I sort of had an inkling about this...

The defense pretty much mopped the floor with the DA in the case. I could see this coming in day one, when I realized what the defense strategy was. And maybe in some small way, what the defense says is true. The bus driver should have been able to see and to stop the bus.

But, to me, that still does not negate the fact that the truck driver was the one who didn't sleep the night before, dumped the truck over across a major freeway and set off the chain reaction. He has to be a little responsible for some of this. Maybe the civil trials will clear things up as far as culpability for this whole horrific scene.

I'm also mind boggled by the seemingly unpreparedness of the DA on the case. It was like he was saying, the whole time: "It's my first day"...I could tell on the first day of testimony and cross examination that this was not going to go the way that I would have liked (and in my mind, should have gone).

It's all done and over. Double jeopardy and all that stuff.
The only other thing that pisses me off is the fact that the jury went through EVERYTHING in what, 3 hours, and decided. Something that has been in the works for a year and a half, and they sort through everything in 3 HOURS? AND make a decision? Mind boggling as well.

Just my analysis of what I saw. I gave up watching online, because I knew where everything was going.

Okay, off to change the laundry and then to Menards and food.

Busy Week

Spent most of this past week working on the house. It helped that it was cool and raining most of the week. Made it easier to be inside.

All the parents were over today, to finish the painting of the main floor, fixing the electrical and change the kitchen floor. It went well. We have to finish the second coat on the ceilings, and then that is done. Jack fixed the electrical as best he could and added a switch for the lights in the basement at the top of the stairs.
Also, we have a FREE oven! It is from 1987, but it is totally sweet -- really clean and works good. It's awesome.

So, after this week, we could potentially start moving stuff over, but we'll have to wait another weekend, because we're going to re-drywall the upstairs bedroom and I think that will be a project for next weekend. But, we're going to go get the drywall tomorrow, I think. We'll see what happens. It would probably be best, so we can work on it anyway.

Slow boring week otherwise. Work = boring; Jake = tired; Me = only ran on Wednesday and it wasn't very long. It was just enough to try to stay in the game.

Anyway, congratulations to those of you who now are the owners of children; and to those who will be the owners of children later this year. Are we old enough to be having kids? Very strange. To me anyway.

Bedtime.

No clever title today

So, I ran this morning. Well, ran and walked. It wasn't too bad. I finished 3.1 miles in 43:17, so that was pretty good. For me. Of course, I was being passed by the people who were running 10k in that same time period, but, you know. That's not my style. I was under 15 mins a mile, which is well under the pace for the 1/2 marathon, so that was pretty exciting.

Man, did my muscles ever cramp up though. I don't know what the deal is. Just not used to all the movement, I guess. But, I was running/walking by this guy who got a stitch in his side probably after a half mile. You could just tell by the way he was walking.

Also, they didn't have water until after the 2nd mile. What is THAT about? Aren't they supposed to do water every mile? That's what I would do. Plus, the sun was out. So, by 1.5 miles, I was pretty dehydrated and it was hard to keep moving quickly. But, I kept on going.

Anyway, I did that and now I'm going to eat lunch and decide what I want to do. Jake is at work. I should probably go and work on cleaning up the house some more. Some of the walls are pretty ridic.

Brewer Game tonight. They may have the roof open, so I'll probably have to take a jacket. But, I'm looking forward to a hot dog. And finding that shirt that says "Party like it's 1982.".

EDIT: My offical time was 43:31, which equaled 14:01/mile. But, since I ran over the start line about 15 seconds back of the "gun" time, my unoffical time was 43:18. Which is 13:56/mile. Woot.

HOORAY!!!!

We FINALLy closed on the house!!! We've got the keys and everything!

We're going to start cleaning and painting right away, so we can move, HOPEFULLY, by May/End of June

We DO need applicances for the house, so that's something that we need to find pretty quick, but that's a-ok with me.

Our agent and our broker each gave us $25 to the Home Depot and we have $150 to Menards (for paint!). I'm pretty excited. I can think of a laundry list of things that we need to do to the house, but I will probably sit and write down everything that I can think of. I'm going to wait for Jake to get home to go over, because I don't really want to be there alone, and he'll want to take EVERYTHING over. At least there is electricity and whatnot in the place.

I'm pretty excited! :)

We're also going to a Brewer Game tomorrow night and I have to run my first 5k race in the new regime tomorrow morning. We'll probably end up doing a lot of work on Sunday, maybe even start painting on Sunday and stuff. I'm also happy, because it gives us something to do at night now. It's so strange to own a house, but not have to move right away. Crazy.

We'll definitely have to have a get together this summer. It will be amazing. :)

I have to know, because I can't be there

Against my better judgement, I am trying to listen/watch the trial at work, since WEAU is streaming it over the web -- I mean, some parts are blocked out, because the judge says so, but some parts you can see and hear. Well, you can generally hear, just not always see.

But, I have to know. I HAVE to. If I could be up there everyday for the next two weeks, I would be, sitting and listening.

However, I have found that parts will probably be overhelming. Like this morning. I was listening and watching part and I just began to tremble and cry. Just like we were back 18 months. Then, I had to leave to go to a training thing, so I couldn't watch anymore.

I don't know how I would be able to sit there and listen to it all, if I were a relative. It would be very very difficult.

That being said, I'm going to keep going, because I have to know. It's important to me.

