Due to an injury, I have been unable to run for the past week. I am out for the next 4 days. It is literally killing me. A friend is running Disney. Yes...Disney! MY favorite place on Earth and she gets to run it! JEALOUS! Another good friend is booked to run in Hawaii!!! JEALOUS! I see people running down the street in the awesome, early spring weather we have been having and I want to hit them...just kidding-kind of! (It's all out of jealousy!) Really, I am very happy for all of them, but my smile did get bigger when a friend told me her run yesterday gave her boob chaffing. Mean, I know, but she did tell me to make me feel better. I wonder if she was lying???
Why is it that I want to run more now then ever before? Probably because someone has told me not to...mean Doctor! I know this is one of my faults. Someone tells me not to do something, and it's exactly what I want to do. Like in college, my parents lectured me for hours on the reasons not to get a tattoo. You know what? I now have three! I consider them artwork...my body the canvas for beauty.
I do have to give my awesome doctor credit-I can cross train. I have enjoyed spin classes and the ellipitcal (well not so much the ellipitcal, but it's better than nothing!) I have enjoyed sleeping in this weekend, although it might kill me to get up before 5 am on Thursday for my first run in a week and a half. But, I'll put my big girl panties on, wipe the sleep out of my eyes, and run with a BIG smile on my face! (Anyone who wants to witness me smiling at 5 am is more than welcome to join me...just let me know!)
I'll end this post with a warning...if you are running down the street the next 4 days, look behind you. JUST KIDDING!
Off to sign up for my next race! A 10K in April. Anyone want in? If not...what DO YOU WANT?
Sunday, February 26, 2012
Sunday, February 5, 2012
Book Must Read Update
As of late last night, I have read TWO books on my Must Read list.
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
The bestselling author of Practical Magic and Turtle Moon now tells her most seductive and mesmerizing story. After nineteen years in California, March Murray returns to the small Massachusetts town where she grew up. For all this time, March has been avoiding her own troubled history, but when she encounters Hollis -- the boy she loved so desperately, the man who has never forgotten her -- the past collides with the present as their reckless love is reignited. This dark, romantic tale asks whether it is possible to survive a love that consumes you. The answers that March Murray discovers are both heartbreaking and wise, as complex as they are devastating -- for in heaven and in our dreams, love is simple and glorious. But it is something altogether different here on earth...(from Good Reads)
and
Silver Girl by Elin Hilderbrand
Meredith Martin Delinn just lost everything: her friends, her homes, her social standing - because her husband Freddy cheated rich investors out of billions of dollars.
Desperate and facing homelessness, Meredith receives a call from her old best friend, Constance Flute. Connie's had recent worries of her own, and the two depart for a summer on Nantucket in an attempt to heal. But the island can't offer complete escape, and they're plagued by new and old troubles alike. When Connie's brother Toby - Meredith's high school boyfriend - arrives, Meredith must reconcile the differences between the life she is leading and the life she could have had.
Set against the backdrop of a Nantucket summer, Elin Hilderbrand delivers a suspenseful story of the power of friendship, the pull of love, and the beauty of forgiveness. (from Good Reads)
Here on Earth by Alice Hoffman
The bestselling author of Practical Magic and Turtle Moon now tells her most seductive and mesmerizing story. After nineteen years in California, March Murray returns to the small Massachusetts town where she grew up. For all this time, March has been avoiding her own troubled history, but when she encounters Hollis -- the boy she loved so desperately, the man who has never forgotten her -- the past collides with the present as their reckless love is reignited. This dark, romantic tale asks whether it is possible to survive a love that consumes you. The answers that March Murray discovers are both heartbreaking and wise, as complex as they are devastating -- for in heaven and in our dreams, love is simple and glorious. But it is something altogether different here on earth...(from Good Reads)
and
Silver Girl by Elin Hilderbrand
Meredith Martin Delinn just lost everything: her friends, her homes, her social standing - because her husband Freddy cheated rich investors out of billions of dollars.
Desperate and facing homelessness, Meredith receives a call from her old best friend, Constance Flute. Connie's had recent worries of her own, and the two depart for a summer on Nantucket in an attempt to heal. But the island can't offer complete escape, and they're plagued by new and old troubles alike. When Connie's brother Toby - Meredith's high school boyfriend - arrives, Meredith must reconcile the differences between the life she is leading and the life she could have had.
Set against the backdrop of a Nantucket summer, Elin Hilderbrand delivers a suspenseful story of the power of friendship, the pull of love, and the beauty of forgiveness. (from Good Reads)
Saturday, February 4, 2012
Here are a few of my favorite things...
You must image The Sound of Music and Julie Andrews singing when you read my title today. If you don't, go read it again and again until you hear it!
This may be over used, but it is February, and I am going to go ahead and write about love. Of course my family and friends are on my list of loves, but this is my top ten love of THINGS list.
1. Wrapping a warm towel out of the laundry around me.
2. Reading in the rain.
3. Running with a friend and talking so much that you have no idea what mile you are on.
4. Smelling used band-aids. Gross I know...
5. The smell just mowed grass the first mowing in the spring.
6. Sunlight streaming in my windows.
7. Sound of waves from the ocean.
8. Babies laughing.
9. Signing up for a new race.
10. AND, hearing that someone read my blog :)
What are you favorite things?
This may be over used, but it is February, and I am going to go ahead and write about love. Of course my family and friends are on my list of loves, but this is my top ten love of THINGS list.
1. Wrapping a warm towel out of the laundry around me.
2. Reading in the rain.
3. Running with a friend and talking so much that you have no idea what mile you are on.
4. Smelling used band-aids. Gross I know...
5. The smell just mowed grass the first mowing in the spring.
6. Sunlight streaming in my windows.
7. Sound of waves from the ocean.
8. Babies laughing.
9. Signing up for a new race.
10. AND, hearing that someone read my blog :)
What are you favorite things?
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)