far from home

visited meagan last weekend!

how i got there:
5:30am train
7:00am plane
10:30pm manchester airport moose

notes:

shirley (meag's ma) rules. and has fun playing phase 10 even though she loses.

i never get soup when i go out for vietnamese. i almost always go curry and/or spicey vegetable dish, soup just doesn't seem like enough fun. went out with meag and her bro, they both ordered the soup...hm. what am i missing by not getting the soup? i better check this out. holy crap, that stuff was good. i've been recreating it at home all week.

miss abigail, meag's dachshund, is a good cuddler.

houses in new hampshire are a lot bigger than apartments in sf (holding price constant).

p90x yoga is intense.

meagan's enormous bro, from my limited experience, never enters a room without whining about his boobs hurting.

dancing with the stars is harder than it looks. meag's sis bought a workout video... our samba, mamba, and salsa are entertaining to say the least.

flea market faux designer pocketbook (that means purse) overload is dangerous.
chinese fast food/karaoke, doesn't always pan out.

meag's pa can behave when he wants to, he did for me, but it might be fun to see his bad side too.

mcgrath parties come with very special limited edition t-shirts to clearly indicate who's cool and who's not.

and i look like madonna.
yeah, i can see it.....right?

emerald nuts and other things

on sunday i ran the across the bay 12k with colette, ryan (bro), and ryan (sac). clay was sick and still recovering from the previous crazy weekend, so he stayed and cuddled with taxi while we stood in the rain, hopped on a bus that took us to sausalito, and then had the privilege of running home (across the golden gate bridge, yay!). all of which we paid for, it's funny when i think about it. and because ma asked so nicely, here's a picture of me, soaking wet, running in the rain in front of the golden gate.
i haven't run more than 4-5 miles at a time since my marathon in december, lingering knee pain has had me sidelined. then my bike crash and recovery screwed everything up, made me feel heavy and out of shape (might be able to remove 'feel' from that sentence). but i started working out last week, easy stuff, then i started running, still just a few miles though, and on race day i was able to run the full distance! woohoo! i'm so excited to be able to start getting back to normal (running) tara! i didn't come anywhere near the goal i had set for myself months ago, but that's ok, i'll train and try again at bay to breakers (come join me!).

i'm going to visit meagan tomorrow, all the way to new england for a weekend trip, yikes. then next weekend i'm headed to detroit and kalamazoo to visit fam. another whirlwind trip. while i'm in michigan my dog will likely be napped and transported to the mormon capital of the world, it will be a sad and quiet apartment to come home too...until claire starts singing and dancing all happy like to be the only animal in the house again. ma and kev miss taxi, and i know he misses them too, and the snow is melting, so it's time.

grandma eileen made me slippers, i got them last night, they make me happy.

future me...

boss's boss brought in a lands' end catalog the other day, was showing it to folks (including my boss) who were looking at me a chuckling. apparently, this is me in 20 or 30 years (sorry, couldn't find a bigger picture):hey, not bad at all, i'll take it.