This comedy of errors began with the husband appropriating a package of Starburst I’d purchased for an event for one of his own events. And this is how I learned he took the Starburst: Obviously leaving a bag of Starburst under the washer and dryer wasn’t an option, so when I got home […]
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Get Those Medals Out of a Box and Onto the Wall
We’ve really run a lot of races in the last decade plus. I know this because our medal collection was way out of hand. Boxes and boxes of medals. 5ks, 5 milers, Half Marathons and Marathons. Tons. At every running expo, there are lots of vendors selling cute stylish display racks. But those were pricey […]
Refreshing Our Patio Set
In 2006, I bought a used patio set on Craigslist. I refinished it in a French blue and recovered the seats. Sadly, I’ve lost all of the photos from that project other than a snap right after I picked up the set. Twelve years later, the patio set needed some love. The blue was faded, […]
And Shannah Said … Let There Be (Cooler) Lights
I’ve had boxes of LED flood light replacements sitting in the laundry room cabinet for months. Maybe even a year. While Kelly was in Tyler for several days, I sucked up my nerve to change them all. And by all, I mean 12 separate fixtures. I actually asked our friend Edward, who is an electrician, […]
Oliver The Flower Killer
At some point I’ll write more about why I was given lovely flowers. But they are LOVELY. Or they were, until I left Oliver alone with them for 5 minutes. Just 5 stinking minutes. Half of the blooms. Gone. Just like that…in just 5 minutes. {Sob}
February 2018 Wrap Up
February is the shortest month and thank goodness for that…otherwise we’d be crazy from all this activity. We are doing better at saying no, though. Ladies Night Out – discussing dreams while enjoying a lot of laughs. Annual running of the Hot Chocolate 15k. Kelly nearly bested his best 15k time from 8 years ago […]
How A Half Marathon Made Me Try A Grocery Pick Up Service
As I mentioned earlier, Kelly and I ran a serious leg-shredding race in Utah. After Big Cottonwood, I could barely hobble to the bathroom for days. There was no way I could manage the grocery store. That’s how we ended up trying online grocery shopping for the first time. My verdict? Not bad! One of […]
Thou Shalt Rest – So Sayeth The Husband
Last week sucked on some pretty epic levels. By the time I got home Friday, Kelly looked at me and said: This weekend, I want you to rest. Nothing else. Rain Saturday morning – actually, thunder and lightning – made rest all the more possible. We had to cancel our Dallas Galloway group run. I […]
Making a Clean Sweep of It
Update on my housecleaning conundrum (detailed in this November 2016 post): Our fantastic Hire a Cleaning Service lasted less than six months. Quality of cleaning went downhill over time (never awful, just incomplete). Then bizarrely, when we cancelled a service in order to travel for my Grandma’s funeral, the service never started back up. So…ok. […]
Calling the Bunkers
We’re getting old. We accept it. And you can call us Archie and Edith if you like… But we love the recliners we bought for our TV room. Eventually we plan to buy a big squishy fit-a-million-people-on-it sectional for our yet-to-be-renovated family room. However, for now, these are totally fine for our needs.