So 2 years ago I took up running with Couch to 5k and I’ve done quite a few races; 5ks, 10ks, half marathons as well as 3 super sprint triathlons. I have 1 more of the latter next month and then a sprint tri in October and then I am done for the year. It’ll be weird to be done with the race season so early but I made the decision in March that I was done with long distance running for a while. My last 2 half marathons were torturous at best and I realized I preferred mid distance so 10ks mainly. So I may try to pick up one of those. Anyway. My training this year has felt fairly relaxed. I went hard for so long but I gave myself a break for the most part this year. I’ll have to pick it back up for the sprint since that is going to be longer and my first open water swim. I will admit that there is also something lacking in my training. It’s like the challenge has gone out. I’m not motivated to push for longer distance though I have resolved to do a full marathon at least once after my 42nd birthday. So I bought myself 2 years on that. So what do I strive for? I wish I knew the answer. I do know that I refuse to give up. I never want the day to come where someone says “Do you remember the time you were a runner?” I want it to be “Do you remember when you started running and never looked back?”
I do work hard at being injury free. I’ve found that not running back to back days helps. That the swimming and cycling help. One of the things that has been good is adding strength training but that is one of the areas that I need the most guidance and help. So I guess there is a challenge.
All this training is interesting in a way. I leaned into it hard as a coping mechanism for my husband’s illness. And not to say that I don’t anymore but that I don’t need it quite like that anymore. I escaped into it but now it’s less of an escape and more of a routine. And I am very attached to my routines. That has become more coping strategy these days though not necessarily a good one since flexibility is becoming more important as time moves on. But exercise and time to maintain a healthy body is necessary for a healthy mindset.
(And if anyone is interested, my instagram is primarily sports related if you want to follow along.)
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Sunday, April 26, 2009
Pass a good time
Yesterday, we went to one of the major festivals here in Louisiana, Festival International. It's one of the biggest festivals and features musicians from around the world. It was the first time we had gone together. After the boy woke up from his afternoon nap, we gathered our stuff and drove down there. Parking was tough but we found a spot in a ditch. We saw three bands. The Quebe Sisters Band are from Texas and they have an old-fashioned sound that I like, sort of like the Andrews Sisters. Bub had to be at the front so he ran up there and we danced some. Then we saw Dengue Fever, a band from Cambodia, which had a surfer rock sound. And the last band, which we caught the tail end of was The Amazing Nuns, from Lafayette, LA, who were a little Blues Brothers. We got to play in the foundation and eat some great food. We passed a good time, cher.
Tuesday, April 21, 2009
"What the Hell? I've lived a good life.*"
Let me give you a little** of my bio in case you are wondering anything about me. I don't know why you would but still you never know.
Currently I am 30 but soon I will be turning 31 and this is not something I am looking forward to for reasons unknown. I mean, once you turn 30 then 31 should be fine right? Well, the fact is 30 is right there next to your 20's so you are not so far removed. Just a year ago, you were right there with the 20 something crowd so it's cool. But, at 31, that is sadly not the case. You are old, like a grandma or something. Your bones are creaking and you complain how loud things are and that your back hurts and you worry about premiums and insurance and your mortgage***. 31 is sad, yo.
Although I will be getting this bike for my birthday and will get a basket so later in life I can embarrass my child as much as possible. Oh yes, I will be one of those moms.****
Speaking of being a mom, I am one! I have a currently 2 year old son who I call Bubbie online and to his face. Sometimes he will refer to himself that way too. When he was born, I called him Buddy for a long time. I started to wonder if I had named him the wrong name, but my husband, BT (which is also what I actually call him to his face among other things), assured me that we did name him the right thing. I try to protect his privacy so I don't usually refer to him by his real name. Does that make me weird? I don't know, but whatever helps. I also call him my little man, the boy, the child, and THE MAN cause he is just that cool.
