Trees and running

Trees - Attached are some photos from Saturday. That's my cousin R piling the last of the limbs onto the pile. My body is no longer sore and I can now walk with my back straight again.

Running - I signed up for my first 10k yesterday! It's the Groton Road Race. I have 4 weeks to train. I'm at 5 miles so far. One more to go!

7

Yup, 7 hours to clean my mother's yard. My body is KILLING me right now. I slept for 12 hours last night. The good news is that her yard has no more trees/limbs. I'll post some pictures soon.

Today W and I bought our appliances. We will be getting them next Monday. My biggest worry is that one of them won't fit. It doesn't matter how many times you measure, it still may not fit. Hopefully this will wow someone to buy the place. C'mon offers!!!

No update

No update on the condo. I went and looked at appliances. I need W's opinion so we are going on Sunday to take a look. 

I'm off to Leominster tonight for a fun filled evening. First off, a 4 mile run at Hopkinton State Park. Then it's off to my sister W2's house to hem her curtains. My first hemming job. Hopefully all will come out ok on it. Later on I'll be enjoying a few libations with my best friend S. 

Saturday morning, the whole reason why I'm going to Leominster, I will be helping my Mom clear out her yard of all the trees that fell during the ice storm back in December.

W will be watching some movie on the Hulk. Probably play WoW. 

We're waiting. . . we're waiting . . .

The lady that came on Friday to see the place came back on Saturday. We haven't heard back yet so I'm thinking she choose some other place. Oh well. That's the first time someone actually came back so perhaps that's a good sign. 

We didn't get to see the Watchmen because of the showing. W wasn't pleased. 

I've been trying to keep up with this darn housecleaning just in case someone wants to see it. W has been a trouper and cleaning too. Thursday I'm going to buy a new oven and refrigerator. The realtor asked if the self cleaning on the oven worked. He said that was the first thing to go on old ovens. I wasn't sure but tried after they left. I couldn't even lock the door so I'm going to say no. 

Most of the condos on sale in my neighborhood are lower in price and have better kitchens. I'm hoping with the new appliances they can over look the not so new counter tops.

I'll keep you posted.

Wicked clean house

We are showing the house again and I think the only positive I can say is "Wow, my house is so clean". Since traffic has picked up greatly we need to keep it "showing" clean from here on out.

My best friend once said "Your house is at it's cleanest the first year you live there". I believe that is true but I think we can add to it "and when you are trying to sell it."

We're both laying low this coming weekend. We're going on a date to see "The Watchmen". Believe it or not, I actually read the book and I don't like comic boo. . ., er, Graphic Novels. I'm hoping to get a dinner out of this too. 

W has his baseball draft on Sunday. I'm hoping to run. That's it!

Ummmm..

W back again, E told me I had to write the blog. Don't know what to really write about.

I did figure out what the blob next to the post on the lower left side of our blog picture is. The back of someones head. That had been bugging me a little not knowing what it was. There was a sloth hanging out in that area of the atrium so at first I though it might be that. But not so lucky, back of someone head is all we get.

We had another person look at our condo, hopefully this one buys it. E really wants to move.

Well that's it for today, hope you are all having a good time. Later.

Trust your instincts

I had another trip into Boston yesterday. This time I was going to the Seaport Hotel. Not that difficult since it's right off of the Pike. I used my Garmin anyway.

First it tells me to get onto 495S. So I assumed it would take me to 95 and I was fine with that. The estimated time of arrival was 7:59, exactly 31 minutes ahead of schedule. It then proceeded to tell me to get onto Route 1. Hmmm, I think, I can just go two more exits and get onto 95 there. Well, I didn't listen to myself and got onto Route 1. ETA now 8:03

It gets worse.

It made me get off onto Route 28. Basically making me drive through all these small towns to get to Boston. I was so irate at that point. I hate to admit it but I did swear at the thing. Many times. ETA 8:26.

It gets worse.

It makes me get onto the Pike only to get off immediately for my exit. UGH!!! ETA 8:34

I found parking pretty easy AND it only cost me $10.

I was about 20 minutes late and they hadn't started because there was a lot of people that still hadn't showed up. Perhaps they went the ask-backwards way I went. I should've listened to myself and gotten on the Pike in the first place. Next time.

Where have we been?

I noticed it's been last week since one of us wrote the blog. We can blame W because that was his homework over the weekend.

I left W on his own again. I feel terrible when I do that. He claims he curls up in a ball on the living room floor and cries until I get home. I checked the rug . . . it was a bit damp. . . hmmm, maybe he does miss me.

I went away to NY to see my relatives. It was a very nice trip. I got to see my Aunt and Uncle that live in VA. We had a birthday party for my other Aunt who just bought a new house, which I got to see.

Bonus for the weekend, I got to run outside both Saturday and Sunday. I even wore shorts on Sunday. Of course today, it snows. Go figure.

Off the beaten path

I wish I could say that my first real use of a GPS didn't get me lost. Let's say I wasn't E lost but it wasn't a direct route.

Stupid tunnels. I lost the connection right as I was getting out of the tunnel and there were two exits. Which way do I go??!! Surprisingly, I took the right exit. It didn't stop there because it's Boston and I had to take an immediate left so no one wanted to let me in. Guess I'll take the next street — what!!! One way?? Wow, I'm surprised (not really).

So it kept recalculating and it would tell me to take a turn but of course by the time it recalculated I missed my turn because traffic was moving. I eventually found the street I needed for parking and the street the building was on. I still had no idea where my actual destination was.

So I parked, went out to the street and started walking . . . in the wrong direction. Not wearing the best shoes for the situation and didn't feel like walking in 20° weather so I stopped and secretly turned on my Garmin in my bag, didn't want anyone to see me using it. I'm so stealthy. Anyways, it proceeded to tell me to turn around and walk 400 yards. Apparently I could of gone in the building via the parking garage. Nice of things to be labeled. 

The situation turned out just fine with a few minutes to spare.  . . then I had to go home. 

I was in a parking garage so it can't pick up a signal. I have no idea which direction to turn when I leave so I guess . . .WRONG! So it recalculated and takes me to God knows where. It made me take a left hand turn into a long line of traffic. Obviously this thing doesn't know how much I despise left hand turns. Someone must've had a good day and they let me in and onto 93 I went. The only other thing the GPS did was tell me to take Route 1 instead of 495 but at that point I knew where I was. 

SNOW!!!!!!!!

W back again, and tired of the stupid snow. Heard on the news yesterday, with that one snow storm we have already surpassed the average snowfall for the month of March. The one good thing is I couldn't make it in to work so I got a day off. Bad news is my golf season just got delayed.

Hope everyone stayed home as well yesterday.

Step forward

W back again with great news on the "ugsome" front. E and I went over to M and L's last night (W's brother and the wife) We played Apples to Apples, with the cousins R and A and the soon to be cousin in law C. If you have not played Apples to Apples it is a great party game and is now one of my favorite games of all times.

So in the mists of playing I recieved a blank card which allows me to write any word I want. Yes, that's write "ugsome" is now a permanant part of our Apples to Apples game set. This is another small step in bringing "ugsome" back to prominence in the English language.