Posts made in March, 2011

Saturday Roundup

Posted by Administrator on Mar 12, 2011 in Hubby, Me | 0 comments

*My husband and I went to a Clay Aiken concert in Mesa, AZ Thursday night. It was sublime. It was only the third concert of his that I had been to, and the first since 2004. Well worth the wait. He was in amazing voice and he is awesome at bantering with the crowd. The man’s hilarious. I don’t think enough people realize how funny he is. If you ever have a chance to see him live, you should do it. My husband enjoyed it as well and Clay Aiken is certainly not the style of music he normally listens to (though he admits he’s got a great voice).  If you go on youtube and search for Clay Aiken Mesa, I’m sure a ton of videos from the show will pop up. (Clay lets his fans video the shows and all that jazz. Very cool)

* I ran 7 – SEVEN – miles this morning!! I was so excited. I’ve never run that distance before, always stopping when I got to the 6 mile mark. But, this morning I decided to go for it. I won’t go into how fast (or rather, slow) I ran it, lol, but I don’t give a flip about speed anymore. I’m focusing on distance. 

*My husband ordered us an ipad2. There goes that irs refund money. lol. Oh well….he really wanted one. It’ll be fun

Love

Posted by Administrator on Mar 6, 2011 in Me, The Dogs | 0 comments

My dogs’ food consists of a mix of  Honest Kitchen Preference and cooked ground beef. I always prepare two days worth at a time. So when I’m out of food, that evening I’ll make a two day batch, pop it in the fridge and it will be ready for me to give them first thing in the morning. (I feed them at 5 a.m. b/c that is when Ratchet takes his epilepsy meds)

Last night at about 3:20 a.m., Clank woke me up, needing to go outside to the bathroom. So, half asleep, I opened the back door and stood waiting for the dogs to do their business. While standing there I happened to glance over at the kitchen counter. What was on the counter? The empty plastic containers I put the dogs’ food in.  I TOTALLY forgot to cook their food yesterday.

So at 3:30 a.m., (after muttering a string of obscenities) I was in the kitchen, cooking ground beef. 

That’s love, people.

Good Things

Posted by Administrator on Mar 4, 2011 in Me | 0 comments

A random sampling of some good things lately (to balance out my Soggy post a few days ago)

1. Our car is officially paid off
2. We got our income tax refund today
3. That website I mentioned the other day that didn’t need me anymore (haven’t worked for them for several months) contacted me and wants me to work for them again, at least for a couple of months.
4. I ran 6 miles today, first time since beginning of December. Yay
5. Hubby got a review copy of MLB ’11 The Show. It’s pretty sweet

Cool!

Posted by Administrator on Mar 3, 2011 in Tom Glavine | 0 comments

I was looking around on youtube and decided to do a search for Tom Glavine. This video from the Georgia Transplant Foundation popped up:

Tom Glavine – Georgia Transplant Foundation Tribute

I remember last year getting an email very close to the date of their Spring Training event asking if I could help them by sending some high quality photos for them to use in the video. I, of course, sent them along and they thanked me. I didn’t hear anything else about it, but I guess this is the video they did. And they put a thank you to me at the end of it.

Totally cool!

Soggy

Posted by Administrator on Mar 1, 2011 in Me | 0 comments

I’m feeling soggy  today.  I saw it described that way once — that sad, down in the dumps, mopey kind of feeling.

I have not, and do not, have any plans to have children. It’s not something that my husband and I have ever really expressed an interest in. But, there’s a part of me that kind of feels left out lately, if that makes any sense. Most of my friends from back home, that I grew up with, have children. My longest friend has a two year old. Another friend just had her second child. Another is pregnant with her second. Another just posted on facebook yesterday that she is expecting. And my sister recently found out she, too, is going to have a baby. I’m very happy for ALL of them, I am. But the left out feelings exist. Kind of like they are part of a club I don’t belong to. And even though I don’t want to belong to it …  I don’t know. I can’t explain it.

I think a lot of times I feel inadequate, unimportant … like I haven’t really done anything or accomplished anything. What do I do for a job? I do freelance web design – a job I don’t think I’m very good at and that doesn’t generate much money. The one site I was doing that was giving me decent money each month, they’ve switched to a content management site and no longer need me.

I think sometimes I go out and run in the mornings, not for the exercise, but to just feel like I DID something. Of course, then I check into Get Glue to post that I ran and see people writing about running 7, 8, 10, 12, 15 miles and then my puny little 3 mile run (or 5 mile, on rare occasions) doesn’t seem like much of anything.

I don’t want to make it sound like I hate my life. Far from it. I have a wonderful husband and amazing pets. I’d be devastated if I lost any one of them. I guess I just occasionally get down on myself.  I guess that’s normal….