Official News
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Officially, on the eve of my children starting 3rd and 5th grade, I *submitted
my application to Nursing School. *
It's in.
*I paid* an application fee ...
15 hours ago
Friday, August 29, 2008
YoYoYo Mammas! And Papas!
This is it...the weekend the whole group has pretty much been aiming for...its time for sex, drugs and rock'n'roll...except chances are I am not having any sex, and I don't do the doping thing (but don't test me...=), oh wait, there will at least be rock'n'roll! Yeah!! 1 out of 3 ain't bad!
Thursday, August 14, 2008
Ice Baths and Insanity
This week has been quite the interesting one for me...
Last Friday I was dumped...for the first time ever...I know, I know...I am a grown up, how is that possible? Well, I will just say that it is.
Last Saturday I won my age group at the race I was in, The Hometown Waterboy! I took almost 9 minutes off of last year's time, which for such a small race, is great!! I owe it all to SpeeDee and her pink pompoms!! (and most certainly not to my poor pre-race preparations, ie: sleepless night thinking about Friday's fun!)
Then to add insult to injury then to victory then another insult...my phone crapped out while I was deleting some texts...ummm, see above description of Friday night...and I lost all of my data...phone numbers, pictures and even the video of my co-worker sleeping at his desk, SNORING! There are some things in this world that can't be replaced.
I also officially started horseback riding AGAIN (for the first time in about 10 years!) and I thought I was in shape. There are clearly muscles that do not get used in at least 3 of the sports I do because I have recently found them. And I found them because they were in pain. A lot of pain. Last weeks horse assignment, Gabe, dragged me around the ring and I could hardly stop him. This week's assignment was Sadie, and I could hardly make her move! I have a GIANT bruise on my calf and took my very first icebath as a result...which leads me to the next subject...icebaths...
Could there be another form of torture so complete as the icebath? It is so wrong in so many ways...and we do it to ourselves!! Yuck! There is actually a procedure to this madness. Here are the necessary steps to doing it right.
1. Get a 10 lb bag of ice and disrobe (already things are all wrong)
2. Start running a bath, cold water now...
3. Get in and let it fill up to your waist or until desired body part is covered.
4. Turn off water.
5. Open 10 lb bag of ice.
6. Look at it with dread.
7. Yes, you will need to dump it eventually.
8. Look at it again.
9. Close your eyes and dump.
10. Stick your fairly warm dry hands into ice cold water and swish ice all around.
11. Set clock for 10 minutes.
12. umm...relax?
13. Look at clock...2 minutes down...
14. You get the drift.
15. 10 Minutes passes...biggest rule...MOVE SLOWLY...not that you have any choice, your limbs and appendages are frozen. Literally.
16. Drift off into a peaceful dream...you are warm, you are cozy, no wait, you have fallen alseep in the ice cold bath and are dying of hypothermia.
17. Rinse and repeat...kidding.
Last Friday I was dumped...for the first time ever...I know, I know...I am a grown up, how is that possible? Well, I will just say that it is.
Last Saturday I won my age group at the race I was in, The Hometown Waterboy! I took almost 9 minutes off of last year's time, which for such a small race, is great!! I owe it all to SpeeDee and her pink pompoms!! (and most certainly not to my poor pre-race preparations, ie: sleepless night thinking about Friday's fun!)
Then to add insult to injury then to victory then another insult...my phone crapped out while I was deleting some texts...ummm, see above description of Friday night...and I lost all of my data...phone numbers, pictures and even the video of my co-worker sleeping at his desk, SNORING! There are some things in this world that can't be replaced.
I also officially started horseback riding AGAIN (for the first time in about 10 years!) and I thought I was in shape. There are clearly muscles that do not get used in at least 3 of the sports I do because I have recently found them. And I found them because they were in pain. A lot of pain. Last weeks horse assignment, Gabe, dragged me around the ring and I could hardly stop him. This week's assignment was Sadie, and I could hardly make her move! I have a GIANT bruise on my calf and took my very first icebath as a result...which leads me to the next subject...icebaths...
Could there be another form of torture so complete as the icebath? It is so wrong in so many ways...and we do it to ourselves!! Yuck! There is actually a procedure to this madness. Here are the necessary steps to doing it right.
1. Get a 10 lb bag of ice and disrobe (already things are all wrong)
2. Start running a bath, cold water now...
3. Get in and let it fill up to your waist or until desired body part is covered.
4. Turn off water.
5. Open 10 lb bag of ice.
6. Look at it with dread.
7. Yes, you will need to dump it eventually.
8. Look at it again.
9. Close your eyes and dump.
10. Stick your fairly warm dry hands into ice cold water and swish ice all around.
11. Set clock for 10 minutes.
12. umm...relax?
13. Look at clock...2 minutes down...
14. You get the drift.
15. 10 Minutes passes...biggest rule...MOVE SLOWLY...not that you have any choice, your limbs and appendages are frozen. Literally.
16. Drift off into a peaceful dream...you are warm, you are cozy, no wait, you have fallen alseep in the ice cold bath and are dying of hypothermia.
17. Rinse and repeat...kidding.
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Well, all I can say is, it could not have been THAT BAD...
Well, all I can say is, it could not have been THAT BAD.......here we ran up on one of the Saturday MTT SAG's and being all soooooo shy, why not stop for a pose with the paparazzi? Ain't no ham in this photo - oh no, although we all love us some bacon!
My only question is...WHY are Papa Blair's nipples glowing? Lynn? Bueller? Ferris Bueller? Pam - you rock!
Love you all!
-SpeeDee
Saturday, August 2, 2008
Who Could It Be?
Hmmm? Wonder who SpeeDee was talking about? I'm not really sure, but off I set for my first (and possibly LAST) 15 miler today. You know how in life, you realize in hindsight that you made a really poor choice? Well, today I had that realization.
See, the lovely and scenic Nickel Bridge in Richmond is built across the "canyon" that is the James River. Apparently this is the unknown and unrecognized Grand Canyon of the East Coast. Did you know that the hill on either side of this yawning chasm is 176 feet in elevation? And YES, just like your grandma & grandpa, it's UPHILL BOTH WAYS! Run down the hill to the bridge, across the bridge, and back up that hill on the other side.
Back to the hindsight is 20/20 thing. As you may have read, there was a choice of routes. Cause I am all tough like that, and cause a route in this general vicinity kicked my assphalt a few weeks ago, I chose to tackle my demons head on. And this demon included crossing the Nickel Bridge twice - at 10 miles and back to the car at 14 miles. Maybe next time I should be smart and choose the road less hilly?
Well, let's say that this week is BETTER than the last death march up the hill, but still not great. It's amazing how you can THINK that you are running at your pace, but then when you look at friend Garmin, you are 2 minutes slower than you think. Apologies to my dear friends for having some choice words about the scheduled distance, but I think they understand that I love them, I just didn't love 15 miles.
My longest distance is behind me - it's all downhill (ha ha ha) from here to the Rock n Roll Virginia Beach Half. WOO HOOO!!!
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