I read every word of your football commentary Ribs - as we are huge football fans at our house! Our weekend schedule (or lack thereof) revolves around the games. I was so happy the Vikings won! And I agree with you on Favre - he should have stayed retired . . . go out on top and be remembered for that. YAY Nancy! Sweet Santa gift! I'm finally back at work after 5 days off. 5 days off and very little running, which is par for the course for December anyways. But things are gonna change tomorrow I tell ya! Tammy's month of sluggery is about to be over! time to upload the Christmas pics and video of son opening his last two gifts on Christmas. A very emotional couple of minutes in our household! I'll share a link to the video when I get it done.

My little dachshund had to go to the emergency vet in the middle of the night and is now scheduled for spinal surgery (to relieve the pressure on his spine of a herniated disk). Probably no running for me today.

His full name is Tobias J Funky (named after the Tobias Funke character from the show "Arrested Development"). So as not to clog up this daily thread, a dog thread (w/ a couple pictures) is over there.

Stevie Ray - so sorry and I hope the little fella comes through with flying colors and quick healing. Poor little guy.

{{{butterfly hugs to Tobias}}} oh poor Tobias J Funky....sorry to hear about this surgery.

Robert, sorry to hear about poor Tobias! Hope you both come through his surgery OK! Erika, sorry to hear it's still cold there. It's warm here! I ran in shorts and tee today; it's 58F and sunny! In keeping with today's theme I did a 3.25 mile recovery run. I didn't even take a watch as I don't care what my pace was. But rest assured, it was slow.

We had terrible winds down here too SR. I'm not sure the speeds, but when I got up this a.m., it looked like a tornado swept through with all the downed branches. We live in a forested area, so high winds always make me nervous. I finally uploaded a video to my youtube. For those that are interested in watching this, a bit of background first: For Christmas, our son's big gift was a Madden PS game and a PS system. He had no clue he was getting this as he knows that we are not fans of video games. David is REALLY into football - OCD about football actually - so after a lot of talk, DH and I decided that he could have a video system and we are going to limit it to sports-type or learning stuff. No fighting, shoot 'em up stuff. Good friends of ours, bought a PS2 system, but never used it and asked if they could send it to David, along with a NHRA drag racing game and ATV game. So, here's david opening his last two gifts on Christmas morning http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YH7FXKyRriM

{{{dg}}} {{{srlopez + pooch}}} Well it was full sun, balmy temps for my scheduled noon 10 miler. Got 1.5 in... Back spasm almost from step one...tried to let it work itself out. Not to be. On the plus side, I pulled out my Trigger Point Massage Therapy workbook in desparation, and darn if there isn't a section (sort of) on the pain I had. So I spent 1/2 an hour in excrutiating agony rolling on an oversized superball. Feeling much improved. New plan is to run about 3 tomorrow and try for the 10 on New Year's Eve morning. More agony rolling on the superball between now and then.