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| Speaking of being a killjoy, I killed more joy this afternoon. There's a car dealership that's across the main road from our house. So it's like half our block, plus 5 lanes of traffic, plus another 1/2 a city block away. Every day for the past few days, all I could hear outside of our house was someone's sub woofer blaring above and beyond a necessary level. Jason came home from work yesterday and I said something about it. He said that the car dealership has had a van outside with 2 subs sitting on the grass in front of it when he's come home from work. I mean, I can understand wanting to attract business and whatnot, but there's people trying to live in their houses at the same time. So I called them today to ask that they please turn it down. Seriously, if I can hear it all the way from my house, it is a tad bit too high. Although if someone complained about my dogs barking, why wouldn't they complain about this. It's way more annoying than my barking dogs could ever be. Anyway, the guy was apologetic, said he would turn it down, and then asked me to leave a message on the general manager's voice mail voicing my concerns. Its only been about an hour, though, and the damned music is back on. I'm kind of tempted to call the cops. I mean, if my dogs can't bark for 5 minutes without someone calling animal control on them because of the noise ordinance, how can this be within the statutes of that ordinance? And it's been going on for days! |
Well now, nothing frightens a mother more than looking out the window to see her child standing in the front yard when he's supposed to be inside.  It didn't exactly go that way, but it was close... Ethan spends a good deal of time playing in the front room. He loves to look out the windows and play with the cats, who spend the day also looking out the windows. I usually have a good view of him through the windows in the living room and front room, so I don't usually sit right next to him. It gives him a feeling of independence and gives me a bit of time to pick up or check my email or whatever. I usually lock the front door, or the screen door if I have the front door open. Just in case. You never know when someone you don't know will walk into your house when you're not expecting it. Needless to say, I forgot to lock the door this morning. I'm tired. It's going on day 2 of little-to-no-sleep, so I'm bound to make mistakes. I look out to check on Ethan, and see him standing on the front porch, pacing back and forth and trying to figure out how to get down the steps. I had heard something that sounded like the door shutting just moments before, so he hadn't been out there long, but it still freaked me out. I'm taking that as a sign that he wants to go play outside, so after I make lunch in 10 minutes, I guess that's what we're going to do. Except I'm taking him to the park. I don't feel like picking up dog poop today so he can play in the back yard. |
| So here's something weird... my screen is upside down right now. Everything is upside down. The Start menu is at the top of my screen, and the window tops are at the bottom of my screen. The mouse is backwards and upside down. Is someone playing a trick on me?  |
I'm so proud of myself!  !!!There were over 1600 runners that entered the race. Runners spanned more than a city block, bunched together, waiting for the horn to blow to signal the beginning of the race. When the horn sounded, we all took off to run the 3.2 miles to the finish line. I was a little nervous, to say the least, this being my first race and everything. But I trained hard and apparently pretty good, because out of over 1600 runners (I think the exact number was like 1683 or something close to that), I came in 333. I thought that 333 was an uber cool number to place. It's easy to remember, and it's in the top 1/4 of the runners!!! Not only that, but I ran my personal best time at 30:55! My per-mile pace was 9:59 (finally that 10 minute mile I was striving for!!!). The guy that finished in first place ran it in like 17:48, which is incredibly impressive. There was also a guy who ran it in 22:18 while barefoot!  But I'm still floating on air over my time and placing. 30:55 and 333 are way better than I was anticipating.Wow. And then all I could think about when I got to the finish line was just how very much I was craving a banana. LOL. |
| It's off to the 5K race I go. I raised $250 between J's coworkers, his family, my family and my friends. Thank you for donating. You know who you are.  I can't believe I'm going to run my first race. I don't plan on coming in first. There's a guy in Kalamazoo who can run a 5K in like 16 minutes. If I come in last, that's OK too. At least I can do it. That's more than I could say 4 months ago. |
| My hip = uber pain this morning. I can't lift my leg at the hip without it feeling like I'm tearing something out of the socket. I asked my Mom about it, she said it runs in the family, that during childbirth the women in her family always end up rotating a hip in its socket. She said that she did physical therapy and they would pop it back into place and in a few days it would always pop back out. Generally going to the chiropractor makes it better. I don't have an appointment until this afternoon, though. I can't take anything for it because I risk real injury if I don't know the limitations. I guess I get to look forward to having a bum hip for the rest of my life. When I'm an old lady I'll probably fall and break it and have to get the whole socket replaced. I'm pissed about it. I didn't *do* anything for my hip to be this way. Just had a baby. Before that, it never affected me. |
| 4 miles, 2 hills (1 of which was 1/2 mile long), and 1 sore hip later and I'm pretty sure I'll be fine on Saturday. I just need to go to the chiropractor. It didn't help that I knew within 1 mile that I wasn't going to make it 5 miles like I had hoped because I could already feel the twinge in my left hip as I was running. It messed up my gait and gave my right leg a shin split. I'll be getting my back cracked tomorrow. I'm on my period, too. It's making me uber hormonal and pissy. I cried during Grey's Anatomy last night. I NEVER cry during tv shows. Well, at least not since I was pregnant. We get the checks for our refinance tomorrow. No more credit card payments! No more 28% interest rates! Yay! |
| Happy Mother's Day! My son bought me a new wandering jude, since mine got killed by our unexpected night frost about a week ago. My husband is going to buy me a small bookshelf to put in my scrapbooking corner so I can free up a little bit of space in my armoire. My Mom got me some roses, and I got myself some roses. Peach ones with dark red edges on the petals. Very pretty. It's been a busy week. I'm exhausted. Only 1 week to go until my 5K. |
| We got the outside of our house painted this weekend. And I cleaned like a fiend on Sunday. Plus I planted flowers. Now most of the outside of our house looks great. And so does the inside. But boy, are my legs tired. Still. Not to mention I ran a grand total of 5 miles on Saturday. 3 miles down the celery flats, then walked 1/2 a mile back toward the car, ran another 1/2 mile, walked another 1/2 mile, then ran another 1 1/2 miles. Eventually I want to get to 6.5 miles all at once. Who knows, one day I might even try a 1/2 marathon. |
All I do lately is bitch, but I'm happy to announce that I went to my Weight Watchers meeting this week and I lost 1 pound after having a near-stall last week.  I weigh 145.5 pounds, which is a 5-year low. The lowest I was prior was 148 pounds while I was pregnant, and that didn't count because I was dehydrated and sick. I celebrated with a hot chocolate. I lost another 4 sticks of butter, baby. |
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