And now, lunch.

Running

I know that it comes very naturally to some people, for me, it's pretty difficult. I have several problems:
1. I can't shut off my brain. I can't just run. And run and run and run. Which is what I plan on doing in 7 months.
2. I can't get my legs to cooperate. They are used to me playing soccer, where I only really needed short bursts of speed and then you stand around a lot. And then I played goalie and you REALLY didn't need to run much for that.
3. I really want to go FAST right away and I can't seem to find a pace where I'm comfortable in my brain and my body.

Gosh, the cat is smelly tonight. Yuck.

Anyway, I know that I have these problems, and I don't know how to tackle them. I'll admit, the running IS getting easier day by day. I ran close to a 1/2 a mile outside without stopping and walking (other than to stretch out my legs), which is pretty good for me.

I think that my first thing that I am going to do is go on the elliptical machine at Cardinal Fitness tomorrow for an hour. I really have to get my legs used to the constant motion of running, even if elliptical is more low impact that actual running. Since Jake is going to be at work tomorrow night (per usual), I've got the time. I might even try to run a mile afterward. Then, we'll see how doing that once or twice a week will help.

The other two problems are mental and since I'm kind of crazy, those might take longer to work out. Listening to music helps, though. We'll see about #1 and #3.

I'm running in just a 5k on Saturday (3.1 miles for those of you not in the know). We'll see how that goes. Based on times now and the pace that I need to set for the 1/2 marathon, I'd like to try to get in under 36 minutes, which is probably just under 12 minutes a mile. We'll see what happens.

Anyway, I'm going to change my clothes and probably watch some TV. Woot.

V Ball

I wish I were going for the mere fact that I love to dress up.

But, alas, I am not going. However, I think that we are still planning to be up there. Just not celebrating VBall.

I COULD still dress up, but that would make me crazy. And I'm not crazy.....


Well, maybe a little.

The weekend was too fast. Luckily, for as boring as my job is, the time does seem to pass pretty quickly. I have plans to go out and buy some warmer running clothes, so I can actually run outside in the chillier air. You know, like now.

I have had these stomach pains for 5 days now. I've had this happen before, when I took too much Excedrin and my stomach rebelled. OW, MY STOMACH LINING!
MSG'D'D'D! Sidebar: The cat just hiccuped really loudly. So, I went to the doc (on Sept. 11th, 2001, no less) and they just told me to take Zantac and I'd probably be okay, because I was probably just overboard on the stomach acid.
So, I assume it's the same thing this time, but I've been taking the Zantac and it's not really helping out that much. Oh well. I continue on.

I have to go eat with Jake now. He's starving.

Tra la la

Oh Saturday. I love you.

The new job is not an exciting as I thought it would be. They told me that it was entry level -- well, that's fine, I don't care, especially if you're going to give me $30,000 a year -- but, they failed to mention that it's really "seasonal" work, as it were. The beginning of the months are very busy and the end of the month is very dead.

I really hate having nothing to do and just sitting there, but until I have all the access to computer programs that I need (which I STILL don't have, and I've been there two weeks now), but not really comfortable saying, GIVE ME MORE TO DO!!!! The girl that I work with, whom I like, is one of those people who doesn't do any more than she has to, to get by. I don't roll like that. I prefer to learn new things, so a) maybe I can move on sooner than a year and b) they give me more money. woot.

Nothing new to report on the house front. I got the loan application that the broker filled out and now she's on vacation, so I have to ask the other broker that she works with to explain it all to me. But the other broker has been MUCH more reassuring and helpful in the past 48 hours than ours has in the past two months. I will probably not recommend ours when all is said and done. But, the other girl is very good. :) All ours does is tell me not to freak out. Which, it is hard NOT to do when your questions are not being answered. grr...

But, I think that we're still trying to close on the 16th. I should really email my agent and ask, so I don't take off that day for no reason. I am really looking forward to being in the house and having something to do on the weekends and at night.

I really need to go run today. I went on Monday night and I haven't run since. I can't keep taking these huge breaks. I'm just moody and when I feel tired and crappy, I don't really want to do much. Plus, IT FUCKING COLD! I don't have clothes to run in when it's below 50 out. I should probably do something about that, because I don't think that it will be warm in Florida in January. It will probably be chilly that morning, especially when the race kicks off at 6am.

But, when I went out on Monday, I did almost 2 miles in 25 mins (or less), which is above the pace for the race, so that was good. I don't know how much I ran. Maybe a mile of it, but not all together. It's SO hard to go outside. The other thing that I read on the race was that headphones were not allowed for safety. Screw that. I'll get a fanny pack (!) and hide my iPod mini in there until after the race starts. I need the music or I'll die. :)

I am going to try to run everyday for the next two weeks (run/walk/whatev), because I'm trying to run a race in Brown Deer on the 21st. The Deer Run. It's a 5k, so it'll be good for me just to finish, even if I have to walk a lot.

Anyway, we're going up to Green Bay tonight when Jake is done working today for Easter lunch tomorrow at Jake's grandma's house. Despite the serving of ham, which I flat out refuse to eat at this point, I am hopeful that there will be stuff for me to eat. We'll see. I can eat about 3 bites of ham before the overwhelming urge to throw it all back up overpowers me. I can only eat some kinds of pig, and ham is NOT one of them.

With that, I say, adieu.