After January’s goal—and injury—and learning a lot about pacing, today was the big day—race day. My sister Jaime signed up to run with me, and running together (combined with the excitement of the race, I guess), we came in at about 39 minutes—a personal best for us both.
Starting out strong
And a strong finish!
Thanks for running with me, Jai! That’s one resolution down, the rest of them forgotten. Er—yeah.
How was your weekend?
Today’s my birthday, no April Foolin’. Feel free to share your birthday wishes here! Thank you!
(And before you ask, I’m 26. I don’t mind saying, but asking is just soooo tacky, don’t you think?)
(Before we get started: Heads up! GWP next week! Email me if you’d like a reminder!)
Boots are so in. So I know you’ll be terribly jealous when you see what I’ve recently added to my wardrobe. And let me tell you, it doesn’t just look hot—it’s custom fit, with a sole like walking on a cloud:
Yeah, so, that running a 5k in less than 2 months from now? :\ Possible stress fracture FTW. Hooray for going running five times before crippling myself.
(It’s possible that after recovery, assuming recovery takes as long as the doctor said it would, I’ll still have just enough time to finish training for a 5k in time to run the one I wanted to. And if not, there’s another one every few weeks. You know, if I don’t come close to breaking myself again.)
Considering what kind of shape our house was in when we bought it (decorating-wise, that is), you’d think we would have done more in the first three and a half years living here. Not so. We’ve painted two rooms, replaced several light fixtures—but that’s about it.
Other than the kids’ rooms. Three years ago, we took down vile wallpaper in Hayden’s room, put in new chair rail and baseboards, painted, and I even made new Roman shades for Hayden’s room. It’s still not totally done (a few finishing touches on the shades, and we have to hang a lot of the little accessories and decorations I made), but it’s a world of improvement over its previous state.
Rebecca’s room was an even more extensive project. Here’s what we did for her:
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)Load in the furniture and voila. A short (NOT!) seven months after we started, it’s now my favorite room in the house.
And since you asked, here’s a close up of the floor (alcove stripes reflected in it, and quite unswept):
This weekend was a momentous one for us: Rebecca moved into her own room!
“Am I to stay here?”
And Hayden got a big boy bed!
He actually asked for quiet time on his first day with the big boy bed—and he stayed in bed the whole time! (Last night, however, was the first time he fell out of bed 
.)
But I think the people who are most excited are me and Ryan—after four and a half months, we finally have our room to ourselves! All of our toiletries have been migrating to the guest bathroom so that we didn’t wake Rebecca as we got ready for bed—and once we were ready, actually going in our room sometimes required nerves of steel and holding our breath.
Strange how having free reign of one’s own room can feel so . . . freeing!
What little changes in your life have brought big changes in your attitude?
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