Musings of an adventurous empty nest mom on everything under the sun.
Yes, I am a runner now - as of just over a year ago - but for my first 46 years...ok...maybe I shouldn't count those first couple eh?...my favorite mode of exercise was walking. I could walk forever. A few times I even walked 60 miles over 3 days 🙂 Mostly though, I walked or... Continue Reading →
Last year at this time we had just finished up a wellness campaign at work where we counted our steps on a pedometer. There were conversion rates from other types of exercise into steps. I loved that things like gardening & vacuuming were on there. Because doing an hour of floor cleaning sure as hell... Continue Reading →
I finished in 30:36 with a pace of 9:52 - which is well under my goal of 33mins - I broke the 10:00 mile pace! Wahoo!! 45 mins after my wave - Alex and I traded places: Alex didn't quite meet his goal of a sub-20minute run. But considering he stopped to throw up at... Continue Reading →
It is so damn odd to have Sports Boy here during the month of July! I have felt so disoriented. Every summer for the past five (six? seven?) years he has hopped on a plane to Sweden pretty much within a week of school ending. Sometimes the very next morning. He would return the last... Continue Reading →
After lugging around a very NICE camera in Minneapolis and taking lots of pictures there, I was feeling decidedly unenthusiastic about photo taking this weekend so I left my semi-decent digital at home and mentally shut down my photo taking part of my brain. Which naturally means there will be photo ops galore, right? Yeah...oh... Continue Reading →
I've been following a blog about a cat lovin' woman in Alabama for about 3-4 years now. She lives on a small farm with pigs & chickens & dogs & a shit-ton of cats. OK, to be fair, she is a foster kitty mama and has perfectly set up rooms in her farm house to... Continue Reading →
Started the weekend off with great intentions to do at least one more closet clean up in preparation for the someday upcoming garage sale I want to have, and also to read the next book in my pile which I have been carrying around for about two solid weeks now without cracking open. For some... Continue Reading →
As a beginning level runner, what I learned the last two weeks is: 1) Run slow enough that you keep a conversational breathing pace (or, better yet, wear a heart monitor and keep the heart rate between 140-150). Slow and steady really *does* win the race - or, at least, allow you to gradually increase... Continue Reading →
Time to brush off a little dust around here. *cough* *cough* Sorry about that. Worse than the dust accumulation in here though, is the clog in my brain from not posting! Twitter helps for those quick bursts, but man has it been hard to not go through each day thinking in terms of potential blog... Continue Reading →
Still alive. Told ya I wouldn't have time/inspiration to post anything for awhile! My much beloved workout group will be no more after this month. April would have been two years with them. The last year I've been really good about keeping up (especially since I started bringing SB with me) and since Jan we've... Continue Reading →
Trees & Flowers & Birds! 