Musings of an adventurous empty nest mom on everything under the sun.
The night before I knew I wouldn't sleep so I was thrilled when some old friends from the baseball years with 17 invited me out to dinner at Ruths Chris steak house. A lovely relaxing meal of superb steak and potatoes and then my favorite creme brulee with a modest amount of red wine sipped... Continue Reading →
I seriously had the BEST run coach/pacer ever! She pushed/pulled me to a time I could never have imagined. Instead of my initial thought of 12 minute miles, which I then adjusted to an 11 min or 11:30 pace (most of my training runs were in that range) - I finished in 2 hours, 12... Continue Reading →
First of all, here's the only picture I have of Christmas Eve or Christmas Day since my photographer boyfriend couldn't be there due to a sick doggie and the rest of us fail completely at taking pictures (suffice it to say, we all had a lovely day together) A dark iphone selfie of me and... Continue Reading →
I may be flailing at the Holidailies commitment, but at least I did write a Blogmutt post on Friday! So, the intention to have writing here spark the re-ignition of my writing THERE has worked! Right now my focus is on preparing for the Holiday Half Marathon on the 29th and on preparing for Christmas.... Continue Reading →
If you had told the 2010 version of me, that in three short years my shoe money would all be spent on this collection: Or that I would happily leave the house wearing this combination: Or that my reaction to finding out I needed to leave work early today in order to take... Continue Reading →
Took the week off work - the captions (and images - tell the tale) - well, except for the Thanksgiving meals that we had on Tuesday night and Thursday since I never took my phone out for those. Assume family gatherings and turkey consumed 🙂 Run #1 on Tuesday on the 56 trail - 5... Continue Reading →
It's been awhile since an update on anything other than football, so let's remedy that! I did mention that I was convinced to sign up for a ½ marathon at the end of the year. That means running jumped up in the priority list as of October 1. Renee found a great training plan that... Continue Reading →
Back in the Spring when I took on the Football Co-Liaison task I pretty much stepped away from everything else not related to my day job or taking care of things at home. I stopped slowed down and then entirely stopped writing for Blogmutt (which I will return to in December) and I had to... Continue Reading →
The exciting news this week was confirmation from "upstairs" that the office I was hoping to get in the targeted move for our area is indeed mine. Which means - something within the next month or two, I will no longer be a basement dweller! Do you know it's been 10 years at least down... Continue Reading →
Pictures from my iPhone taken within the last week - starting with Sunday as I flew home from San Jose. Tales of that trip will begin dribbling out on my PP site over the next week or two. Meanwhile, the north San Diego coast line was sort of awesome from the air. The... Continue Reading →
Trees & Flowers & Birds! 