I love my child like crazy whoa. I didn't even know how most (good) mothers felt about their children until I had him. You just can't imagine that kind of connection. It's annoying when people say you don't know until you have one of your own, but I think that's true. My pregnancy for him was really good and mostly uneventful until the actual having of him. Then he didn't want to come out even though I was a week overdue and I had to have a c-section. So this is what I learned: children are who they are even in the womb and my child does not like to be made to do stuff, he likes to think of it on his own. He is very much after my own heart. My mom laughs and points because she had to deal with me as a toddler much like Bubbie is now. If you follow me on Twitter then you will hear a lot about him.
Also, you may have noticed I'm married. I have been married 4 years; will be 5 in October. We have been a couple though since we were 20. That makes 10 whole years together; 11 in October. Oh yes, a whole decade with my husband. It's been interesting to say the least, but the good on the whole. We have a good time together and know each other really well and like most of the same things. We meet when two of our friends became roommates and we went, separately, to visit our friends and then like 3 weeks started dating or whatever. Basically, we were an instance couple and that was that.
And lastly, cause this is long, I am a librarian. I have a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and had planned on going to grad school for that but it didn't really work out the way I'd hoped. Plan B became to go to grad school for Library Science so I did. I earned my MLIS (Masters of Library and Information Science) in 2004 with a concentration in Special Libraries, but ended up becoming a Reference Librarian for a Public Library when they were the only ones to offer me a job. So I did that for 4 years before I almost died (not literally) from the stress of being the ONLY reference librarian in the system and just completely burning out. So I moved on and eventually settled here at my current job at an academic library, not doing reference, which is how I prefer things.
*Do you know where this quote comes from?
**Well, long as it turns out.
***Look, I know people do this in their 20's. Work with me here.
****Not really, I just say these things, no reason to fear for my child.
Currently I am 30 but soon I will be turning 31 and this is not something I am looking forward to for reasons unknown. I mean, once you turn 30 then 31 should be fine right? Well, the fact is 30 is right there next to your 20's so you are not so far removed. Just a year ago, you were right there with the 20 something crowd so it's cool. But, at 31, that is sadly not the case. You are old, like a grandma or something. Your bones are creaking and you complain how loud things are and that your back hurts and you worry about premiums and insurance and your mortgage***. 31 is sad, yo.
Although I will be getting this bike for my birthday and will get a basket so later in life I can embarrass my child as much as possible. Oh yes, I will be one of those moms.****
Speaking of being a mom, I am one! I have a currently 2 year old son who I call Bubbie online and to his face. Sometimes he will refer to himself that way too. When he was born, I called him Buddy for a long time. I started to wonder if I had named him the wrong name, but my husband, BT (which is also what I actually call him to his face among other things), assured me that we did name him the right thing. I try to protect his privacy so I don't usually refer to him by his real name. Does that make me weird? I don't know, but whatever helps. I also call him my little man, the boy, the child, and THE MAN cause he is just that cool.
I love my child like crazy whoa. I didn't even know how most (good) mothers felt about their children until I had him. You just can't imagine that kind of connection. It's annoying when people say you don't know until you have one of your own, but I think that's true. My pregnancy for him was really good and mostly uneventful until the actual having of him. Then he didn't want to come out even though I was a week overdue and I had to have a c-section. So this is what I learned: children are who they are even in the womb and my child does not like to be made to do stuff, he likes to think of it on his own. He is very much after my own heart. My mom laughs and points because she had to deal with me as a toddler much like Bubbie is now. If you follow me on Twitter then you will hear a lot about him.
Also, you may have noticed I'm married. I have been married 4 years; will be 5 in October. We have been a couple though since we were 20. That makes 10 whole years together; 11 in October. Oh yes, a whole decade with my husband. It's been interesting to say the least, but the good on the whole. We have a good time together and know each other really well and like most of the same things. We meet when two of our friends became roommates and we went, separately, to visit our friends and then like 3 weeks started dating or whatever. Basically, we were an instance couple and that was that.
