Hot enough for ya??!!

W000h, today is a doozy. No running outside for me. I hate treadmill running but come to find out, I hate running in this heat even more. I'd like to thank everyone again for your support, I so appreciate it!

On Sunday we also showed our condo to prospective buyers. I don't think anything will come of it. We are going to have open houses soon but our schedule on the weekends have been booked solid. I think the first one will be May 17th. That just seems so far away. 

W wants everyone to know how pumped he is that the Red Sox won 11 straight games. Now only if this happens in September too. 

Going the distance

I did it! I finished my first 10k in 1 hour and 6 minutes. It's a 10:40 minute mile. I don't think I could have done a better job especially in that heat. I didn't make my goal but I also hadn't been running in 85 degree weather when I was training. Some one past out during the race. I continually hydrated myself in fear of the same thing happening to me. I did have to walk for about 5 minutes but I was glad because I got my second wind.

Highlights from the race: (1) W came with me for support. Him being there helps me out greatly and I love him for it. (2) I got to the 5th mile and I thought "wow, I'm doing lousy". I thought I was at the 4th mile. What a great feeling that was to know I only had 1.4 not 2.4 miles to go. (3) They had spray stations throughout the race. Cooled me right down.

I don't have any pics from the race but here's the t-shirt design, my time, and my number.

To my friend B - note who was supporting the race.

My first 10k

Sunday will be my first 10k. The race is at one o'clock and because this is New England, it will also be 85 degrees out. To think I thought it would be safe to run in early Spring.

I was originally going to run with friends from High School but they have kids who have sports so they are unable to make it. The good news is that my friend from work that I have been running with is going, along with her husband. Now I have to convince W to go. He won't run but be there for support.

My goal is to do at least a 10 minute mile. In my practice runs I've been a steady Eddie at 9:50 so things are looking good.

Wish me luck!

Long week

W back again and I needed that long weekend, work this week has been one long series of computer failures. Which culminated in my own workstation dying in a rather loud and smokey way. (The last working Commodore 64 has past away.)

Good news is they had to upgrade me to the systems everyone else the building was upgraded to a year ago and I got big new flat screen that doesn't take up half my desk. Bad news is they gave me about half the programs I need so I can't do most of my work.

Well I'll keep at the computer classes and hopefully I'll be on the other end of these problems soon.

Hope everyone is doing well.

Comments anyone?

We noticed that not to many people write comments on our blog. I wasn't sure if anyone reads them and if it would be helpful to show the comments along with the blog of the day.

Any comments on the subject?

Long weekend

W back again and really happy because today starts my first three day weekend in over a year. Since last April I've had to work every Saturday of a holiday weekend, but today I'm off.

Started the weekend right with poker with Bro in law S last night. Then tonight we head to brother M's to have game night. In between we have to show the condo to somebody (please buy it).

Last night I did find a great new beer (well new to me) Smithwicks, thanks for the suggestion cousins R and A. It's made by Guinness and is basically a lighter version of the Guinness we all know and love.

What's everyone else doing with there long weekend?????

Happy Spring!

It's been so nice out. It's supposed to be like this all week. Great running days!

I went to my sister W2's house after work on Monday to help her out for a couple of days. Her husband J was on a business trip. After W2 and I were discussing the babies sleeping habits and for the most part, they sleep well at night, they kept us up all night long. That was Monday night, they slept MUCH better last night. Good thing since I had to go to work today.

My Grandparents are up from NY this week. Unfortunately, my Grandfather ended up in the hospital. He is ok and should be released today. I did get to see him last night and will be going up on Friday to see him again. My poor Mom, on top of that incident, my uncle D ended up with a weird 6 hour flu. I hope no one else gets it. Not much of a vacation. 

I'm not sure what W has been up to. I'm very happy to see him tonight. 

I are smart

W back again, for all those who didn't hear, I passed both of my computer tech certification tests, which means I get to take more classes and tests. Hurray for me.

Next up are the networking courses, hopefully I will do just as well on those. After that it time for a career change. No more stupid customers screaming at me for stuff they screwed up..... ummm wait..... I guess different customers screaming at me for stuff they screwed up.

Well talk to you later.

Happy Easter

We'd like to wish everyone a Happy Easter.

Today W's Mom is here for dinner. She arrived around 8:15 and we went to church. Afterwards we went out for breakfast. I got the chocolate chip pancakes, AND SODA! It was Pepsi so it wasn't all that great.

Today is also my Grandparents 69th Wedding Anniversary. Happy Anniversary Nanny and Grampa! They are at my Mom's for the week so I'll get to see them.

Peace!

Testing 1, 2, 3

Today and tomorrow W is taking his IT exams. It's the first two of 3, I think . He needs to take a week long course for the third one which I think he's taking it in April. Please say prayers and good vibes that he does well on these test. Go W!!!

I just got a call and we are showing the condo tomorrow. I now have to go into super cleaning mode tonight. At least it will be nice and clean for Easter. 

Baseball Season!!!!!!

W hack again. Red Sox opening day is supposed to be today. Supposed to because first pitch and severe thunder storms are scheduled for the same time. With the off day tomorrow and better weather ahead most likely they will postpone.

At least with baseball season starting it feels like progress. