Running, Dyeing, and Spinning, oh my!
Jan. 31st, 2013 10:20 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
whyknotmama Yes, I'm still alive. Not THAT kind of dying - dyeing - with more lovelies coming out of the dye pot and off the wheel this past month. It's been super busy lately and full of singing, running, spinning, dying, and construction madness.
We just passed the 6-month mark since our house fire last July, and may possibly have an end in site for the rebuild of our home. Maybe. I'm cautiously optimistic that we'll be home before May this year. I hope that's enough wiggle room to have it actually happen - heehee.
In the midst of all of this, Steve has continued with me in my "restart running" campaign, and we have successfully made it into week 4 of the 5k101 training program. That's week 4 of 8! HA! I'm so ridiculously proud of us. Here we are freezing our Ahem....I mean enjoying the winter scenery and getting energized. In all seriousness, it's actually been really cool. We've had a couple of night runs where the stars have all been out and we've been on a side dirt road where we could turn off our headlamps (since there's no traffic there....pretty much ever) and enjoy our amazing galaxy. SO invigorating! This is my kick-off for half-marathon training that starts in March. I'm signed up for the Bayshore Half in May and am STOKED! Maybe this sounds crazy, but I love running. It makes me feel awesome and helps me not go GRRRR at everyone around me when the world seems to be falling down.
Okay - enough on running. Really. For now.
In terms of other stuff (DUM DUM DUM), we've been on an emotional roller coaster with our house with the finish line dipping out of site every other day and then popping up again just as suddenly. It's been a...ahem...trip. At least we have a fantastic place to be in the interim (My in-laws are awesome) and their puppy to give us doggy slobbers when we need them most.
Overall, we're just hanging in there and trying to remember that everything will come right in the end, and we'll be home again.
It's quite possible that I'll be starting all over with my crazy antics at that point..possibly even English muffins...maybe.
We just passed the 6-month mark since our house fire last July, and may possibly have an end in site for the rebuild of our home. Maybe. I'm cautiously optimistic that we'll be home before May this year. I hope that's enough wiggle room to have it actually happen - heehee.
In the midst of all of this, Steve has continued with me in my "restart running" campaign, and we have successfully made it into week 4 of the 5k101 training program. That's week 4 of 8! HA! I'm so ridiculously proud of us. Here we are freezing our Ahem....I mean enjoying the winter scenery and getting energized. In all seriousness, it's actually been really cool. We've had a couple of night runs where the stars have all been out and we've been on a side dirt road where we could turn off our headlamps (since there's no traffic there....pretty much ever) and enjoy our amazing galaxy. SO invigorating! This is my kick-off for half-marathon training that starts in March. I'm signed up for the Bayshore Half in May and am STOKED! Maybe this sounds crazy, but I love running. It makes me feel awesome and helps me not go GRRRR at everyone around me when the world seems to be falling down.
Okay - enough on running. Really. For now.
In terms of other stuff (DUM DUM DUM), we've been on an emotional roller coaster with our house with the finish line dipping out of site every other day and then popping up again just as suddenly. It's been a...ahem...trip. At least we have a fantastic place to be in the interim (My in-laws are awesome) and their puppy to give us doggy slobbers when we need them most.
Overall, we're just hanging in there and trying to remember that everything will come right in the end, and we'll be home again.
It's quite possible that I'll be starting all over with my crazy antics at that point..possibly even English muffins...maybe.