And lastly, cause this is long, I am a librarian. I have a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and had planned on going to grad school for that but it didn't really work out the way I'd hoped. Plan B became to go to grad school for Library Science so I did. I earned my MLIS (Masters of Library and Information Science) in 2004 with a concentration in Special Libraries, but ended up becoming a Reference Librarian for a Public Library when they were the only ones to offer me a job. So I did that for 4 years before I almost died (not literally) from the stress of being the ONLY reference librarian in the system and just completely burning out. So I moved on and eventually settled here at my current job at an academic library, not doing reference, which is how I prefer things.
*Do you know where this quote comes from?
**Well, long as it turns out.
***Look, I know people do this in their 20's. Work with me here.
****Not really, I just say these things, no reason to fear for my child.
Sunday, April 19, 2009
All Time Favorite Books
I'm feeling much better today. BT bought me some Excedrin Migraine and my mom told me to drink a coke and eat some chocolate so the combination must have worked. I just have a slight headache today, nothing crippling like yesterday.
I was thinking last night about my top 5 all time favorite books. These are books that I have read multiple times. So in no particular order, here they are:
1. Auntie Mame: I first saw the Rosalind Russell movie when I was around 12ish and I loved it. I am a big fan of old movies. Then I found out it was a book and it was at my local library. So I read it and the sequel then. Then when I was in grad school, I read it again. Then my mom bought me a paperback copy and I've read that copy several times. It just doesn't get better than Auntie Mame.
2. Jurassic Park: I'm a big Michael Crichton fan and I've never read a book by him I didn't enjoy. Jurassic Park is the only one, though, that I've read several times. In fact, we were weeding our home collection and it was one of the paperbacks I just had to keep. I really need a hardcover. I've never been a big dinosaur person but I LOVED this book and the movie too, of course.
3. Ender's Game: I was introduced to this by BT. It is his all time favorite book and, when we started dating, I figured I should read it too. It has to be one of the best books ever written! I've read all the the Enders series and all of the Bean series. But Ender's Game is the one I've read the most.
4. Skinny Legs and All tied with Jitterbug Perfume: It's hard to choose between these to Tom Robbins' books. Skinny Leg and All was the first one I read and you never forget your first Tom Robbins but Jitterbug Perfume has one of my favorite quotes, "Louisiana in September was like an obscence phone call from nature. The air even sounds like heavy breathing."
5. Someplace to Be Flying: Who doesn't love Charles de Lint? I am part Native American so I guess the animal people parts really speak to me. I love the idea of Raven, and the Crow Girls, and Jackdaw. Something about this book amazes me. I've even made others read it.
I was thinking last night about my top 5 all time favorite books. These are books that I have read multiple times. So in no particular order, here they are:
1. Auntie Mame: I first saw the Rosalind Russell movie when I was around 12ish and I loved it. I am a big fan of old movies. Then I found out it was a book and it was at my local library. So I read it and the sequel then. Then when I was in grad school, I read it again. Then my mom bought me a paperback copy and I've read that copy several times. It just doesn't get better than Auntie Mame.
2. Jurassic Park: I'm a big Michael Crichton fan and I've never read a book by him I didn't enjoy. Jurassic Park is the only one, though, that I've read several times. In fact, we were weeding our home collection and it was one of the paperbacks I just had to keep. I really need a hardcover. I've never been a big dinosaur person but I LOVED this book and the movie too, of course.
3. Ender's Game: I was introduced to this by BT. It is his all time favorite book and, when we started dating, I figured I should read it too. It has to be one of the best books ever written! I've read all the the Enders series and all of the Bean series. But Ender's Game is the one I've read the most.
4. Skinny Legs and All tied with Jitterbug Perfume: It's hard to choose between these to Tom Robbins' books. Skinny Leg and All was the first one I read and you never forget your first Tom Robbins but Jitterbug Perfume has one of my favorite quotes, "Louisiana in September was like an obscence phone call from nature. The air even sounds like heavy breathing."
