Post by irene adler on Aug 24, 2015 16:20:18 GMT -5
I set a new fastest mile record on my garmin this morning (not running downhill) I am proud and feel like I am finally getting back to running like I used to.
Now if only I could find my favorite running tank. It is SOMEWHERE in my house. I have no clue where.
I have a weird, borderline-phobic, thing about fruit. I like lemon zest for cooking, and blueberry in baked goods, and THAT IS IT.
My H was watching tv and saw that Rosie ODonnel also hates fruit and had serious health problems. Guys, he's afraid for my health because I don't eat fruit like Rosie ODonnel. Sorta-lol. Antioxidants!
So, I told him maybe I could do green smoothies with blueberries. That seems the least scary to me. So, this morning I made one with spinach, frozen blueberries, Greek yogurt, chia, and green tea. I gagged my way through it but I did it! And I pooped A LOT which is odd because I eat lots of greens. And I ran today, haven't felt particularly hungry, and am headed to hot yoga when he gets home from work.
wambam, and you thought you'd never be a runner. HA! Look at you now plotting to turn DH into one too.
@drcupcake, I am very curious about this interesting interaction you had.
irene adler, I like that you clarified that you didn't run downhill!
I am skipping CF today to go to my kid's back to school thing. She is a high schooler now and I need to be in on all the shenanigans that happen in high school.
I am trying to figure out what to do about a situation where a mom of a former or current friend has been harassing my kid. The lady is crazy. My kid and hers ended up at a football game the same night and hung out. Crazy lady went to the school today to lodge a complaint about my kid and stated that my kid approached her kid wanting to fight. My kid got called into the vice principal's office today but thankfully the principal seems to have had her own run ins with crazy lady and believes my kid. I need to talk to the VP as well and maybe fill her in on the history of crazy lady and my kid. This isn't the first time she has done some crazy ish.
wambam -- does this mean you got in the run you were supposed to?!
kams - I think you're in the clear because vegetables are probably better for you than fruit anyhow. Maybe there are fruits you'd like that you just need to try though??
wambam, and you thought you'd never be a runner. HA! Look at you now plotting to turn DH into one too.
@drcupcake, I am very curious about this interesting interaction you had.
irene adler, I like that you clarified that you didn't run downhill!
I am skipping CF today to go to my kid's back to school thing. She is a high schooler now and I need to be in on all the shenanigans that happen in high school.
I am trying to figure out what to do about a situation where a mom of a former or current friend has been harassing my kid. The lady is crazy. My kid and hers ended up at a football game the same night and hung out. Crazy lady went to the school today to lodge a complaint about my kid and stated that my kid approached her kid wanting to fight. My kid got called into the vice principal's office today but thankfully the principal seems to have had her own run ins with crazy lady and believes my kid. I need to talk to the VP as well and maybe fill her in on the history of crazy lady and my kid. This isn't the first time she has done some crazy ish.
So this one time when i was in 2nd grade .... Lol. No but for real there was another girl who lived on my sttert and her and her mom made up some crazy story about me and told the principal. My mok had to go in and talk to him then there was a meeting with all of us and basucally girl and i never interacted ever again. Except she would take my friends apparently and tell them i was all sorts of bad things and use cuss words too! When my mom found out she made one of my friends sit down and tell her exactly what girl had said then took it to girls mom who basically was like my daughter is perfect and she is right and you are a horrible person to my mom. Seriously gurl would not stop harrasing me. My brother maybe one winter found out her moms car unlocked and put some snow in her car.
Anyways i am sory yu guys are going through this crazy people who make up stories suck.
wambam -- does this mean you got in the run you were supposed to?!
kams - I think you're in the clear because vegetables are probably better for you than fruit anyhow. Maybe there are fruits you'd like that you just need to try though??
Yes, I agree that my veg consumption is more important than fruits. And, it's sort of beyond just not liking fruit. BUT, I don't tend to like to eat much in the morning, so getting two big servings of greens seemed to start me on a really good foot, so I'm going to try to keep it up. H goes out to lunch and drinks a coke everyday, so he isn't trying to chastise me about my food choices. He just freaked when he heard such a dramatic story about it
wambam, and you thought you'd never be a runner. HA! Look at you now plotting to turn DH into one too.
@drcupcake, I am very curious about this interesting interaction you had.
irene adler, I like that you clarified that you didn't run downhill!
I am skipping CF today to go to my kid's back to school thing. She is a high schooler now and I need to be in on all the shenanigans that happen in high school.
