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After that week two weeks ago, I was ready to freaking snap on anyone and everyone! I even called Randy this past week and said your turn to plan date night and it is going to be after Father's Day!
We called our instructor at TKD and I gave him the low down on why I have been so stressed and he said no problem, we set up a couple private instruction times for this next week on top of our normal class times just so we can get caught up. I am okay with that.
DeLaney had a play date last week. Her lil friend's mom and I don't totally agree on a lot of things but we agree not to hold that against the girls. Randy and I have to sit down every time that DeLaney is with that lil girl and explain some things to her that they do and why we don't. But I had to have some words with her friend's mom about men and kids and how she will NOT be poisning MY Daughter's head against her dad or any other man because she is having issues with her current hubby and is going through a divorce. The girls have one major thing in common concerning their dads. They both work on the road. And that is where the similarity ends. Randy is very logical and is a non practicing Lutheran that is slowly starting to go through my various religious and spiritual books and is questioning both my moms and myself on things. Laney's lil friend's dad is a fluff ball wiccan wonder. Randy makes a point in calling his kids and myself EVERY NIGHT he is on the road, even if it is for only one night he is gone. Laney's lil friend's dad doesn't even bother calling his daughter when he is gone and he is gone for 6 months to a year at a time for a job! Might only come home for the weekend once a month! When he is home he buys Laney's lil friend off and makes it a competition between him and his soon to be ex wife. Randy doesn't buy his kids' affection. He spends time with them even when he is tired!
Anyway the reason why I am so ReEnergized, we got invited down to the RiverFront Day's Dance Friday night by some of our friends! My parents took the kids for the night and over night so Randy and I could go out. Well Randy and my friend's ol man had to work the next day so they maintained. My friend and I said screw it! Her in laws had her kids over night, my parents had our kids over night, other friends that showed up managed to talk their parents into keeping their kids over night and we had a blast! We left our friend's house about 9:30 pm and went to go get gas. Where we laughed our assess off! Some chicy babe at the gas station was already ripped by quarter till 10! She ended up leaning out of a duel diesel big ass truck to blow chunks in front of the county cop no less! My girl then got hit on by that same county cop while paying for the gas!:P We went over to the Bottle Shop and got beer and ice for the cooler and toook a cruse down by the dance to see if anyone was there, NOPE! So then we headed down to the marina so we could see who was there.
We decieded to walk in and have a beer down at the Marina Bar. Nothing but out of staters, ppl from Omaha and the Bluffs, and ol ppl coming in from the river. The guys each had one beer. My girl and I don't like beer and knew that is what we were pretty much stuck drinking Friday night so we guzzled two down at the marina to get that nasty ass taste out of our mouth. Then we drove back up to the main street and hit the bar! The bar was jumping! We didn't get very far from the door it was so packed. But that is okay we had a grand blast (us girls) talking to everyone coming and going from the bar. Saw one of our friends' from higschool brothers there! That was a trip! He is older then my cousin who is older then my sister! And here he is trying to hang with the young bucks! Then we turned around to help out a friend of my friend who was being hit on by some drunk young buck straight out of highschool and saw "The Smurf and Torpedo Tits" from highschool! Two girls that are 4 years older then us and thought their shit didn't stink. Smurf is married to a guy from my brother's class who stands 6'3 and that bitch only stands 5'2! Talk about your odd couples! They weren't to happy seeing us there laughing at them! Especially knowing the fact we know they are two elementry school teachers and ten to one some of their school kids' parents were at the bar drinking up also! They stopped to talk to us because they knew we know more ppl than they did down there and Smurf's hubby was drunk off his ass really trying to talk to me about my brother! Our hubby's were just sitting at the bar trying not to go to sleep on us and chatting with various guys they knew or worked with off and on. I got Randy to do a Jager Bomb with me. We decieded it was time to hit the dance and the beer garden when one of our other friends FINALLY showed up!
So we get to the dance, and of course it is one of the local bands that ruines every fucking song they attempt to sing or play, so we went on out to the beer garden where we promptly ran back into our friend's brother. Laughed our asses off at our friends' ex sister in law who was getting rubbed up on by ol men and nasty looking men showing off her fake titties that she got in an attempt to keep his brother from divorcing her! Nobody would do a shot with me so I talked my friend's brother into doing one. Then I had some dude buy me another shot thinking I would go down with back to back shots with all that beer in me already, suprise. That fucker took two steps from the beer garden and went down hard! I laughed and went back to our group. My girls were laughign and said when are ppl going to realize that when you drink you drink! Randy was suprised at hell because he was trying to keep track of how much I was haivng because he has NEVER seen me drunk until Friday night!
