Bloggy funk updates

I'm in a serious blog funk. I just can't be bothered lately. With posting that is. I still love and enjoy reading everyone else's blogs but taking the time out of my day to create a post of my own? Yeah, not so much. My new found independence is getting in the way. With no kids around there's so much more I'd rather be doing. Sitting at the computer all day seems like a shameful waste of alone time.



So, here's some updates.



1. No news on Italy. I'm kinda thinking it isn't gonna happen. Papa Smurf hasn't pursued a conversation with his boss because he was busy all week playing catch up at work since our vacation. He says that he'll approach it by asking if an overseas assignment will help him advance in his career. If the answer is "no" then he won't pursue it. If the answer is "yes" then he'll take the Italy opportunity more seriously. My Italian language classes start this Monday and I'm SO geeked! We now have a group of 5 family members in on this class. It kind of snow balled.



2.Papa Smurf and I are now considering moving. Which is really kinda silly in this housing market. We went looking at houses last weekend for shits and giggles and now have the moving bug. We found our dream house.....for a mere 1.7 million dollars....*gasp*....just a smidge out of our price range. I think we've decided to spend the next year preparing our house to put on the market...sort of a "design to sell" period of time....with small upgrades and renovations. We'll see what happens. That's assuming this Italy thing doesn't happen, which, like I said, seems like a pipe dream at this point.



3. I finally made it to the Doc's yesterday. Remember this post? That was....like....a month ago. And, yeah, I'm still sick....as is hubby. Papa Smurf hit our neighbor (a doctor) up a few days ago for a prescription and I finally caved in and made a trip to my doctor. Turns out I have a sinus infection and bronchitis. Who knew?



4. I'm suppose to run 20 miles tomorrow.....TWENTY MILES......to.mor.row! Did I mention I have bronchitis? Yeah. Training for this marathon has been a HUGE problem lately. Totally struggling with getting in the miles.



5. First week of school has gone great. Smurflings are back into a routine....as am I. I like routine. Routine is good. I find I'm much more productive when I have a schedule. And no kids to clean up after. Or feed. Or referee. My first week of independence was spent on a home improvement project. Still have a few finishing touches to complete but should have photos and a post ready sometime early next week. I'm hoping to have it done for my first "Tackle it Tuesday" project in almost 3 months....I'm long overdue for a good tackle.



6. Oh yeah! And K, one of my favorite people IRL, has recently had a beautiful baby boy. She delivered 2 days before we left for our vacation...they were SUPPOSE to go on the trip with us until she went and got knocked up!....the nerve....=). And so....between that vacation and now being sick I have YET to meet their newest addition. You MUST go on over and check out the gorgeous photo shoot proofs she has posted. Amazing. And I get to hold that little bundle tomorrow! I can't wait to meet him!

And that's all for now.

Fitness Friday

Friday - Went scrapping with Kelly and ate like a pig at the crop. I have no will power. Who can resist free m&ms sitting right in front of you ALL. NIGHT. LONG...I mean COME ON!


Saturday - Spent all day in the car with Kelly driving to Indiana to get our puppy. No time for running.


Sunday -I deserve a DOUBLE pat on the back for today! Pat #1 - This morning I spent a couple hours at my parents' house to help put in a tile backsplash in their kitchen. I wanted to learn the ropes of tiling and wet sawing so I can do my own kitchen tile backsplash. My step-dad smokes and he smoked at least four cigarettes in the time I was there......and......although the devil on my shoulder was screaming ear piercing shouts directly into my ear canal.....I did NOT succumb to temptation. Yep...that's right...I made it through day #6 of "breathing free" while standing in the same room with someone smoking. I honestly can't believe it myself. It helps that I can't stand the smell of his smokes. He smokes Winstons and I'm a Marlboro woman..... sorry..... correction.... WAS a Marlboro woman!! =).

Pat #2 - Dropped the boys off at gymnastics this afternoon and then went to get my run in. Ran 6 miles. My GPS battery died before I even started so I had to wing the interval training. So, I ran for two songs and walked for one song. It felt so good that I ended up running the last 1.25 miles straight through. It's been a VERY long time since I've been able to do that.

Monday - Sore as hell!

Tuesday - Sore as hell!

Wednesday - No time to run. Chaperoned Deamy Smurf's field trip. Then brought boys to gymnastics and picked up Smurfette from SIL's house and then spent the afternoon trying to finish my FIL's Father's Day gift. I finished and ordered it at 11pm. One more monkey off my back!

Thursday - Ran 6 miles....and KICKED ASS! Was doing 1 mile run/2 minute walk intervals for the 1st 3.5 miles until a cop ruined my groove. You see, there are neon orange barricades and signs saying "TRAIL is CLOSED" scattered throughout the running trail as they (the powers that be) are repaving it. Those same signs were up on Sunday also but everyone was ignoring them. There were people everywhere. So the cop honked and pointed to the sign I had just ignored as if to say "Can you not read the neon orange sign that you just passed?" I couldn't turn around though because I was already more than 1/2 way into the trail loop....turning around and backtracking was going to add an additional mile onto my planned 6 miles...HELL no! So I asked the guy if I could just run beside the paved trail on the grass. Well, let me tell you.....running on grass is far harder than running on pavement. I don't know why. Maybe it was just me or all in my head. But I. WAS. DIEING! So I had to take a few extra walk breaks. BUT I still finished the 6 miles in 1:13 with a 12:14 average pace. Which is slow as hell by running standards but kick ass for me at this point in my training! I'm very happy that the running endurance seems to be coming back a lot quicker this time around. It took me forever to increase my intervals last year.


So here I am for fitness Friday. The bad news is Weight watchers did NOT go well this week. I'm bad. I didn't even make it for 24 hours. I didn't stick to the point system AT ALL. I have no will power.


I.Love.food.


So...the bad news is I weighed in this morning at the exact weight as last week...145 lbs. UGH!

But, the good news is, I HAVEN'T HAD A SMOKE IN ELEVEN DAYS!!! WOOOOOOOO!!!


I haven't smoked in 11 days and I haven't gained weight in the process. That's quite an accomplishment for me so I'll give myself a break on the weight watchers thing. I'm gonna keep trying to get back onto the WW....we'll see.

*edited to add....I typed this up last night and was feeling particularly up tight and overwhelmed by my to-do list and, in a moment of weakness, I ended up driving up to the store and buying a pack of cigarettes. I had 2. I'm disappointed in my self but will climb back on the wagon today. =(

* also gotta add that I have NO idea what is up with the font size problems in this post...I've tried fixing it several times and it won't fix. I'm done.