I am trying to figure out what to do about a situation where a mom of a former or current friend has been harassing my kid. The lady is crazy. My kid and hers ended up at a football game the same night and hung out. Crazy lady went to the school today to lodge a complaint about my kid and stated that my kid approached her kid wanting to fight. My kid got called into the vice principal's office today but thankfully the principal seems to have had her own run ins with crazy lady and believes my kid. I need to talk to the VP as well and maybe fill her in on the history of crazy lady and my kid. This isn't the first time she has done some crazy ish.
So this one time when i was in 2nd grade .... Lol. No but for real there was another girl who lived on my sttert and her and her mom made up some crazy story about me and told the principal. My mok had to go in and talk to him then there was a meeting with all of us and basucally girl and i never interacted ever again. Except she would take my friends apparently and tell them i was all sorts of bad things and use cuss words too! When my mom found out she made one of my friends sit down and tell her exactly what girl had said then took it to girls mom who basically was like my daughter is perfect and she is right and you are a horrible person to my mom. Seriously gurl would not stop harrasing me. My brother maybe one winter found out her moms car unlocked and put some snow in her car.
Anyways i am sory yu guys are going through this crazy people who make up stories suck.
Seriously what you described here is exactly what's been going on. My kid stopped interacting with hers but crazy lady would still see my kid hanging out then yell mean things out the car and tell my kid's friends all sorts of nasty things about her so they wouldn't hang out with her. I met this lady once and I knew something was not quite right with her but I didn't expect this level of crazy. This is the adult harassing my kid for being friends with her kid. She is psycho. She's also gone on to her daughter's social media accounts pretending to be her kid and bullying and cussing out kids, calling them bad things and all sorts of craziness that no 50-something year old lady has any business doing.
Also @drcupcake, I have hesitated to mention that im local to you since I haven't been around long but wondered if you used campus gyms or elsewhere. Dude was crazy. They passed ranger school... Badass yes. But they didn't die in service and need your workout to memorialize them?!?!? Weird.
wambam, and you thought you'd never be a runner. HA! Look at you now plotting to turn DH into one too.
@drcupcake, I am very curious about this interesting interaction you had.
irene adler, I like that you clarified that you didn't run downhill!
I am skipping CF today to go to my kid's back to school thing. She is a high schooler now and I need to be in on all the shenanigans that happen in high school.
I am trying to figure out what to do about a situation where a mom of a former or current friend has been harassing my kid. The lady is crazy. My kid and hers ended up at a football game the same night and hung out. Crazy lady went to the school today to lodge a complaint about my kid and stated that my kid approached her kid wanting to fight. My kid got called into the vice principal's office today but thankfully the principal seems to have had her own run ins with crazy lady and believes my kid. I need to talk to the VP as well and maybe fill her in on the history of crazy lady and my kid. This isn't the first time she has done some crazy ish.
I walked into the weight room and started loading up the squat rack bar. I did one set, then was resting for a minute when this older guy walked over to me, asked if he could get in one set on the rack before I went back on it. I obliged.
So he started by saying "Oh, I have to take off your weight because I'm lifting light today, coming back from injury and all that stuff, yep yep yep". I was like "uh huh okay can I put my headphones back in now...".
Then he turned to me and asked "so you're lifting today? Them army ranger girls inspire you to be here?"
::blank stare::
"um, no, I inspire me. And my friends who are excellent athletes on top of being amazing people inspire me".
"WELL I TELL YOU WHAT" (me: oh hoo boy here we go...) "THOSE GIRLS DID THE RIGHT THING FOR THEIR COUNTRY, GAVE UP THEIR RIGHTS AS WOMEN (me: uhhhhhhh wtf? last I checked they didn't cement over their labias or relinquish one of their x chromosomes?) AND SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES (me: uhhhhh they just graduated ranger school...they didn't die...) FOR OUR COUNTRY. YOU SHOULD BE GRATEFUL FOR THEM AND THINK ABOUT DOING THE RIGHT THING".
"What would that right thing be?"
"Well, WORKING OUT FOR THEM"
"I'm sure they're excellent women and I appreciate what they did, but I'll just keep training towards my own personal goals"
"Well you keep on doing that, but I reckon you're not gonna get no respect around here if you don't wear our country's colors (I had on black and gray, like some sort of ISIS weightlifter with boobs apparently...) and do something good in here for those fine women rangers".
"Thanks for the advice".
I then put my headphones back in and totally ignored him, but saw his mouth still moving at me. He finally left the room in a huff.
I can NOT wait to get out of here.
This made my day! Thank you for sharing. Crazy old man! Oh man I wish that had me he was talking to. I would have loved to have shut him down.
