Two for Two!

Well, we are two days into the new week, and I have run both days (at the buttcrack of dawn, no less!) so far--yay me! Not only that, but I was able to run for a full half hour without walk breaks. Now granted, I am probably running slower than most walk, but hey, I'm running! When I think about how much of me is out there running, I feel better about it...I mean, I probably comprise about 2 skinny friends worth...so if you think about a skinny runner running with another runner like strapped on their shoulders, well, that's the effort I'm putting forth...so I can feel good about that! (Hopefully that wont' be the case for too long...I am starting to see the scale move ever so slowly in the right direction!) And hey...at this point in my life, I figure, if I have to wear a sports bra and cushy shoes to do it, by golly, I can call it RUNNING! True...after 2 kids in 3 years, I should probably be wearing a sports bra and cushy shoes for most activities, but well...lets just say I am running...and I'm excited about it!

Oh..and I forgot to mention previously, that not only am I signed up for the triathlon in April, but yes, I have lost my mind yet again...and I signed up for the Surfside Beach Half Marathon in February....I figured I could walk a half now if I had to, so whatever I can run, so much the better. And it keeps me motivated to run, so thats exciting. Not only that, but its on a Saturday, which means I don't have to miss church for it, and I don't have to travel since its oh...10 minutes away! It's a also a relatively cheap event to enter, so that works too! Money is a huge stressor right now...or should I say, lack therof. We have been struggling so much for quite awhile, and every few months or so, we just have one of those seriously tight months where I have to pay stuff late and wonder if I can even pay stuff at all....we always get past them and the Lord always provides somehow, some way, but it still really stinks in the middle of it--this happens to be one of those months. Love that! Christmas! And taxes in January...ugh! There is a light at the end of the tunnel, as most of our major debt should be gone in about 3-1/2 years, but ugh....it just gets draining after a while. Time flies....except when you are trying to get rid of debt, it seems! I am so thankful for what we have though.....healthy, happy kiddos being right up at the top of the list. I can remember one of those incredibly tight months a couple of years ago when all I could do was stress over money...and then Silas broke his leg. More money stress yes, but oh my gosh...how badly he was hurting with that when it happened just put everything into perspective. There is a little boy who I get updates on who deals with multiple seizures per day and they don't know what causes them. My heart just goes out to that family....I hurt for them...and I am so grateful that despite all the junk it seems I have going on, that we truly have so much to be thankful for...and I am thankful!

Better get showered up and ready for work this evening at the lab....I'm not crazy about having to work this evening, but I AM so glad I EARNED my shower!!!! Woohoo!

Time to fess-up-date

Well, its been a rough last week and I must confess, I haven't run in right at a week. I will say I am missing it though! Last week I got this nasty awful cold-type something and it threw me off big time. I went to bed one night at like 9:30, which is unheard of for me..like, ever! I don't think I had the flu, because I think I would've taken longer to get over it, but my body ached and I felt in general like crud. I know I had fever too, because I went to bed that one night with my coat on, flannel jammies, and a pile of covers, and was still freezing my patootie off (and lemme tellya....that's a lot of freezing, because I have quite an ample patootie!). Anyhow, the next day I felt slightly better, but not by much, and then the rest of the week I felt better each day, but still haven't quite felt 100% since. So, I missed a whole week of exercise....no running, no swimming, no nada. I feel like a big slug, but I really don't think there's much I could've done about it...I just hope it doesn't take me too long to get back with it, because I had been doing so well up to that point. I actually felt good enough to run yesterday, and was hoping too, but I am trying now to finish my class up that was started back at the beginning of summer, that I got an extension on courtesy of Ike. It's all due this Friday, so it's crunch time now. I took my final the other day, and think I did pretty well on it. I wrote my final paper last night...all 10 pages of it, and I need to go back and make sure the stuff I wrote at 4 am actually makes sense. I was getting pretty droopy by that time! Now, I just have one more paper to finish up, and can't do that until I go to Houston Thursday night for a Young Lives club I will be writing about. I have half the paper written with the background info, now I just have to fill in the other stuff with my specific observations Thursday. Wow...I just looked back, and this is a seriuosly boring note! I usually think I'm a decently entertaining writer, but crapola....I'm just sorta droning on tonight! Maybe once I get my run on and get those endorphins on the move I can be witty and fun again! But for now.....I'm settin the alarm, I have my clothes and my shoes out for in the morning, and I'm about to head to sleep...hopefully I will (in a fun way) post soon about another awesome run!