Hey, do you run?

You'd never know it by reading my blog huh? Have I mentioned that I'm running a lot these days? Did you know that I'm running the San Deigo Marathon?
Seriously though, I'm still running, well, not right this second. Marathon training is technically still going on even though the day of reckoning is Sunday. I wish that I could say that I felt good about how this was going to go. In fact, 3 weeks ago I would have say this is going to be easy but everything has really changed of late. My longest run was 3 Saturday's ago and led me on a 20 mile tour. Took me under 3 hours which is good and I felt pretty good when I was done, except for a minor twinge in my knee. Well of course, I didn't listen to my body and easy off, I just kept going with my schedule, which even though it was tailing off, was still requiring me to run 20 some miles the next week. So my knee pain never got better it just started to get slightly worse every time I ran. It reached the boiling point on Saturday of last week as I was about 4 1/4 miles into an 8 mile run when I just couldn't run anymore. I stopped, stretched, and started running again. 10 steps later, I was stopped again. Figuring I should push it with the marathon so close, I started walking, an hour and 1/2 later, I was home. I immediately grabbed the Advil and a bag of ice and I've been icing ever since. In fact, the ice on my knee right now is melting onto the chair......I need to grab a towel.
What have I learned from this? I'm getting old! No seriously, I need to listen to my body. Hopefully things go well on Sunday and I survive. If not and they have to put me down like Eight Belles at the Derby, I'll make sure Chris knows the login so she can keep the blog going.

Another stint as the wheelman

You know what moving means to me? Basically that I get to spend a ton of time behind the wheel of a U haul. This time wasn't quite as bad as when we moved down here. That was an terrifying adventure where we rented the biggest truck they had, which had me riding at the same height as truckers. Nothing like crossing the Mojave desert with everything you own in the back of truck and having a gust of wind catch the truck and push you onto the shoulder at 55mph! That even got Wilson's heart racing.
Since we only moved 5 miles south, we just rented the 17 foot truck for the day, took 3 trips, drove 54 miles total in it, and paid about 80 bucks. All in all, it was quite easy. If you are ever looking for an easy deal and you're not moving far, U haul's daily rental is definitely a good choice!

Is this Irony?

How many posts have I began with an apology? Off the top of my head, I think 2....that's too many and I'm sorry. I hate that it's been this long but man, life has been so busy these past couple of weeks. So we'll play catch up.

As you know from 2 posts ago we got the house. We're so excited, this is great. It feels good that every month when we write that check, it actually goes towards something rather than flushing our money down the toilet. Renting was great, we've done it for so long. It's easy in, easy out, great locations small spaces, I mean come on. We've lived in some great places. But this feels different, now we actually get something from this and can finally do work. Since I'm the oldest child I was immediately awarded the dubious duty of assisting on every job that my father did on our house. So I've done everything from repair Lacrosse ball sized holes in walls, putting up wallpaper, fixing doors that were kicked in when locked out and many other jobs created by me or just necessary. Either way, I like this stuff and with the fact that the house is completely original from 1986, there is plenty to do.
As I write the date the house was built, I just remembered something interesting, maybe coincidence or Irony, I'm not really sure. But either way, a head scratching story. I've always had longer hair, for as long as I can remember my parents have given me a hard time about cutting my hair. Sometimes I get frustrated with it, and just cut it all off. One time, it was cut off for me. Freshman year in college I was subjected to a ritual that has long been celebrated in college sports, head shaving. Each senior chose a freshman and shaved whatever they wanted into their head. My senior decided that it would be funny to shave a year into my head. This was "hilarious" because for the next week everyone who saw that year on the back of my head, asked why it was there, what did it mean? I came up with some quick answer for some historic event that happened during that year. What makes this interesting you wonder? The number was 1986. Maybe it was amazing foreshadowing, maybe I'm just really bored sitting here by myself waiting for the water for my pasta to boil. Either way, it made me think.

Here are some pictures of the new house for you to enjoy. Wait till you see the changes that have been made already!

TAKE ME TO 1986

Stay tuned or the pictures of the changes

What's goin on?!

It's clearly been a while since any updates here so I have to do another quick update before going in-depth. There have been so many things going on I don't really know where to start. As you can see from the previous post, we got the house. We spent this weekend moving and now my entire body is sore. Luckily we didn't have too much stuff, so it wasn't nearly as bad as we thought. Since we don't have the internet set up yet, I haven't been able to write anything.....is that a good excuse?


Here's are some more topics for everyone to get excited for. The new house pictures, Adventures in Moving, the Floors, possible Swine Flu, Running, and last names.
Can you see a theme of what we've been up to lately?