Running, Baking, Crafting and gettin it done

Posted on December 17, 2018 by flowerjovia

Part of the reason I have such a hard time catching up at this time of year is the insane amount of emails I receive. Granted, most of them are from stores that I’ve shopped at or mailing lists that I am on but the thing is, I still have to go through all of them, lest I miss something important.

Ahem. Any way, I managed to get all of my shopping done this weekend. And the best part is that most of it will be drop shipped so I don’t have to worry about delivery and shipping and all that crazy post office stuff. Well, I did say most, I still have to run to the post office today to mail nephew’s package but other than that, I’m all good.

We have family in town this year for Christmas which is nice so I’m baking treats as gifts.

I started making the chocolate bon bons and m&m cookies last night and it’s going to be real hard not to dig into those gift baskets before we actually hand them out but I’m gonna try real hard.

One of my favorite magazines is Southern Living and my mother in law brings it to me whenever I see her. She brought the Christmas edition last week and there is a cake on the cover that I am dying to make.

Doesn’t it look spectacular?

If I end up making it and it comes out okay, I’ll post a pic. It totally goes along with my theme too, it almost matches perfectly.

I finally finished all of my decorations this weekend. I wasn’t happy with the front porch area and then I remembered that MacGyver had brought me some old windows. So I dug one of the windows out and made a trip to the craft store for some supplies and I created this:

It was super easy and just what the front porch needed.

I also managed to run 44 miles last week. I can’t even begin to tell you how nice that feels. I even managed a 9 mile run on Saturday so double digits are almost here.

I can’t even remember the last time that I ran over 40 miles in a week but 40-45 is actually my comfort zone. I think when I get over 45 I start to feel it in places and injuries usually creep up so I’m comfortable staying where I am. Eventually, I’ll run 40-45 miles in 5 or 6 days rather than spreading it out over 7 which is what I’m doing now but it’s a work in progress and I’m just thankful that I can get out there every day and run.

We didn’t do anything exciting this weekend. We stayed home and I was able to get a lot of yard work done yesterday and MacGyver worked on our sprinkler system. I’m thinking I should start working on my New Year’s Resolutions at this rate, I might actually accomplish something.

What did you do this weekend?

How many miles did you run last week?

do you back anything special for the holidays?

Forty Miles, the bridge is open, and so is my mouth while I shovel in the food

Posted on December 10, 2018 by flowerjovia

Hello from Nokomis, Florida. MacGyver and I got here on Saturday night and plan on staying til Tuesday nite or maybe a little longer, I can basically work from anywhere so we’re playing it by ear.

Actually the Dude’s uniform is much nicer than what I normally wear….

We installed our TV that we got on black Friday. It’s absolutely amazing how much of a difference 5 inches make. The TV that blew up was 60” and the new one is 65” and it’s huge. Go big or go home, right?

We also installed the ring doorbell, a new fan in the bathroom, and brought down the new table which I’ll show you pictures of tomorrow. MacGyver has been doing most of the work because I’ve been swamped with decorating. Of course as soon as he is finished, I’ll have to reset the passwords and info on all the tv’s, paint all the areas of the walls where the old things were hanging, clean up the mess, and repaint the ceiling in the bathroom. Who’s really making out here? That’s why I’m busying myself with decorating.

I realize I might be a tad exorbitant but I just love me some trees. I did manage to keep Nokomis at a minimum with only a large tree in the living room and a small one that was gifted to us in the bedroom. I also kept all the other decorations to a minimum with only two wreaths, a large nutcracker and a few tchotchke’s by the front door. I can’t say the same for Clearwater. I have 3 large trees, 3 small trees, countless wreaths and other decorations, and I’m adding another large tree when we get home, IF I can sneak it by MacGyver.

Obviously, I’m out of control.

I wish I was as prepared with my shopping because Christmas is only 2 weeks away and I‘ve purchased exactly zero presents.

This might be a gift card year. No, I can’t do it, I’ll just have to find the time to shop. Like that’s gonna be a problem.

So, last week I ran 40 miles y’all. I can barely believe it. It’s been so long since I’ve had a 40 mile week that I hardly thought it possible but I did it. I’m averaging about 5 or 6 miles a day but I did manage an 8 mile run on Saturday and I think double digits are right around the corner.

The part of the Legacy trail that had been closed for months is now open and the bridge is awesome. It’s a nice little hill and will be perfect when I actually start training for something. I thought about taking a picture of it this morning but let’s be honest, my coordination is really off and that would have been dangerous so you’ll just have to show you some pictures that I stole from the internets.

You may not be as excited about it as I am but trust me, it’s a big deal.

Here’s another thing that happened over the weekend, my fitbit automatically started syncing again which it hasn’t done since August and it happened randomly.

I think MacGyver almost ran off the road when I screamed that out loud. Probably wasn’t the smartest move on my part but let me tell you, I got pretty damn excited. I have no idea why it stopped syncing and no idea why it suddenly started again and as long as it continues to work, I don’t care.

Besides, I’m gonna be using it a lot more in the coming months because for now I’m on a steady dose of 30mg of prednisone a day to help ease the symptoms of my sarcoidosis and steroids are hell on your body. I’ve already gained a little bit of weight and I have to be really diligent to avoid those attacks of the munchees. It’s a constant struggle and unfortunately I don’t always win but I’m doing the best I can.

If anyone out there has had to take long term, high dose steroids and has an idea of how to maintain your weight or stave off hunger, please let me know. Because right now, this is an accurate representation of my eating habits:

I sure am glad I can run.

How was your weekend?

Did you do anything exciting?

32 total miles and taking a dog to the movies

Posted on October 29, 2018 by flowerjovia

I had a weird dream last night. Like the kind that you can’t fix. You know what I mean right? Typically if you have a nightmare, you can make yourself go back to sleep and try to change it or if you have a good dream you can go back to sleep and try to dream some more but a weird dream is just weird.

bitch your weird

What? Like you’ve never gone back to sleep and tried to change your dream?

Anywho, in my dream I was at the mall shopping, with Hank. And I met this girl from Russia who had just moved here and she came over to pet Hank and we started talking. After a few minutes she said she had to go to work soon and asked me for the time. I told her what time it was and she told me she had to get to the movie theater in the next ten minutes to get paid and I was all like, ‘what?’

So she explained that she got paid to watch movies and then give her opinion and then she said she had an extra ticket and I should come and bring Hank. You would think I would have been worried about taking a dog to the movies, especially a crazy one, such as Hank. No. All I could think about was how I’ve been trying my whole life to find a job that would pay me to watch movies all day and this chick comes here from Russia and figures it out right away!

Come to think of it maybe this dream was an actual nightmare because it went on forever and I woke up never having figured out how to watch movies and get paid.

This weekend MacGyver and I were in Nokomis and Fall officially arrived. I woke up on Sunday to a crisp cool morning and a temperature of 60 degrees. I walked outside to run and was like,

oh my gosh I ended up running 7 miles that day and I loved it. LOVED IT. I’m pretty sure I ran with the exact face you see above for all 7 miles. I ended up with 32 miles for the week so I’m getting back up there, slowly but surely.

Not much else was going on this week except garage sales and MacGyver and I went to over 100 of them since they were having community sales in Nokomis over the weekend. We only spent 4 dollars total and came home with 2 items not even worth mentioning. What I’m saying is, it was a bust and a big fat failure but we had fun so not all was lost.

Now it’s back tot he grind and since I don’t get paid to watch movies, time to work!

How was your weekend?

Do you try to redream a bad dream away?