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December 2nd, 2007

I was so tempted to post yesterday, but I forced myself to take a day off on principle.  What principle?  I have no idea.

My 10K yesterday was HARD.  The first half was fine, relatively flat, and I managed to pace myself fairly well since I knew the big hills were coming in the second half.   Still, they killed me.  These were some bad-ass hills, I know them well since they are right near my house (this was a race benefiting our local high school)  but I’ve never run them after already running three miles.  I ended up walking a bit on both big hills, but I didn’t feel too bad since just about everyone was walking.  I came in at 1:03:09 and I somehow ended up 4th in my age group, but that was only out of 8, so I’m not getting a big head over it.

We got our Christmas tree this weekend and decorated it tonight.  This is going to be quite a different experience from last Christmas when Ashok was only 3 months old and couldn’t get into any trouble.  After we put the ornaments up, he was so obsessed with all the ball shaped ornaments that he just stood in front of the tree for about twenty minutes, on his shaky little legs,  saying “ball, ball” over and over again.  I thought his head was going to explode.  We purposely put a few non-breakable ornaments lower on the tree so he could take them off and play with them.  I’m still trying to decide if that was a good idea or not.  Here he is making off with one of my many elephant ornaments:

We have a different sort of angel on top of our tree:

I figure if a Hindu is going to have a Christmas tree, it has to represent both cultures equally.  I tried to gently suggest a fake tree this year, but Mr. Christmas, a.k.a. my husband, can’t even fathom the thought of a plastic tree.  I guess Ashok will be eating pine needles for the next few weeks.  I guess he could use the roughage.

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