Highlander Grog...

Hold on I am going to gets me some coffee.  brb.  Oh, and I will be drinking Higlander Grog today too.  :)  errrrr, that is the name of the coffee, not some ale made in the land of Hobbits and Dwarves...

I really do not have much to talk about, but man I am in a pretty good mood.  I swear for the last week, I feel I have turned a corner somehow.  Everything seems to be good.  I had a fun day yesterday.  Lisa is off on Mondays, and she had a case of the lazys, which I did too when I got home.  We just sat around, and putzed around.  We are making plans in our head of our house.  Summer bedroom downstairs, and winter bedroom upstairs type plans.  Thinking of buying a new bed for next year.  Also assuming Jasmine will pass on.  She is old, and not in the best of health, and she sleeps in our bed, and she cannot go downstairs.  She is a good puppy though.  :)  I love labs, and will always have a lab.  :)    Hope can go blow.  She is an ass face.  :)

Tonight starts my Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday runs.  I am excited about that.  Tonight will be challenging too, because it is going to be above 90 degrees, and we will be running just under 7 miles.  In cool weather I can run, and barely drink any water.  On this run, I will have to drop water somewhere, because I don't think my water bottle will suffice.  Weather...

Sometimes life is so busy we miss the best parts, and I don't think we are missing them.  Now that is a pretty good gift I'd say. 

That is it for today!!!   :)

Thanks for reading!!!   :)

Hope Everyone has  a Great and Awesome Day!!!   :)

xo's!!!   :)

Love You All!!!    :)))

p.s.  well I thought for like 5 minutes, and I gots no ps.  booooooooooooooo.  

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Struggle...

Okay this blog entry may be a struggle, becuz I gots nothing on my mind really.  I am going to gets me a coffee though, and I will brb.  :)

Well, I am a runner training for a marathon, so I guess I can give you my plan of attack.  When training for a marathon you definitely want to show up on race day healthy.  I have had struggles with that lately so I am building conservatively.  I was always in such a hurry to get my long runs up to 15+ miles, and I realize there is no need.  I am planning on not hitting the 15+ mile target until August.  That gives me from now through July to just run 10-13 milers as my long run.  That will give me a good base, the jump in August won't be a big deal, and then the other jump in September shouldn't be either.  I am also placing a lot of importance on my Tues, Wed, Thursday night runs.  It is a big stretch of run days after work, with a good amount of miles.  I consider those 3 days to be a long run in themselves so to speak. 

My peak running weeks in September will probably only be around 50 miles, but always add like another 25 miles of walking on concrete.  So there, that is the plan. 

In other news there is no news.  Today is a Monday, and I am taking a day off of running.  Once again, I feel okay to run, but taking the day off to be ready for my next Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday stretch.  I like my plan, and I bought into it so to speak.  Monday is my grocery shop day, which I do after work.  Lisa already bought stuff for meals I think, so I just have to pick up some fruit and lunch stuff, and maybe stuff for tacos tonight.  :)

Every day is something new, so let's see what happens today. 

That is it for today!!!   :)

Thanks for reading!!!    :)

Hope Everyone has a Great and Awesome Day!!!   :)

xo's!!!   :)

Love You All!!!    :)))

p.s.  I am not talking about baseball today.   :)  fricken SOX

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Long Run Sunday...

I like the ring of it.  Long runs make me tired, and when I did my long run Saturdays, I was beat all of Saturday.  Now I can be tired on Sunday, and that makes sense to me.  Lisa and I are going to see a movie this afternoon anyway, and maybe go out to lunch. 

I was looking around our house yesterday, and man it seems so fricken big.  What do people do with mansions??   and why???   Lisa and I cannot possibly use all this space.  It is a small house too.  We have some dude who built a 9 million room house down the street from us, and it is just a summer home.  He did nothing to get all his money, but him and his wife's parents were rich.  So this dude was rich, and he thought he was smart, and he tried to be our Governor.  Ummm, everyone realized at the debates he was dumb, and got killed.  Lost to the incumbent in a bad Economy.  She was from Canada too I think.  :)  Wealth don't make you smart, and really many times it is just dumb luck. 

So anyway, not a lot on my mind.  I think I will get some coffee, and maybe something will come up.  Hold on.  :) 

Well something I was thinking about is this blog has been going on a while, and I have been blogging a while.  It isn't hard to get to know me I guess huh??  I show a lot of myself I think.  Anger, happiness, sillyness, sadness, whatever pops up.  I remember in my College days always thinking I had to appear happy, and be the fun guy.  I don't really have anything holding me to that anymore do I??  Like I am all growed up.  :)  

I have been through a lot of things, and I have showed you a lot of things, and not all things were visible to the eye.  This thing even gets a bit whacky too.  Remember how things happen, and I am like what???   What the heck was that, and then I can figure it out later.  Some of those weird things. 

