What a weekend!

After suffering through the cold and snow for the past few weeks, this weekend of sunshine and warm breezes has been a welcome change. I "heard" it was nice last Sunday, but I was sick in bed and wouldn't know.

I hope everyone has had or will get out for a good run this weekend and enjoy the temps. There's something to be said for that smug feeling you get when you've gone out for a run when the temps are in the teens or single digits, but I'll trade all of those smug feelings for the sheer enjoyment of sunshine, light breezes and comfy temps like this. It's a taste of spring, and global warming & polar bears be darned for a minute, this was nirvana.

It just reinforces my old lady retirement dream. When I grow old, I will:

1. Drive a big Cadillac
2. Have my hair blown out every week (I can't face the thought of being "set" yet)
3. Move somewhere WARM - Florida is overdone, but maybe Arizona, Texas, or (if I win the lottery) HAWAII! Yeah, Hawaii. I'd give up the Caddy and the hair appointments to be in Hawaii. Sigh.

I'm looking forward to hitting the road with my Garmin. First stop - St Louis for work (yeah - St Louis in February. Cross your fingers that it will be decent enough to make the run down to the Arch at least once).

Then, and this is a SECRET and if ANYONE tells my kids I will seriously KILL you - we're going on a Disney cruise in late April. We aren't telling the kids at all -- we'll send them off to school that morning, do a stealth packing job, go pick them up from school, drive to the airport and hop on a plane to Orlando. W can read and T is smart, so they'll obviously figure out we're going to Orlando, but we'll go check in to a hotel. They'll just think we're spending the weekend in this cool hotel with the cool pool. Then we'll get up in the am, and somehow end up at the cruise dock in front of the Disney Wonder and "gosh - let's go get on board!".

So, even though it's lame, I'm such a geek that I want my SportTracks software to show me running in the middle of the ocean this year, so Garmin is going with me and will make some laps around the Wonder's running track. And if you aren't using SportTracks and have a Garmin, what are you waiting for? It's the most fabulous thing I've ever found on the Internet.

I will repeat the warning. If ANYONE tells my kids, they will die. Both you and the kids. And we don't want that, do we? Hmmmm?