Running Commentary

So yeah. October 20 2006

I start Monday at 9am.

I’m A Loser Baby…So Why Don’t You Kill Me… October 19 2006

So maybe?

They didn’t call to tell me that I didn’t have to job because well, it wasn’t  true?

Because they called today while I was out. While I was out sulking and being pissy and feeling wronged.

And she left a message a for me to call her.

And I did.

And she told me that they wanted to hire me, but not for about a month.

But now the person that hired for right now, mother collapsed and she doesn’t know if she can come back to work at all.

So might have to start.

Next week.

Yeah.

I’m an asshole.

The Grapevine can GO TO HELL

So I’ve heard the Grapevine that chokes the life out of this small town, that I did not get the position I interviewed for a while ago. A new person started in the position yesterday. And the company did not feel the need to let me know to go to hell and take my resume with me.

So there you go. I suck. They suck. The grapevine sucks, though usually I heart the grapevine when it’s giving me the dirt on OTHER’S people lives. But for today? The grapevine can suck it. LONG & HARD.

So I’m going to run and lick my wounds (probably the licking will happen BEFORE the run because after…ick)

Actually that could very well be the grossest thing I’ve ever written.

And with that, I leave you.

And Again! October 18 2006

I almost didn’t run yesterday.

ALMOST.

I dropped Noah off at school and then mosied (sp?) over to my mom’s for a run. I sat only for a quick chat and made a hasty retreat (the smoke!) down to the very bottom basement to run. I donned my running clothes and was actually standing on the treadmill (cursing myself for forgetting my MP3 player), when my mother appeared, cigarette in hand (hello!) to ask me to inspect a mold like substance around her basment floor (cement…it’s not mold it’s alledegly some sort of lime coming out..I don’t get it) and so I started to follow it all around and eventually found water running down the foundation wall. Ugh.

After more inspection, climbing and flashlighting I, greatest daughter of them all, found the source of the leak. The roof was leaking into the exact same spot as mine was (we have the same four level backsplit house).

So anyway, my mom called the company she rents from. They sent out their handy man and by the time he left to find his ladder Noah was almost finished at school & I did not have time for a decent run.

Fastforward to lastnight when I threw in the towel and cried uncle at the whiney child, grabbed my MP3 player and tagged Chris on my way out the door.

I ran on my mother’s treadmill for 72 minutes.

The counters on hers cut in and out, so sometimes the mileage doesn’t climb at all it will be minutes where it’s sits at the same distance and then it will start to roll again.
It said I went 6km. But that seems almost impossible to me. 6km in 72 minutes? I could walk it in that time. Right?

I remember my first ever run with my running group. We did the walk/run thing. We ran 1.5 minutes walked 1minute. And 5k took us about an hour.

But I didn’t walk at all in my 72 minutes. I would slow to walk to have a drink and then immediately start up again.

oh well….I’ll take what I can get really.

meh October 17 2006

I’m having a crabby day today.

SOMEONE (noah) woke up at 5:00am to be covered up.

And then again at 5:30am to crawl in with us.

And then again at 5:45am to go back to his own bed.

And then again at 6:15am to come back in with me.

And then again at 6:25am to go pee.

And now the dog whom I went out to let in the house 5 seconds ago is barking at the door to be let in. I am trying to ignore her and leave her there in the rain but the barking makes me INSANE and I will soon want to kill her.

But Noah goes to school soon, and Mommy is going running (indoors).

And then? It might be nap time.

Seriously.