FLYING MONKEY in training

I'm registered for the HARPETH HILLS FLYING MONKEY MARATHON! Race is Sunday November 22, 2009. http://www.harpethhillsmarathon.com/

The race is limited to a field of 200...registration opened less than 30 minutes ago, and there are already 151 entrants signed up!

And I'm one of them; cool. :)

Training plan:
More miles
More muscle
More hills....

Later edit: 5 mile stretch walk.

the other FLYING MONKEY

Went over to the Artists' Market at the Flying Monkey Arts Center this afternoon. I hadn't been in a couple of months and had been missing it. Picked a great day to go, got to catch up with so many people and made some good purchases too.

First, I stopped in the art glass studio and ended up splurge buying myself a beautiful handblown mug. 12 oz tumbler size, gentle tulip shape, loveliest shade of deep amethyst purple, ornamented on the outside with a sprinkle of some silverblue and gold beads and blobs for an interesting texture.

Then bath salts from Brenna. Then a tiered gauze skirt and long sleeved t-shirt at Karma Rags.

It was so nice to see Brenna and Chris again and to chat and catch up with JJ. I finally was able to make my overdue apologies to Brenna (because I felt I kind of disappeared on her too when John and I stopped dating) and offer to take her out for coffee sometime soon. Also ran into Thomas and some of the steampunk group. I let them know I wanted to be back in the loop about events, and learned there's local potluck plans in the works. And Tom (Pi) stopped and we chatted furry for a few minutes, and he mentioned he had some absinthe in stock and that he'd set aside a bottle for me.

I've pretty much given up drinking alcohol, but I'm still going to get the absinthe!

It was just a very pleasant afternoon. I left Lowe Mill feeling all happy, artsy, and bubbly.

Came home and made myself a cool snack of a yogurt-avocado shake. Yummm! This last avocado I had was soooooooooo good; I had half of it in a sandwich the other day and half in the smoothie today. I was thinking that what I REALLY would like to eat is an avocado and tomato sandwich, on some nice dense multigrain bread. But I want FRESH garden tomatoes; it would so ruin my food porn craving if I tried to settle for slices of a store bought one. I just don't know if it's possible to get "perfect" avocados and tomatoes together at the same time...

Since I'm being happily indulgent today, I may go take a short nap before trying to get some house chores done this evening. I stayed up a bit late watching a movie last night, intending to sleep in, but the maintenance guys were mowing the lawn around my building at about quarter til 7 this morning!