5. Someplace to Be Flying: Who doesn't love Charles de Lint? I am part Native American so I guess the animal people parts really speak to me. I love the idea of Raven, and the Crow Girls, and Jackdaw. Something about this book amazes me. I've even made others read it.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Games of Choice
More fun facts about me:
I like to play video games. I always have since our first Atari, then our first Nintendo console and so on. I, of course, was a big Mario fan so I have always enjoyed RPG-type or platform games. One o
f my favorite early games was Jersey Devil for the Playstation 1. It was a platform game where you played the character Jersey Devil in his quest to defeat the evil Dr. Knarf. I loved that game!
My sister-in-law, who is almost 9 years younger than I am, always had Sims on her com
puter and I played that a lot. Like a lot a lot, but our computer at home was so slow I could never load it. Then Sims started coming out for game consoles and it was on. I think I've bought every Sims game for PS2 and beaten them all except for Sims Pets, mostly cause I had a baby right around that time. I also have MySims and MySims Kingdom for Wii and both are super cute and fun. The objective for both is to build objects for the people in the world and make them happy. But each has its own cute world and objectives. I actually beat MySims Kingdom in just a couple of weeks.
My all time favorite
(so far) game is Kingdom Hearts. I've played (and beaten) the first one. I bought Chain of Memories for the GBA but didn't beat it. I got into the Reverse/Rebirth part and played about half way through and for some reason put it down and didn't pick it up again. Then I got Kingdom Hearts II for the PS2 and played almost to the end. But I still haven't beaten it. I don't know why. I absolutely LOVED that game! I just have one final battle so I really need to get to one that. Recently I got Re: Chain of Memories for the PS2 for Christmas and started playing that a couple of weeks ago. I'm hoping to finish that and then finish KH II afterwards. I found out recently that there are 2 new games coming out, both on handhelds that I don't own! :( One is Kingdom Hearts: 358/2> Days for the DS and Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep for PSP which is a prequel for the original game. I definetaly planning on getting a DS already so I'll be able to plan that game but I don't know about getting a PSP.
I like to play video games. I always have since our first Atari, then our first Nintendo console and so on. I, of course, was a big Mario fan so I have always enjoyed RPG-type or platform games. One o
f my favorite early games was Jersey Devil for the Playstation 1. It was a platform game where you played the character Jersey Devil in his quest to defeat the evil Dr. Knarf. I loved that game!My sister-in-law, who is almost 9 years younger than I am, always had Sims on her com
puter and I played that a lot. Like a lot a lot, but our computer at home was so slow I could never load it. Then Sims started coming out for game consoles and it was on. I think I've bought every Sims game for PS2 and beaten them all except for Sims Pets, mostly cause I had a baby right around that time. I also have MySims and MySims Kingdom for Wii and both are super cute and fun. The objective for both is to build objects for the people in the world and make them happy. But each has its own cute world and objectives. I actually beat MySims Kingdom in just a couple of weeks.My all time favorite
(so far) game is Kingdom Hearts. I've played (and beaten) the first one. I bought Chain of Memories for the GBA but didn't beat it. I got into the Reverse/Rebirth part and played about half way through and for some reason put it down and didn't pick it up again. Then I got Kingdom Hearts II for the PS2 and played almost to the end. But I still haven't beaten it. I don't know why. I absolutely LOVED that game! I just have one final battle so I really need to get to one that. Recently I got Re: Chain of Memories for the PS2 for Christmas and started playing that a couple of weeks ago. I'm hoping to finish that and then finish KH II afterwards. I found out recently that there are 2 new games coming out, both on handhelds that I don't own! :( One is Kingdom Hearts: 358/2> Days for the DS and Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep for PSP which is a prequel for the original game. I definetaly planning on getting a DS already so I'll be able to plan that game but I don't know about getting a PSP.
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