What's My Deal-E-O???!!!

These, are my NEW running shoes….very depressing…seeing as how I WON’T be using them for running!! I injured my upper back and neck area about a month ago, and have been seeing the “chiro” ever since. And my STRICT orders are….NO RUNNING!!! Who Does That??!!! I told him he was killing me….I have races that I should be preparing for??!! WHAT is HE thinking??!!! UGH!!! It REALLY has gotten me very bummed out and just feeling YUCKY!!! I want to RUN AGAIN!!!! Boohoo!!!

FLIP SIDE

The GOOD news about my shoes is that I WILL be using them for the 3DAY Breast Cancer Walk. Soon, very soon…I will be walking for 3 straight days, 60 miles total. AND I get to share in this journey with my mom and sis-in-law…AWESOME!!!!

On a happy, side note…my son has OFFICIALLY mastered the art of….CHEERIOS!!! and he’s very excited about it!!!

I'm Hooked...

This is ME!!!!

This is my Kawasaki ZR7S

Ok, ok, maybe it's NOT mine...but I'm wishing it was now!! I was raised on dirt bikes, but have never ridden a street bike...UNTIL NOW!!! My hubby has had this bike for a while now, but I've been too chicken to drive it. Well, those days are over and I'm completely HOOKED!! After dinner tonight, I told my husband I "needed" to go for a ride on his bike!! The girls think I'm the COOLEST mom EVER!!!! Too bad I can't get a side car and strap the kids in!!!

Romantic Date Night

We're in the car...driving to our destination. Hand in hand, jamming out to the tunes on the radio. Ahhh, looking forward to a night out, no kids in the back seat yelling and screaming, crying, etc..etc..etc... Just a night alone, me and him, him and me! We pull up to our destination, park the car....OY!!! Who are all these people??!! What's going on??!! Ohhhhhh, reality has set in...I'm wearing my baseball cap, no makeup, tennis shoes, shorts and a tank top....Must be our normal "Friday Night" out....co-ed softball. Yipee!!! Atleast we still get to be together, and I DO look forward to these nights. It's so fun to be playing softball with the one I love!!! We have a great time...but maybe sometime we'll actually get a "REAL" night out on the town!!!

Flashbacks.....

I was the only one awake the other night...was flipping through the channels on the tube...Channel 15 had NFL Football on. I heard the commentators voice and I immediately had flashbacks of my childhood!!! Growing up, I used to sit and watch NFL football with my dad...and I always knew that it was football season when it started to cool off outside. We would ALWAYS have our front door open at our "toltec" house...I sat with my dad, feeling the cool breeze, watching football on our old HUMONGOUS television. I loved the "toltec" house...it was the one I grew up in from the age of 3. I remember being able to hear the commentators at Mesa High announcing what was going on at their football game...if I wanted to know the score, all I had to do was look over my backyard fence. I remember attending most, if not ALL of my brothers wrestling matches at Mesa High...going to his tournaments and feeling SO cool because MY brother was a WRESTLER! I remember going to my other brothers matches before he couldn't wrestle anymore, then it was his singing concerts we went to. I remember playing rugby in the baseball field in the irrigation in the MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT! with my brother, his friends, Nathan, and most of his family, the weekend before Nathan left for his mission. I remember being so ANGRY with where my room was in that house though. It was right next to the kitchen and living room, where ALL THE NOISE WAS...i felt like I never got any sleep. I remember having to put ear phones on and listening to music to drown out the noise. One time I had them on, hooked up to the radio, and my brother came home from a date...came in my room, grabbed the radio and RIPPED the earphones off my head. I was one UNHAPPY girl that night. I remember one of my brothers friends putting himself in the clothes dryer and us turning it on...that same friend saw me naked in the shower because him and my brother were trying to play a trick on me while I was taking a shower and the curtain fell...lovely to have that happen when your going through puberty. I remember my brother going out of town, leaving his magic marshmellow car at the house...my friends and I took the car out one night (did NOT have a drivers license yet) and went cruising around at midnight. (did i ever tell you that Corey???!!!) We marked exactly where the car had been parked before we took it, so we knew exactly where to put it when we got back! I remember playing basketball out front night after night after night. My dad had the craziest shot...no arch to it...just a straight shot to the basket, and he almost never missed. I remember the STUPID bush that was in the front yard close to the basketball hoop that CONSTANTLY popped our basketballs. I remember being able to go play at my friends houses after school, but as soon as 5PM hit, I HAD to be home...that was dinner time. And if I asked what was for dinner, the answer was ALWAYS....FOOD. I remember standing in the back of my dads old chevy truck, waiting with my brother to go motorcycle riding, a fly flew into his mouth and he swallowed it. I remember coming home for lunch one day and our backyard fence falling down...my friend and I had to stand out there and hold it up until my dad got home. Ahhh, and who could forget the endless swimming adventures in our pool??!!! *sigh* Good memories....

