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{September 23, 2013} Today, I went for a walk

This may not sound like big news to anyone and to those who follow my posts about races may think this is a given, but…after what happened last weekend, this is a big deal.

As you know, I turned my ankle not once, not twice, but three times last Saturday. While it’s definitely been getting better, it still hurts and is tender. I have been wearing an ace bandage on it, changed every few days and last night, I decided to take the bandage off, give it some time to heal.

I also haven’t been able to rest it much during the day this past week, during a go-live you’re usually all over the place, walking around to see where you’re needed, after 10 hours on your feet, even though you’re sitting, driving doesn’t feel awesome. Top down on the car definitely helps though!

And before you ask, I have an appointment on Wednesday to have it x-rayed to see if I have done any serious or permanent damage, I’ll keep you posted.

Part of the reason I decided to take off the bandage is that I did some walking yesterday (Pink Power Ranger costume is on it’s way soon EJS!) and I may have overdone it in conjunction with the bandage being too tight. So, in the evening, after we were done running around, I sat with my leg elevated and iced. It was a crap shoot if it hurt or didn’t.

Today was all about taking it easy, good moments and bad, always elevating my leg. Football was on so I was in the bedroom cross stitching, which I am going to tell you all about in another post, and watching movies, not a bad way to spend a Sunday.

I would like to say I slept in due to my new curtains, but not so…yesterday, it was 7:41am and today it was 8:30, really? Well, the curtains we thought were dark enough, were not. I hope I remedied this when I went to the store (I bought a blackout curtain and put it up behind the pretty curtains). I was feeling a bit claustrophobic and antsy, so I got dressed, put on sneakers and headed to Walmart, it’s only about 1/4 mile and I took it slow, but I am still nervous about moving to fast or putting pressure on my feet, it’s going to take some time, I’ve done this before, but it’s usually better in a few days. My appointment on Wednesday will tell.

Well, I walked to Walmart, around the store and then walked home and up a flight of stairs to get to the appointment, as sad as this sounds, that was enough for me.

I know what it’s like when you’ve been sick for a while and then you have a good day and decide I’m going to climb Mt Fuji. Well, I’m happy to say I didn’t overdo it and I’ve been sitting with my leg raised and icing since the, well, after I made banana bread!

Time to get a little more cross stitch in before I sign off and get some sleep!

{September 22, 2013} How many action movie references can one movie have?

DCM and I sat down to watch one of our fa fa fa favorite movies, The Expendables 2.

I thought I had blogged about this movie when we saw it and I apologize if I didn’t (need to do a better search to make sure I didn’t) and if I didn’t, you know I will be more than happy to blog about it!

One of the things we loved was the star power, all these great action heroes from the 80s, Stallone, Schwarzenegger, Willis, Norris, Lundgren, Li (as in Jet), Van Damme and…hold your breath ladies, Jason Statham!

The other thing we loved were all the bad one liners and references to 80s movies, the stars were making fun off themselves, it was awesome. So tonight, I am going to list as many cheesy bits and when they happen, enjoy. (And if you haven’t seen the movie, sorry for the spoiler alerts, but where you been?)

