Ahh, bringing back memories from my youth

My boys are both into watching wrestling now. It's all they talk about lately. It's the newest Wii game they bought for themselves with their profit from the stuff they sold in the yard sale. WWE and TNA consumes their Thursday nights from 8-11. Brenden wants a John Cena bedroom and Spencer wants a Sting bedroom. Of course, this will all pass but it is funny to see how much they are into it. It brings back memories from my childhood when I would watch WWF with my dad and me and Jared would act like we were in the WWF. (For those who don't know, Jared was my stepbrother, my dad's wife Janie's son). My favorites were Macho Man Randy Savage and his wife (I think) Elizabeth and of course, Hulk Hogan. It's funny to see some of the same guys still in the wrestling game that were in it back then and this was at least 20 years ago that I stopped watching wrestling.

Something else bringing back memories is Brenden's music choices these days. My cousin JD would be proud to know that Brenden is listening to a lot of Metallica lately. I remember JD being into the metal music. And the latest music is from Pantera. I had that on my mp3 player and he loves it. Now Hollie, Heather and I used to cruise West Union listening to Pantera. Hollie and Heather got me into that group in the first place because the music I listened to in Urbana cruising was rap and the West Union kids were just not into rap at all. It's cool to see him into the same things we were into as kids. Richard listened to metal, punk and alternative music too so Brenden has 2 people to really show him a lot of good music. Now if he'd just start playing his guitar. Speaking of guitar, Spencer is awesome on guitar hero on the Wii. Maybe Brenden should give Spencer his guitar since he's not showing interest in it himself yet it's all he wanted for Christmas.

I think I can, I think I can....

May 15, 2010 is the next Susan B. Komen Race for the Cure in Columbus and I think I'm going to do it. I've heard that it is a good race for beginners because it is not a race for people to see how fast they can go rather a lot of people running and walking for a good cause. It is intimidating to me right now to think about actually doing a race but it is 10 months away so by then I'll be doing really good with my running and I'll definitely be ready. I have a friend who I've ran with a few times who mentioned wanting to do the race too so we can go together. I got into running for fitness not really for racing but I've always wanted to do this particular race because it is for such a great cause. So now I have something to look forward to with my running other than just as my form of exercise, which I'm loving by the way.

Finding my groove with running

I'm still working on being able to run continuosly without having to stop and walk. I'm getting better with each week. But it's all a learning process in the beginning as with anything else. I did finally find my groove yesterday though realizing that running doesn't hurt my shins like jogging does. I hurt my knee a week and a half ago and was having shin splints when I jogged so I took last week off from jogging and was just walking and on Tuesday I got back into the routine and tried jogging again and after my warm up when I'd start jogging my shins would immediately start hurting again. So last night on my jog I decided to try something new and picked my legs up higher and added more speed and ran and it didn't hurt me a bit. So thats my new groove. Being so new to this all I really don't know if jogging and running are considered the same just one is a faster speed, I don't know. But I do know that the faster speed works better for me and I'm going to keep that up. I need to watch how high I'm picking up my legs though because Richard told me I look like I'm about to kick myself in my butt so I need to drop the leg height a bit. My face is really red after running and he said I look like I'm about to have a stroke but I feel fine. I was running a block and then walking a block for about 1 mile. The 2 before that I was jogging and walking. Now I have to get my breathing down while running because 1 block was all I could do running because I was out of breath. But I've stuck with it since May and I really love being outdoors for exercise and I'm already figuring out how to adjust my routine when school starts and when the time changes and I can't run at 8pm anymore. And the dog certainly can't go with me at 8pm when it's dark. He's too old for running now.

Tales from my yard sale

I had a yard sale on Friday on Saturday. I had a great turnout on Friday but not so much yesterday because it was dreary out and started raining at 11:50 which made us close up early. I'll do it again next weekend since there was no traffic coming through here on Saturday really at all. Now I've have a yard sale before and knew that there would be people who will ask me to take less on things but one Indian lady takes the prize for best try ever. We have a TV for sale that is only 2 years old and we were selling it with a VCR together for $100 (this was our tv from our living room until last year when we got the 50" flat plasma). Josh said he sold his for $150 so we figured we'd have no problem selling it. So anyway, this Indian lady saw the price and said "$100 for the TV?" I said "Yes." She then said "Fifteen" and it sounded like she was saying fifteen but it made no sense in conjuction with the fact that the TV is $100. So after a few rounds of us repeating back the word fifteen to her a few times like she was saying some foreign word to me Richard finally got it and said "Do you mean will I sell the TV to you for $15?" and she shook her head yes. Richard answered with a funny look on his face and a big ol' "NO!". She left and we laughed with a lady who happened to be here for all of it and she was trying to help us decipher her turns out to be not so foreign language. That lady bought a few things and said "Don't worry, I'll pay full price". I've never heard of anyone trying to get an $85 discount. I wasn't having a clearance sale, geesh! Another guy came up and wanted to trade sealing our driveway for the foosball table. I said NO but I'll trade you $30 (the price it's marked) for it. One lady came up and mentioned that she babysits and was buying some video games, so always thinking on my toes, I mentioned she should buy the foosball table for the kids she babysits. Hey, doesn't hurt to try! All in all we had a good sale. Still have a lot to sell so I'll be out there on Friday and Saturday of this coming weekend too. And hey, if anyone needs a foosball table let me know!

I'm a jogger....soon to be runner!

I started jogging about 2 weeks before vacation and I love it and since coming home from vacation I've kept it up. I've overdone it a bit by going out everyday so I've had to cut it down to every other day because I hurt my knee quite badly on Friday and limped home. My hip on the same leg as the knee injury is hurting too. Spencer and I went out last week with his best friend Zack and Zack's mom Megan who jogs too. I'm up to 3 miles now in right around 45 minutes. I've heard that running is doing it in under 9 minutes so I'm definitely still a jogger but I'll get there. I'm still in the walk/jog phase but I'm jogging more than walking now so that's really great. Brenden goes with me and Spencer sometimes too. Spencer jogged 2 miles with me the other night and we stopped by the house and picked up Richard and Cassidy for the last mile and also Spencer's bike. I don't want him over doing it and hurting himself. Brenden has played football and basketball and he does great keeping up with me. Though I've found that recently I jog more than him and I have to stop for him instead of me telling him I need a break like in May when we started. That's awesome! Now Brenden is taking his bike or scooter more often. I'm no Gary yet (my cousin's hubby who runs marathons) but maybe I'll get there one day.

Happy 4th of July!

I hope everyone has a safe and happy 4th of July. We're going to Lancaster's fireworks tonight at the fairgrounds and we're hoping it doesn't rain. We watched Red, White, and Boom last night on TV with the kids. I don't know how many of you know this (or remember if you do) but July 3rd, 1996 at Red, White and Boom in front of the Santa Maria on the riverfront in Columbus is where Richard proposed to me right when the first fireworks started. It was so awesome. I scared the kids behind us half to death I think because they didn't know why I was screeching. Then there mom's and dad's told them and everyone was asking to see the ring and congratulating us. It was so neat that all those people witnessed it. I have always loved the way and the place he proposed. Very creative and romantic and I'll always have a cool story to share.