All we did was talk, a couple of dances with our men, go to the bathroom,a nd drink! It was a blast! We walked out of the dance about 1 and straight into a line of county cops and town cops waiting for the drunks to stagger out. We lost my girl back in the dance cause she got to talking! Her ol man went back into get her and Randy and I sat outside and talked to the cops! I promptly took my shoes, my earings, and my necklace off. Oh by the way you should have seen me! I was looking HOT! I had short black figure hugging capries on, a pair of heeled black slip on sandles, a brand new yellow, orange, and balck halter type top that showed off the tat tats (which I promptly made sure to say loud enough to my girls ex sister in law were REAL and NOT fake when my girl said loud enough boy you sure have big tat tats to be holding that top up!-were bad and catty I know!) and I bought matching yellow big hooped earings and a black and yellow necklace to go with the outfit! We finally got going back to our friends' house when he found his wife and he chitted up the cops a lil bit. Thank GODS that the men were stone sober and just maintained their drinking while us girls got ripped!
We took back country roads home and that is where I fully admit to saying I lost my cookies! Mixing all thsoe shots with beer and then hitting back country roads so the guys could have a couple of beers on the way home. Up and down, curves up and down on bluff roads with two very drunk ppl in the car is not a mix to make! My girl was laughing her ass off at me and laughed even harder when I mangaded to say "Hell at least I am not blowing chunks! It is straight up booze and beer!" They guys were laughing just as hard because Randy still can't believe I was that drunk and I was still very coherant to remember everything! Well I got the last laugh Saturday at 8 am when my girl woke me up! She admitted to loosing her cookies after she went to bed at 2! I was flopped down on my bed at 1:30!
We felt bad and fully admit we own our men big time! They worked 12 hours Friday, came home and took us out to the dance and turned around and got up at 5am after going to bed at 2 am! My girl had to pick up her youngest at her inlaws by 9:30 and I had to go pick up my kids sometime in the morning from my parents. Well we did that and low and behold my parents took off with my kids! So we went to my house with her lil girl and while I was picking up they sat back and relaxed! I called my folks to find out when they were going to be home and after they got home, we grabbed my kids and headed back down to River Front Days!
We watched the parade and laughed our assess off at her brother in law's ex wife (the one with the fake tat tats!) because she thinks she is soooooooo cute and she cant' even wear decent clothes and her ass crack was showing all day. Me and my girl are big girls but we have some class and know how to show our curves off properally! And again we did. We kept getting hit on all day long! plus ppl were trying to steal my cowboy hat! Yes I was wearing a cowboy hat! A black straw one with a skull and cross bones on it! Our four kids know how to work parades, they all had huge bags of candy which we promptly put away after the parade in the van. Then we bought all 4 of them wrist bands to hit the street carnavale and let the 3 oldest go off by themselves while my girl took her lil girl around and I hit the store for bottles of water and motrin to work off our booze headaches!
It was great. Once I talked to a few ppl making my way back to my girla nd her lil girl, we found out the bar we were at last night was giving free BBQ Beef Sandwiches away from one of my girl's aunties. So we went in and loaded up for us and the kdis. Then her hubby showed up and let me know my ol man was home napping!:D We loaded her man up on a plate and made our way back through the carnaval! My kids and I finally made it home about 3:30, where Randy was sleeping on the couch! I set the kids up outside in their lil pool and the phone. Told them if they needed anything to come up to my room and wake me up and I promptly laid down on the bed for a tw hour nap!
Amazing what a weekend out will do for a person! Today after my Moms gets back with the rug rats from Mass, the kids and I are treating Pappo and Daddy out to a nice Brunch for Daddy's day.
Hope all the Dad's have a great Daddy's Day! Same with the single Mom's out there! Have a great Daddy's Day if you are also Daddy!:D
That being behind me now and just having completed my 2nd full week of training, I'm happy to say that I really do feel like things are falling into place. I had two solid workouts this week (Tues/Saturday) which you can see below, and felt more or less good & cruisy on the days in between. I was able to get a good session of hill drills in as well as two of core. I was still however pretty cautious in the hill drills, as I had been left rather sore by them the week before.
The only real hitch in the week, came on Tuesday when I was doing my 1st workout under Lorraine's supervision since returning from New Zealand, when I was the victim of a (I'll admit a minor) hit and run. I was doing 3 x mile repeats on the roads, with Lorraine following in the car. I was having a good go at it, which was surprising as I really felt sluggish during my warm up. I was about 200 - 300 meters into the last one, when I turned into the next street. Lorraine hadn't made it around the turn yet, as she likes to spot me 50 - 100 meters while in the car. There was a car right in front of me attempting to (I believe) park, when the car behind it decided to -instead of waiting- drive around it and thus eating up the remainder of road.