The movie opens with rescue misson, the truck had a battering ram that said ‘knock knock!’
7 minutes: Terry Crewes to Schwarzenegger, regarding his very large gun, his baby “If I don’t get my baby back, you’ll be terminated.”
21 minutes: Bruce Willis to Stallone’ “All this male pattern badness” what?
41 minutes: Stallone “Track ’em, Find ’em, Kill ’em”
57 minutes: Chuck Norris comes walking around the side of a building to Wild West music, possibly Fist Full of Dollars theme.
59 minutes: the classic Chuck Norris joke, which Chuck Norris tells! Stallone: “I heard a rumor that you got bitten by a king cobra”, Norris: “Yeah, and after five days of excruciating pain, the snake died” (I think DCM may wet himself he’s laughing so hard right now!)
1:01 They are driving into a village and getting shot at and Statham says: “The safest place to be is in front of their guns!”
1:04 Let me set the scene…the bad guys walk into a church, there is a priest wearing a robe with a hood speaking Latin, the next thing you know…da da da..as Jason Statham lifts his head and is revealed, he said “With the power vested in me, I now pronounce you man and knife” and then proceeds to kick the crap out of at least 5 guys. (C’mon girls, big collective sigh, ahhh)
1:07 Again, let me set the scene. The ENTIRE rescue crew except for Maggie and Jason Statham open fire on the last bad dude and when he’s down, Stallone says “Rest in pieces”
1:08 when the team gets to the mine and they formulate a plan and they are about to put it into action, you get the requisite action movie slow-mo walk, creates more drama that way, you know. (My favorite use of this technique, Shrek, after saving the princess, he, Fiona and Donkey are running through the castle..but in slow motion…)
1:13 Rescue mission has the team trapped with the captive miners, there is a rumbling, the wall comes crashing in, Schwarzenegger gets out with a stogie in his mouth “I’m back” (rescue ensues)
1:17 They are now in an airport, where the the big gun battle is happening (and a crap ton of one liners are coming up) and the guy about to shoot Stallone is killed they look up and there is Chuck Norris with his theme music (which, if you’ve ever seen I’m Gonna Git You Sucka, you learn that every action hero has his own theme music)
1:18 Schwarzenegger, to Willis, “I’m out, I’ll be bach” Willis to Schwarzenegger, “You’ve been back enough, I’ll be back!”
1:18 Schwarzenegger shaking his head “Yippie ki yeah”
1:18 Norris steps up next to Schwarzenegger and is shooting everyone, stealing Schwarzenegger’s thunder, turns to Norris, “Who is next, Rambo?”
1:19 Willis spins a little baby “carlet”, also known as a Smart Car, Schwarzenegger yanks the door off the car, gets in “My shoe is bigger dan this cah” (you are reading all these Schwarzenegger lines in his voice, aren’t you?)
1:20 Norris knocks a bad dude into the security carry on carry on scanner and it starts to move and as he proceeds to shoot this person full of holes, we are privy to see the X-ray as he is going through the scanner.
1:31 After all the fights, everyone is saying goodbye and Willis tells Stallone he got him and ‘The Little Rascals’ a ride home, it’s a prop plane, very old. Stallone says, ” That belongs in a museum”. Schwarzenegger replies “Ve all do”
1:32 Very last scene (BIG SHAME on me for not making the connection this time!) Jason Statham turns to Stallone (Rocky Balboa, duh!) on the plane, who’s face looks like someone took a meat tenderizer to it and says “From one friend to another” “yeah?” “You really need to learn to fight”

There you have it friends! One liners to put a smile on your face. Now go watch this movie! (If you haven’t and if you have, watch it again!)

{September 20, 2013} We have curtains, I’m sleepin’ in!

I don’t know if there’s been a Saturday that we have slept in since I’ve been here, well, it’s time.

This morning, I made an executive decision (that’s what’s what I texted DCM this morning!)…I want to sleep in tomorrow and we need curtains to block out that big ball of light that comes through the window every day!

As it happens, my skis were ready to be picked up from being adjusted and there is a Bed Bath & Beyond near the Sports Authority in Boulder, so third decision, let’s go to Abo’s pizza for dinner, perfect! (Do you remember when i told you about going for pizza and coming back with skis, well, these were the locations).

First stop, yummy pizza from Abo’s, then across the street to pick up my skis, then off to BB&B for curtains! You know I had about 15 coupons in my bag! They are the only store I know that will take coupons that have expired! I am using coupons from 2005!

We went to look at the curtains and decided on a set, nice, double lined, good for sleeping in and blocking out the sun. On the way to the register, we stopped by the bedding department, I really wanted a new comforter, so we looked and looked and looked, and finally settled on a nice combo, it came with a comforter, bed skirt, 2 decorative pillows and 3 pillow shams, now we just need something to fill them!

