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Wow. Things that make me burst into tears. “Holy Crap, I forgot about my cell phone bill. It’s due Tuesday. Oh crap. Oh crap.” [cue cell phone ringing]. ‘Hi Raylene, this is Beth from the corporate office. I just wanted to let you know that you were one of the winners of the Cash Giveaway this weekend. You’ve won $250 and we’ll be sending you a check tomorrow.’

and this is the post I was writing 5 seconds before I remembered the Cell Phone Bill: It is November 3rd and I have paid all of the bills due through the end of November plus I have half of Decembers payments already stored in my savings account. I have $1200 in overrides sitting on my ADP card, a significant amount of cash to carry with us and a fairly large override hitting my card on 11/10. I will not worry while I’m in Hawaii. It’s all mahalo from tomorrow through 11/15.

I call myself an eticket for a reason.

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I started taking my ADD meds again today for the first time in many weeks. After I first stopped taking them I didn’t notice too much change but over the last few days I’ve seen some old, i dunno what to call them, tics, traits, habits, THINGS that I don’t like suddenly start showing up again. I swear I never truly realized how bad it was before. I have these complete brain stops if someone is talking to me and I’m trying to do something else or I want to be doing something else and you can hear it if you’re on the phone with me or see when you’re talking to me. It’s like the conscious side of brain is saying “this person is talking to you, stay focused!” and the ADD side of my brain is screaming LOOK A CHICKEN. LOOK AT IT. LOOOOOOOOOK! and then I’m talking to you and I’m like, “yeah. what? wait. I. ugh! I. wait. uhmmm.”  

The other thing I noticed was reading… I guess I never thought I was ADD before because I could sit down and read a book without a problem … the problem was that if I sat down to read a book I would do nothing until that book was done. And THAT my friends, is classic hyper-focusing.  And who do you think powered through not one, not two, but THREE books in 2 days? to the detriment of nearly everything else? That would be me.

One other thing, I’ve noticed an extreme increase in power noshing at night. I don’t know whether is has to do with not being on meds, or just the bodies desire to fatten up for the winter, or my brain desire to sabotage my trip to Hawaii, but it’s gross.

So back to meds. If I don’t like the way the new increased dosage makes me feel, I’ll just call the dr and ask her to put me on the lower dose again or we’ll have to try something else.

So. Speaking of books. I just read The Blind Side: Evolution of a Game because I saw the preview for it at the movies the other day, and I can’t wait for the movie to come out because it has Sandra Bullock in it and I LOVE Sandra Bullock. I got the book because I wanted to find out about Michael Ohers life right now. The problem is, the book really IS more about the Evolution of the Game of Football than it is about Michael Oher. I mean, Michael’s Story is in there, but it’s interspersed between long passages about football and how the game has changed over the last 20 years and because of the change in football, why there is even a need for someone like Michael on the field. The movie most definitely will be the human interest side of the story, the book is not so much.

On the bright side, learning is never bad and I now know quite a bit about the position of Left Tackle and  the Quarterbacks blind side, which will come in handy never. But whatever, I took algebra too.

Off to work now. I have to figure out how to make 12 catalogs last through 4 parties this weekend. *whoops* I guess no one can take them home, that’s all! Heck I had a party once with 4 girls no catalogs, no order forms, no internet access {!} and still had a $400 show, so if anyone can do it, it’s me!!

…raylene

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Bike
48:28
10.21 miles

OK, so after the 3.5 miler this weekend, [which I ran without stopping and finished 75th out of 87] it became pretty evident that I do, in fact, have plantar fasciitis  and running is not going to be possible until I let it heal and lose some damned weight. If you have no idea what that is, it basically feel like you have a hot coal shoved into your heel every time you put your foot down. It’s worse in the morning and after standing after any period of inactivity.

So, I biked today. Because I liked it when everyone kept telling me it looks like I’ve lost some weight. Time to lose a few more pounds and get those compliments coming again … plus I’m leaving for hawaii in 44 days and I’d like my clothes to fit on the first day AND the last day.

I still can’t figure out why my iTouch insists on playing the SAME songs every time it’s on random. There are SO many awesome songs on there and it insists on playing mostly fergie and good charlotte. Geez.

…raylene

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I’m freakin’ MacGyver today! Instead of being dismayed that the dorm window was a LOT wider than I’d imagined, I used a mini-pink stapler, the too long and too narrow 54 x 84 curtain, two command hooks, some ribbon and a dowel to create two 42 x 54 curtains WITH tie backs. And it looks *high pitch* awesome!

Plus, I used a plain 18 x 24  pink poster frame, a pink & black feather boa, a silver marker and a little more ribbon to make a cool message board for Tori’s friends to write messages and she can change the paper when she needs to and save it if she wants.

M2 would be so proud.

