Archive for December, 2008

Run into the New Year Race Report!

Posted by Carrie on 31 Dec 2008 | Tagged as: Pictures and movies, Race reports, Warm fuzzy

Find more videos like this on RuncastTV
(Why is it that whenever a video cuts to a shot from within the recording, it always picks the frame where I look like a complete idiot?)
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Things that didn’t get into the videos: I came in 232nd [...]

Trip-ups

Posted by Carrie on 30 Dec 2008 | Tagged as: Rants and vents

I burned holy heck out of the pork chops tonight.
I couldn’t find Cracker Jacks at the store (they’re our family’s traditional New Year’s treat).
I also couldn’t find fatback for Eric, who’s embroiled in a sausage-making extravaganza at a friend’s place right now and who really needed it for the sausage to be “right.”
I bought a [...]

Resolved

Posted by Carrie on 29 Dec 2008 | Tagged as: Completely random, Fitness and Health

Well, I started marathon training today! Woo! Actually, the training technically started yesterday, but the first day (ignore the days of the week; I’ve rotated them back a day to have my long run on Saturday) was cross-training, so it hardly felt like a “start.” I went to the gym [...]

My year in pictures

Posted by Carrie on 28 Dec 2008 | Tagged as: Familial things, Pictures and movies, Reminiscing

Individual memories are so numerous and scattered that sometimes it’s easier to sum up a year by reflecting on what struck me as important enough, in the moment, to capture visually. If a picture is worth a thousand words, here is the year 2008 in 12,000 words.

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It’s a brand new record from 1990…

Posted by Carrie on 27 Dec 2008 | Tagged as: House and Home, Rants and vents

Ahem. Yet I see nobody marching hand in hand – just a steady stream of water, coming in through a very aptly named weep hole in my basement wall. I’ll admit to knowing absolutely nothing about home maintenance or waterproofing, but I’d have thought that a hole in the wall like that would [...]

This and that

Posted by Carrie on 26 Dec 2008 | Tagged as: Completely random, Familial things, Fitness and Health, Gear

Just a casual sort of day in these parts. Woke up a little late, and the boys enjoyed playing with their new toys. I got grumpy early, when I couldn’t take pictures because I’d had to rob my camera of its batteries to power Sam’s Didj, so I decided to go by Walgreen’s [...]

By the way

Posted by Carrie on 25 Dec 2008 | Tagged as: Pictures and movies

More pictures and videos over at Flickr.

A Good Way to Celebrate

Posted by Carrie on 25 Dec 2008 | Tagged as: Pictures and movies, Warm fuzzy

Good coffee? Check; two steaming mugs, one for Eric and one for me, of coffee made from French-roasted beans, with eggnog syrup, cream, and Frangelico.
Good wine? A crystal glass of Bolla merlot is sitting next to me – not too dry, not too sweet. Maybe it’s not the rarest or most pricey [...]

Christmas Eve Run – movies!

Posted by Carrie on 24 Dec 2008 | Tagged as: Cooking, Familial things, Fitness and Health, Pictures and movies

I’m now in for the night, having picked up the stocking candy when I hit the grocery store during my run. (Had to make sure that not all of it was chocolate; Gabe has decided to forgo any pretense about abiding it.) Eric and Sam still plan to run out for last-last-minute shopping [...]

Longest Day Ever

Posted by Carrie on 23 Dec 2008 | Tagged as: Completely random, Familial things

Channeling The Simpsons Comic Book Store Guy, there. There really wasn’t much to say about today, other than that I’m grateful that my kids are still so very oblivious of what’s going on around them that I can say thirty-seven times, “I’m going down to do laundry!” without them questioning why I’m never bringing [...]

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