We got home, put up the curtain rod that we bought a while ago, get this…metal beams in the walls, what? It took a bit for DCM to find a stud or just not metal to drill for the brackets! It was bizarre!

After all is said and done, we have very nice curtains and bedding, I am very happy! Me to furnish the rest of the room!

Ok, it’s late, it’s been a very long week and I’ve had to get up at 5:30 every morning this week, I’m going to bed and please don’t call or text before Sunday! Kidding! Wish me luck on sleeping in!

Goodnight!

{September 20, 2013} The Family

Tonight DCM and I went to see the family, once we saw the preview we knew we needed to see this movie, it had all the elements, gangsters, explosions, intimidation, guns, family, Robert De Niro , Michelle Pfieffer and Tommy Lee Jones.

It was written and directed by Luc Besson, which I didn’t know until they rolled the credits, but it made things fall into place after that. Luc Besson is best known for The Fifth Element [I need to review this, I could go on for hours!], The Messenger, The Transporter [OMG! IMDB.com is showing Transporter 4, 5, 6, WHAT? well, as long as Jason Statham is in it, I’m good with that, right ladies?].

I have to admit that we both walked away from this movie kind of adrift. It was ok, but it wasn’t that good, the trailers really had the best parts in it.

The family was in interesting dynamic. Dad, who was the former head of the family who testified against the family and has been on the run in the witness protection program for about ten years. The reason they are on the run is that something always happens, they kill someone, blow something up, potentially blow their cover. I say they because the entire family is suited for this lifestyle.

It was kind of fun, well, there were aspects of fun to De Niro’s character’s handle when he was aggravated or crossed, he took some things to extreme measures, others to extreme and final measures and then the fun ones were when he got angry and imagined what he would do those who offended.

Michelle Pfeiffer plays the mom, and she will put up with only so much before she might blow up a building [not a spoiler, it’s in the preview]. Diana Argon, Quinn from Glee is the daughter, a 17 year old who finds love, but has a serious problem with anger management, WOW! She gets her heart broken, but doesn’t actually cry until she kills some hit men, interesting. More interesting, she was wearing a white dress and pearls, so put together wielding firearms and killing the bad guys after her family.

John D’Leo is the son and he is the stereotypical mobsters kid, like you’ve seen in the movies. He goes to school the first day and gets the lay of the land, so to speak, he knows who is who and who is what and what he would need to do to get by and ahead. A little bit con artist, extortionist, enforcer, he runs away from home at one point because he was afraid the FBI would blame the family for his indiscretions.

Tommy Lee Jones is the FBI agent in charge of keeping the family alive because the entire organized crime syndicate wants them dead, you can tell he’s a little tired of the job, especially when they keep moving around ever nine months!

There were some good scenes in the beginning, a few in the middle and then there was action at the end. As I mentioned, it was ok, just not that great. I can tell you we liked it, but won’t be adding it to the collection.

Oh, and the dog lived! you know that’s all I really cared about!

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2404311/?ref_=sr_1

{September 17, 2013} Channeling my mom! Fresh really is best!

The past few weeks I have been channeling my mom and making some great food.

My mom was an amazing cook, she could make almost anything, she was a bit of a foodie, so that was to her advantage. She was great at pairing different things to drink with food, like beers and wine, being creative with food.

When I became a vegetarian, she was terrific, she would find different and new recipes to cook for me, I’m not sure if she thought or hoped it was/would be a phase, but she took it all in stride and went all out! Vegetarian chopped liver, meatballs, you name it, she probably tried it!

She was so great that she would sometimes make something for her and myself and something else for my dad and sister, they weren’t as big on trying some of her creations and sometimes she would make something just for me.

There were things she made or ate that I didn’t care for at the time, pesto, goat cheese being two of them, but as I have gotten older, I’ve found that my tastes have changed. When I first became a vegetarian, I didn’t like a lot of vegetables! Don’t ask! VL introduced me to a love of raw mushrooms and every once in a while when I buy a package of mushrooms and I’m munching while I’m driving, I think of him, thanks VL!