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I ran! Again! It was so hard! Did I mention I hate running? I did 2 miles, I wanted to do 3 but I just couldn’t, it was too hot. and I’m a wimp. I ran most of the lap and then there was like a 50 foot space that I allowed myself to walk and then right back to running again. I’m a little concerned because the bottom of my foot hurts, right on my heel. First thing in the morning it’s pretty bad, but then it loosens up a bit and it just aches. Doesn’t sound good though. I have a 3.5 mile run on September 19th that I’d prefer not to die during so I have to keep adding a little bit more each time. I wish I hadn’t gotten off track. *sigh*

My bike tire was flat again yesterday morning so I missed my ride. I think I need another new tube. I replaced the front tube when I started riding so the back one probably needs replacing now. Instead I spent the day drinking rum by the pool at a friends house and jumping off a rope swing. No lie! I did it 3 times! I bought all the stuff that Tori needs for her dorm today. ka*ching.

Drop off day is Saturday. I’ll probably cry even though I keep telling her I won’t.

…raylene

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After not running or biking since prior to going to Orlando because of my back, I figured I’d better get moving again because “official” marathon training begins in less than a month and I haven’t gotten myself up to a convincing 3 miles yet! So I figured I’d bike today to get my lungs used to burning again, I planned my route to the post office, desperately searched for my shorts, found a backpack to put my stuff in, searched a good solid 10 minutes for my iTouch, went out to my bike and … flat tires. Grr. So I searched in vain for bike tire pump, finally plugged in the Big Man compressor and just could NOT figure out how to make it put the air into the tires [yes, I had the nozzle on]. :-/

So. *sigh* I go back into the house and decide I will go the post office in my car and then go to the track and run. Search desperately for appropriate undergarments. Find. wriggle into. Change shoes, go to the post office, go to run. Left my water bottle on the kitchen table. Grr. Did I mention it was 92 degrees? Ran anyway. Only a mile, but I sweated, I panted, I was tired.

I didn’t let all the stuff get in my way. I’m proud. I’m going to try again tomorrow. Tomorrow my legs will complain like it was a marathon. 4 Months, 2 weeks, 3 days until the marathon. This is gonna get ugly.

…raylene

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OK. Here goes.

The Bad: My computer crashed. Mike has diagnosed it’s death. A new hard drive should be the key, but we have no idea where the Windows system disks are. The Good: My real info is all saved on the f: drive which appears to be unharmed.

The Bad: I’m seriously behind on my running because of my back, my vacation. I was hoping to transfer Tori’s gym membership to my name, but World Gym Norwich wouldn’t do it without another 2 year commitment. Not happening.  The Good: None, really, but I still have my bike so I can try that again.

The Bad: My garden was seriously overgrown with weeds. The Good: Having a seriously pissy day sent me into the garden where I ripped and pulled until I felt marginally better. It looks great and found a squash that was just about to get too big. Now it looks great. (but my back hurts again)

The Bad: My business is looking a little like my garden did this morning. I’m feeling a little discouraged and depressed about it. The Good: Ripping the heck out of my garden gave me time to think about it and steps I may have to take to get myself out of this funk.

Off to play Scrabble with my husband … because after last night, that bad turned very good. If it weren’t for that good, all of this would still be bad. Very bad.

…raylene

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I combined posts, but not workouts.

Tuesday – 2 mile run
Wednesday – 3.5 mile walk [was supposed to be a run but I found a walking companion so I walked it]
Thursday – 2 mile run.

And run I did. The two 2-mile runs I ran the whole thing. I did the flat Griswold High School track on Tuesday (0 elevation change), walking the 3.5 mile Bluff Point loop on wednesday (+371 / -303 elevation change) and ran the Red McKeon track in Occum (+9 / -9 elevation change)  [please no one come and murder me because I tell you where I'm running.]

Mike gps’ed the occum trail and it was .26 mile loop, I don’t know why that link is showing it as .11 mile loop.

So anyway, I’m busy as heck, got a ton of stuff to do, but I did my running! Looking forward to being in Florida next week, but not looking forward to running in their heat. I’ll have to get up early. *grr*  I booked one party solid for next weekend and I have a tenative one the week after {Do it Erin! Do it!} No rest for the wick … ly awesome!

…raylene

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OK, so it’s going to be sort of a cheating week. I don’t have time to run tomorrow, but today I combined the walk and the 4 mile run. Because I can, that’s why.

Run
4 miles

But really it was walk .75 miles, run 2.5 miles, walk another .75. Went around the track 16 times. The first and last 3 walking and then the other 10 running. My calf was still sore and crampy but I told it to STFU so I could run. ) It took me just under an hour, I figure. BUT THE POINT IS, 4 miles.

Now to clean out my car, clean my demoes for tomorrows Pure Romance University, assemble gifty’s for my 12 attendees, write fabulously inspirational notes for them all, and, well, shower. It must be done. I’m sort of ripe right now. But I think, at least, clean the car first.

And, yeah, that’s it.

…raylene

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