Crashing and Running

I know yesterday was a strange and desperate sounding blog entry. Actually, that wasn't the original post. I had sat yesterday afternoon and constructed, in my opinion, a very carefully thought out blog about generational differences and the internet. My internet connection, however, had other plans. I finished typing everything up and hit the "publish" button only to have nothing happen. In fact, I hit it repeatedly to no avail. I thought that even if something was wrong, the auto-save feature would pull through. Unbeknownst to me, it was my internet connection that crashed and the auto-save last saved at my second sentence. Sadly, once I've poured something out of my mind, it is nearly impossible to pull it back out exactly as it was. I'm sure that I will eventually finish the post again, but it won't be today or tomorrow.


It looks like I have to get REALLY serious about my running because I have been invited to run in my first 5K. The bad part is, it's only a month away, but the good part is that it is an evening run and evenings are when I run anyway. It seems like a really fun event and I'm excited (and scared) to be finally doing something official with my running. Now, I just wish I could afford a heart rate monitor!

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I think I am finally starting to feel the baking itch. I think at some point over the next week, I will bake cupcakes. I usually get rid of them by giving a lot of them to the teachers at my son's school, but they are all competing in a Biggest Loser contest that they paid 50 dollars a piece to be in, so I don't think I can convince them to sabotage themselves.

I have been eating very poorly lately. We've been eating fast food more than usual due to the car situation and constantly being in the car going somewhere. I can tell it's taking it's toll on me. I don't think I realized how sluggish and gross eating that stuff actually made me feel until I started eating better. Now, I feel bloaty and huge and tired. I can also see it taking it's toll on our already strained finances, so we're going to have to work hard to get that back on track.

Now, on to cook dinner, bathe and put kids to bed and get on that treadmill!!! Let's see if I can actually run 3 miles without killing myself!