My mom made the best pesto, even had basil in the garden at the summer house. I’ve made it before, it was good and a few weeks ago, I was at the farmers market and bought a basil plant, so I made some more…how much fun is it to pull ingredients that you have in the house, especially fresh ones, like big basil leaves for a tomato/basil/mozzarella! Then last week, I made some pesto and put it in an ice cube tray and froze it, it will be yummy this winter! I was even dipping mushrooms in it for a snack, yum!

It’s such an easy recipe: basil, olive oil, pine nuts, garlic and Parmesan cheese.
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/food-network-kitchens/basil-pesto-recipe2/index.html

I used to only like fried eggplant, then I discovered a love of almost everything eggplant, especially, baba ganoush, it’s an eggplant spread and so simple: eggplant, olive oil, tahini, garlic, salt, couldn’t be simpler!
http://www.thekitchn.com/recipe-baba-ghanoush-smoky-eggplant-dip-30084

I have always loved hummus, it’s delicious! Great with pita or veggies and it comes in different favors, go to the grocery store and look in the produce section, you’ll find a bunch of them! When my family lived in Israel for a summer, I ate hummus almost every day, y u m!
Another simple recipe: chick peas, olive oil, garlic, salt
http://mideastfood.about.com/od/appetizerssnacks/r/hummusbitahini.htm

I took my first try at baba ganoush to girls night last week, they loved it. There is a poker game here tomorrow night, they are in for a treat!

Thanks to my mom, I have a palate that enjoys the finer things, but also a love of experimenting, trying new things and cooking, I’m doing it a little more all the time. I know she would have loved what I made and I will tell you this…I am not buying any of these in the store anymore! Mine is better!

Thanks mommy!

{September 17, 2013} Movie Count

I was watching Star Trek, the remake, no wait, the new…wait, no, the 2009 version with Chris Pine for what felt like the zillionth time (yes, I know that’s not a word, well, it is now, it’s in black and white and it’s on the Internet and you know what they say, everything you find on the Internet is true, so…)

As I’m watching it, I realized that there are so many movies that I have watched multiple times and I would love to know how many, so going forward I am going to keep track, how many times I see it in the theater, for example, I know I saw this Star Trek in the theater three times! Harry Potter:1, 2, 3, 4 I saw in the theater at least 2 times each, Stardust, at least twice in the theater and once on a flight to Paris, just to name a few examples. I couldn’t tell you how many times at home at this point!

So, my plan is to think about movies that I’ve seen and how many times in the theater and start to keep track of movies as I watch them on TV or my collection.

Be on the lookout!

{September 16, 2013} Run For Your Lives (for real!), Break Fast and Breakfast

So as to know, I participated in the Run For Your Lives 5k obstacle run yesterday. It’s funny, someone asked if I did the run yesterday because I didn’t post anything on Facebook or text.

Here’s why and then what the rest of my day and today was like because they were better.(and be prepared, this may take a while!)

I also realized that I didn’t get anyone to take my picture, so I won’t have any of me this time, oh well, maybe there will be one on the race page that I can tag and my friends can see it.

I flew in on Friday night as you know, drove 1.5 hours to Dalton, GA to spend the night, no way I was getting up before the sun to drive all the way down to run a race. I’ve started doing that, if the race is more than an hour, I will spend the night and sometimes, even if its an hour away, could be a fun night out.

I got up in the morning, got ready, requested a late checkout so I would have a place to shower, thank goodness! I had plans later and wasn’t going home first. I headed out, got cash for parking and was on my way. I got the with enough time to check in, check my bag in, get an Atlanta zombie shirt and line up for my heat.

