Halling Go To Alaska

I think this blog has turned into a photo blog.  I look back on most of my posts and the majority of them are my weekly pictures or  You Capture  posts.  All my training stuff has moved over to my running blog .  It's a little sad. But I'm not feeling inspired to come up with fun things to write about here.  I don't feel inspiring or interesting unless I'm doing some awesome training run (or bitching about how crappy the last one was), and now that I'm not officially training for anything, I feel boring and a little lost. So don't leave me.  I'll be back to writing something interesting one day.

It should be no surprise that my week is packed.  It's the week of Thanksgiving and the whole training thing.  Which is being thrown for a loop because of a snow storm and slippery roads.  So today I must get a couple of things accomplished.  Make one, hopefully two, batches of dinner rolls for dinner on Wednesday and the turkey day festivities on Thursday. Run 10 miles on the treadmill.  I'm thinking I may break this up into two 5-milers.  I don't really have the chunk of time to do it all at once and hopefully breaking it up will help me with the dreadmill aspect.  Appointment with the chiropractor this afternoon.  Start hydrating the heck out of myself because I've been slacking.  And I'm going to run a cumulative of 36 miles this week.  (I also realized after completing what I thought was 10 out of 14 miles on Saturday that really I was supposed to have done 16.) I'm not even going to think about what Wednesday or Thursday or even Fr...

I'm not sure about you, but adrenaline is an amazing thing.  Life since last September and then more so since January, has been a whirlwind.  I've been going *constantly* with kid activities, eye appointments, church obligations (that are voluntary and I will not be doing them next year), work, training for the half marathon, fundraising for LLS (YAY, I've reached my minimum and have exceeded it), and you know what? I was worn out.  I knew I was worn out.  Even fun things I had scheduled, the thought of doing those things wore me out. So here I am in week 2 of my schedule lightening up and I'm exhausted every.single.morning.  Usually I can blame it on taking my anti-vertigo drugs too late in the evening (I take them at night because they make me sleepy), but last night I didn't take them because I was up past midnight from a board meeting and working and Sweet Pea had preschool this morning.  I knew if I took the drugs I would be dragging my rear out of bed...

And here I am again.  Allowing everyone to peek into the craziness of my life.  Here are the things I need to accomplish.  (I didn't accomplish my whole list last week, but most of it.) Start the 30 Day Shred with the Sisterhood.  Yes, I'm doing it again.  Yes, I am training for a half marathon.  Yes, I'm on the verge of jumping on the crazy train if I haven't already.  Prep for CCD on Tuesday. Run 4 times this week as part of my training for San Diego. Enjoy the fact that I don't have to make the trip to Sweet Pea's vision therapy appointment.  Cancelled for the next two weeks - extra homework, but no travel! Remember my patience.   Try to prep something for dinner every night, so we aren't scrambling at the last minute.  Although we may scramble eggs one night for dinner.  It's protein and healthy, right? So do you have a plan this week?

And since my week only looks slightly  less chaotic than last week I think I need to get this post done now. I'm planning on getting all the girls' Girl Scout cookies delivered this week.  I want them out of my house and not hanging over my head.   I'm planning on coming up with some idea for CCD, you know, before class on Tuesday afternoon. I'm planning on enjoying the fact that I don't have to get up at 6 am on Tuesday and drag sleepy kids out of bed to go skiing.  I'm planning on getting my four runs totaling 17.5 miles done in a timely fashion w/o trying to rush through them. I'm planning on dinner including a salad every night this week.  We've been slacking off and I feel it. I'm planning on getting the kids to all their practices this week on time.  I'm planning on getting my work done as early as possible so I have time to spend with T since he's actually in town for the next two weeks!!!   So that's my plan for the week.  What...

I am so happy that it's Friday, but at the same time, I'm not.  I'm happy it's Friday because I am going to  scrapbooking marathon weekend that starts tonight.  I get to look at pictures of my adorable children but not have to listen to the whining!  I get to have adult conversation, and here's the key. It will be uninterrupted adult conversation. I'm not happy it's Friday because I have work that will need to be done over the weekend for the paying job.  I also have to figure out how to tie a dang knot on a rosary so the beads don't fall off.  (I'm having my CCD kids make their own rosaries.  I think it will mean a bit more if they make them with their own little hands.) My parents are going out of town next Tuesday for two weeks!  What am I going to do with my kids? They need some Gramma and Poppy time! And on top if it T will be gone for 7 of those 14 days.  So after this weekend I'm looking at a lot of time juggling. And I just looked at ...

Okay, so I'm one of those moms who plays Bunko once a month. I was called by a friend for the first time last fall to substitute. It was kind of fun, mostly just to get out by myself for a couple of hours in the evening. The point of the evening is just to hang out, chat, and relax. So anyway, last night was Bunko. We got started a little late because one of the ladies was running late, so I ended up not getting home until close to 9:30. Usually I'm at my computer working no later than 9 on Bunko nights. I have to say that 9:30 is not late for me, but I get my work done in the evenings, so this meant that my 2-3 hours worth of work was not going to get started until much later than normal. I have to backtrack a little and say living in Northern Nevada during summer time poses some health risks. All the fires in California that are burning right now, well that smoke is headed our way. Usually you can see the mountains surrounding us on all sides, but lately those mountains are b...