1) Don't forget to "RATE MY BLOG"!

2) Put your Little Man on my map!

Next up: The Fall Classic

November 15 - The Fall Classic Half Marathon

December 6 - The Las Vegas Rock n Roll Half Marathon

The Coffee Shop

My favorite hideaway has become a new coffee shop about
3 blocks from my home. I grab my little red Netbook, run
over there, set it up, buy a coffee and make the virtual rounds...
check my Facebook, browse my emails, listen to my
latest addiction, Tom Waits (I love him and want to have his babies!
--on the provision that he hires a nanny to care for them all.)
I spend time there pondering the great issues of life:

• the pleasure of music
• the pleasure of a good cup of coffee
• the pleasure of good friends--virtual and in the flesh
• the pleasure of great literature
• the pleasure in accomplishments

The warm aroma of coffee, cake and hot soup wafts out
around the room comforting and encouraging us.
I listen to the steady buzz of people's chatter and
savor the laughter and life that envelopes me in a
warm cocoon off in the corner, an accompanying soundtrack
of "Time" by Tom Waits swelling up from the earphones
adding a poignancy to the surrounding humanity.
I watch each person in turn and wonder what they feel,
what tragedies have they endured,
what are their hopes and dreams....
I wonder about the human condition. And then I feel hope
for them. and for me.

Never Let Go

Never Let Go

Well, ring the bell backwards and bury the axe
Fall down on your knees in the dirt
I’m tied to the mast between water and wind
Believe me, you’ll never get hurt
Now the ring’s in the pawnshop, the rain’s in the hole
Down at the Five Points I stand
I’ll loose everything
But I won’t let go of your hand

Now, Peter denied and Judas betrayed
I’ll pay with the roll of the drum
And the wind will tell the turn from the wheel
And the watchman's making his rounds
Well, you leave me hanging by the skin of my teeth
I’ve only got one leg to stand
You can send me to hell
But I’ll never let go of your hand

Swing from a rope on a cross-legged tree
Signed with the one-eyed Jack’s blood
From Temple and Union, to Weyley and Grand
Walking back home in the mud

Now, I must make my best of the only way home
Marley deals only in stones
I’m lost on the midway, I’m reckless in your eyes
Just give me a couple more throws
I’ll dare you to dine with the cross-legged knights
Dare me to jump and I will
I’ll fall from your grace
But I’ll never let go of your hand
I’ll never let go of your hand
I’ll never let go of your hand

Dot the Rebel!

Oh yes, my beloved readers (don't pretend you aren't there ;) I have done it yet again! Forced back the boundaries of conservativism and got a new piercing!

I admit it is not a nipple piercing or a cleavage piercing or even an eyebrow, lip or nose piercing...however it is a cartilege piercing which should count sufficiently in order to qualify as rebellion of a sort!

Particularly in the accounting world. mwahaha!


So now I am actually 116 lbs and have some abs (okay they are scant abs, but they are still abs). I am now on a quest to ditch 6 of those 116lbs to get to my now projected ideal weight of 110lbs.


To accomplish this I will:

• eat whole foods, (this does not include the damned Tim Horton's smiley cookie that came into my possession and was half eaten by me today)
• climb Grouse Mountainonce or twice a week,
  
• do Power90 Super abs program 3 times a week,
  
• lift free weights every other day ,
  
• run three times a week
  
• and..um...well..nothing else actually. If that doesn't do it, please shoot me!

Also I have completed my 3rd year toward my BBA so only 1 more year to go!
Then a mere 2 years of fulltime work while taking the extra studies to get my CGA and I'll have it made in the shade! A breeze, right....?

My Life as I Know It

So I've now run 5 half marathons!
The Seattle Rock n Roll --what a blast that was!--was this past weekend and I'm not even stiff.
In fact I ran a fast 5K with my running group today quite nicely.
The only down side during the weekend was when I put on my bikini (the one that displays a really nice cleavage) to sit in the hot tub and my boobs didn't really fit in the cups quite as well. They sort of kept floating out when the suit relaxed in the warm water. Yikes!!
How come all the outfits you thought would look fantastic after losing 20 lbs suddenly look downright nasty?? Very strange. Very mysterious.....oh well, nothing another shopping trip won't fix, right?! :)

• I am now 119lbs, a scant 4lbs from what should be my ideal weight!
• My abs are coming along though I still have a tiny bit of belly fat over them--but no muffin top!
• I have arm definition.
• My half marathons are a breeze.
• I'm positioning myself nicely for a couple of A+'s in my summer classes (for my BBA).

Life is coming along just fine about now for the most part....and anything that's not I can handle.

On Your Marks, Get Set, GO!!

I have now run 4 half marathons!

Delta Half Marathon-August 2007- 2 hours 27 min
Whitbey Island Half Marathon-April 2008 - 2 hours 46 min
Disneyland Half Marathon-August 2008 - 3 hours 4 min (recovering from injury)
April Fool's Half Marathon-April 2009 - 2 hours 37 min

Not bad, huh? A little on the slow side, but I think I can get faster now that I'm going to the Wednesday night running room tempo training sessions.

Next up on the agenda:

Run for Light 5K
Science Fair Run 5K
Seattle Rock'nRoll Half Marathon
Harrison to Haney 100K relay-team of 8 girls



Okay now I have a bone to pick with some of you ladies out there! How many times have I heard some dimwit say "just eat the fries, drink a milkshake. You may as well enjoy yourself because you'll never look like you're 16 again."

Yah? Well tell that to my ass which is getting smaller and firmer by the month! I weigh 129 lbs with a goal of reaching 122 by May 31 and I look pretty damned hot already. A little consistent ab and butt work on the ball and some weigh training every day is beginning to pay dividends as well. So go ahead, eat your greasy fries and guzzle your milkshakes. Ain't no way YOU'LL ever look good again.

As for me, I'm headed for hottyville! Yippeee!

Oh and if you want to tell me off, I'll be the one out running in the skimpy little top and that cute little running skirt.....