Minutes and Male Police Officers

I had two dreams over the weekend:

1 - It was my birthday and my boss said that he would take minutes at our team meeting as my birthday present.

2- I was a male police officer and I was protecting my wife's partner because my partner was beating her.

Dreams are weird.

Any Dream Will Do...

Last night I dreamed I had a hole in my jeans in the butt pocket. My mother-in-law kept looking at the hole. She was saying things like "Do you like that hole?" "I can't believe you have a hold in your butt pocket and you are wearing those dreams." "Your butt is showing." "You're going to wear those jeans!?" Mostly, she kept repeating the statement that she couldn't believe I was wearing those jeans. I was saying things to her like, "Oh well." "It doesn't matter to me." I don't care."

Weird.

Administrative Assistant Day!

Happy Administrative Assistant Day to me! Wow, I can't believe how beautiful this bouquet is! These were delivered to my office today from the 2 I assist. How sweet of them! I feel so appreciated!

I continually thank God for my job. It is a complete blessing when you find a job you know you are supposed to do and a place you know you'll be part of for a LONG time!

As-seen on TV, Weird Dreams, and Neighbors

As-seen on TV...

I've really wanted to get these things that I've seen on TV.

I see they are now selling these at Bed, Bath, and Beyond. I wonder if they work. It seems like they would but I wonder if they make an impression through your shirt. It would be REALLY GREAT if they did work! I could actually wear racer-back tanks in the summer without trying to figure out what to wear underneath. I only wish I came up with the idea :)

Weird Dreams...

In my dream my husband, J and I wanted to have a baby. For some reason we didn't want to have our own baby we wanted to have a baby like our niece, Tulip. So, the doctors inserted a Diet Pepsi soda can in my uterus with some blood from Tulip and it worked. It worked so well that our baby not only looked like Tulip but in all respects WAS Tulip. Our baby had the exact same features, came out the same age as Tulip is currently, even knew the same words. It was weird. The weirder part came later in the dream when everyone came to visit J and I. His sister, mommyetc, who is actually Tulip's mom, couldn 't help but mother our version of Tulip, feeding her, correcting her, etc. In my dream I was very upset that she was doing this and felt very threatened. I proceeded to confront her and tell her that this wasn't HER Tulip, this Tulip was ours. I was even confused myself because I was telling our version of Tulip that her 'daddy' was actually her uncle, and that her real-life daddy was her Uncle Esquire. It was all too weird and everyone was upset, including myself because things weren't going just right. Then, I woke up.

Neighbors...

We have nice neighbor kids. They love coming over. They like me but LOVE my husband, J. Our nine year-old neighbor boy, Z, keeps coming over because we promised to have all the kids over for a movie night in our theater room downstairs. Even though we are not planning to have a movie night tonight, Z was hoping we would. When J asked Z what movie he would want to watch. Z (keep in mind he is 9) said that his parents wouldn't be able to come over to watch the movie and that he would like to watch House Bunny.

Umm, no.

Update...

Well, I haven't updated about my last run. It was amazing and I plan to write a good blog about it, but, when I have time.

So, here is what I've been up to:

Homework - I am way behind. My proofreading class is so hard, I could have take this one all by itself. ... verb, noun, pronoun, predicate, proper use of number and when to spell or write, stentance structure, etc. It is literally like a whole new language and after reading a few chapters I end up questioning if I even KNOW the english language. I am not happy that I am not getting this very easily.

Prayer - So many times I don't just stop to pray. I need to get better about truly praying. Heck, my spiritual relationship could use some work.

Training - I am training for a couple of races and a half marathon this September, I am unbelievably sore today!

Work - I am so swamped at work. I struggle not to take it home with me at night.

Cleaning - You don't even want to know. Just know, it needs to be tackled.

Keeping up with my Hubby - He is amazing and so many times I feel like he is more amazing than me, though he wouldn't agree. He cooks, cleans, gets on his hands and knees to wipe the floors, folds my clothes, does everything, and has a bowl full of energy while doing it all. It seems so many days I am too tired to keep up with him and many times I feel worn out. So, my biggest challenge is to gain some balance and to stay as motivated as he does. I don't know how he does it, I just feel like there isn't enough hours in the day.

One way or the other...

One way or the other, I will do this race. I have waited too long and worked too hard to let anything hold me back. I have been fighting a cold for 2 weeks now and the cold seems to be gone but I am continually coughing up green junk. If it doesn't go away I am going to the doctor next week. This 'cold' has just been one more obstacle. Last night, while weight lifting I did a very careless thing and hurt my back. As I type this now I am leaned over the desk and the pain radiates down my spine to my tail bone. Luckily, I can get an adjustment tonight. However, this is just one more obstacle.

I am running this race and nothing is holding me back. I am frustrated with these 'obstacles', however, I will overcome.

I. Will. Overcome.

5k here I come!

Next week at this time I will have already completed THIS! (you will notice the man slapping the hands is the one and only ARNOLD SCHWARZENEGGER!!!)

I am so super excited. My goal is to weigh in at no more than 130lbs, right now I am 132.8; to get 10 reps on my bench press, I will be pressing 70 percent of my weight and they round up to the nearest 5lbs, so it would put me pressing at 95lbs. I can do this just fine, I just need to get 10 reps, right now I am at about 8 reps at 95lbs on my training days so with my muscles fully recovered I should be able to get at least 10 reps. I should say, I am pretty proud of myself, I pressed 135lbs for 2 reps last week. That is more than what I weigh! :) Most importantly, my final goal is to finish my 5k in 30 minutes.

The pump and run goes like this: Participants in my age group press 70% of their weight. For each rep achieved it will knock off 30 seconds from their overall running time. The starting position is in a straight arm position off the bench, one complete rep touches the chest and returns to a straight arm position, however, you CANNOT stop. In order for more reps to be counted you must continually press the bar as if you were doing push ups. Once you pause you are done. The results are judged by the US Marines.

I am pretty nervous but know it will be a lot of fun. The nervousness comes from the fact that this is THE LARGEST pump and run in the country and I have never done a race in my life. I am also nervous because I do not want to come in dead last and I fear I will. The fear is from a lifetime of suffering from asthma and never doing much in the way of activity so I always came in dead last. I never thought I could run or play sports so I never did. I never tried. The positive side to this fear is that I am going to turn it into motivation on race day. I had hoped I would be able to start running outside last week, however, the week before I started to come down with a cold that moved into my chest. I felt better after a couple days and decided to run outside with a friend of mine. I think this made things worse. I have been hacking up phlegm ever since and today I have about completely lost my voice. I can't run outside because it is too cold and I am trying to get better. So, I did my 5k on the treadmill last night and beat my best time, I did it in 33:04. This means I must knock a minute off of each mile. I would be more confident about obtaining my goal if it weren't for the frigid weather, however, it is what it is and I plan to run with everything I have to give next Sunday. Even if I am sick.

Pray for me. Wish me luck!

Goodnight!