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Growing
Just for the record, this current posting lapse actually wasn’t my fault. My POS computer ka-plut again four weeks ago (for the second time). Sadly, this also coincided with my husband’s 3-week...
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You know what I am most looking foward to when I go on maternity leave?Not doing my FUCKING JOB for six weeks.AUGHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!That is all.Back to work.
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Eating My Words (and everything else)
I swear I'll lay off the preggo posts soon, but right now, it's sort of all consuming. I mean, I don't think I am THAT girl that talks nonstop about the miracle of pregnancy, telling every cashier at...
View ArticleThoughts To Distract From The Fact That, Under Other Circumstances, I Would...
1.It’s probably a good thing that "Rescue Me" is ending the series. I hate saying that, but shit – the wheels done fell off that wagon about two seasons ago. I adored this series, especially because I...
View ArticleWhere I Was
That morning, I was just a waitress working the breakfast shift at a quirky little restaurant in the Lakeview neighborhood of Chicago. I was in graduate school at the time, and my biggest concern was...
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Third (as in trimesters and number of fudgicles consumed tonight)
Ah, yes. Time keeps just ticking away.How far I've come from counting my weeks off by training blocks towards a race, to counting my weeks off by fetal development towards a little bambino. A life once...
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And She Races!
On September 24, 2011, we celebrated the life of my husband's nephew, K, who was killed last year after being struck by a car leaving school. Over the last year, my sister-in-law's friend worked...
View ArticleAnd Now to the Other End of the Spectrum
So I had planned to do a super awesome post on my sister's first marathon (GO Ellen!!!), but I am short on time at the moment because this week of work SUXXXXXX. So unfortunately that post will have to...
View ArticleDry Run
Wow – this was quite a week. I’ve kind of avoided posting these details on the Facebook, so this will likely read like one big sterile update.Side note: Speaking of Facebook, that girl that was preggo...
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Keep on Keepin' On
First – no baby yet. Seems that after his/her unsuccessful run towards the border, he/she had second thoughts and crawled right back up into my lady bits.And proceeded to kick out my belly button.So...
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Let's get this out of the way first - Baby still not here.Not going to launch into the drama of the last few weeks, but suffice to say, we are still waiting...And waiting...And growing....And by...
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The Arrival
Turns out, if you wait long enough, the baby actually DOES come out.Today is the three-week anniversary of my baby boy's birth, so there is a lot of catching up to do. Surely, I could have posted...
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So That's Where They Put the Gym!
Wanted to first say that I appreciate all the well wishes and comments on the previous post. I usually try to respond to all email notifications of the comments, but for some reason when I hit reply...
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Plugging Away
Accountability.I can’t escape it.It’s on blogs. It’s on status updates. It’s all around.Mostly, I’ve seen it in regards to people’s New Year’s resolutions or the start of many a-training season and...
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Today's Workout:Total Cardio - 73 minutes30 min - Bike (on trainer - first since March!)43 min - Treadmill (Run 33 minutes for 3 miles, walk 10 min warm-up/cool down)Weight:TBD...
View ArticleMoving Right Along....
No post yesterday - I was too exhausted to even look at the computer, much less make it to the gym (and weigh myself). I guess when you have a nursing newborn, you're just going to have those days when...
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And For Today's Update...
This seriously must be some sort of blogging record for me.Today's Workout:Total cardio: 62:30Run: 44:30 for 4 miles, 3 min WU, 5 min CDElliptical: 10 minToday I decided that my new goal is to run off...
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Workouts:Wednesday - nothing. Why? Had a breakfast meeting with my boss, came home to a breast-feeding frenzied baby, followed immediately up with a visit from my mom. By the time it was all said and...
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Catching Up
Well hello there!It's, uh, been quite a while, eh?Truth told, I tried posting twice before - with weeks worth of daily updates on the fitness front. But blogger ate them up before they actually...
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Climbing Out of the Well
And I’m not just talking about racing (but there is racing only it’s coming in the following post). Listen, I’m just gonna be real for a few minutes. There's no funny in this post, because there...
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