Running Commentary

Not Eaten July 25 2008

Nope, I have not been eaten by a bear.

Although at one point I had to stop walking to and from work because there were SO MANY bears around.

Scary huh?

Anyway, we moved.

Again.

Ugh.

We bought a new house…well a new townhouse.

And by new I mean 25yrs old.

But it’s great….and of course better than renting.

And Chris might be leaving in Sept to back to school about 2hrs away from us.

So smaller digs without much maintenance will be great.

And if we end up leaving town or something, it’s perfectly rentable!

Anyway, so I’m not like dead or digested or anything.

But I am going into the wild on Sunday for a few days of camping, so there is still time to be viciously devoured.

OH…and here is a typical pamalama story for you.

We live in a part of the province that is surrounded by lakes, I think we have something like 400 lakes just in our immediate area.

So, we bought a boat.

A 16ft deep blah blah, 120 horses….oooh it was sweet.

And just before we went to pick it up, a guy in a log skidder backed over it.

OF COURSE HE DID.

Didn’t even get to sit in it.

No picnics, no waterskiing, no tenting on the various campable islands dotting the lakes.

Let me repeat that, BACK OVER BY A LOG SKIDDER.

Welcome to my life.

Of Course It Is January 30 2008

It’s STORMIMG like carazy here.
All the schools are closed all the buses are canceled.
The highway is closed.
It was +5 yesterday all day and into the night. It rained like crazy and then suddenly? Below zero and snow…high winds and LOW windchills (-40 by this afternoon).
FLASH FREEZE.
So…I might have to snowshoe to my interview?
Cause I am GOING, maybe i will be the only one that shows up?

In other unrelated news.
Did you know that when you ground your 12 year old (Happy Birthday Brendan) that it’s totally your fault. And that you are the reason they got in trouble?
EVEN if you offer to let them off their punishment for the day (seeing as it is their birthday afterall) but tomorrow we will resume with our regular scheduled punishment.
THAT is the most horrible thing you can do to a person!
He has NOTHING to do!
MEANEST!
PARENTS!
EVER!

The Land That Medical Advances Forgot January 16 2008

Men…you may want to avert your eyes.

Ladies you will totally get me.

I went for my bi- annual “looky-loo” today. This is the first time with my present doctor.

Also the first time with a male doctor in a long time.

Also the first time in this town for a loooooooooong time.

Ladies…it was still STEEL.

STEEL!

As in cold…hard….surgical steel!

When she brought me into the (words smallest) exam room, she told me she was going to “Set up” and then would leave me to undress and later return with the doctor.

She began lining up all the instruments of terror which was odd to begin with because I am used to my (old) Doctor doing it herself.

ANYWAY, the nurse started running the water and I am assuming she’s getting ready to scrub in.

Not so!

She was running the water to make it warm. To warm the SPECULUM (circa: 1967).

!!

And it totally seemed like she had grabbed it out of some random drawer of miscellaneous medical instruments.  Not wrapped in plastic like the ones the REAL Doctors use.

I

was

MORTIFIED.

And let me tell it was only down hill from there.

But you know, it’s done for another 2 years (or is it annually now that I am over *cough cough* 35?) and so hopefully by then he will be dead. And a MUCH younger Doc will feel me up in the name of health.

ugh

It’s Fathers Day and I’m Gonna Talk About My Period. June 18 2007

Ok…so yesterday was father’s day, but I’m still gonna talk about my period.

So there.

So my period started this weekend…all sneaky like.

It totally just showed up out of the blue.

There was no rage, no binge eating, not even sore boobies.

Infact we were on a boat and we had come ashore to seek shelter from the thunderstorm and I used the washroom (ick) and was all “hello there, my purse is at home. oh my.”

And the day after came and with it came FULL ON PMS…on this is probably more accurately MS since it post pre.

Not so much with the binge eating, but seriously? I fucking hated everyone.

Today I am only mildly angry in general, but the cocoa I am snorting seems to be helping.

Sunday was father’s day.

And this year Chris got a baseball bat that he picked out and paid for and also he got the pleasure of playing in 6 baseball games this weekend without me bitching at him (too much).

6.

Six

Baseball games.

Guess what happens when a 41 yr old plays baseball for 3 days straight?

They become utterly useless.

Zombie like even, given the fact they are SO hungry and mal nourished (cause GOD FORBID YOU PACK SOMETHING!) they will in fact happily eat your brain.

It was a busy weekend, but we did manage to spend some family time together which is nothing short of a miracle.

We have Shadow, she peed on my carpet this morning.

I might stir fry her for dinner.

honestly is ugly April 17 2007

Lets be honest. I need to lose weight.

A lot of it.

40lbs has got to go.

I’m fat

&

Out of shape.

And I hate it.

It’s not like I can’t run 5k without dieing, but I can’t run 15k and 5? Is an effort.

And? I am finding it SO HARD to just GO AND FUCKING RUN ALREADY.

Why?

Why is that? I NEED to go, I HAVE to go.

Have I run this week?

NO.

I’ve a few walks here and there, but the always include Noah, and lets face it, it’s not working up a sweat.

I just want to be back in the habit.

Chris comes home and i go out for a run.

I’m so lazy. So so so sooooo lazy.

moo

I hate it.

Enough, already.

Get up.

Go.