I was more or less pinned (not physically) between parked cars and this on coming car. It swerved at the last minute, but not before smashing my elbow with its rear view mirror. Their mirror broke, I was spun about 180 degrees, but because I was moving so fast at the time, didn't really break stride much. I looked back as they sped away and finally saw Lorraine making the turn. I didn't want to stop but it did cross my mind. I continued on and closed out that mile as my fastest. It was only afterwards, that I realized the extent of the damage, as my elbow got swollen and there was some blood.
I got several massages (thanks Harlan!) around my shoulder region, as it got pretty tight up there. My Elbow wasn't too bad, just swollen, so I was able to run the next day and the day after that. I still feel a bit of stiffness around my shoulder area, but it'll pass, as I'm getting worked on it daily.
So that's more or less my week. The weather has been great. I'm happy to report that I'm healthy (despite the car thing) and feeling quite optimistic about the near future. I turn 26 on Friday and have not really planned on celebrating it (in earnest) till after my races in Beijing (of course if all goes according to plan). I might head to California for a few weeks of sea level training before my 1st race. This won't be for another month or so. This will also hopefully allow me 4 more weeks up at elevation where I can put in a solid month before FINALY unleashing and seeing where I'm at. Below is the typical week break down.
Week (#38) February 24th - March 1st
Sunday: Distance: 16.50 miles @ 12:30PM (54 degrees), Pace: 6:21 Run Duration: 1h:45
Good hilly run starting @ home (5,500ft aprox) and climbing straight up for 45 - 50 mins to max elevation of 6,500+/- ft. Felt good but the hills were def tough!
Monday: Distance: 10.50 miles @ Hog backs + Red Rocks + Mt. Sanitas (hilly trail run) @ 4:30PM Pace: 6:28 Run Duration: 68mins. Another good hilly run, where I felt much more fluid than previous day.
Tuesday: AM: SLEEP IN!!! PM: Workout @ North Boulder. 3 x 1 mile Road Repeats. Terrain = Uphill, Flat, Downhill & Flat. Lorraine, Harlan & Jasmine followed in car. Avg pace = 4:33.67 Fastest: 4:28 (last one) Slowest: 4:37 (1st one) Distance: 11 miles total for day
Wednesday: Distance: 14.25 miles @ 8:20AM (38 degrees), Pace: 6:23. Didn't feel too great, but it could've been due to "run" in w/ car yesterday. Started out towards the big hills but turned around and kept it rather flat/boring.
Thursday: Distance: 6.00 miles + Hill Drills @ 8:25AM ( 50 degrees). P.M (5:30) 10 miles + Core Work @ Rally Sports Gym.
Friday: A.M 8:25 Distance: 4.50 miles. P.M 57 degrees @ 4:35 Distance: 11.50 miles PM, Pace: 6:16
Ran from the house straight uphill to Chautauqua Park. It was far too nice of a day not to go up up up high(er) above town and enjoy the views which would be my reward for the lung busting hill climbs. I climbed almost 1,000ft in about 15 - 20 mins of running.
Saturday: A.M 65 Degrees @ 10:15. Easy out & back on Creek Path. Distance: 8.00 miles
P.M: (75 degrees!) Workout @ Boulder High School: 12 x 400 meters (400m jog recovery) . With Lorraine & her friend Lynn there for support. Avg pace = 65.00, Range: 66 = slowest, 61 = fastest (last one). Picked up a cramp about 6 or 7 reps into it, but luckily it didn't get worst. Lorraine said I looked smooth and relaxed whole way. Break Down of the Miles: 4:25 = 1st mile (4 x 400m), 4:21 = 2nd mile & 4:14 = 3rd mile. Would've liked to "close" (meaning finish the workout) a lot faster w/ sub 60 last lap, but was pretty honest with effort and thus had little left to go much quicker. Total Mileage (for day): 20.75 miles
Week's Total Mileage: 105 (avg: 15.00 miles per day)
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Peace & Love
...that's enough to get us wasted before the night is over.
Okay so my weekend went alright...work was fine.
Then tonight my parents came home. Things were okay...until we were all done eating supper and my mom and sister left the table...leaving me there alone with my dad. Of course, (even though I didn't touch any of the food...dishes...etc that they all did since I didn't like it so I made something else), my dad tells me that I need to clean everything up. I said that I didn't even eat or have anything to do with what was still there. He started swearing and yelling at me. I just started to do it because I got sick of the yelling after five seconds and I just said okay I'll do it. He goes "Don't be a fucking smart ass...I can still punch you in the jaw if I want to." I didn't even say it snotty...I just said I would do it. I so badly wanted to say "Yeah and I can still call the police, I don't have to live here anymore." But I bit my tongue instead. I didn't want to get hit in the face again.
