Thursday I got my hair done, sheets on sale (after walking the mall 1 and a half times), grocery done, and cardio DVD 15 minutes running, 45 minutes marching.

Today I plan a TM run after a quick walk at noon for an errand.

Happy runs, All!  :::HUGS:::

Lisa, no, I was talking about Columbus Day in October - planning arrangements for the Hartford/Newport double Tessa and are running. Speaking of which, if your DH is gonna be in the Boston area, you should come out east that weekend and run with us! Seriously, look at your calendar. You could just run one of the other if you didn't think you were up to both yet. Maniacs have discounts on both races although the Newport one is better (I think Hartford is $5, but Newport is 20% off). I have a hotel room with 2 beds in Hartford for the Friday night, so you'd have to share a bed with one of us, and Saturday and Sunday we have an apartment in Newport with plenty of room.

Judy, sounds like a productive day!

Carol, yogalates sounds nice. And hard. I have my first Pilates session tomorrow and have a feeling I'm going to remember really fast that other than my legs, I'm not in that good of shape!

Laura, Bayshore already? Have fun! If your weather is anything like ours is predicted to be, it will be awesome.

Got in early today, hoping to leave early. Got on the train, checked emails and the boss (who started her vacation today) said she left in a hurry yesterday and forgot to tell us to leave at 2 for the long weekend. Since I come in an hour earlier than everyone anyway, I'm leaving at 1! Woo hoo!

Morning, ladies!  It's Friday!  Yes!  SRD for me again.

Lisa, I got an email from your daughter and told her to let me know if she needs anything.  It's nice to have a local contact in case she needs something.  Hope you enjoyed your vacation.

Judy, marching?  Enjoy the TM workout today.

Bikerchick, I guess it's a mixture of Yoga and Pilates?  Sounds like a fun one to do.

Karen, hope you get to leave early.

Camille, sorry about the allergies.  Hope your 5 go well.

Susan, I would not be pleased with DS2. Can you roust him out of bed to go get more strawberries and bring them to you?

Lisa, so your DH is taking that job in Boston? Will you be moving the family or staying where you are so Kaite can stay in the same school? And I agree with Karen. Come do Hartford and/or Providence with us! I am registered for both and I just booked the flights, Karen has the lodging arranged.

Judy, busy day yesterday!

Carol, Yogalates sounds interesting (though not something I would like).

Laura, good luck at Bayshore!

Karen, sent you an email with the flight details. This is starting to come together!

Camille, safe travels to Anchorage, are you flying or driving?

Marjorie, my parents have done the Alaska cruise a couple of times and loved it. Check weather but it should be great. (We will not mention the tourist in the Seward museum who looked at the taxidermied woolly mammoth that had been disinterred from a glacier, stuffed and mounted, and asked the docent "was it shot locally?" My dad could barely stifle the guffaws.)

Damaris, enjoy the SRO. It's good of you to be there if Lisa's daughter needs something -- and so comforting to know that you know someone locally. My mum has a very soft spot for running forum ladies since my dad became very ill one time when they were in New York and she felt completely alone with him in the hospital. I put out a plea for help from the New York ladies on the running forum and they came through wonderfully -- phone calls, advice, one came to see her, one offered to have her mother come sit with my mother.

Office is dead here too. I will try to get caught up on what got missed when I was out.

It will be a very, very long weekend. I'm getting nervous about this. 24 hours?!

Would it be OTT to make a cake and cut it into 24 skinny slices and plan on having one slice each hour? (For the record, it is my 51st birthday tomorrow and I would like to run at least 51 miles.)

No run this morning, I will probably do a gentle jaunt on city streets after we close early since the first bus isn't until later and I have a check I need to deposit. RN wants to walk a couple of miles this evening. I also want to bake cookies for tomorrow, I have a watermelon to apportion, and I need to assemble everything in my bag and the cooler. And make sure the black widow spider I saw in the vicinity of the cooler the other morning is no longer anywhere near it.

Karen--No, I'm staying.  Don't want to burn any leave.  I've had one phone call (sales), two emails and one of my coworkers stopped by to ask about quilting.  Productive day....not

I worked on an audit and my computer rebooted.  ;(

Got my sewing and knitting to keep me company.

Tessa, birthday and a 24 hour race?  That is awesome!  Eeeeek at the black spider!!!!!

Sue, nice swim.  Ate all the strawberries?  Off with his head!  Just kidding.

Camille, good luck at the doctor.  Allergies are frustrating.

5.6. Didn't have enough time for more. Stomach was off this small so I didn't push for more either.

Lisa nice to see you back

Karen you will feel it with Pilates. If you don't they didn't train you right!

Tessa and Camille thanks on Alaska. We've talked about it on and off for years. One day we will do it.

Spent most of today redoing a project from yesterday. Love when someone sends all the stuff and I don't discover until several hours in the files are all messed up. So they had to redo and I restarted today. Reloading everything onto the server then hyperlinking takes a long time. Then typing up all the changes and more links.  It is a lot of work but best for me to do. If we had to have IT do it it wouldn't happen until later this summer........

takes forever ---Especially when you have to reload 28 files and it takes several minutes to do each load. Then more time to link them all. Test it etc. about 5 hours today but it is all done.