books and stuff

Book #12 Charlaine Harris. DEFINITELY DEAD. Ace Books: 2006.

Sookie is beginning to show irritating signs of SupernaturalSweetieSyndrome; she's a telepath and now finds out she's also got fairy blood, she's involved with more and more sexy handsome powerful men and various leaders of the "supe" community. I think I may take a suspension of my suspension of disbelief and take a break from the series; I'm beginning to prickle at PerfectParanormalPrincesses.

Lost my social steam last night and just stayed in and spent the evening watching LOST and reading. Didn't even get my pancakes made for dinner...I overcooked the sweetpotato in the microwave and there wasn't enough moist pulp for the recipe. *shrug* Ended up just having the (little too tough but still flavorful) sweetpotato skins drizzled with syrup as dessert along with a leftover vegetarian sloppy-joe burger for supper.

Still below freezing this morning, but the weather forecast looks like it's supposed to be warming up between now and the weekend (low 50's sounds good), but with a chance of showers on Saturday.

Sipping some morning coffee. Going to bundle up and head out for a short run here soon.

Then a few errands to do before heading into work at noon: Stop at Krogers and pick up some fruit (I have a taste for baked apples); Pay utility bill (DAMN Winter--its higher again this month!); drop off some money to Kara; stop at gym and cancel my membership (Other than seeing the nutritionist, I just haven't been going often enough to make it really worthwhile and now I need to allocate the money elsewhere.) Should also stop at Walmart or somewhere and find some strong adhesive--noticed two sections of the lugs on the soles of my trail shoes are peeling up loose.

I wonder if I could find a roommate/houseshare that would save me some money? I really enjoyed spending time with my sister (and she seemed to be okay with her situation of sharing an apartment with others). The visit made me feel like part of me is tired of living alone. Even if you aren't family or best buddies with roommates, at least it's human contact. Of course, I'm also enough of a solitary antisocial set in my weird ways old lady that I wonder if I could adapt to a roomie or if I'd just fritz out and feel awkward?

Later edit: 5 mile run. Cold, but the sun was out (which always makes me feel better). Darn it, I hate pre-BIG race phantom pains and paranoia...is that a twitch in my inner thigh muscle?

Am glad I have a psych appointment in a couple weeks. I wonder if I need my meds adjusted? I'm not quite comfortable with how my moods and anxiety levels are oscillating.

style

I was wearing my running togs on Valentine's Day, otherwise I would have been wearing this dress. ;) Short light yellow princess seamed shift with an art print of angels and cherubs (including Cupid with his bow). Have gotten three compliments on it today.

Also got a "nice tattoo" comment. lol..even though I'm mostly covered up wearing leggings and long sleeves under the cherub dress. However, with my hair cut short, the jewel and wings design on the back of my neck shows. :)

Mercedes Muddle

*shakes head* Wow; the relay times and distances at the Mercedes Marathon were sure messed up. I'm rather pouty that my should-a-been 6.2 miles leg was in reality only 4.7 miles; NO WONDER it seemed quick! And my actual race pace was still decent (LOL at self: I KNEW the first pace results they posted were TOO GOOD TO BE TRUE, but it was nice living briefly in a dream world of being fast!)

This is from the website stats today (and still says "preliminary result"):

Psychos
Julie 23 57:51 9:20
Desiree 26 43:39 10:39
Heather 9 44:49 9:33
Krystal 32 37:29 12:30
Dana 36 1:35:33 11:39
total Marathon Finish time: 4:39:18 10:40

Timing stations were located at 6.2 miles, 10.3 miles, 15.0 miles, 18.0 miles, and 26.2 miles.
Distances between timing systems in miles are 1st leg 6.2 miles, 2nd leg 4.1 miles, 3rd leg 4.7 miles, 4th leg 3.0 miles,and the final leg being 8.21 miles.

Bad Dog

Here's a link to a site featuring the artist who does the canine sculptures I admired in San Francisco.

I think it's amusing that his bio says he likes dogs but has a cat....I had joked that part of what influenced my infatuation with the sculptures, at the time I saw them in the gallery window, was being mad at my own bad cat. :)

http://www.andrewknipe.com/large-view/cave-canem/183819-6-5-15044/Sculpture/Figurative.html

I think a critter like Bad Dog would make a cool puppet or floppy jointed doll.

runningsisters

I was searching online for (inspiration and encouragement) race reports about the previous Black Warrior 50k races. Found several good running blogs. :)

However, reading this one (I'm such a wuss) made me cry (again). It's a race report from the Mountain Mist by one of the supporting volunteers.

(read the whole post, but pay attention about 2/3rds of the way through) I'm going to look for "Tiger" at the race on Saturday, and I am going to give her the biggest hug....


http://runningsister.blogspot.com/2010/01/volunteering-at-mountain-mist-50k-12310.html