Right. Okay.

You know what sucks?  Going to work and having everyone ask you if you were "making a statement" by missing two days.  Well then.  NO!!! BECAUSE IF I WERE GOING TO MAKE A STATEMENT I WOULD HAVE TO DO SOMETHING ASININE LIKE THREATEN NOT TO COME TO WORK IF MY DEMANDS WERE NOT MET!!!  Lame.  Texting your department chair at 11:30 at night the night before that you have a family crisis and you can't go to work is not making a statement.  And seriously what kind of moron doesn't go to work in  their special ed classroom to make a statement?  Not me, that's for damn sure.  Lame.  Totally lame.

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What's lame in your life lately?

Posting is easier...

Usually I teach during the day and then I have a client that I see in-home for behavior services for a private agency that I work for.  I also have class on Tuesday nights.  I'm working on my BCBA which means nothing to you unless you are in the field of behavior analysis or special education.  Really I'm just hoping it will buy me a little more money and a few more opportunities to do what I love to do instead of being tethered to the classroom for my entire career.  Needless to say all this pesky working really interferes with my blogging life because I'm always at a job or driving to a job or finally at home and trying to eat up every moment that I have with my family.  Then factor in trying to study and do my homework in a timely manner (which is happening in a less timely manner lately) and really I'll be lucky if I even pound out one post a week between now and summer.

BUT thanks to a minor family emergency/crisis I have been home for the past couple of days and it's so much easier to post on here without all that pesky working getting in the way.  I'm feeling optimistic and like I will be able to get caught up on my homework as well.  So that was the whole point of my post.  That I have time to pound out words that say pretty much nothing because I'm here.

I was also able to catch up on The Biggest Loser, Parenthood, Desperate Housewives and Revenge.  I record a lot of TV and rarely get a chance to sit down and watch it.  But the good news is that now I have DVR so I can watch marathon sessions of all of my favorite shows.  This is a huge plus for me because typically when I watch TV it's in marathon sessions on my couch and this is how I end up getting caught up in Real Housewives, Toddlers and Tiaras and Dance Moms.  Those shows are always on and they come on in a marathon format at least once a week or something.  So now I can raise the bar and not settle for just any trash TV.  No.  I can be selective about my trashy television.  Instead of watching trashy daytime reality TV shows I can watch trashy night time reality TV or night time soap operas.  All the tantrums and diva behavior with a little less guilt. 

Heart Day

For Valentine's Day this year I told my honeybunchesoflove that what I really wanted was a pair of running shoes because mine have used up all their miles.  So he obliged and didn't do the giant bouquet of pretty roses.  I appreciate flowers as much as the next girl but I really needed shoes.

So we went on a little trip to Running Warehouse in SLO and I tried on some shoes.  I have a hard time choosing most of the time.  But I had done some early research and went in to try on the Nike Lunar Eclipse +2 and I really liked them.  I wish they were a little less orange. 



I like how in this photo you can see how reflective they are.  I will not get hit by a car in these.  I could probably blind people if their lights are too bright.  I took them for a test drive yesterday and I thought they might give me a blister on the back of my heel because they sit lower than my old Adidas Sequence.  But they didn't at all.  As a matter of fact they were really comfortable and I ran an easy 6 miles in them with no problems. 

While we were at Running Warehouse, I saw a few cute things that I wanted but since I'm poor right now after two vacations and wine tasting in January, I didn't buy anything other than shoes.

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What shoes do you wear to run?  Why do you like them?  Do you buy them from a running specialty store or somewhere else?

Virtual Run for Sherry

We ran the Virtual Run for Sherry this morning.  It seems insufficient.  I feel like it's not enough.  I need to run some more.  My heart aches for her family.  But what an amazing thing for everyone around the world to get together in the simplest way and put our feet to the pavement the way she did.  We sent comfort to her through our walking or our running and we sent out a resounding yell that our goodness and our light will prevail.  And Sherry will live in our hearts forever.  Even if we never were blessed to know her in real life, she is with us and part of us all each day.

 

Tinkerbell Half Marathon

I did it!

I can run, I can run, I can run!!!

This was my very first half marathon and I think Disney was probably a GREAT place to run my first half ever.  It was so fun.  :)  There was a lot of fun and entertainment all along the way.  I really enjoyed it.  Although I had decided not to run in costume I did wear wings.  I thought they might make me crazy.  But they didn't!  :)

I stopped a lot along the way and still managed to finish in 2:20:27 which was under my goal of 2:30.  Now that I've done it, I know better what to expect of myself and I think next time I could manage a 2:10.  I stopped a LOT.  I took photos all along the way and I never really felt like I was challenging myself with my pace at all.  I stopped for a photo with Sleeping Beauty in front of her castle.  And I took some mile marker photos as well along the way.  I was so nervous about burning up more energy at the beginning of the race that I ended up running the first three miles REALLY SLOW (even for me). 

We went to Disneyland after and rode rides and walked around a lot.  It was really fun and the kids had a ball and acted like nice normal children from a nice normal family for the day. 

I really don't think I could ask for a better race.  The weather was even perfect and I really just thought it was so fabulous. I would love to just do it all all over again.  At 8:00 that night my legs finally had enough though and said "NO MORE".  I started getting weird shooting pains and cramping up so we called it quits.  I had been up since 3:15 am anyway.  So even though my kiddos seemed like they could keep going we called it a day.  After we got back to the hotel room, I pretty much just put on jammies and passed out.  I was asleep by 9:30.

There was wine.

Once upon a time there was wine.  Because I am slow you will have to wait for me to edit this post later to add photos.  But there was wine this weekend.  We belong to a little wine club and they had their tasting for members this past weekend.  They introduced all their new wine and we went up to get our taste on.  But of course we couldn't just go to ONE winery... no, we went to several. 

And then I ate half a loaf of bread and a bunch of cheese.  They were wine and cheese pairing specifically at one of the little graptastic locations so what was I to do? 

Then we went to dinner.

Then we went to our little festival.  Then I came home and had some more wine.  Then I slept.

And slept.

And slept.

I was supposed to get up and take my new running skirt for a run.  But I over-wined which made me want to sleep instead.  You know how you can make poor decisions and stuff after drinking?

So anyway, then there was football and buying food for my family and more wine to drown my sorrow after Cundiff's kick took a wide left.  WTF CUNDIFF?  At any rate no one's seen him since that game so we can only guess what his fate might have been. 

ANYWAY.

So my weekend was a little overindulgent.  That means my scale felt like exploding on Monday.  I think it groaned when I got on it.  Sorry scale.  I didn't mean to hurt you. 

Last night one of my running partners sent a message asking if either of us wanted to meet for a run this morning.  We usually meet Mondays and Wednesdays.  I was thrilled to meet a third day.  This resolved my oversleeping issue from yesterday.  Yay for running partners!  We did 5 miles and we are slowly getting faster.  By faster I mean a couple of just under 10 minute miles.  At any rate we are making progress. 

Then I came to work and had to deal with grumpy irritable not accomodating people.  Hmph.  I mean it's not like I was asking for much just that they don't put me in harms way.  That's all.  But I guess that's asking a lot.  Oh well. So I told on them.  Yes, I did.  Only because it's a safety thing for me and my students.  So there.  Take that.  We could have resolved this nicely... yes we could have.  But instead... no, you had to be all difficult and make me have to go all tattle tale.  Lame.