Turkey Trot and tutus

We had fun!  I'm not too sore after the 10k which is a nice thing.  Must. Run. More.

LA Marathon

I started training last night for the LA Marathon which is Sunday March 9, 2014.  I will be 35 years old.  I will be an aunt.  I will be ready.

Tonight as I was jogging 3 miles, my legs were done from a leg workout at the gym earlier.  I wanted to get my 3 miles in though so I set out.  I was tired.  My legs felt heavy.  There was no spring in my step.  That was alright though.  I told myself, "Just keep going".  That worked.

Let the adventure begin.

Big Sigh...

Rita it's on days like this and on weekends like this that I REALLY miss you.  I know you would tell me to go easy on myself, to be kind to myself, to not mentally beat myself up.  I'm so sad you aren't here to tell me those things.  Hugs.

Ben's Birthday

Today is my brother's birthday.  He is in Michigan and I am in California.  I'm not sure when I'll get to be with my brother on his birthday again.  On Tuesday this was a very depressing thought.  But I sent him a gift and I called today and sang Happy Birthday.  And then I took a really long nap.  He called to say hi.  I'm glad he did.

4 days

We have had 4 days of school.  I am teaching 3 different courses and 6 periods total.  From 7:30am until 2:35pm, it is constant teenager.  I forgot how draining that can be.  It is also immensely rewarding.

I went to the gym late tonight and after it took me 5:36 to do a workout that most people did in under 3 minutes, I am annoyed.  It took me 1:36 to do 10 bar hop burpees.  One dude did the ENTIRE workout in 1:29.  WTF?  Ahh, I am done being overweight.  I'm annoyed.  Usually my annoyance leads to motivation.  We'll see.

Birds and more Birds

They were awesome.  We looked at a Bird Sanctuary today where birds that get hurt are fixed.

We also went to the Florida Holocaust Museum but no photos were allowed inside.  I learned a lot at the Holocaust Museum.  I'm glad we went.

Rain and a lot of it

Within an hour of landing in Tampa it was raining!  Wow!  Then there was lightning and thunder.  Very different and very fun.

Vacation Part 3

Woohoo, I am ready for the third part of summer.  I get to see new friends and my brother!  The change of pace will be nice and I'm really looking forward to the next 2 weeks.  New adventures, here I go.

Birthdays

Kids are fun.  They make me smile.  They laugh and they run around and they want to play.  I had a great time today.

Fun times

These former students plus one that needed to leave early made my day on Saturday.  We had lunch and we shared stories and we laughed.  SO much fun.  I can't wait to do it again.

Baby Blanket

I finished my first "rag quilt" on Wednesday evening.  I have one seam left to fix.  It came undone on the back.  Here it is...

Plans

When plans change the day of, even for good reasons, I have absolutely no idea what to do.  It was so warm in my condo that I took a nap.  Then I just kinda sat around.  I did cook meal #3 in an adventure I'm doing with friends called "Around the World in 80 Meals".  It was a stir fry kind of meal from Thailand.  The chilies were SPICY.  Oh wow.  Loved the thai holy basil though.  It was the best of the 3 meals we have tried so far.  Tomorrow I may do some laundry.  I had originally typed the word "should" instead of "may".  I need to stop "should"-ing myself.  It creates nothing but bad internal thoughts.  I ate pretty well today although around 3pm a piece of nice fluffy chocolate cake was sounding amazing.  I think that's when I ate a container, a small one with 120 calories, of greek yogurt with fruit instead.  Tomorrow I start my week of jogging.  My week of rowing went well.  Let's see if I can drag myself out the door at 6am.  I think so...I know so.

Hugs Rita

Tonight we got together to remember Rita.  She was a good friend and it was nice to be with people who loved her.  I got to see pictures of her from the early 90's.  Whoa, what hair.  I would have loved it if Rita had shown me some of those.  They are awesome.  I'm sure we would have had a good laugh.  I miss Rita a lot and I know I will for a long time.

Finally Cooking!

And it feels pretty good.  Granted I'm not cooking a lot.  I had a salad for lunch and chicken with the vegetable medley that I like for dinner.  The veggies required cooking.  I got all of my New York pictures into frames that I wanted to so that was nice as well.  I am on day #3 of no Porto's.  It's nice to feel a bit in control.

What a week

Last week was a bit strange.  It proved to be a pretty difficult "back to life" transition week.  I didn't go to the grocery store until Saturday.  I ate out almost every meal.  It was not a good plan.  I had a spinach salad at home for lunch today so that was a step in the healthy direction.  I practiced 2 bell solos with piano accompaniment this morning.  I'm playing in 2 weeks so it was about time to practice.  It's not even 4pm.  I should probably do the dishes.  There sure aren't many of them.

Last day in the city!

Some other highlights of the past few days

The Rain Room at MoMA

It was amazing and very much worth the 90 minute wait.

The Fantasticks!

What a great night.  I'm glad I didn't know the synopsis.  It was very fun, a lot of laughs.

Central Park and The MET