Archive for November, 2007
I did it! I can scarcely believe it. I managed to blog very day in November with only limited cop-out posts. (Of course, if that Whole Foods hadn’t opened a couple of weeks ago, I probably would have been really short on material.) Anyway, it is done and I am glad to say I think NaBloPoMo has renewed my interest in this blog. I may not post every day, but I will definitely try and do more than the once a month pattern I was on before this started up.
I have a 10K tomorrow morning about half a mile from my house. Unfortunately, there are going to be some killer hills and it is pouring down rain here today, so we’ll see how it goes. I don’t begrudge the rain though, don’t get me wrong. I think I can count the number of rainy days since Ashok was born on two hands and we need it so desperately here in Southern California. Not to mention how nice it is to sit here and hear the rain coming down outside while Ashok naps upstairs. Lovely, all I need is a cup of tea and a scone and my day is complete.
So, I probably won’t post tomorrow, but I’ll try and be back with a race report on Sunday. Going to try and keep the momentum going…
November 30th, 2007
Seen last night at Whole Foods on their comments board:
I believe this was intended as a compliment.
November 29th, 2007
(Yes, I am posting twice today. Check me out!)
Dear Whole Foods,
Remember when I made fun of you for selling custom butters? I may have said something callous like, “who needs that?” or I may have used the word “wacky.”
What a fool I have been. Roasted Garlic Butter is a beautiful, kind and generous thing. Especially on warm bread, straight from the oven. Also good on paper towels and fabric softener sheets. Or so I hear.
Thank you, from the bottom of my heart,
Shalini
November 28th, 2007
So, last night’s rehearsal actually ended up like this:
- Drive 45 minutes
- Get to hall, stand around for 45 minutes
- Play for 15 minutes
- Drive home, 45 minutes
Fun. Our conductor is not great with time management.
All this week, due to the aforementioned rehearsals and the concerts that will follow, I will be getting home around 11:30pm and tossing myself into bed close to midnight. Ashok usually wakes up around 5:30-5:45 a.m. so weeks like this can become truly painful, but he slept until 6:45 this morning, god bless him. Not that I didn’t love him a bunch before, but I think a love him a little extra today.
November 28th, 2007
It’s 6:30 pm, Ashok is throwing a mini-tantrum because I won’t let him bite me or pull the cat’s tail, I’m nauseated from eating too much leftover pizza for lunch and I have to leave in 90 minutes to drive 45 minutes to play a 60 minute rehearsal and drive 45 minutes home.
Only 3 more days of NaBloPoMo. I think I’m going to make it
November 27th, 2007
Recent internet searches that have led people to Run, Lucy, Run:
little pink house baby pictures
boy-cut haircut
how much mileage before you run a half marathon
out running cop (?)
cracker barrell thanksgiving stuffing
Macaroni & Cheese Casserole
whole foods thanksgiving
And my personal favorites:
If my dog eats a whole pumpkin pie will she get sick?
fear of basketballs
November 26th, 2007
Well, that’s not true…one pie too many, possibly. Damn, those Chocolate Pecan Pies were incredible but we could have just ordered one and been fine until Christmas. Last night, we had our traditional post-Thanksgiving Tofurkey meal (shut up-it’s good!) complete with stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy. We always end up doing this since we don’t ever make the big Thanksgiving meal ourselves and consequently never have leftovers. So, I always wake up on Friday craving stuffing and at some point we make a gigantic meal. Brian is a vegetarian, so Tofurkey is our non-meat of choice. And then we have pie. OH GOD NO MORE PIE. Well, maybe a little…
This morning I ran my longest distance ever-6.2 miles. I have a couple of 10K’s in the next few weeks so I wanted to see how that distance would feel. I managed to get in under an hour (57:29) so I was happy. Next Saturday’s race will be hilly so I probably won’t be quite that fast but the following Saturday I’m going to do a 10K in Santa Monica that will be pretty flat so that should be a better indicator of my time. Perhaps a 10K a week will burn off all this pie? I doubt it.
November 25th, 2007
Friday night dinner at La Cabanita:
November 24th, 2007
It’s true. NaBloPoMo almost destroyed my Thanksgiving. Yesterday morning, after putting our mac & cheese into the oven to bake, Brian ran upstairs to take a shower leaving me with instructions to check on it once the timer went off. Sure, I said, and sat down at my computer to start sifting through the hundreds of unread blogs in my Bloglines account. You see, this posting every day business, which has been taken up by so many of the bloggers I read, puts quite a strain on the ol’ Bloglines so I try to get through as many as I can when I have a few minutes to sit down. Ashok was sleeping, I was dressed and ready to leave for the family dinner. What else was there to do?
Thirty minutes later, Brian came screaming down the stairs, asking me loudly exactly what it was that I was doing. I snapped out of my internet-induced stupor, ran out to the living room and found most of the downstairs full of smoke. Not only had I not heard that timer at all, the mac & cheese had bubbled over, dripping onto the bottom of the oven, the drippings burned, etc, etc. Luckily, the mac & cheese was fine (actually, it was great-we polished the leftovers off today) but I am still responsible for cleaning the oven.
My next ditz move happened soon thereafter and unfortunately, I can’t blame this one on an internet phenomenon. We got out to my sister-in-law’s house in Riverside and as we were unloading Ashok and the food out of the car, Brian said, “Oh, don’t forget your keys.” They were sitting on top of the car, I always put them there when taking Ashok in and out of the car to avoid leaving them inside the car and somehow inadvertently locking him inside (not that that’s ever happened….). I stopped and stared at them for a moment, trying to comprehend how they got there and just then Brian realized, “Have they been up there since we left home?” Uh, yes. I put my keys on top of the car outside our house and since Brian drove and we used his keys, I never noticed that I didn’t have them. 60 minutes and 4 freeways later, they were still there. Unbelievable. Somehow they got wedged into a groove in the top of the car and never got dislodged. Now there’s something to be thankful for.
November 23rd, 2007
I made it out this morning and made my best 5K race time so far! My watch time was 26:55 and clock time was 27:09. Not as fast as my training run on Monday, but I was very happy. This was a fun race for a good cause and pretty well organized. There were a ton more people there than I expected and there were plenty of folks running with dogs, so I think next year I will do it with Lucy. Overall, a fun race and now I can go pig out unabashedly.
We’re off to Thanksgiving celebrations soon so I have to go get cleaned up. Happy Thanksgiving!
November 22nd, 2007
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