Running Commentary

Wake up Maggie August 18 2008

Ok…

so…

Rod was kinda fabulous.

It was kinda one of the best shows I’ve seen.

Seriously.

She is truly a prejudice person. She even prejudged the woman across the aisle from us on the bus. She assumed a: she was poor (she was not) and b: she was the one that smelled up the bus.

I still might go and kill her today.

so

much

complaining

ugh.

I dreamed out running last night. It is on my brain. It’s going to cool down this afternoon (7C this evening? WTF!)

ANd I will run.

Even though he totally forgot the words to a song.

Dude is 63 and can sing & “dance” for 2 hours.

while head butting soccer balls into the audience.

In other news, my mother is still alive.

BARELY.

OMG.

Seriously.

She is the most btitter person ever.

She hated dinner (the m@nd@rin), she hated our room (h0liday lnn) it was too “noisy” because we could hear people talking in the hall as they passed our room (which happened less than 6 times and they were mere murmurs), she wasn’t thrilled with the big swedish store.

She is the most RACIST person I have ever ever ever ever met.

Omg she would not share a bench with me at the mall because an asian guy was on the other end.

At one point she goes…oh god…”look” and I look over to see a mother with 3 children. They were middle eastern and they were dressed pretty traditioinally. And all the dresses matched. And so I said, oh that’s so cute. And she sort of made a noise that I didn’t really recognise.  later i can to realize that I was supposed to critize them with her.  ugh.

August 14 2008

I FOUND MY SHOES!

Yesterday Chris found ONE shoe…which really is nothing to home about. Because what can you do with one shoe, but wake up drunk on a beach somewhere (right?…oh that’s just me).

But today…oooh I found my other shoe. It was right there in the big box of shoes…WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY at the bottom.

HURRAH! Perhaps a run tomorrow.

I’ve been doing a lot of stained glass lately.  I’ve been out of practice but since we moved here I have a little room behind the stairs in the basement that is devoted entirely to MY STAINED GLASS (and possibly sewing because I haven’t found anywhere to sew yet).

In other news.

School starts in 2.5 weeks.

can i get an amen?

Amen.

I Totally Forgot To Tell You August 11 2008

I’m going away this weekend….

With my MOTHER (kill me)

To see….

ROD STEWART!

hahaha.

I swear to God that’s the truth.

A friend of ours organizes these special bus trips a couple of times a year and we kind of flaked out on her last year for C1rque du S0liel. So I immediately said yes this year, before really considering the fact that I am going to see…..ROD STEWART.

Luckily we have REALLY shitty seats and from that far back I’m hoping we won’t be able to see his girdle and maybe his head will look a little less like it’s about to explode under the pressure of said girdle.

And anyway I thought he had some horrible throat disease and would never sing again!

And then we’re going to a large swedish store that sells cheap furniture that you have to use your university degree and an alan key to assemble. I haven’t been to one in 3 years and I REALLY need to load up on cheap baskets and odd kitchen gadgets.

I’m thinking I’ll just fill my purse with mini bottles of random booze and knock one back every time my mother makes me want to kill myself her. I should be unconscious within the first hour.

I’ll be stealing Feffie’s camera and will surely post photos of Rod and his Canadian fan base. I may also photo document my decent into mayhem when I follow my mother (she who shall not conform to society’s laws of buffet lines or escalator ettiquette) into the giant swedish store and requests you follow arrows one way around said store in an orderly fashion.

Did I mention she hates crowds?

And noise?

And bright lights?

And pretty much everything else.

Pray for me.

The Best Laid Plans…or something August 09 2008

So my plan was to run home from work today…which is about 2.5km…not a great distance..I mean…at ALL.

But a good first day with the new feet kind of run.

But lets remember that I just moved. And while gathering my running paraphenalia I failed to find any shorts or capris suitable for running…which I could have lived with and just worn something else.

But THEN, I realized I had NO IDEA where my shoes are.

Now there is a sign I haven’t been running.  My running stuff was always with me. The first thing I’d pack for trips or visits or whatever.

Anyway, I’m still looking.

In other news, Noah dropped his cookie on the floor today and decided to WASH IT IN THE SINK.

Yeah didn’t work out as well as he thought it would.

Ick.

HEEEEEElllo August 08 2008

Well I’m back.

Have not been eaten by bears, so that’s good.

I’ve lost a bunch of weight so that’s good. (maybe 20lbs? or there abouts, I’m not paying close attention to the numbers)

And now I have a race to train for.

THIS ONE

An adventure race. I have ALWAYS wanted to do one, but never found anyone do them with.

A girl I work with has been running for about 5 years and just did her first race (10k she was 8th overall for and 1st in her age group…I hate her just a little) is interested too. And her trainer will help us get as ready as we can.

So tomorrow I start running again. Which I’ll do till spring….I’ll add my stationary bike in a few months, once running stops sucking again. And in the spring we’ll have to get out on the water in a kayak.

They say in the course info that you need minimal orienteering so I figure we can find someone to teach us about that and topographical maps.

Anyway it’s something to strive for.  And it’s something I’ve always wanted to try.

In other news….

SCHOOL STARTS IN 3 WEEKS!

Can I get an AMEN?