ahh…saturday

Isn’t this gorgeous? I took it this morning near our apartment. It makes me happy every time I look at it. It would be awesome if I could paint this…maybe…

Keith completed a 62-mile bike ride today to benefit cancer patients and their families. He did an awesome job too, averaging 20 mph, and finishing in three hours and 15 minutes! As always, I’m so proud. He does things I can’t fathom making my body do. He’s napping now, and I just might join him. This week marked my seventh morning to rise at 5 a.m. and go running with a co-worker. We’ve now worked our way up to 2.5 miles, and Monday we’re shooting for three. It’s interesting really; I always thought I wasn’t a morning person, but I’m starting to enjoy it. This morning I even got up at 7 and met him there for a run. Unfortunately, the sun was already up as well, so it sapped us pretty quickly. NYC trip is coming up. Woohoo!

I’m on a roll.

So………Keith and I are notorious for sleeping through multiple alarms, tornados, power tools, etc., and for sleeping half the day away on Saturdays and Sundays. However, I have had a breakthrough. Friday: awake at 5 a.m.; Saturday: awake at 6:30 a.m.; Sunday: awake at 7 a.m.; and today: awake at 5 a.m. The 5 a.m. wakies are due to a new running pact I made with a coworker. We meet at a nearby track at 5:30 three mornings a week and run 2-3 miles. what’s interesting is that I’m no more tired at the end of the day than I would have been had I slept in. Saturday, Keith and I both ran an 8 a.m. 5K, which necessitated the early rise. I was proud because I ran a 9:37 mile, and Keith’s was just under 7. And yesterday, we went to the lake with a group of friends. We had a great time lounging around all day. I must have applied my SPF 50 seven or eight times, but my back and the tops of my legs still burned. Oh, the plight of the fair-skinned! Oh well, it could have been worse. Work is going great, partially because I’m excited about our upcoming NYC vacation. It’s amazing how vacation can motivate one to get her work done. Oh, and my b-day is coming up, friends. I turn 26 on June 10. Please feel free to lavish me with gifts and birthday wishes. Also, in case you were wondering, I don’t have the iPhone yet. My friend, Ryan, convinced me to wait on account of this announcement on June 8 regarding the possibility of a new iPhone release. So, I’m waiting, very impatiently, but waiting nevertheless. More to come on that…

sleepovers, estate sales & bicycle rides

I went to an old-school sleepover last night and I had the greatest time. We ate Mexican food, drank margaritas and wine, watched Jaws, played Scattergories and stayed up way too late. We fell asleep listening to the Kings of Leon’s Only by the Night album and woke up to a home-cooked breakfast. Good times.

Then a friend and I went to an estate sale, where I bought eight 1940s-era photos. I’m not really sure why. They just looked cool, and I love trying to figure out the story behind them. Maybe I’ll post them soon, once I get them scanned.

Today, Keith went on his first ride on his new bike. bib shorts, gloves, helmet, jersey and strange biking shoes that attach to the pedals–he dressed the part and suffered zero accidents. I ran along behind and felt so slow. I’ve got to get a bike so that I can ride with him.

Anyhow, it’s exactly one week till the LR Marathon Relay. I hope I’m ready.

Just chillin’ out

I feel like I say this all the time, but this week was a hard one, seriously. The publication I work for switched printers, so we had to go to press a week early. Needless to say, I put in a lot of hours over the past two weeks and it jacked with my sleeping schedule. So this weekend was all about relaxing and forgetting the worries. Had some drinks with the co-workers right after work on Friday, then went to a friends’ house and continued the festivities. I had a massage (a Christmas gift) at 10 a.m. on Saturday, and it was WONDERFUL! My shoulders have been sore, not from lifting weights, but from Wii boxing and tennis. Yes, this is true. I finished The Time Traveler’s Wife, and I consider it one of the best books I’ve ever read. I googled it just now and found out that there will be a film based on the novel released next year. YAY!

Saturday night, Keith and I watched Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Loved it. And in typical fashion, we fell asleep on the couch. I woke up at 1:30 a.m. and couldn’t go back to sleep, so I finished watching Waitress, which I had DVRed. Waitress made me want to make crazy pies with crazy names and open my own pie shop. Watch it.

I then updated my iPod, downloaded some new music, watched some Kings of Leon videos on You Tube, looked at their tour schedule, and picked out recipes that I want to make from Bon Appetit. I went back to bed at 5:30 a.m.

I went to the gym this morning and ran hard and fast on the treadmill. While running, I started craving an omelet. Strange, since I don’t really like eggs. I couldn’t shake the craving, so that’s what I had for lunch, an omelet with cheese, peppers and onions. It was so amazing.

Keith is out buying a bike from a guy on Craigslist. Tonight, I am going to an Oscar watch party at a friend/co-worker’s house. I hope everyone has a great week. I’ll try to give the blog some more attention this week.

Ice baths and Pockets and Pockets

The Tulsa marathon is right around the corner, and you may recall that Keith is running the entire thing, all 26.2 LONG miles. He’s been trying to get some long runs in, and tonight he ran 14.7 miles! (I am shamelessly proud of him.) He had to take an ice bath afterward in the hopes that he wouldn’t be as sore tomorrow. He did not enjoy it, to say the least. He would like for me to mention that Honey Stinger Energy Chews are awesome. He says they have a great, sweet honey flavor, almost like candy, and they really do give you an extra boost of energy. Anyhow, yay for Keith! He’s been training a long time for this one, and I’m proud.

www.pocketsandpockets.com

I have an obsession with things in jars. I may have mentioned before that I have two jars of antique marbles, a jar of fossils, and a jar of seashells. I’m always on the lookout for new things to go in jars. At estate sales, I’m the one weirdo that picks up the jar of random junk (safety pins, beer caps, marbles, toy cars, etc., etc.) and wants it more than anything else in the house. Jars are like shadowboxes, except better. They can be stacked, placed on shelves, in windows or on tables. They just look cool to me. So there’s this traveling art exhibit called Pockets and Pockets. Basically, folks empty their pockets and the contents are put into 20 different labeled jars. The contents are then emptied into the main jars at Art House Gallery in Atlanta, GA. Steven Peterman is the artist. This is such a fascinating idea to me. According to their calendar, the upcoming events are all in Georgia. But don’t worry. If you want to participate, you can send a SASE to:
Pockets
309 Peters St. Unit 1
Atlanta, Ga 30313

And they’ll send you a participation kit. It’s on this week’s agenda.