Kinda Fun

This was kinda fun!!!

Basics
1. Who is your man? Nate the Skate
2. How long have you been together? "together" 3 years, "married" almost 8...all together 11!!
3. Dating/Engaged/Married? Married and loving it!!!
4. How old is your man? 29
You or your man?
1. Who eats more? He does.. by a LANDSLIDE!! I don't know where he puts it...
2. Who said "I love you"? I THINK it was me???!!!
3. Who weighs more? He does.
4. Who sings better? Definitely ME, he can't really keep a tune too well...sorry honey
5.Who's Older? He is.
6. Who's smarter? Uhhhh, I'd say me...only because we were just talking about this with his family...he got a 1.9 GPA in high school...I averaged 3.5 or better. I think he's really smarter then me though, just was LAZY in HS
7. Who's temper is worse? Mine....definitely mine
8. Who does the laundry? I do usually, but I HATE it!
9. Who does the dishes? Definitely ME...he hates doing the dishes, so I don't make him help unless I'm desperate...
10. Who sleeps on the right side of the bed? He does.
11. Who's feet are bigger? His
12. Who's hair is longer? Definitely mine
13. Who's better with the computer? I am.
14. Who mows the lawn? He does...I'm allergic to grass...well atleast that's been my excuse for the last 28 years of my life!
15. Who pays the bills? I do, don't know if he'd even know what to do!
16. Who cooks dinner? I do!! Unless it's pancakes, that's HIS specialty..
17. Who drives when you are together? Usually him...
18. Who pays when you go out to dinner? He does, I don't have a "purse" and probably NEVER will!
19. Who's the most stubborn? ME!
20. Who is the first one to admit when they're wrong? Hmmm, no idea...
21. Who's parents do you see more? Definitely mine
22. Who named your dog? Lucy came as a Lucy when we got her!
23. Who kissed who first? He kissed me first!!
24. Who asked who out? He asked me out.
25. What did you do? Ate at Black Angus
26. Who's more sensitive? I am
27. Who's taller? He is.
28. Who has more friends? I do...
29. Who has more siblings? He does...he's the oldest of 10!!!!
30. Who wears the pants in the relationship? Yikes, probably me...but we are pretty good at being together on most things...

My boy has teeth!!!

*Sigh*

Ok, so a good friend of mine called yesterday to see how things were going, chat, check up on life, carpools, my training for running, etc.....After getting of the phone with her, I was thinking..."What the???" The conversation just SUCKED and it was my fault. I'm sure that she thinks nothing of the conversation and doesn't feel like there was anything even WRONG with it. But it has bothered me ever since. WHY might you ask???!!!! The conversation consisted of ME telling HER all of the BAD things that were going on in my life...the STRUGGLES I was having...the dentist (cavities), the chiropractor (telling me I can't run), the money, the worries, and on and on and on and on. I DO NOT like conversations like that. I don't like someone calling me to talk and then me going on about completely NEGATIVE things. And ONLY talking about the NEGATIVE things....why not talk about happy, positive things?? I LIKE talking about happy things. So why would I even bring up those "other" things? I know that sometimes we all need to VENT and just talk about the yucky things, but I don't like conversations that only consist of those things. I want to be HAPPY and when I'm consistly talking, thinking about the apparent "bad" things that are going on, it brings me down and I'm not being the best mom, wife, daughter that I can be. So, here's to a NEW day, full of happy things...

Ugly, Fat Days

Why is it that WOMEN and I'm pretty sure 99.9% of WOMEN have our "ugly...fat days?" Is it because we are insecure? Or is it because our hormones are just off for a day? My husband never comes home from work and says, "honey...I'm feeling fat, do you think I'm fat?" Or, "honey, does my hair look ok like this?"...."honey, my bangs don't look right, I wish I never would have cut them"..."honey, honey, honey!!!!" UGH!!! I hate these kind of days...these are the times I wish I WAS NOT a girl. Guys don't worry about that stuff, they just don't care....if guys did care, man, we'd all be in big trouble. And I don't know why I even care most the time, or why I sometimes worry about those things. I'd say my self esteem is pretty good for the most part, but there's always a day or two here and there where I'm just feeling CRAPPY...and I HATE IT!!!!! I do have to say that I'm grateful for husbands, because it seems (at least with my husband) that he loves me...regardless of what I'm feeling like on a particular day. He's attracted to me no matter what.....no makeup, makeup, wearing a hat, in my pj's, workout clothes....So, even on this Ugly Fat Day of mine, I know my cute hubby still loves me!!!!