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Beer Geek was out of town last week. He was in San Francisco, which meant he left here early on Monday morning and didn’t get back until Friday evening. When Beer Geek is gone, my eating goes to hell. I don’t fix meals for me, I just snack while I do chores. The boys eat…

Today in Take It and Run Thursday over at the Runner’s Lounge, Kate asks: What’s the most unconventional race you’ve ever run? Have you run a race like North Carolina’s “Take Pride in your Hide” naked race? Does your local running group have “prediction runs” where everyone guesses their finish time, and the winner is…

In many houses, treadmills become a de facto drying rack because they are not being used. Thankfully, mine being used as a drying rack means the weather is nice enough to run outside, thereby creating lots of running clothes that need a place to dry. (Ignore the vacuum. It’s not seeing much use either.) I…

you combine PMS and a husband who is currently working too many hours? Pancakes for after school snack, grilled cheese and pumpkin muffins for dinner (in front of the tv), and crustless pumpkin pie for dessert. Hmm, I’ll be standing over here waiting for my “Mom of the Year” award. No? In my defense, the…

The weather here today was amazing! Nearly 70 degrees and sunny! In November! Of course, I needed to take advantage of that. Beer Geek watched the boys while I headed out for a four mile run. Since he was with them, I felt comfortable leaving our neighborhood (when they are at school, I try to…

I know some people are not so fond of Friday the 13th. Some even really like to pretend the day doesn’t exist. But 13 has always been my lucky number and Friday the 13th is a particularly good day for me. Why? 15.5 years ago, Beer Geek and I went out on our first date…

Some days you don’t. If you’d asked me at mile 4 today, I would have said I absolutely did not have it today. The plan was an easy 6 mile run. I’m still recovering from whatever I had last week, so I figured 6 miles was a good number to shoot for on my long…

Some call is raking leaves. I call it cross training. Shoo calls it an opportunity to pilot your own ship and take out the Clone Troopers. I still haven’t gone out for a run. One whole week of no running! Ack! I’m running tomorrow, even if it’s just short and slow. I’m just hoping not…

As you can see, my hair was a bit overgrown (please ignore my weird expression LOL). I went in today for a trim. I swear the picture she showed me was at least an inch longer than mine turned out! I like it, but I don’t usually go this short right before the cold weather…

Remember the cake I did for Jones? Yeah, well if you’re the second child with a birthday in the same month and mommy is exhausted, you get a cake like this… In my defense, this is actually what Shoo wanted and who am I to argue with a now 4 year old? He was happy,…

Beer Geek came home from work travel last Tuesday night and promptly came down with what is likely swine flu. My parents were here, so we quarantined him and they helped me deal with all of the various things I need to do. On Thursday, my parents and the boys carved pumpkins and decorated the…

I wanted to title this post “my a$$ hurts”, but thought that wasn’t necessarily what people would want to see on their blog rolls and in their readers. This morning when I dropped off Jones at school, I commented that I needed to get Shoo to early drop off to take advantage of the beautiful…