Last year, I really enjoyed the run, it was at a dirt bike park track in the woods and it had been raining, so it was muddy, muddy, muddy. (Friends on Facebook, look for those photos from last year) we lined up in three corrals based on your pace (appetizer: 7-9 min mile, entree: 9-11 min mile and dessert, 12-14 min mile, guess where I was, yup, sweet sweet sweet).

It was so muddy that I lost the soles in both my shoes, almost lost a shoe at one of the obstacles. The obstacles yesterday weren’t in abundance or that spectacular, they seemed more like other obstacle races, last year there were hay bales, mud pits, mud bogs.

This year, except for the places they made muddy, it was DRY, DRY, DRY. Not that much fun running or walking on dry, huge rocks, so there were not many people running, partly because of the rocks, but it felt like the entire course was uphill and the downhills were straight down! People were complaining and getting hurt!

The zombies were in abundance, and they were great, the thing I liked better this year, the zombies weren’t as aggressive or body checking people, which they were rejected for last year. There is one zombie, KR, who I also met at the Vampire 5k earlier this year, he posted that it was great to see me, he’s great, he has two extra heads on his shoulders (ha ha) and squirts water at people.

There were doctor zombies, nurse zombies, (I told them I had lost all faith in the medical community that day!) mommies, kids, cheerleaders, brides, prom queens, you name it, it was probably there! The cool thing was that after you finished running, you could have volunteered to be a zombie, how fun would that be!

Unfortunately, I wasn’t able to do most of the obstacles because…wait for it, as I was told by one zombie, I figured out how to avoid or survive the zombie apocalypse, I was injured! Just at the start, I stepped in one of the hundreds of holes, there was one zombie actually standing in one so people wouldn’t fall in, I wasn’t so lucky, stepped in one and turned my right ankle, I felt and heard “POP!” Ouch! I started limping and several people asked if I was alright, even the zombies asked if I wanted medical attention, no not from the zombie doctors! Everyone was very nice! I said no thanks, I’m going to try to walk it off and I am going to finish!

There were a bunch of people who got picked up and driven back on golf carts, it was bad. Eventually they were starting to put out flags to mark the holes…

So, as I’m walking it off and looking pathetic I did it again! Darn it! But I was going on! I kept limping and let me tell you, zombies are actually quite sympathetic when you look that pathetic! They even asked if I was injured! I told some of them they could go for my flags, I wasn’t moving any faster! Some even gave me flags back! (The flags were cool this year, had the logo on them!)

I don’t remember if you recall from yesterday’s post about how Yom Kippur crossed over into the zombie run…one of the zombie nuns was approaching and I said “So, sister, tell me all your bad habits!” I thought it was funny, so did she!(DCM is rolling his eyes right now) and she said, I’m Jewish! I asked if she was fasting! She was, said she had a talk with g-d and it was alright, she was drinking water. I wished her an easy fast and a good Yom Tov! The world is very small!

So, I limped my way through the course and along the way met a lot of cool people, we all talked about different runs that we’ve done and liked. I met a really cool family, J and her husband, C, who lost his glasses, I really hope they got lucky and found them! They were with their daughter and one of her friends. This was their first, they were in from Charlotte, NC, so of course I had tell her about the run I did there and I would be back. We traded email addresses, I hope we’ll keep in touch! I’m hoping she comes to Atlanta for the Hot Chocolate in January!

(For anyone new to reading my blog, specifically J & C, they’re not all this long! Sometimes I just have a lot to say!)

After the run, I collected my gear and headed to the medical tent. There, the EMT looked at my ankle, I told him I did a number on it, he said, woah! And called another EMT over to look at what I done, see, told ya! I don’t do anything half way! He wrapped my ankle up, I found out I could get the wrap wet and it would harden, so far so good.

So…here’s where it gets a little worse, as I’m limping and apparently looking pathetic, a nice guy offered to give me a ride back to my car, on his bike. I had seen him earlier talking to people who worked there, so I said thank you, if it wouldn’t be too much trouble. Well, I climb on to the TEENY TINY back seat, held on and away we went. Very nice bike, by the way orange and black soft tail, too loud for my tastes, but in great shape!

