Life is Good

So, no running today, but it wasn't a total loss of a day.

After work I went to help Shelley (my friend who watches Melanie during the day).  She had asked me to watch her kids while she went to her daughter's parent/teacher conference.  I was there for about 1.5 hours.  Out of the 90 minutes, I spent 30 +/- minutes playing hop-scotch, jumping with different children in my arms, and then another 45 +/- minutes dancing with various children in my arms to Shrek's party music (by the way, there are only about 5 songs, and I have them all memorized now). 

If that wasn't workout enough, I came home and put on my running clothes (planning to take Melanie for a run).  By time I was already to go, she was dead asleep.  Instead, I put her in her crib and did 30 min of kick boxing and another 20 min of yoga. 

So, I didn't run... but as you can tell, I have been running around with my head chopped off.  Speaking of which, it's time to make dinner!

I ran for exactly 60 mins (thank you NikePlus for telling me all that fun information), and it turned out to be 7.21 miles.  Not too shabby.

I went to Grandma Great's today and she taught me knitting 101.  I have some things to learn and then I can go back to learn the next thing.  I'm making dish clothes.  Knitted dish clothes are 10x's better than crochets dish clothes, and crocheted dish clothes are 100x's better than the crummy ones you get at the store...  so, my math friends, who can tell me how many times better the KNIT dish clothes are than the CRUMMY ones you get at the store?  :o)  Don't you love little brain teasers?!? 

Went for a fun run before Brandon had to go to scouts.  Came home to yummy tacos (thanks hunny!)

I had some fun with Melanie today.  She used to move around the magnets on the fridge, so I found some fun magnets at Target (in the Dollar Spot) and put them on the front door.  She likes to move them around and will sit at the front door playing with the magnets for almost an hour.  We played with them together today. 

Here she is as Princess Melanie, playing with her magnets. :o)

okay, I was feeling a little frisky today during my run and decided to just go for it.  I did 3.16 miles in 24'41".  :o)

I did some other fun things today.  Melanie and I went to the park this morning...

We had fun playing on the swings.  Melanie made sure we tried EVERY swing at the park.  Mommy was a little dizzy on the walk home. LOL  Melanie also enjoyed the sand.  We tried the slide, but I'm pretty sure it was hot enough to melt her flesh off...

Then we went to Grandma Great's house, and she taught me some more knitting basics.  I made this hat and also a dish cloth.  I don't have a picture of the dish cloth...  o-well.

6.52 miles behind Burt and James W (who left Jared and I in the dust)  It was fun running with Jared though.  (Jared isn't on the running blog.  He is actually my boss, and also a team member on the Ragnar team).  We did it in 58'36". :o)

1 additional mile to calibrate my NikePlus... which was pretty accurate, so I'm happy about that.!