Finish It Friday!

I love this concept from Aby Garvey – I don’t know her personally but have taken on-line classes & learned lots. Each Friday she posts some of the things she plans on doing for the weekend.

 

To Play:

• Plant pansies & daffodils so next spring will be joy-filled & not guilt-filled.
• Go on a nice long run with my husband.
• Rough draft of Christmas card/letter.
• Go out to lunch somewhere fun with the kids.

To do:

• Check on refrigerator prices & make a decision. (Did it!)
• Go through office/garage/scrapbook room & find more things for the "come & get it" sale.
• Find out how I can help with Thanksgiving dinner.
• Laundry.
• Pull out Christmas planning book & make some decisions on gifts & travel arrangements.
• Blog about the half marathon.
• Backup photos onto hard drive.

Silly Challenge

What are you listening to these days? I am going to hit shuffle on my iPod & let you know the first 15 songs that come up. Do you want to play? … probably not, but just in case, here are my first fifteen here are a random 15 songs from my running playlist.

1. Say (All I Need) – One Republic
2. Feels Like Tonight – Daughtry
3. Say Hey (I Love You) – Michael Franti & Spearhead
4. Kite – U2
5. Crayola Doesn’t Make the Color for Your Eyes – Kristin Andreassen (LOVE!)
6. Goodbye, Apathy – One Republic (love the shuffle-sound for running!)
7. I’m A Believer – Smash Mouth from Shrek
8. SOS – Rihanna
9. Mercy – One Republic
10. Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) – Green Day
11. Bad Day – Daniel Powter
12. Goodnight, Goodnight – Maroon 5
13. Steal My Sunshine – Len
14. Swallowed in the Sea – Coldplay
15. From Where You Are – Lifehouse

 

Okay, so now you know. TMI? If you would like to hear a sample, you can click each song title. The hyperlink will take you to the Amazon MP3 sample. I think #3, 5, 10 & 15 are my faves of this bunch.

Spinx race day report must be coming soon – only good memories remain so I won’t whine!!! ;)

An announcement…

Ryan is “on one” lately – he is just doing & saying a lot of funny things.

Run Chris Run!

       

Saturday, November 6, 2010 was the South Carolina state cross country championships in Columbia. All the cross-country runners from all the schools throughout the state come to the Sandhills Research Facility & run as fast as they can. Chris attends a small charter high school & runs in the 1A division. The weather was SUPER cold (low 30’s) in the morning – Chris ran really well! He missed beating his best ever time by only 20 seconds. The winning time was 16:24 (just over a 5-minute mile!). If you look at the “guess who won” picture, you can see that the red-haired boy was off like lightning from the start. He stayed about 10 feet ahead of the next runner for the entire race. After seeing the awards (Chris’ high school took 10th place overall), we went to Cici’s with our long-time friends to finish out the fun.

My blog Wordle

A Wordle is a graphical representation of a bunch of words – the program took all the words off of my blog & generated this little picture. Now we know.

Voting Thoughts

Today, my 12-year-old was asking why we need to vote. After all, it was a day off of school (seriously) & there were lots of other fun things to do. My kids wanted to know why it mattered if I voted. I explained that sometimes an election was decided by one vote. I was watching TV on election night & looked up to see that indeed, the candidate that I had voted for had one vote & no one else had any. (All other results were still uncounted.)

Tonight as I was watching the results, I realized that I should have helped a friend. He is the father of a boy on Ryan’s baseball team & he is a man of great moral character. I saw his signs around town, but I never took the time to tell people about him – I know him & that he is trustworthy, etc. I really & truly HATE talking about politics, but I like it when good people win & work for my family.

When I got home from voting, Chris wanted to know whom I voted for & then proceeded to tell me why I should not have voted for them. The best thing? He is entitled to his opinion & I’m entitled to mine. And every single person in the United States can do the same thing. Hooray for democracy!