no running

well, today was that 5K that I mentioned. I didn’t make it. couldn’t drag my sorry ass out of bed this morning. Last night I was exhausted and sore and coughing. this morning more of the same, so when david told me it was 6:45 (we needed to leave by 7) and did I want to do the run, I said no, and rolled over for 45 more minutes of blissful sleep

but then by 10 am, I was fine. so totally strange. what is up with me?

I got my hair colored today. thank goodness. I had about 2 inches of roots. and boy do I mean roots. I have a LOT Of grey hair, and its all up front for the world to see.

David took the kids on a bike ride this morning, they went to see the runners, and then to a playground…without shoes. The boys came home so dirty, it was unbelievable. sorry that I did not take pictures of their feet, hands or faces. I’ve never seen anything like it, but I should probably get used to it…they are boys, after all!

hope it doesn’t rain tomorrow so I can get a workout in.

what a night/day

last night david went for a LOOOOOONG run, about 12 miles, cooled down, showered off, and sat down to get into bed, and boom….the beeper goes off….He had to go in and repair someone’s ruptured eye, and then before he was done in the operating room, he got another page, and another ruptured eye to repair.

so I let him sleep a little. He stayed in bed until it was just too noisy, and then I took all the kids with me to strollerfit. Came home, dropped off the boys, got dorothy to eat something, and got her changed into her ballet “get up” (as it has come to be known) for dance class.

Home now, david is out seeing another patient at the hospital, and checking on last night’s patients, and all the kids are napping. Maybe going to strollerfit is the thing to do, I make sure that dorothy runs–alot–and with dance class on top of that, she was glazed over in the car on the way home. I’ll be in the shower in a minute.

tomorrow I’m running in a 5K tomorrow morning, and then some friends and I are going to run/walk/have a ball at the Disney Princess Half Marathon in March.  there’s a good chance that we’re crazy!

feeling better today

woke up with more back pain, but powered through it, and went to work out. so glad that I did. I feel great now…and I’ll probably feel better after a shower. back pain is gone, hopefully for good.

One of the cool things about housing my blog at wordpress.com is that they give me all this cool information about what people look at on my blog, including how they got to me…what they may have googled to find me, or if they clicked a link from another website. It is so strange to see how people find me. I wrote a post over a year ago after dorothy had a fit of vomiting. she called it ‘pupe’ get it…instead of puke. lots of people find my blog by searching for ‘pupe’ or ‘puping’ I wonder if they find what they’re looking for…

Not feeling good

I’m gonna whine for a second and then get out of your way.

my stomach hurts and my back hurts. last night I had fever. what gives. can I have a sick day?

noise!

I took the boys to a music class this morning at noisemakers.  its not your average kids music class. its ROCK AND ROLL!!!

we’ve been once before, here’s a picture of reid playing the drums

if its possible, today was more fun, they both got on the seat and played on a full size drum kit, the owner of the music studio, Gabe, played some kids songs, including “old Mick Jagger” (to the tune of old mcdonald) it was very cute. a ton of our friends were there and the kids had a ball. We’ll be back next wednesday, for sure

I really have to buckle down and start sewing for the holidays. I have Dorothy and Brandon’s quilts to bind, and I’d like to make lunch totes for all 3 of dorothy’s teachers, plus 2 mei tai’s for 2 friends. One of those is WAY overdue. after my shower, I’m taking the machine out and hopefully finishing one of the quilts this afternoon.

gotta run!

Im sorry

I wrote something yesterday that I am deeply sorry about. It’s gone now, but I wanted to apologize

I wrote yesterday as a stream of consciousness, I then did something, I hit publish, and did not read what I had written. Because if I had done that, I would have realized that what I had written would hurt. Which is not what I wanted to do.

If you read what I wrote yesterday, if you are in my family or not, I am deeply sorry. I did not intend to hurt with my words.

time to start thinking

about thanksgiving: what I know is the fried turkey is a given, unless it rains. So is the carrot souffle, and the cranberries. and the apple pie. We need a green (aka healthy) vegetable.

and all about chanukah: I need to pick a date to make latkes with dorothy’s class. I’m totally nervous about doing latkes in public. I bought an electric skillet special for this (and future such) occassion

and I need to figure out what we are doing about my family’s annual chanukah party. we’re toying with the idea of going up there, but even if we don’t go, I need to figure out what I am buying for all the children. I’m thinking of this: http://www.terracycle.net very cool recycled goodies (I want a pencil holder for myself), or to allow the kids (or their parents) buy something they choose themselves with giftcards.

fancy night out

last night was the commodore’s ball at the yacht club. Fancy, black tie (or yacht club formal, if that’s your thing).  Thankfully I have convinced david about the virtues of wearing a tuxedo. Much nicer that the YC formal, in my opinion. I mean, really…what man wears a blue blazer with white pants AND white shoes when his date is wearing a fancy fancy dress!

we sat with some friends, which made for much laughter. especially when it came to discussing what the college kid seated across from me was wearing: a floppy bow tie and a velvet tux. Dolce and Gabbana, apparently. At least he had the floppy hair to pull it all together. He looked good, but it really takes a certain person to wear it.

they always make a big deal of dessert at this thing, and it was good, but not spectacular, in my opinion.

the kids did well with the babysitter, and we had a lot of fun

new computer

I picked up the imac last night.  the thing is beautiful. I hooked it up and today Josh (cousin) helped me learn my way around a bit over the phone.

It is so much faster than the dell. I used to have to turn it on, cook dinner, and when I was done cooking it would be ready to go. Now, its done turning on before I sit down.

there is so much for me to learn. I almost feel like this is my first computer, because I feel that I need to relearn so many things

uploading pictures sure is faster. here’s a cute one

this is at our gymnastics class for the boys. they’re first starting to warm up to it, and discovering the equipment. I’m hoping that they can get all their climbing energy out while we’re there!

sick, or not sick?

after having dorothy at home two days this week already, we were hyper vigilant last night and she had a slight fever. I said that she wouldn’t go to school today. but at 10 am (up since at least 6:30) she was acting perfectly normal.  I said THAT’S IT. We’re going to school. She wasn’t happy about it at first, but then realized that if she went to school she could have her stuffed dog that she left there yesterday. suddenly it was Yay, school! Yippee!