Productive and lazy weekend

Gotta love it when the weekend was productive and lazy at the same time! So Friday I left work around 2 and went to Kohl's to look for something, I forgot what it was exactly....didn't find it but did find a pair of shoes I loved. Had to get them in black and brown.

My attempt at fall decorating. I'm loving the wreath.

Who knew Target had so many choices of fun vase fillers, like these cherries.

Got home from Target and running today around noon and found Caylea passed out cold. Went out and mowed, came back in and she's still crashed. I finally had to wake her up at 5!

This girl is growing up way too fast. She's starting to raid my closet. She's eyeing some of my shirts I don't even have the tags off of yet.

So Friday morning Magnus woke me up around 5am to go outside, he never does that. So he was having some issues. I didn't think anything about it really. Until I got home after work and found that he really needed to go out again at some time during the day. That was not what I had anticipated coming home to. And of course...out of carpet cleaner. A quick trip to the store and a bottle of Resolve pet stain remover and Hot Spot carpet cleaner did the trick. Those products are amazing.

So then I settled in and caught up on a few shows I had dvr'd, Grey's mainly. Saturday I got up, went and ran then came home and did some laundry. Proceeded to spend the entire rest of the day catching up on all my other dvr'd shows. Anybody watch FlashForward? I thought it was pretty good. Decided to order Crank 2 on demand. Yep, just as terrible as the first one. But I watch anything with Jason Statham in it. Finished the first season of True Blood from Netflix and the 5th season of Sex and the City. So basically I sat in front of the TV from 11am until midnight. It was great. I did manage to get all the laundry done in there as well. Tried to get Jazz into her new costume, she was having none of it. It's a banana and if I can get her to hold still long enough to get it on I'll take pictures.

Today went to Target this morning looking for a shoe rack. Stopped by the trail on my way home to get a quick run in. Felt good because I ran the whole time but felt like I was crawling. My right calf is constantly tight. I gotta get better at stretching. Came home and found Caylea crashed (see above) and went and mowed, and broke out the weedeater which I hadn't done in a few weeks. The yard looks so much better now and glad I just did it instead of procrastinating all week. Organized the tupperware cabinet, under the sink cabinet, put together a shoe rack (for the new shoes) and made Caylea's night by ordering pizza then sitting down to watch the dvr'd episodes of America's Next Top Model. I realized I have dvr'd a lot of shows!

Being taken for a run

So this weekend I became convinced that Jazzie has fleas. So after catching her up on her flea medicine I became a little obsessed making sure these nasty things weren't in my house. I spent more time with the vacuum this weekend than I would ever like to spend again. And I discovered the best way to get a forearm workout is to buy a canister of insanely expensive de-flea stuff (which smells like oranges in an overwhelming way) for the bedding and furniture. I covered pretty much everything I own in the stuff and I can barely move my forearm today.

When I wasn't doing piles of laundry I was being completely lazy and watching marathons of Sex and the City and True Blood.

I had taken 5 days off of running because I had worked late a few nights last week, was too darn tired from cleaning and in general just feeling lazy. I knew I needed to run today but really didn't want to. I came home from work and had a very large emotional breakdown (partly because I'm feeling sick) and then told myself I had to snap out of it. I looked at Jazz and thought "well I'll take her for a little jog and at least get a little run in" thinking this would be pretty leisurely and mostly walking.

Wrong. That dog ran me into the ground. She runs fast and so we took off. I wish I would've worn my watch because I am pretty sure I set a new record for myself. She ran for 3 miles. I haven't so much as taken this dog for a walk in weeks and she ran for 3 freaking miles. About halfway into it 2 little girls saw me and asked me if my puppy was nice. "Why yes she is nice, why don't we stop running and you can pet her." Thank goodness I could take a little break! Funny thing was later we were still running quite fast and I realized I wasn't dying and actually felt great. But I think Jazz and I were both glad when we made it to the front door. It was a nice little pick me up getting a good run in after losing it.

Tomorrow night I'm having dinner with my old boss and friend who are here for some training, can't wait to catch up with them! I've been really missing friends lately so it's nice to have some familiar faces around. I'm officially exhausted after having a very low low followed by a very high high tonight. So I'm off to crash in my flea free bed with my flea free dog.

5k pics

Some pics from the Jefferson City 5k, I'm #225

Notice how my foot looks like I'm landing on the very outside edge of my foot? I just noticed that, not sure if that's normal for me but doesn't look like it's a good thing to do. I'm doing it in both pictures, so my guess is it's a common thing for me. I'm doing it on the foot that gives me trouble with plantar fasciatis so maybe I'm trying not to cause myself pain, I don't know.

I don't know this happy guy but this picture gives you a decent view of that monster hill that we had to run up first....the one that about did me in. Nice downhill to the finish line though.

In front of the Capital building getting ready to start the run. My runs have been so much better now that the weather has cooled down a little bit.