Veterinarians and taking a break

Posted by Administrator on Jul 27, 2011 in Me | 0 comments

My veterinarian’s web site, which I designed, is now officially up and running:

http://www.phoenixmountainah.com/

And, of course I used a photo of Clank and Ratchet in the rotating photos on the page. I tried to use one of the cats too, but I couldn’t find a good one that worked for those dimensions. There are a couple of pages that still need content, but those will be added in time.

I’m bad at this…

Posted by Administrator on Jul 21, 2011 in Me | 1 comment

I’m bad at blogging. I just have absolutely nothing interesting to blog about, so I either end up forcing myself to type up a really boring update or I just … don’t post anything. I’ve been doing the last option lately.

I”m still running (in this hot AZ weather where it will be 90 degrees at 5 a.m. ugh). Usually I’ll do 7 miles, but some days it’s 5 miles and some days it’s 8 or 9 or more. Just depends on how I feel. 

Camelbak

Posted by Administrator on Jun 25, 2011 in Me | 0 comments

I ordered myself a Camelbak – this one – to use while running. It’s getting so hot here and I hate having to carry a bottle of water or gatorade in my hand (and was worried the hydration belts would bug me) so I got this. Before getting it, I would leave a bottle of Gatorade on my front porch and run back to my house to drink when I needed to. Which worked but… ehh…

I ran with it this morning and it seemed to work well and didn’t bother me.

Mirrors … ugh

Posted by Administrator on Jun 11, 2011 in Me | 0 comments

I bought two pairs of shorts and a t-shirt from American Eagle yesterday.  The shorts are a size 0. I was pretty stoked I could actually fit in them (though from reading reviews online it sounds like that style of short tends to run a little big, so it’s probably not a true 0.)

Anyway. Then today I put them on and look in the mirror and I can’t shake the feeling that they make my legs look fat. WHY do I think this way? Why do I see that in the mirror when I’m wearing a freakin’ zero? I don’t understand it. It’s frustrating.

Wipeout

Posted by Administrator on Jun 3, 2011 in Me | 0 comments

This morning I woke up my husband a little after 6 a.m. with the following:

“Well, I ate total shit out there.”

Three miles into my run (and at my best time so far) I managed to trip and slam my knees, my hands, my left shoulder and the side of my face into the concrete. How did I manage to hit all of those places on one fall? Talent, people. Major talent. My first reaction was about how much it hurt. My second reaction was to thank God no one saw it. How embarassing would that have been?

Then I had to do the hobbled walk of shame home. One hand got the skin scraped off, both knees are scraped up pretty good (and I think a little swollen now), my face is a little red (but no scrape) and my shoulder got scraped up too.  My shoulder is pretty sore and my knees are too. I have a feeling they are going to be really sore and bruised tomorrow.

I took a couple Aleve, cleaned up the scrapes and put Neosporin on them and iced up my knees a little. I think my knees are going to cause me to miss a few days of running…..

I told my husband it’d be funnier if it didn’t hurt so much.

Just trying to be accurate…

Posted by Administrator on Jun 1, 2011 in Me, Tom Glavine | 0 comments

So the Thrashers are moving to Winnipeg.

I did a search on twitter for “Glavine” (I like to see what people are saying about him) and a girl on there (who was a Thrashers fan) had posted several times that Tom Glavine sucked, was the most hated man in Atlanta today and said that he owned half the team and he was the one who wanted them to leave the city.

Which, okay, is TOTALLY inaccurate. I haven’t heard or read everything he’s said about the subject, but from everything I’ve seen, he wanted the Thrashers to stay in Atlanta. He’s a huge hockey guy, his kids play the game and for a while there he was trying to get a group of potential investors together to keep them in Atlanta. And he damn sure isn’t half owner of the team. lol.

So, I tweeted her back and said that he didn’t own half the team and had actually been trying to get a group together to keep them in Atlanta. I said it matter of fact (not mean or anything like that)

She eventually wrote back and said from what she heard, he wanted them to leave. I initially tweeted her back with a link to an article w/ comments from Tom (saying he wanted the thrashers to stay, etc) but then I went to her page and noticed that after she had replied to me, she posted on there that she was making her page private again and anyone who didn’t know her needed to stay off her page.

Geez. Well excuse me! I was only trying to help since she was mistaken. So I deleted my replies to her. Forget it. I don’t know why I even try sometimes.

In other news, Glavine’s in the booth for the Braves-Padres game tonight. He’s getting better at this; his sense of humor is starting to come through more. I cracked up listening to him break down the Tool race (that they do between innings) and how the Drill got a cortisone shot to the head.

Quick Update

Posted by Administrator on May 31, 2011 in Me | 0 comments

I’ve been able to run some the last few days (did 4 miles on Saturday and again today). The pain is still there but, it’s no worse, and maybe a little better, so I’m just dealing with it.  Hopefully at some point I’ll be able to get my mileage back up to normal. Not sure how well that will go with the temperatures rising, but I’ll give it a shot.

Got a website I’m going to be working on that I’m pretty excited about. Our vet is opening up his own animal hospital and asked if I could do the site. I’m really looking forward to it. And I can’t begin to express how relieved I am that he’s still staying locally. Whew! The thought of having to go to another vet gives me a panic attack. lol. So luckily that is not the case.

Still dealing with a little bit of …. blahness/loneliness/depression-like feelings. Sometimes I’ll kind of get out of it and then before I know it, it’s back again.  I’m having trouble fully shaking it.