1.5

I ran 1.5 miles today in 18 minutes.  Woot.  Plan is to do that 3 more time this week and then next week try for 2 miles straight!  I actually felt good the whole time.  Maybe, just maybe i can run the last 10lbs of fat off my (ass but mostly hips and tum) so I can get my surgery scheduled!  Shit if I could lose 5lbs I would set up my consultation!!

When i grow up I am going to have pretty boobies and less hip fat!  Everyone has to aspire to something right?

1 mile

I ran a mile without stopping for the first time ever.  I guess it show that when you want to do something and push yourself you can!  Isn't that ironic?  Don't ya think?  A little too ironic, ya I really do thing. 
Sorry...A little Alanis for you.

Anyway, I was proud of me.  And 12 minutes of some things won't kill you.  So Saturday I ran 1.25 miles.  And I didn't die then either!!  So tomorrow i will try 1.5 and see what happens.  I am totally going to beat last years 5k time.

Get it!

I want these NOW!!

I have to have these shoes and they are not out anywhere. 



I must have them.  Offering a cash reward for the person who can find them for me in my size asap!!  I so love love love love love love.  I neeeeeeeeeeed them for an April wedding i am going to.  So then I can buy a new outfit to go with them!!!!

Insaitable

I have missed reading so much y'all!!  I made a goal of reading 12 books for this year (considering i only read NONE last year) and I am blowing it out of the water.  I didn't realized how much i have missed cuddling with a good book and losing myself in someone else's life. 

I survived my childhood only because of books.  It didn't matter what type of book it was, from my mom's Harlequin Romance novels to Uncle Tom's Cabin.  I am actually pretty sure my love of black men came from obsessively watching NBA and NFL stars on TV and Uncle Tom's cabin.  I read the book for the first time in 6th grade....weeeeeee bit young but I ate up every page.  No matter how insane my life was around me, I could always depend on a great book to keep me grounded. 

Now I use books to block out the chaos in my living room.  I don't think my renewed reading habit has helped me be a better parent though.  Pretty sure while I was absorbed in my book this afternoon DJ knocked Zavier over and gave him a bloody lip and probably made his gimp arm hurt more.  And possibly while i was reading yesterday I told DJ to go upstairs to see if Zavier was awake (I knew he was I had been listening to him chatter for 20 minutes but I didn't want to put my book down) and out of no where i hear Zavier screaming.  I run up and his little lip is bleeding from hitting it on his crib.  Can these boys not just sit and be quiet and not touch each other so mommy can enjoy her book??  For the love of all thing simple.

Anyway, I have fallen in love with Susan Wiggs.  She is a fantastic story teller.  Since January I have read:
By Susan Wiggs from The Lakeshore Chronicles Series:

• Summer At Willow Lake
• The Winter Lodge
• Dockside
• Snowfall at Willow lake
• Fireside
• Lakeshore Christmas
• The summer Hideaway

I have also read Lakeside Cottage, not part of the above series.
Happy reading!

Springing

So I went to spin on Monday.  After 20 minutes my legs felt like jello and i wanted to give up and die.  I was chanting to myself *stop looking at the clock**stop looking at the clock*.  As soon as I hit minute 35 I got a second win and felt stronger.  It really is mind over giving up when you are in the saddle.  Saddle.  lol  Anyway, it felt good and I plan to spin again tomorrow or Saturday. 

The See Spot Run 5K is right around the corner.  Who is signing up with me to pretend to run/jog/walk/not be passed by the lady with the oxygen tank on her back? I will say, Misty you can sign up and after you win the race jog back to us and laugh at us as we try to make it to the end!  lol  I do plan on beating last years time though.  Lofty goal right?  Katie and I did it in 47 minutes last year and this year I would love to shave off at least 7 minutes.  So my goal dear friends is 40 minutes!  Seriously....if I can't do that then I better call NASA because we have a problem.

The sun is shining and spring is in the air.  The Bradford Pear trees in town have their beautiful purple blooms on them.  I need to make up our landscaping plan for the new house.  Our last house started with nothing and we created beautiful flower beds and put a shit load of money into grass and the like. 


So anyway....flower beds and making our new home look better is on my brain!

Spring has sprung!