He told me it wouldn’t be smooth, due to all the rocks, no problem, we took the street for part of it. We are ow I the parking area and it’s straw and grass, about 1/4 mile from my car,we are taking a left turn and I’m not sure if it was too fast, all of a sudden, a serious flash, I am on my back with a motorcycle on top of me! In a flash, there were about six people surrounding us picking up the bike, which was good because the foot peg had dug into my LEFT ankle! When I stood up, everyone was checking that I was ok,the driver included, we checked each other out, we were fine, no worse for wear, but better than his bike, the shifter snapped off! He was not going to be able to ride that bike anywhere, luckily he had his truck.

When I was sure he was alright, other people were helping him, I hobbled to my car. It didn’t take very long for the golf ball sized lump to appear on my ankle, pretty solid thing! It’s going to turn very pretty colors! If you’re lucky, I’ll share pictures! Let’s just say this morning, it was tough to get out of bed! I can tell were the bruises are going to be on my left side and backside, but I am lucky, it’s no where near what I had when I crashed my bike a few years ago.

Alright, you heard about my morning, lets move on to the good stuff! (By the way, this all happened before 12:30pm!)

I went back to the hotel for a hot shower, was not as muddy as I have been, thankfully for the hotel cleaning staff! I got in the car and headed downtown to meet some friends for dinner and to Break the Fast, perfect, with my friends. I stopped off at an outlet mall for some retail therapy, it helped my wardrobe for work, not my feet…

I was meeting some of the gang at Yeah Burger in VA Highland, I love it! CKM was there, of course, and first to arrive so we caught up a bit, but I didn’t want to give too many details for fear of repetition, shortly after, DL, my former co-worker and dear friend and her husband, ML, (and CKM and I finally got her to agree to do the Hot Chocolate 5k with us!) we caught up for a few minutes. It was ML’s birthday Friday, Happy Birthday M! Next was SDL and Miss A, you know I scooped that one up and barely let go! Next was TS, looking fabulous as always! I was so excited to hear what she has going on and coming up!

Rounding out the group was another couple who are former co-workers, JC and CC and their adorable son, M, he has gotten so big! I think CC is going to do the Hot Chocolate as well!

We had a great time, ate (I broke the fast with a delicious hand made veggie burger with goat cheese, yum!) caught up, laughed and had the best time! It’s never enough time, but it was great. I was so happy they were able to come out to dinner! I’ll be back, I can’t wait to see them again and if I missed you this time, hope you can join us next time!

After dinner, CKM, SDL and Miss A and I went for dessert around the corner, they had gelato and I had a crepe, yum! We talked a bit more, as we always do and as we are getting to SDL’s car, I walk off the curb and TURN MY FREAKING RIGHT ANKLE, what?!? OUCH! I yelled out quite a few expletives, apologizing the whole time, thank goodness Miss A isn’t repeating what we say! I felt sooo stupid!

SLD gave me a ice pack and after a while, drove me to CKM’s car, who drove me to mine. I felt so stupid! I did feel a little better when she gave me my birthday presents early! I got a stack of books, a patch for climbing Stone Mountain and what I asked for…”whirled peas”! When we were kids, my sister and I would ask my dad what he wanted for his birthday…his response was a digital watch and peace on earth or world peace! So what did I get? Whirled peas! Thank you!!!

I drove home, finished my post, elevated and iced my ankle, as instructed, and passed out!

Are you ok? Need a nap, get a glass of water? (you have to pack as much as possible when the time is short)

Today, I got up and went to meet LK and her three girls, K, J and K. The youngest, K had asked if I would come in for her birthday, it’s in two weeks, of course I wanted to and…it just worked out perfectly. We met at Mimi’s Cafe for a fantastic breakfast and fun. I think I’ve seen them more since if moved than in the last two years I was I Atlanta, I have a lot of time to make up for. When we got there, the youngest K, gave me a bracelet that she made for me, I love it! How did she know I love jewelry made by my nieces?

