My boys and me.
Archive for June, 2009
I want to hold the baby
Jun 28th
Every so often Noah will decide that he wants to hold the baby… baby meaning Landon.
Jane Austen… where have you been all my life
Jun 17th
Jane… where have you been all my life? Or better yet, how did I not about you? Well, I grew up with only boys. That’s one reason why I did not find Jane until now. About 9 years ago a roommate made me watch Pride & Prejudice (the Colin Firth, long A&E version). Seriously she sat me down and made me – I wasn’t that kind of girly movie girl. Then she laughed at me when I wanted to stay up all night to finish it. I don’t know if I knew that was Jane Austen– but I feel in love with it. Some time down the road I found the Sense and Sensibility movie. A few years later a different roommate turned me on the move Mansfield Park, which was great.
A few months ago I ran into a movie The Jane Austen Book Club. I really enjoyed this movie, but it pointed out to me that Emma was Jane – I had always loved that movie, but had no idea that was Jane. I decided to see what I could find of these last 2 books that I’d never heard of Persuasion and Northanger Abbey. I found them, and also loved them. So I have found Jane, sadly so far only in the movies. But if the movies are this fun, I’m excited to read the books.
5k
Jun 12th
Last Saturday I ran my first 5k of the summer. I know these races don’t have seasons, they happen all year round. But I’m a much better running in summer than winter – so I see summer as the race season. Someday I’ll become hard core and run all year round.
The 5k was the Flight For Sight, located at Boeing in Everett. It’s to raise money for guide dogs. The only other race I’ve done was a pretty big race. So when I got there and saw how low key it was I was kinda disappointed, mostly because no swag. Also they didn’t have as many people, so for most of the race I was running by myself. Running in the big crowed last time really helped push me. But it was a cool run. The weather was perfect, overcast not too hot not too cold. At one point we ran by what looked to be an airplane grave yard. They didn’t have the most sophisticated way to time us. So I didn’t know my time until today. Plenty of people at the finish line before me so I didn’t think too much of it. I knew my time was around 31 minutes, which I figured was somewhere in the middle, and not being able to run for about 3 week before I was plenty happy with that. My group left early, they were giving out medals to the top 2 people of different age groups, but we weren’t there. So I went to breakfast with my friend. It was yummy.
Today I thought about checking my time. I pull up the website… and to my astonishment… I came in 2nd for my age group!!! So what if there are only 6 ladies in my age group 
I still would have gotten a medal! Oh well
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