Anyway, I guess what I do with this thing is build up trust and confidence, because that is what we need.  :)

That is it for today!!!    :)

Thanks for reading!!!   :)

Hope Everyone has a Great and Awesome Day!!!   :)

xo's!!!    :)

Love You All!!!   :)

p.s.  yahoo sports has run differential on their Baseball standings.  Sox up 35 or so.  :)

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A Quickie...

Blog update... you crazy people.  :)  Not a lot on my mind, and I have to run to work.  I wanna try to get there at 5:00 am, and I have to take a shower.  First things first though... gonna get some coffee.  I will brb.  :)

I decided Friday is kinda a free day.  I was definitely ready for a day off from running.  My legs were dead.  I can always tell how they are when I am walking at work.  Ummm, they were dead.  :)   Saturday is also a free day.  Nothing structured.  I just have to get some type of run in.  Today will be a run to work and back, and somedays it might just be a 3 miler or so. 

So all I did on this Friday, was have a Friday = Friday.  I cooked myself a nice meal.  Forgot to eat my potato.  :)   I went to bed/ passed out really early.  Lisa worked til close.  It is hot, and going to be hot this weekend, so I put the room air conditioner on.  Oh, and our house now is just to Lisa and I.  :)  Hailey's friend Christy??  sp??   moved out, her brother helped.  So yeah, I guess we are going through changes here too.  All good.  :)

Not really much to this blog entry I know, and sometimes that is fine anyway right??   I think so. 

That is it for today!!!   :)

Thanks for reading!!!   :)

Hope Everyone has a Great and Awesome Day!!!   :)

xo's!!!    :)

Love You All!!!    :)))

p.s.  I am not talking about baseball.  Damn SOX!!!   >: /

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Morning All. :)

Hello, how are we all doing??  Good I hope.  I feel a bit tired, and God only knows what I am doing up at this hour, but I am going to get a cup of coffee, and I will brb.  :)

I got this new coffee I purchased at the Local Lumberyard called Highlander Grog.  It is good.  :)  It was on sale this week for $4.99/ bag.  I also bought some other kind, but this is the one I tried first.  It must have a little chocolate flavor to it or something, becuz, it is really good.  :D 

I am on my 2nd week of running Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday night.  This 3 day stretch ended up being around 19 miles, and I feel like I am in a good mental state for training.  Like it hasn't been there in a while.  Where does that go??  I think it has been a couple years where I have had this fire.  I couldn't even tell you why it was missing.  I am not going to re-read this dumb ass blog to figure it out either.  I tell you that.   :)

I do this a lot, this blogging thing, and I don't always know how what I write will be taken.  I tell you though, I think yesterday was one of my favorite posts ever.  I had a feeling the whole day it was a good one.  Like no one would misinterpret it.  I didn't have any part of the day where I was thinking oh do people Hate me because I wrote this... etc...  Part of the scary part of doing this.  I have always had it too, although you might not realize it.  I write this stuff early, and feel pretty good about it, and boom.  As the day goes on I think well, what if people think this, or that, etc...  Or THIS??   Oh God, everyone hates me.   :)   That is how this shit goes believe it or not.  That is why I support bloggers a lot I guess, because feedback let's people know, yeah I get you, and what you said makes sense, and all that kinda stuff. 

Like I said before if you take your shell off, and let people see the real you, then your defenses are gone.  Without support, you'll just think people hate you.  As we keep doing this thing called life, I have a feeling we all are getting a little better at being more understanding, and a little less judgeful. 

As we all become less judgeful, we become better people, and people become more confident at taking our shell off.  All that is a Journey.  It takes time, and the path has to be set, because it takes confidence to take off our shell, and it takes trust, and maybe that is what we have been building for a while, and we didn't even know it.  :)   Life has a way of leading us.  Like I said before the puller of the strings of life knows what he is doing.  :)

Seems things are going pretty good.   :)

That is it for today!!!    :)

Thanks for reading!!!    :)

Hope Everyone has a Great and Awesome Day!!!    :)

xo's!!!    :)

Love You All!!!    :)))

p.s.  Got nothing for a p.s.  Oh well, guess I can always put one of these.  xoxo   :)

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More Changes...