"I had on black and gray, like some sort of ISIS weightlifter with boobs apparently..." (heart) (heart) (heart)
I've decided that researching baby gear is like researching tri gear, except that you have to buy most of it before you ever do your first race -- i.e. before the baby is born. This is killing me. I'm so overwhelmed picking stuff out. I need the 5 year plan for acquiring gear, not the crash course!
Post by irene adler on Aug 24, 2015 17:02:41 GMT -5
itsme, I ran a downhill half earlier this year. I finally cleared my watch from that, because there is no way in hell i could run an 8 min. mile without some serious help from gravity.
Post by ilovecandy on Aug 24, 2015 17:04:47 GMT -5
@vtcupcake but america!! Lol. Not but for real that gur is ridiculous and i love your comments to.him. also dying at at the like i am an isis weightlifter with boobs.
Susie, you don't really need much the first few months of their lives. I went overboard with my second kid because everything was so cool and I "had" to have it. I was more grounded for my first kid but the second was like starting all over again (11 year age difference) and I needed all the gear. I didn't and realized it was a huge waste of money buying most of it new. If you "need" it, look into getting the used gear. It will save you a ton.
I have a weird, borderline-phobic, thing about fruit. I like lemon zest for cooking, and blueberry in baked goods, and THAT IS IT.
My H was watching tv and saw that Rosie ODonnel also hates fruit and had serious health problems. Guys, he's afraid for my health because I don't eat fruit like Rosie ODonnel. Sorta-lol. Antioxidants!
So, I told him maybe I could do green smoothies with blueberries. That seems the least scary to me. So, this morning I made one with spinach, frozen blueberries, Greek yogurt, chia, and green tea. I gagged my way through it but I did it! And I pooped A LOT which is odd because I eat lots of greens. And I ran today, haven't felt particularly hungry, and am headed to hot yoga when he gets home from work.
I should be down a dress size anytime now, right?
This sounds kind of good actually. I really need to break my bagel habit - they have free bagels and donuts in the lounge when I get my breakfast break so I usually just have coffee at home and bagel later in the morning. Maybe I will get back on the green smoothie bandwagon.
Post by CallingAllAngels on Aug 24, 2015 17:16:24 GMT -5
kams, your H being worried for your health because of Rosie O'Donnell is adorable and hilarious.
I have a mole in my underarm that got chafed on Saturday and now it has a scab on it. I am obsessed with it. I want to take a picture of it and send it to my H, but I'm pretty sure he will be grossed out.
Last week when rosie odonnell was in the news bc her daughter disappeared, the news report reminded me to register for the race im doing in the town she lives in. I felt a little bad about that.
kams, your H being worried for your health because of Rosie O'Donnell is adorable and hilarious.
I have a mole in my underarm that got chafed on Saturday and now it has a scab on it. I am obsessed with it. I want to take a picture of it and send it to my H, but I'm pretty sure he will be grossed out.
Usually I would be annoyed - what are you trying to say, H?! But it was really sweet.
I have a weird, borderline-phobic, thing about fruit. I like lemon zest for cooking, and blueberry in baked goods, and THAT IS IT.
My H was watching tv and saw that Rosie ODonnel also hates fruit and had serious health problems. Guys, he's afraid for my health because I don't eat fruit like Rosie ODonnel. Sorta-lol. Antioxidants!
So, I told him maybe I could do green smoothies with blueberries. That seems the least scary to me. So, this morning I made one with spinach, frozen blueberries, Greek yogurt, chia, and green tea. I gagged my way through it but I did it! And I pooped A LOT which is odd because I eat lots of greens. And I ran today, haven't felt particularly hungry, and am headed to hot yoga when he gets home from work.
I should be down a dress size anytime now, right?
This sounds kind of good actually. I really need to break my bagel habit - they have free bagels and donuts in the lounge when I get my breakfast break so I usually just have coffee at home and bagel later in the morning. Maybe I will get back on the green smoothie bandwagon.
I woke up and had a cup of coffee, and then told myself I needed to finish the smoothie and a full bottle of water before I could make a second cup. I only had half of my second cup, and not until almost 11. It was good for me
wambam -- does this mean you got in the run you were supposed to?!
kams - I think you're in the clear because vegetables are probably better for you than fruit anyhow. Maybe there are fruits you'd like that you just need to try though??
My H was sick last week. I was overconfident this weekend that since I didn't catch it yet, I was in the clear.
Then couldn't sleep at all last night because I'm sick and had/have an expensive external training today and tomorrow that I can't bail on. Gah this is the pits.
I like the article, but I'm LOLing at the "oly lift is arguably better than power lift." It's been the same argument for as long as I've been lifting (20+ years now).