But yeah. Now I'm pised and I want to scream at the top of my lungs..hit something..snap.
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Tonight was the first night I got hit...and I got hit three times. Obviously not hard, because it's old people I'm working with, but one man hit me and it kind of hurt because he got my ribs. But oh well. I guess that's why it's called "SPECIAL CARE" ...because they have behavior problems. Oh well, I still love them because I know it's all their disease making them act this way.
Friday I was only supposed to work 4-9...but they switched it to 2-10...so that kind of sucks. But oh well.
I get to go to my cousin's house this weekend....and I'm really excited because I haven't seen her since January. We have sooooooo much to catch up on...there's a lot that's changed (boys/guys...job...friends...and just me in general), for me...and I know for sure so much has changed with her.
I also am going to go visit my great grandpa in the nursing home while I'm there because I haven't seen him since January either. I miss him...he always asked if I had any boyfriends, always had some way of making jokes that made the whole room laugh, and I just love him. I don't know if he'll last long, but he might outlast my grandpa...
Well, until other times....
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There is a time of year that insurance agents LOVE! Actually two!:D Spring and Fall. Simply because after these two seasons they can go and increase EVERYONE's premiums after the multiple occurances of deer suicide.
Many city folks have a hard time driving along state and county hiways in many states because of the many deer carcuases that sit along the rode side, bloated, distanted, and even desimated. With the guts and brains spread across the lanes of traffic. To those of us who live in these areas it is a normal occurance and we take the proper steps in protecting ourselves and our vechiles. Simply because sucidial deer run in herds. And they do literally jump in front of your cars and very few move once they see the headlights coming at them.
These suicidal deer can do a lot of damage to a vechile and can even kill a person. Even if you are in a big truck or a rig. Simply because if they are bounced up to the hood of the truck or rig, the hoofs and horns can shatter a windshield and puncture a person in the head, chest, or abdomin. Many of us make jokes about how suicidal deer can be because of how many liter our roadsides.
Just tonight I lost count of the carcuases of deer on a 30 minute drive south to my Pampered Chef party. I counted over 20 plus and just stopped. I was very leary driving home tonight even if I did have my hubby's Power Disel Ford F250 1/2 ton pick up w/ full grill gaurd. My friend lives 5 miles off a hiway on a S curve gravel road with a few hills; in that five miles I had to keep my speed about 15 miles an hour and tap on the breaks and horn 3 times due to the sucidal deer. Contrary to popular belief, big trucks can NOT stop on a dime like they claim in those stupid ass comericials! Once I hit the hiway it was worse and usualy is on bluff roads along rivers. And when you live in farming country it is ten times worse! On my half hour drive home from the party I laid on my horn up to 12 times, slammed on the brakes at least 4 times, and came to a complete stop for one herd of sucidial deer.
I figured I would hand out some country girl common sense driving tips for the Spring and Fall due to the herds of suicidal deer that feel the need to bound in front of your vechile:
1. Scan the road ahead of you a good mile to two miles at a time from side to side while constantly checking yoru mirrors for vechiles. Watch for anything moving on the sides of the road, in the road ahead of you and be prepaid to stop at any given time.
2. If the weather premits drive with your brights on and be courtous to other cars and dim them when needed. The brighter lights give you a wider area to watch while driving.
3. Do the dayum speed limit when in areas of heavy suicidal deer activity. The faster you go the faster your going to hit a deer. The slower you go the less likely your going to see any movement because you are too worried about watching........and bomb you have a deer crushing your vechile.
4. If possible make sure you have headlights that sit high up on your vehicle..........that way your not blinding the deer and scaring them into staying put and committing suicide.
5. If you can't have the headlights up high, feel free to try those lil gadgets sold to put on your vechile to make a high pitch sound to try and scare away the sucidal deer. They don't always work.
6. Always make sure your brakes and horn is in working order. Because you will be braking and if the sucidal deer insist on throwing themselves at your vechile, use your horn to wake them out of their suicidal state and get them moving.
7. Make sure your insurance is paid because unlike a stupid ass driver, deer do NOT have insurance and can not pay to have the damage to your car fixed if it is still fixable or driveable.
Good luck in your Spring driving this year and try to stay away from those suicidal deer if you can. If you can't hope you have good insurance!
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