I told them I would see them when I am back in a we months, we took pictures, gave hugs and kisses, love and we were off!

It was so good to see them ad we would have spent more time together, but one had a softball game, one had a soccer game and I had playtime duties!

I headed to SDL’s house to play with Miss A while SDL mowed the lawn. We played, talked, giggled, ate caught up a little more since last night and a few hours later, it was time to head for the airport.

I dropped off the car, hobbled through security and off we went.

I hope you aren’t too wiped out from my adventure! I need for recoup! Thank goodness I don’t have to get up early tomorrow! I need a nap! Good night!

{September 14, 2013} Run for Your Lives, It’s Yom Kippur or It’s Yom Kippur, Run For Your Lives

No matter how you say it, it just sounds wrong!

The reason I mention both in the title is that they both occurred today and one played in the other which I will explain.

Last week I told you about the start of the Jewish New Year, Rosh Hashanah, the High Holy Days, culminating ten days later on the holiest day of the year, Yom Kippur, known as the Day of Atonement. Yom Kippur is observed with a fast from sunset the day before, last night, to sunset touch. Traditionally it is observed in prayer and most often in synagogue, or temple. Fasting helps us focus on prayers and reflections of our lives.

As the day of atonement, it is a time for us to ask forgiveness from people we may have wronged and as we hope that our names were written in the book of life on Rosh Hashanah, on Yom Kippur, the book is sealed and our fate is sealed for the next year.

In greetings, as we talked about greetings during Rosh Hashanah, and during Yom Kippur, you would wish someone an easy fast and a good Yom Tov.

There are a LOT of rules associated with Yom Kippur, I’ve attached a link to give you more information and insight.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yom_Kippur

Everyone participates in their own way, I used to go to services more often, and…Rosh Hashanah and Yom Kippur have the highest attendance rates in synagogues, those who may not be very religious, tend to go for these two holidays as they are the most holy and on Yom Kippur, we observe a special service for those who are no longer with us. It is a somber time, but a joyous one that we are here to celebrate another year of life and be with those we are close to.

Traditionally you “break fast” with a piece of challah (a traditional Jewish braided bread) or maybe a piece of rugelach, a wonderful Jewish pastry. My sister used to keep a small ziplock full of rugelach, that our grandma M used to bring us from a great Jewish bakery in Brooklyn for the holiday, in the car and the second service were over, she’d be in the car eating a sweet while we drove home for a wonderful dinner of traditional foods that my mother and grandmother would cook.

(I’m smiling thinking about it…home made chicken soup, gefilte fish, kreplach, brisket and/or chicken and wonderful desserts: grandmas home made apple sauce and rugelach)

As I said, I do not go to synagogue like I used to, but I do observe the fast and I never work on Yom Kippur, I observe in my own way.

I liked the title of my post at first, but I realized now that I only want to devote this post to Yom Kippur and I will tell you about the run tomorrow. (Run for your Lives is a 5k obstacle course I ran today).

So, as I said in my post on Facebook, my wish to you…”Wishing all my friends and family an easy fast, may you find the answers you seek this day of atonement and may you be inscribed in the book of life for another year”

{September 13, 2013} Today, I fulfilled a fantasy!

Why you cheeky monkeys! I told you, this is a family blog! My dad reads m blog, hi Daddy!

So, today, I fulfilled a fantasy…I’m a simple girl, this is a a simple fantasy…I got on a plane with nothing more than a purse, yes, I said a purse, that’s another story for another day.

Let me ‘splain, no there is too much, let me sum up. (I hope you got the reference, I know my movie buff friends did , but for those of you who didn’t get it, it’s from The Princess Bride, ahh…you know, “Hello, my name is Indigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die, I could go on!)

I travel a bit, not as much as some, more than others, well, that’s what i have been told anyway! A lot of times I am traveling for work and when I’m not, I’m usually working remotely, so, what do I take with me? My laptop…who in the world of computers, software, sales, etc. doesn’t take their laptop with them?

