Ups and downs

So my life is full of ups and downs lately. Friday night sucked. Saturday was alright and today was pretty good. I ran 4 miles today without stopping in a little under 40 mins, and I could actally breathe and actually didn't walk up the hills. So that was a big accomplishment for me. I'm really not sure how the heck I'm going to run in the summer, I guess early morning or late at night. It was in the 80's today and a few times I thought I may just have a heat stroke. My 5k is in 2 weeks and I think I'll be pretty prepared for it. I always have heard people say running is addicting and never understood it until now, it really is addicting. I guess it's the feeling of accomplishment and knowing how far I've come from where I started. I keep telling Julie that one day surely we will be thinking "Remember back when we thought a 5k was hard?" This is a pic of me and my friend Julie who talked me into this 5k deal. We had to work on Saturday and it was child seat safety day...we saw this tiger outside and hightailed it to the lobby so we could get a picture with him. Yes it was a slow day.

Friday night went to Jose's house, Jason's friend from work. They have this new puppy, London, she is stinkin adorable. She was the highlight of my Friday night. I have a 3 day work week this week which is nice. But it's a busy 3 days. They created a new theft team at work and I put in for it and was chosen. So I start that next Monday. I'm excited, the manager I'll be working for rocks. And I have a really good team. I'll be handling only thefts, vandalism, and mysterious disappearance claims. I'm looking forward to a break from water losses and back up of sewer losses, they are a pain. So I'll get to focus on learning investigative skills and work closely with SIU which will be cool. Thursday Julie and I are going to Springfield, MO for a craft weekend. And I can't wait to meet my favorite scrapbook product designer (although she doesn't do that anymore) Elsie Flannigan. Her style is different and I'm totally psyched to get to go to her store and tour her studio. And Saturday is National Scrapbooking Day, hello good deals at the scrapbook store there! Can't wait! I'm hoping to come back with some cool projects completed. I'll be taking lots of pics. And I'm counting down the days until my girls visit in May with Missy and Laura!

Happy Easter!

Happy Easter everyone! It's a quiet day here...not doing too much. I woke up with a migraine from hell but it finally quit around 11 so got up and cleaned. I finally made it all the way around the lake without stopping yesterday...1.7 miles. My legs are pretty darn sore today! But I was so proud of myself! :) I have slightly less than 4 more weeks until my 5K...and by then I may actually be able to make it the whole time running.

Saw Adventureland yesterday...freaking hilarious!!! I heart Ryan Reynolds.

Pic from the Nickelback concert last week in Kansas City....they were SO much better than when they opened for Bon Jovi. It was a really good show.

Pics from the scrapbooking weekend...killing time in the hotel bar on Friday night. The bartender made some darn good fuzzy navels!

All packed

I had to get all my stuff packed up today for my scrapbooking weekend in Chicago with Lisa and Nicole. It took me 3 hours! I wanted to pack light....and realized I have a ton of stuff. I think I got it pretty well organized though. So last night I watched Twilight...not real sure what the obsession with this is, I thought the movie was pretty terrible and that guy was really weird looking. Didn't do too much else this weekend, worked a little on Saturday. Watched basketball...I was actually in 2nd place for our work bracket but after Pittsburgh and Louisville lost this weekend I'm definitely out of that spot. I'm looking forward to a girl's weekend, girl time and scrapbooking is a great combination!

Projects

Finally got the garage in some sort of order and can actually get a car parked in it now! Too bad this wasn't accomplished before the past winter, I could've avoided a lot of scraping.

My scrapbook project last weekend....a fun little lunchbox

I'm saying goodbye to my Pebble phone after 5 years together. Caylea's phone died, so she inherited the Pebble and I got a Blackberry. It was nice having a phone that not everyone else had. Caylea loves it though!

OMG so excited

Wallprint

Wallprint

I just placed an order on Red Velvet Art. One of the owner's is Elsie Flannigan, who used to make all my favorite scrapbook paper but she no longer does. Her store is in Springfield, MO. And I just made an order online and can't wait to get my new fun stuff! I love her art and style.

Productive Sunday

So yesterday I worked and came home and made myself run, then bought Zack and Miri Make a Porno on demand. It was pretty funny! Today got up, cleaned the house, ran 2 miles (not all at once) and am now trying to get my scrapbook room organized because it's gotten a little piled up. Here's where Jazzie was hiding while I cleaned.

Cleaning stresses her completely out!

Look what I found

So I was finally going thru all the stuff that landed in the garage and trying to make room to put an actual car in there instead, and found this little blast from my past. Yes it's my MC Hammer concert ticket and button. 1990. $21.50. Can't believe I still have this.

Caylea's been doing the yearbook club at school and I now have to fight for my camera. She's taken some pretty cool pics, I really like this one she took looking up into a lamp.

And this one of the water running

Jazz got a stuffed purse for Valentine's Day

And Magnus decided he wanted it...

Magnus won

Somehow I found myself getting talked into running a 5k with a group from work. Why did I agree to that, I don't know. I got up this morning and made it a mile without stopping, it was painful. Getting up in the morning to do it again except running outside this time instead of my treadmill , not looking forward to that at all. I've got until May to work up to running 3 miles. We'll see how that goes!