Starting over

Monday, February 14, 2011

Time to re think my goals and start over. I have seriously been slacking in the fitness department for a good month or more now.

I joined Tammie and we are starting SP's rookie running program. It's amazing when you get out of practice, it really feels almost like you've never run before! Today was my Day 1. It was actually pretty easy, just really windy!

I sat down and worked out what I'm going to do on the non running days. Time to get serious again and get back to where I was fitness and weight wise just a few short months ago!

Nutrition I have down still. Time to go after the rest of the package!

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An awesome time with my NOVA Sparker friends

Saturday, February 12, 2011

Today was one my NOVA Sparker monthly meet ups. It was one year ago that we had our first one. We've had such fun times together and chat almost every day and it seems like we have known each other a lot longer than a year.

Today was a small meeting again but it was really nice seeing everyone!

Unfortunately Louisa, Beth and Wanda had to leave, so Teresa, Tammie and I went upstairs and browsed around the store and then had dinner at their seafood bar. We had SO much fun! I haven't laughed that much in ages. We all bought some wine and I got some of the ChocoVine and the Raspberry ChocoVine too. Wanda had brought some for us to taste at another meet up and I really liked it.



Thank you all for a great afternoon and evening. Can't wait til the next one!

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I picked my half marathon

Saturday, February 05, 2011

Now to just get ready for it! It's the Heritage Half Marathon in Gainesville, VA October 16th. Thanks to TURBID! We are going to train together and do it together. I had looked a lots of them and never could decide which on to do. This one is close to where I live and looks like a nice course.

Now, I just need to figure out what I need to do to get ready considering I'm still just managing to do 5 and 10K's :-)

I'm sure some of my runner spark friends will help me out!

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The puppies-they sure are growing!

Saturday, January 29, 2011

Here's some updated pics of the pups. They have grown a lot in their 3-1/2 weeks!

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Whew, what a day...well two

Thursday, January 27, 2011

Wow, what a couple of days! We had a bad snow storm yesterday. Thundersleet with large hail and heavy sleet and then thundersnows with it snowing 1-3 inches per hour for a few hours. Cars stranded all over, co-workers and friends that spent over 8+ hours getting home. 350,000 people without power, us one of them.

Fortunately I wasn't one of the ones stranded. I was sick so I left work well before it started and well before the Federal Government closed 2 hours early and everyone was out on the roads. I got home just as it had started with the thundersleeting along with large HAIL. What an odd combination!! I've never seen anything like it in my life! My kids weren't so lucky and spent A LOT longer time than usual getting home, but all were safe and sound.

Our power went out about 7pm. We are all electric, so no way to cook anything or even heat water for some tea for my cold. Couldn't exactly drive anywhere in the middle of the terrible weather either. I just got under the covers and went to sleep, but all my staff kept calling trying to find out about work today and talking about still not being home. I wanted to keep them company while out there on those crazy roads, so I kept talking and texting, forgetting that I couldn't charge my battery. Went outside to start the car and charge it in there to find this:



Nothing I could do about it, so I got in, charged the phone and then went to bed. Got up this morning still with no power and still sick. Didn't feel like shoveling out or trying to get the tree branches off the car, so I didn't until later.

Our power came back on 3 different times, for just minutes each time and then finally tonight came back on at 9:30 or 9:45 and has been on since.

I was able to walk to one of Meghan's friends house and heat myself something to eat, so that was good.

Happy I was safe and sound...just cold!

I hope everyone else in this area is warm and safe at home tonight too. Seems we're getting a clipper through in the morning. Not much at all, but on top of this and the way people drive here, even an inch is a nightmare!

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