Hang in there Aamos. That sounds like the right approach. (And take care of those pesky Blue Jays will you?) BTW, my valve, although tissue, comes from Medtronic. Took Riblet to school, walked over to the school track, set my stuff down, did a 2.5 mile warm-up, picked up my stuff, walked to the car and drove home. Some days you have it, and some days you don't. I didn't expect to be tired today but I was. Here is my week so far: Sunday: 8 easy Monday: 3.5 easy Tuesday: 5 easy Wednesday: 3 slow, followed by flex/core workout at the Y (jogged .5 at the Y) I am going back to the track tomorrow and try it again. Dinner with Busiman tonight. Spareribs

Some days you have it, and some days you don't.

Thank you. I needed to hear that. For some reason I can't drag my butt outta bed at 4:30 when I don't get to bed 'til 10:30. What's that all about?? I have to get to bed earlier - somehow. So, because of my inability to pull myself out of snooze state, I didn't get up in time to get my 3 miles in, but I did do my hour of core/strength. While doing my bicep curls, slightly pulled something in my forearm. No big deal, but I could actually see where the muscle was bulging a tad in the spot that felt pulled. Weird! Never seen that before. It wasn't like "OMG!!" , but a general, well, isn't that interesting (poke, poke). Hmm. Suppose to be nice (but probably windy) today, with 40% chance of rain, Friday, Saturday, and Sunday - - and the Avenue of the Giants run is this weekend. Maybe the trees will help dissipate some of the moisture. (No, I'm not running it.) Mary - Too dang cute, those puppies are.

Good mid- morning from the Far West Coast. We had planned on rain today, but the sun is out ,and it is beautiful. I am as excited as can be, because Sat. is the Eugene 5K for me with DD1, DGS4, and Econo. Then the pasta dinner where I hope to meet some of you who will be in Eugene running the Marathon,and Half. I'll be hanging out at the Expo too. I mimic you real runners, and have been training for the past several weeks for this 5K. My log is not recording on the graph , so you can't see a couple of days, but I have been on a roll. Now this is my "taper" week, and today I will only do a repeat day on the C25K, and then probably take Th and Fri off. That schedule is what I did before the Napa 5K, and I did a PR. Now I want to beat that PR. Only thing is that I am recovering from a minor cold. Nuts. Aamos - I read your posts for the good humor. Rashers, indeed LOL. Also your remark last week about Hans Christian Anderson!!! Hey, don't let those judges get to you. Big heads. Get out and run like crazy around the block, or up and down the stairway at lunch break. Hopeful4ever, Hi to Brinkley from Robbydog, who chased away bunch of elk and a bobcat from my road last week Hey Econo. Is there a list of RA people, or others I might know who will be in Eugene? Happy Today!

Oh don't even get me started! And DH says "well if you'd lower your standards some, we'd feel like doing more" Now WTF does THAT mean? And lower my standards? Good God, man, do you not see the state of this house?? If I lowered my standards anymore I'd just move to the dog house! I moved the ottoman the other day, looking for the TV remote, and was shocked to see all the crap under there... pretzels, popcorn, pennies, rubber bands, cat hair clumps, OMG it was gross. "Don't you boys ever move the furniture when you vacuum??" I yelled. Got back these cow-faces with big eyes, like "gee, we're s'posed to do that?" And why can't boys pee IN the toilet? These aren't toddlers, mind you... they're 14 and 17, and the back of the toilet is revolting!!! Oh geez... now Holly's got me all riled up. Time to go find an intern to yell at....

I miss being married and having kids at home Tim

Glad I popped in today to see those adorable pups! And I also see that Breger has yet another new nickname. Little Booger. Isn't that cute?? I'm so very thankful that my husband and I have the same habits when it comes to housecleaning - both neat, don't like clutter, like things picked up and put in its proper place. I guess we are both neatniks and both share equally is maintaining the house. We certainly don't butt heads or have arguments about that. Haven't run since my race on Saturday - so three days of slackerdom but I think I'm finally on the tail-end of my cough, cold, swine flu malady, so plan to get in a run today - probably this evening after work - only 3 or 4 miles though.

This is me being very quiet about housework. And hoping we don't get PDR started.

Aamos pretty cool about your DH as a hero! I hope he makes it through the screen. Woods Lady not for the race but I will be arriving in town tomorrow! Hopefully, tomorrow I will have the honor of meeting our esteemed poster Econo for dinner. It turns out making plans has been a bit complicated. We were all set for dinner then I found out my schedule included a dinner elsewhere. So she suggested breakfast, but in the meantime I tried to beg off the other dinner and was successful. So now I have emailed her back to see if dinner is still ok and waiting to hear. I sure hope it is since otherwise I should undo, my undoing of the dinner! Yikes! Coordination is somehow never as easy as one might hope!