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Okay, I am working on this whole 10 min/mile concept and I just cannot get my mind around how I am going to do this for 13 or so miles straight! Is this normal behavior? Can you tell I am nervous? Have I mentioned that I don't like to run? Anything for T. I guess.
Well, I am now going to start posting pictures from our awesome trip back east this summer. Where else is anyone going to see them? Most of all, it is so that L and F can see the pictures that we took when we were with them. Out of all of the places that we visited, that was the best time of the whole trip, especially since it has been somewhere in the neighborhood of six years since I have seen L!
Now, part of our trip was in New York City as well. You can imagine how stoked I was to finally make it there and to finally go to all of these places that I have only ever heard of! So, on our 'free' day, I made a list of all the places that I wanted to eat something from and my wonderful husband took a picture of me in front or inside of all of them. By the end of the day we made it to about four places. First up was taking the Staten Island Ferry as it is free. We got a lovely view of the city while riding with commuters and other cheap tourists. That's not me in the picture by the way. So, after that, we hopped off and ran to the subway (which we loved to ride) and took the next subway headed for Brooklyn. I knew that Jacques Torres has a chocolate shop there and well, he is awesome. So, we headed out that direction. When we got off of the subway, we still had quite a walk ahead of us. We walked underneath the Brooklyn Bridge and down into a cool little area that is being rejuvinated or the term I heard one too many times on this trip, regentrified. It was cool and very artsy. We made it to the shop and bought a bunch of chocolates that I said I would share and then ate all of. I also had a great almond filled pastry that was extra sticky. It was great. Maybe it was great just because I was caught up in the moment but, it was really good regardless. Next we were headed back towards the city, as if this wasn't city enough...and headed for Amy's Breads. We walked across the Brooklyn Bridge and I think that you can tell by the look on my face that I was not stoked. It was SOOOO HOT. Not just hot but humid and that is really hard on a girl from Humboldt. looks as if I am ready to pass out! Can you tell? It was like 89 degrees and who knows what the humidity was but sweat was dripping off of us like crazy! Okay, so we made it over the bridge and down into the city again. We decided to look for the bread bakery and after walking up and down the blocks and not finding it we were getting a little frustrated. We stopped into the dry cleaners because that was the address that we were supposed to find the bakery and we found that it no longer was at that address! Duh...So, luckily, just down the road a bit was Francois Payard's place and holy smokes, was it worth the wait! We walked in and completely felt self conscious but maybe that's just me all of the time. Everywhere you looked was something fantastic as far as pastries go.

Okay, I am having problems posting pictures in the right spots so this is all I am going to do for now.
I have not run for one week straight! I am going to suffer tonight. I think that it is a bad sign when I tell my family that I am going to run this half marathon and they all look at me and tell me I am crazy...is there something to that?

Well, that's all I have for now...More later!

# 1 and so very happy

We are still cleaning up after the crazy birthday party we had for the hubbie. It was a night of lovely finger foods, fancy cocktails and a mighty rambunctious group of folks.

I made it to school okay today, even though I am still recovering from the killer cold that I was given last week.

I ran today at the gym...well, I ran and walked. I am easing into this half marathon thing. I am just not a runner and for some strange reason I have agreed to run a half marathon! What was I thinking?! And the worst part is, is that I am really going to sign up! I can see it all now though, they will all be waiting at the finish line, cold from being there so long, and here I come around the corner crawling across the finish line dazed and confused the whole time just mad and swearing that I will never listen to T again! :) I am going to keep running though. I will take it seriously because there is nothing that I hate more than people waiting for me! I just can't believe they make you pay money to run...it's genius!

Well, Jerky is going through his hissy sassy phase right now just like he does every winter. Some may say that he is like that all of the time but I will have you know that 9 months...or maybe more like 5 months out of the year, he is a total sweetheart. Patsy steers clear no matter what time of year it is. Jerky is actually passed out on the couch right now, probably tired from a hard day of sleeping outside.

It is getting late and I still need to lesson plan for tomorrow.

Oh, I forgot, my students, who I will from now on refer to as 'my kids' are trying to raise money for a trip to Italy. I am all for it. We were given a little road block today by the administration but nothing is set in stone yet...keep your fingers crossed.

good night for now.