watching them.

13. PERCUSSIVE MAINTENANCE: The fine art of whacking the crap out of an electronic device to get it to work again.

14. ADMINISPHERE : The rarefied organizational layers beginning just above the rank and file. Decisions that fall from the adminisphere are often profoundly inappropriate or irrelevant to the problems they were designed to solve.

15. 404: Someone who's clueless. From the World Wide Web error Message "404 Not Found," meaning that the requested site could not be located.

16. GENERICA : Features of the American landscape that are exactly the same no matter where one is, such as fast food joints, strip malls, and subdivisions.

17. OHNOSECOND: That minuscule fraction of time in which you realize that you've just made a BIG mistake. (Like after hitting send on an email by mistake).

18. CROP DUSTING: Surreptitiously passing gas while passing through a Cube Farm

Substance

It is not that I haven't had much to say the last few days...I haven't. So much "craziness" has been going on I can't even keep up. All I will say about that, I can't wrap my mind around it...everything you work for in your entire life done...negated...destroyed. Is it worth it? I hope so but I think not.

Weekend recap. Friday night was delightful and YAY the sun peeked out. Good food, good company and a decent movie. Us girls ended up seeing Catch and Release, yes, it was the typical chick flick. Nothing really too deep or thought provoking. It was fun to just laugh and be with friends. My favorite line from the movie from Jennifer Garner's character..."I obsess over natural disasters...I think people should die". Now writing this out of context makes me look like a masochist but I'm not. She's at a dinner party and she is telling the guest things they didn't know about her. I guess you had to be there.

The rest of the weekend was uneventful, nice. We did enjoy the sun, YES! and some quality family time. The hubby and I watched the Superbowl and we were as disappointed as everyone else with the commercials.

I ran on Monday, 3 miles (30:40). It was perfect weather. I so very much enjoyed myself. I also sent in my old running shorts for running skirts on Monday, taking advantage of the "convert to skirts" campaign. I can't wait to get them in. I even managed to convince Jodie to try a pair.

The hubby is in Dallas for a convention until Thursday. The boy seems to be doing okay with it. Last time Daddy went to visit the pirates when he went to Vegas now we tell the boy Daddy is visiting the cowboys. It will be interesting because Mommy is going to Florida in a couple of weeks. I don't think he will be as accepting that mommy is going to go visit the space shuttle without him. We will see.

I guess that's it...not much substance here. Have a good one.

Weatherman Smeatherman

I was promised sun today. Who can I talk to about this? I was promised temperatures in the 60's...I, we, everyone was promised warmth and sun. Someone must pay. If I was so inconsistent with the data I presented at work I would be fired from my job. Who is held accountable? Seriously...I dressed for 60 degree weather. I had my sunglasses on my head in preparation for the glaring orange ball of gas to be blinding my eyes. I wanted to be blinded with sunshine. What do you know...Disappointed yet again. I would have more respect for the weatherdude and dudette if they just admitted the best and worse case scenerios...it may be high in the low 50's if the front speeds up. It may be 65 and sunny if the front stalls. I may get it wrong folks so prepare for the worst and hope for the best. That...I can live with.

Okay...rant over. Cause...it's Friday night...and the girls are going out! (Snoopy dance)

Have a great weekend! My advice to you...layer up. Cause it doesn't matter what they "forecast" walk outside and you will always be 100% correct.

Good day.

Just call me Twitchy

The weather and work won yesterday and I opted out of running. Today is supposed to be a warmer, drier day and since I'm going easy on my mileage for this first week back my plan is to do 4 tomorrow with speed intervals. How exciting...it's forecasted to be 65 and sunny. Is it possible?

For those that inquired about Surfside...No, I'm not planning on running there next week. This year I am planning one race a month, that's about 10 more races than I did last year. I will be running in the Mardi Gras 5K the following week. I will wait and read everyone's stories and decide if Surfside is on the agenda for next year.

I found out I have a condition called benign eyelid myokymia. In laymen's terms...a twitchy eyelid. They can make the simplest things sound incredibly important. According to Doctor world wide web, it's a condition often associated with emotional stress, fatigue or excessive caffeine intake. Isn't that the defintion of motherhood? There is no medicinal cure...evidently it just goes away on it's own. I guess I can expect relief in about 25 years.

The hubby and I met with the boy's teacher this afternoon. All is well in behavior land. She said he has been doing much better this week and she will keep up updated on his progress.