Ouch!

My knee hurts.

It's swollen...

It hurts to bend...

It hurts to straighten...

Forget twisting it.

The PA says its the MCL and the Patellar Ligament and I should stay off it.

I laugh and say "how?"

I DID IT!!!

I ran my first 1/2 marathon this past Sunday!!!

I had decided I wanted to run my first one (yes, I said FIRST one) before I turned 40 (yes, I said 40!) The only race that would give me enough time to train, be in Atlanta and be before the big day was the ING 1/2 this past Sunday. I told my friend Christine "we ought to do that together" never expecting that she would call me a couple days later and tell me that she had signed up!! HOLY MOLY!! So I sign up, I start training and then I hurt my knee.....and Christine had a small problem of 5 broken ribs. Did we let that stop us? Heck no!!!

Decked out in Hello Kitty shirts, red streaks in our hair, white and red striped socks and black nails; we did it! Not only did we do it; we did even better than we thought we would do by over an hour!! We have now officially done something that only 1% of the population has done!! How 'bout that?!!? Proud? Hell yes!!!

13.1 miles? Been there, run that!!!

I think I can, I think I can.....

Ever feel like you're going up this HUGE hill and you're looking at your feet to make sure you don't stumble over a rock or something and each time you glance up to see if you're almost to the top you realize that someone keeps moving the top of the hill?

Yeah, me too.

Girls' Weekend

Shalina and Anna came down to visit for a girls' weekend this past weekend. The girls and I have been looking forward to it for, oooohhh about since it was planned!!! We got to hang out and play on Friday, go the American Girl Doll Store on Saturday and Babyland General on Sunday. It was a great weekend! Of course there was much weeping and wailing when we parted ways on Sunday; and we can't wait to see them again SOON!!! I would write more but if you read Hayden's blog you got it all in detail so why repeat other than to say "IT WAS AWESOME AND WE WISH WE LIVED CLOSER SO WE COULD SEE THEM MORE OFTEN!!"

Too cute!

I was just reading Hayden's blog and I have to tell you that kid can write!!! It's so funny reading her perspective on things. And interesting to see what things she considers most important in life! Man I love that kid!!

Curling

So I've been watching curling for the past two days and the scary thing is that I'm starting to understand it!!

I could SO do this!!!! Now how do I begin training?!?!!? lol

So many things to share!!!

1: Have picked up a bunch of extra shifts at work. Yuck for work; yeah for money.

2: Hayden finished the basketball season with her best game ever. Still nothing in the "W" column but a good game is a good game!!!

3: The girls and I attended a hockey game by ourselves and had an awesome time. Very little fighting at all!

4: I have a new FAVORITE sandwich!! Quizno's Turkey Ranch Sandwich. So delish and so few points!!

5: I've met my 5% weight loss goal with Weight Watchers!! (Hence the above mentioned points comment)

6: The girls had a long weekend off of school. We went to see the Tooth Fairy today with my friend Lisa and her boys. Cute and funny movie!!! The kids loved it and Lisa and I giggled through almost all of it! AND at Andy's suggestion (since he had been working his butt off continually for the past 3 weeks at work AND at home) we went out to Ninja for dinner. Yummy!! The only problem was that during the "show" the guy didn't throw food at us so Hayden got upset. Being 9 is so hard!!

7: We had snow and the girls and I almost got stranded driving in it. Scary moments but we did make it home.

8: Hayden had a yearly eye doctor appointment and..... duh duh duuuuuhhhhh...... got contacts. She's happy about it. Except when she has to have them taken out. And I say have them taken out because she hasn't learned how to do it yet so Mom has to take them out. That is the fun part....NOT!!!

9: The Olympics are on and I've been thoroughly enjoying them. In fact I have decided that the girls need to start training for the snowboard cross race immediately so that they can be in the 2022 Olympics. I guess I should give them the option but it looks really cool and I just know they would be awesome..... and well I'm too old and I want to go to the Olympics and did I mention it looks REALLY cool? I'm just saying! Moving to Lake Placid New York or Vancouver may be rough on the family but in the long run I'm sure it will be the best option for everyone!!! lol

10: I worked Valentine's Day and Valentine's Eve. But I did arrive home Saturday night to find a large heart stomped into the snow with "I love you" inside it. How often can you get that?!!?

11: We had a spend the night party Thursday night and all 4 of the kids got along!! That is such big news that it probably should have been #1 but......

12: My BFF Shalina and her daughter Anna are coming down this weekend!!! We are all sooooo excited. The countdown has been going on for a couple of weeks now. The girls have planned what they will be wearing when they arrive, what they will be doing and where they will be sleeping. I can't wait!!!