I tried a new frozen lunch today. I was a little wary since it was a frozen falafel. Nine times outta ten a frozen falafel is a fail. Ooo, I love alliteration.
Howevah, after eating TaDah, my mind has been changed. It was flavorful and delicious.
Oh and they provide good advice and warnings:
How true, how true.
I had a pretty awesome weekend, if I do say so myself. We traveled down to Raleigh to celebrate my brother’s girlfriend’s Masters degree. Woohoo, Sarah!
It started off with some baseball:
The Durham Bulls have a pretty cool ballpark. It was a great night and there were fireworks soooo…
My brother’s gf graduated the next day
Can you find her?
It was a great weekend visiting with family and meeting new family members.
This week is a testing week which = not a lot of fun. Our tests are all online which means I get to walk around a watch them click through answers. Not really, my group has been good about actually trying to answer the questions.
Finished the Flying Pig Half Marathon in 3:27! If you haven’t checked your results…and why has it taken you this long? Go here!
The Pig was awesome this year. I feel like I say that every year, but it’s true every year.
First off, how can any day be bad when your morning looks like this?
A little blurry, but you get the jist.
Mom and I made our way to corral H, the blog isn’t called thelastcorral for nothing! We found a secret way to get to our corral. Okay maybe not really a secret, but it took us 10 years to figure it out!
Corral H had some beautiful scenery as well.
The Pig officials were playing songs that were either by Boston or had to do with Boston. The one that was stuck in my head all day was The Standells, “Dirty Water.”
Before the race started there was a moment of silence followed by “Amazing Grace” played on the bagpipes. It was pretty touching.
Then before we started we saw not one, but two rainbows!
At 6:30 we were off…well corral’s A-F were off, we waited about 20 minutes to be off. Once we got started it was pretty smooth sailing. The one thing I know I need to work on are hills. We just don’t have that many in Virginia Beach, funny huh? I could definitely feel the hills in my thighs and hips, but that’s really my only complaint.
There was definitely a larger police presence this year, and that was okay. There was a police officer or State Trooper at every intersection and water stop. They were also peppered throughout busy/popular sections of town. I know my mom and I felt safe.
Here’s the numbers:
15.34 – number of miles completed that day, according to my mom’s iPod
1- missed handoff of water leading to one glass of water being spilled down my leg
6 - “Awwws” from other racers upon reading my mom and I’s t-shirts
3 (at least) – times someone said that, “It’s all downhill from here” when it really wasn’t.
15? – water stops. The volunteers (Grunt’s) are always awesome. There wouldn’t be a race without all the volunteers at water stops, at the Expo and at the finish line.
Uncountable – number of creative signs along the course. My favorites, “WTH! Why the Hills?”, “I’m a stranger, but I’m proud of you!”, “I like Pig Butts and I cannot lie.”, “If this were easy, I’d be doing it.”
2- Number of states we walked through
33,582 – number of participants for the entire weekend of events.
10 – number of years mom and I have walked this race. Yup, we’re pretty spectacular.
We ended the day, the best way possible
UDF milkshake! Oh UDF I miss you in Virginia!
Another great Pig! Thanks to the race organizers, volunteers, spectators, and police. We couldn’t have done it without you!
Mama just didn’t say that they would follow one right after the other. Thanks mama…!
Who am I kidding? I can’t stay mad at that!
But seriously mom you didn’t specify that they could be concurrent days.
I uttered these words today, “Thank you for putting both feet on the ground and not sticking your head out the window!” Yup mark that up to things I never thought I’d say.
The day started innocently enough taking walks for breaks from the classroom, parking your imaginary car in the hallway….
Then things got…hectic…
I had to remind my little Dora to not draw on her face with Expo marker. That would be no bueno. Things got progressively worse from there. Here are the top hits:
sticking her head and arms out of the window
screaming right in my face in a very high-pitched octave
climbing on the desks
banging the keyboard on the computer table
and the kicker…while holding my lovely child’s hands to make her stop doing something (I can’t remember what) she licked me. Yup, licked me like I was her baby cat. It was the grossest thing…ever.
After all those shenanigans I went to the grocery store and got some chocolate milk…
No, I didn’t drink all the above chocolate milk, but I did have some!
To top off the wonderfulness of today, I was making dinner, salmon if you must know. I took the salmon out of the oven to put on the topping and then went to put it back in the oven…with my bare hands.
Who needs oven mitts when you’ve got hands of asbestos? Me. Yes, me. I do.
It’s a good thing the dish didn’t shatter when I slammed it back on the oven. Oy.
I must be lonely…or not. Maybe I’m just driving…or have insomnia…
But I have noticed some things.
A) radio stations play whatever they want at this time. Seriously whatever. Boys in the hood on easy listening? Sure why the hell not?!
B) cops are super hard to pick out. I mean really. But the. One you do see one everything and everything reflective looks like a potential police car.
C) no one else is awake at this time. Weird!
D) even if it is 3 AM people still find it hilarious to make you walk through the zig zaggy crowd control lines. Jerks
Happy Friday! I have been enjoying my final day in Ohio by using up gift cards and making delicious Cheddar Scones. Really, they are da bomb! I put a note on them that they were terrible and that no one else should eat them, lest they want to suffer awful stomach pains. I don’t think it’s going to work…
Okay here we go!
1) My family members are horrible enablers. Yes it’s true. Just take a look:
What is in Emily’s Emergency Drawer you ask? Well take a gander:
Yep, it’s sideways, I can’t figure out how to make it go the other way. Anyway, in the drawer there is a pair of pajamas, $1.50, a pack of gum, a pair of socks, and yep you see correctly a three pack of underwear.
How am I ever going to learn how to pack correctly if they keep giving me things…;)
3) I got the new Ben Folds Five album for Christmas. I love it. I’ve listened to it three times already. The first song on the album is Erase Me, I’m obsessed!
4) We went and saw the movie Hitchcock tonight. It was good. Very well played by Anthony Hopkins, Helen Mirren, and Toni Collette.
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5) I don’t normally talk football on the blog, but the past two bowl games I’ve watched and been ridiculous. I’m looking at you Virginia Tech and Cincinnati!
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Exactly.
Welp, I hope y’all had a great Friday. Don’t get snowed in! I’m going to try to skip town before I do!
How true, how true.
The Durham Bulls have a pretty cool ballpark. It was a great night and there were fireworks soooo…
Can you find her?