So, I normally have my laptop bag with me and it’s heavy. I also take what was original a canvas lunch bag and put a few things in it so I can put my knapsack in the overhead, and put the lunch bag under the seat in front of me. It usually has my iPad, book, phone, maybe a cross stitch I’m working on. Well, the idea of going through security with nothing more than maybe a little bag, even just a book and/or my iPad, not having to take everything out and put it on the conveyor and maybe getting through quickly and without sweating carrying the backpack to the gate has been something I have thought about for a long time, but not something I could ever do.

I am going to Atlanta for the weekend for a race, go figure, and best of all, to see my friends, I’m going to be there barely 48 hours, don’t need my laptop have my iPad! I need something to blog on! (Yes I could use my phone, but much easier on a big screen).

Don’t laugh, but I checked a bag, here’s the sad part, there is a duffle inside my huge duffle. There are about 5 items of clothes for the weekend in there and in the inner duffle…my mud run kit, extra clothes sneakers, towel, bags, crazy.

Bottom line is…my fine friends, today I did it! Yeah me! Fantasy fulfilled!

Wait, how sad is my existence when one of my fantasies is to take a flight with nothing more than just a bag/purse? Ah who cares? It’s my fantasy!

(I hope you’re totally laughing at the end of this, because I am and I know you can hear my voice in your heads! Muwahaha)

{September 10, 2013} Paws are done!

It was a very long day that ended quite pleasantly.

It started off very early, out the door by 7, to ensure I got there by 8, which I did (I’ll tell you about where I am going in another post) and there was SNOW on the ground! What? Well, it turns out there was a monstrous hail storm yesterday, in some places dropping three feet of snow!

I practiced, did a teach back (explain later) and it went well. Then it was off to physical therapy, I gave myself almost 40 minutes to get there and I needed it! At PT, there was an intern, S, she is in high school and doing a rotation of internships to see if PT might be a direction she wants to go. She got to experience my issues and watch my fabulous therapist work stuff out, I feel so bad for her when I react so strongly, but it just means she’s doing a good job, right? S was looking up my symptoms on the Mayo Clinic website, ugh! At least we laugh a lot!

After PT, I had just enough time to get to Tuesday Morning, buy some pretty containers to take hummus and my home made baba ganoush with me to Girls Night Out! I ran home, well, drove, transferred the wonderful dips to the new containers, ran back out the door, jumped in the car and drove to Boulder to meet the girls for some papering!

I stopped at Sprouts to pick up pita chips and then my gps decided to take me on a tour of Boulder. I finally found the nail salon and went it, everyone had already started on the pampering and the food and drink, I had to catch up!

So, the title of my post, Paws are done, for those of you not in the know, guys, that refers to paws and claws, manicure and pedicure or mani/pedi for short. So, now you know, if someone says they got their paws and claws done, pampered and happy!

It felt so great to sit in the massage chairs, feet in the hot bath getting prepped, having some good food and drink, JS had gone on a girls weekend to Sonoma so she brought the wine, of course! And just relaxing and catching up. While we were sitting there, we started talking about next months GNO and the next month and the next month! We had multiple things for each month! I think. We’re planned out through March, or could be!

I suggested a 5k, either straight run or obstacle, I had to explain that I would never suggest one of the hard core ones, you know that involve electricity, ice baths, stuff like that! There are so many options, I do have a taker for a mud run in October, I’m going to see if I can get a few more of the girls interested, but…

It was decided for next month, we are doing the Hot Chocolate 5k! I know, I did this one in January with CKM, but everyone is so excited and who couldn’t use an extra sweatshirt! I think this is going to be so much fun!

So, it’s been a long day, but my toes look fabulous in deep purple, it felt great to get pampered and spend time with new friends, can’t wait to see some of my besties this weekend when I am in Atlanta.

I just hope this fabulous pedi will see me rough the zombie run on Saturday!

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