Posted by Carrie on 30 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: Completely random, Gear, Polls
One foam Cheesehead, preferably for $10 or less. The marathon has a special starting corral for folks wearing them, and while I’d like to do that, I don’t intend to wear it for much past the starting line. I have no confidence in being able to hand it off, either, so I don’t [...]
Posted by Carrie on 29 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: Cooking, Pictures and movies
So I made steel-cut oats in the crockpot for this morning, complete with raisins, and they were delicious. Even Sam enjoyed a bowl, which he topped with more dried fruit and a banana. But there were a ton leftover, since I apparently lack the ability to figure out the quantity of dry [...]
Posted by Carrie on 28 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: Rants and vents, Warm fuzzy
Sam’s going through this phase (hopefully) right now where nothing is his fault. Hit his brother? “But he tempted me!” Got caught jumping from from furniture after being told not to? “Gabe tricked me into it!” Argh. I’ve talked and explained and given examples about why that’s just not [...]
Posted by Carrie on 27 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: Completely random, Familial things, Fitness and Health
I always am absolutely terrible about “remembering” girly things, like when to get my hair done. Maybe it was that stretch in college, where I went about four years with only a couple of haircuts of any kind, but now I only think about doing it when it starts becoming glaringly obvious that I’m [...]
Posted by Carrie on 25 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: Fitness and Health
I did my last “long run” (just 8+ miles, but longer than what I’ve been allowed recently, at least) today. Bill (from running club) already scolded me, but I have to confess to having done this run at too fast a pace, like yesterday. Again, sub-8-minute miles. Like yesterday, though, [...]
Posted by Carrie on 24 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: Completely random, Fitness and Health
On a message board, in a thread dedicated to running and weight loss, a member linked to an article, asking what we thought. The article’s focus was primarily on fat loss for women, and the tone of it bugged me in a major way, as it unapologetically made fun of larger women (the author [...]
Posted by Carrie on 24 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: Completely random, Cooking, Familial things, Fitness and Health, Pictures and movies
Constant refrain: running is my therapy, and when I’m forced to cut back, I get…weird. Not only less patient, less tolerant, and less peaceful, but also less mentally gathered and much more flighty. As a result, my conversations tend to get less organized, and my thought processes are – oh, look, a (dust) [...]
Posted by Carrie on 22 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: Fitness and Health, Rants and vents
Today at Sam’s Club, the cashier didn’t want to take my member card. “This looks nothing like you,” she said. “Ha-ha,” I said, but she wasn’t joking. She wanted another form or identification.
So I gave her my driver’s license…the picture on which was taken about thirty pounds ago. She looked at [...]
Posted by Carrie on 21 Apr 2009 | Tagged as: Fitness and Health
Weird thing about tapering, I’m finding, is that I’m actually moving into a place where instead of craving my runs, my mind is actually feeling resistant to the idea of running at all. This is plainly unacceptable. Luckily, my body is responding to my mental state with something along the lines of “Shut [...]