Hold on, I am going to get me some coffee...  Well, as you may know, I had a little problem with the living arrangements here.  Hailey, had boyfriend.  Hailey wanted boyfriend to live here I guess.  Boyfriend doesn't show any initiative to get a job, Ughhhh, not in this house.  So she made a decision to go live with the other side of her family.  The Dad's side.  I view it as a plus plus.  They both need to grow up, and start doing life stuff you know??  Cannot cling to Mom forever.  At 21 and 22, you have to act older than 12.  At 12 I know we all knew everything, or were pretty close.  By 21-22 people should be asking questions, and doing stuff you would think.  Can't do nothing your whole life right??

So they are gone.  Living in poor living arrangements to find their way on this thing called life.  At some point in time you have to let people make their own mistakes.  We've all done it.  Hit their own bottoms you know??   to find your way out.  Also a plus on Hailey being over there is there is health problems on 3 people there.  One will be dying of Cancer pretty quickly, and the Grandmother and her husband are having really bad Diabetes issues.  Foot sore issues and stuff, so you know the circulation is real bad.  I always have faith in the direction people go, because I feel life has a way of teaching you, and of guiding you.  There are hard days, and hard sections of life, but I feel, (know) they can be used for good and for a reason.  Like I said in many ways our Journeys are solo.  The scales of justice don't have Hitler on one side to make you look favorable.  The scales of justice are just about you.  Throughout life we all fail. 

As this goes on, Lisa and I are pretty excited though.  This house seems so fricken big now.  :)  4 bedrooms, and Lisa and I sleep in one.  :)   Hailey's friend might be moving back home too, because the problem brother I guess has decided he should probably grow up, and do the j-o-b thing, and quit being an ass to his family.  You know even the roughest seeming characters have feelings, and probably wish they weren't always a burden and an ass. 

So life goes on.  It isn't always peaches and cream.  No matter all your plans and all your schemes, shit happens, and ugly crap pops up here and there.  I mean we cannot pretend there aren't wars, and bank fees, and late charges, and taxes, and bailouts, and crimes are committed, and on and on and on.  Life goes on, and stuff happens.  Even Khien had to learn some things of life so he could escape his jail, while imprisoned by the North Vietnamese.  He then came to a little town in Illinois.  Bloomington/Normal.  He taught me there is honor in being the best in the world at just stripping and waxing floors.  :)

We should not strive to be the richest, but maybe strive to be the best... at whatever we do. 

That is it for today!!!    :)

Thanks for reading!!!    :)

Hope Everyone has a Great and Awesome Day!!!   :)

xo's!!!    :)

Love You All!!!    :)

p.s.  Gave it my all on speed work last night.  My last up, my quads had no pick up at all.  They could not go any faster.  Spent.  With warm ups and cool downs it would have been 9 miles give or take, but I walked the last mile.  Legs spent.   Running again tonight.  :)   Embracing the hard stuff.  :)

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One Thing I Know...

So yesterday was just another day.  Not much going on.  I had to work.  I biked to work and back.  I was running that evening, and I was pretty excited about it.  Mentally I feel I am in a better spot than where I have been in a while.  You know my blog is called the wait, so maybe it is a good thing to keep going.  Do you sometimes just think you have woken up from a period of time with a cleaner, clearer view of life??  That is how I feel.

Now yesterday was a gorgeous day, and I doubt there will be many any better.  Not too hot,  a nice breeze, and full sun.  Some guy who has run with our group here and there, and is my speed many times.  During speed work he'd run with whoever else I was running with, he lost his Dad yesterday morning.   The one thing I know is he could not enjoy that day.  No run was going to help him feel better, and now I know he has at least one full year of some hard times ahead.  There will be times where a song will hit him, and the memories will come flowing.  I thought about that at break at work...  Doesn't it suck that life is full of that crap??

I was thinking too on my ride home, that this is just a great day, and he won't enjoy it.  I think that is one of the things of life.  We get all giddy over ourselves from all these best laid plans we make, and you know life still happens.  You've done everything right in your own mind.  You think you have created this great life, and what happens if one day you wake up, and your world just crumbled.  How do you deal then??  Some people are so private, and it drives me bonkers sometimes.  Like God forbid if someone didn't think I am as fabulous as I think they think I am.

Even our view of how we think people think we are is flawed.  Like I have said before, we ain't that fucking great.  If you are in some kind of idol worship thing then that is flawed too.  We all have the same ending, and no matter how high you rise in society you will end in the same place as the fabulous.  In that way life is very much about us. 

Oh well, just some thoughts about stuff.  :)

That is it for today!!!    :)

Thanks for reading!!!    :)

Hope Everyone has a Great and Awesome Day!!!    :)

xo's!!!   :)

Love You All!!!   :)))

p.s.  I am fricken hungry.  When I run, I eat like a fricken rabbit after for some reason.  When I bike I can't eat enough.  I suspect most are like that.  

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