Happy Holidays and all that jazz

I'm off work now until after Christmas! Hooray! A real vacation. It's been a while.

My first day off today was pretty good. Hung out with Jake in the morning, until he had to go to work at 11:30am and then I finished my christmas shopping. I just have a couple of things to do tomorrow, including mailing Maggie's Christmas present to her and getting a bigger bag to wrap a gift into. And then, I'm good to go. Super. :)

I'm also going to make the "Dirty Snowball" Candy/Cookies that I made for work a week or two ago and take them with us to GB. They were really really good. Basically, it's a package of oreo's, a package of cream cheese mixed together, formed into balls and coated with chocolate. They are really chocolatey. Just so we have treats, because Betsy did not make cookies. Of course, they have to start to move the day after christmas, so it makes sense that they would not have cookies to take with. :)

Schedule for the next several days:

Friday: Off all day, going to my Aunt and Uncle's house at 6:30
Saturday: Off to GB for the weekend
Monday (during the day): time not solid yet, but driving home to MKE again and possibly going to my Aunt and Uncle's business to see them and my cousin, his wife and their two kids. Depends on what time we leave and when we get back. Not sure what we are doing the rest of the night...
Tuesday: Christmas! I assume that we will be over at my parents for the day
Wednesday: Back to work... :(

I don't know that I look forward to all the running around, but at least we don't have to drive 800 miles in three days like 2005.

Currently watching Kitchen Nightmares on BBC America -- NOT the American version. I love this show. I LOVE Gordon Ramsay. He's so sweet.

SNOW'D!

View from the back deck.

It snowed all day. I got to leave work at 3pm, and I was glad that I did, because when I flipped on the TV at four, after I was done shoveling, there had been a three car accident on 45 south at Silver Spring, which is right on the way home, so that would have added extra crap to the already shitty drive.

But, I totally force my car up a snowy hill and it was completely awesome. My steering wheel was all over, my tires were burning and it was totally sweet. I just stayed calm and kept the car moving.

I'm glad it wasn't ice. The little cat is doing something, but what I don't know. I hear movement. Oh...she was finished eating her food and was trying to cover it up. Without success.

My dad was stuck in New York City this morning -- I think that he might be home now, but that really sucks for him. Sitting at La Guardia waiting to fly to Milwaukee.

In other news:


This was Merry Christmas for Jake and I. Now, I can run whenever I want to and I will probably have a much easier time training up until Jan. 12th. So, I'm pretty excited.

I'm currently watching the X-Files. Looks like Season 1. I used to know better, but I have lost my touch. There's dead chickens and it looks very early 90's. Gosh, I used to love this show. The 18 year old in me still does probably. Mulder (Duchovny...whatever) totally was just driving up to a house in the show and totally jumped the curb. Sweet.

Anyway, I suppose that I should go do something constructive...maybe. Wait. Now Chickens are pecking an old lady to death. Sweet.

I suppose that I could post more on here...but I'm soooo lazy.

I find that I just don't have much to say. But, since I'm here, I might as well waste the bandwidth.

Since I posted last...hmmmm.....

We got a Christmas tree, which was nice. It's by the bay window. The lazy-boy moved upstairs. The dining room table moved over where the chair was. It has worked out nicely. The tree likes to drop needles a lot, but it's still drinking water, so it's okay with me. Just get out the vacuum and all. I finished decorating the house and I made a few christmas cookies too.

Jake had a cold last week, so that kind of sucked. I didn't get sick, but it's not fun having someone in the house that was sick. It's just a bummer.

I think that I'm going to change my color scheme here when I'm done with this. A little more Chritmasy, I think.

I got a small kick in the pants from my dad last week about running, but I just can't get it going. I'm planning on doing a couple of miles on their treadmill today, when we go over for the game today, and hopefully, that will be the spark that gets me going. I had a plan written out for just getting miles in, in the last month before the race. I figure if I can get 10-12 miles a week in before we leave, I should be good. It's just a matter of not working 45 hours a week and then trying to stop somewhere to run before I go home. Most of the time, I just want to GO HOME! :)

I'll put down what I'm planning here

Sunday (9): 2 -3 miles
Monday (10): rest day
Tuesday (11): 2 miles
Wednesday (12): 2 miles
Thursday (13): 2 miles
Friday (14): rest day
Saturday (15): 3-4 miles

This basic schedule I am planning to repeat until we leave for Florida. The Race is on a Saturday, so it works out pretty well, I think. Rest on Friday while we're down there. and that schedule gives me between 11 and 13 miles a week. I think it looks good. I've really been lacking in the training area, but I've still been losing weight too, so that's good. I'm down 15 pounds since July. That's okay with me. I'm almost back to where I was the summer after we got married (which is when I started to gain all this weight to begin with). Go me! :)

I have not done a lick of Christmas shopping either. Not good. Oh well. I'll get to it eventually. Maybe.