Monday, November 17, 2008

Illness Continued....


The good news is Josiah is better...the bad news is...I am now sick. I have bronchitis. Don't you just love kids and the germs they pass on. He has been feeling good since Saturday whereas I have wanted to die. No workouts for me since last Wednesday. Aagh! No run this weekend because Josiah was sick Saturday and I was sick Sunday. I think the stars are lined up against me and running. Please let me get better soon! I just want to go run and get ready for the half marathon. It seems every time I take 1 step forward...I take 3 steps back. I know things will get better...I just need to have a little pity party right now.
And while I'm at it...let me complain about students and their parents. So two football players get in a fight last week before school. One of them is brought to me because he has blood everywhere from his nose. I get him cleaned up and call the campus police officer and the assistant principal. Both kids are suspended from school for 3 days and issued citations. The parent of the kid who beat up the other kid wants a meeting because he wants to know why we called the police and principals. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!! That is why I am at school today sick when I should be laying in bed getting better....because I had a 7:30 meeting this morning to explain to the parent that if his kid wouldn't fight at school, he wouldn't be suspended and have a citation. That's ok...I coughed as many times as I could in that closed little office so now hopefully they will have suspension, citation, and a nice cold over Thanksgiving break!

Wednesday, November 12, 2008

Josiah Update

So...I made Josiah go to school yesterday even though he wasn't feeling great from the air conditioning fiasco. They called me after lunch to come get him from school, he wasn't feeling well. I babied him all night, gave him his asthma breathing treatments, etc. and he seemed a little better. I made him go to school again today. School called me at 10:25 to come get him, he has a 101.7 temp. I called the doctor and took him in immediately. Seems he has pneumonia in 1 lung. ARE YOU KIDDING ME!!! Doctor says extreme air conditioning isn't for people with asthma.... So here is my question....Can I send the California folks the bill since I asked them not to turn the air down after the first night and they did it again anyways????

Tuesday, November 11, 2008

Family Weekend

This weekend Josiah and I were off to the family ranch in Muldoon, TX. We went to celebrate my grandfather's 75th birthday. Lots of friends and family came in town for the occasion, people I hadn't seen in 15 years. Some things never change. The only differences I noticed were a lot of men with a lot less hair! My grandfather was surprised...he had no clue what was going on and I think he enjoyed the weekend.

Josiah got sick...and he was doing so good with the new asthma medicine. One of the guests from California decided he needed the air conditoning down to about 50 in the bedroom. My mom has 3 thermostats...and one of them controls the 2 bedrooms up off of the loft. So he was controlling his room and our room. Needless to say Josiah is now sick from going back and forth from the regular Texas weather to the air conditioning that is NOT NEEDED by us Texas folks in November!

I did get an 8 mile run in before I left for the ranch Saturday morning. It wsan't as strong as last week but I finished. My running hasn't been going great as it has been harder than I thought to get back into it. I have decided I really need to get serious this week as I need to start laying the base groundwork for New Orleans 70.3 in April. And I need to get some of this weight off....I look at food and gain weight these days. CRAZY! So starting today I am going to post my workouts on here to keep myself honest in my training!

Saturday - 8 miles

Tuesday - 3 miles

Thursday, November 6, 2008

Wednesday, November 5, 2008

NOBAMA

Australia is looking like a nice place to live for the next 4-8 years.....and think of the shark infested waters I could train in for triathlons....

Tuesday, November 4, 2008

Monday, November 3, 2008

Before & After

At the begininng of the evening....

Three buckets of candy and six hours later....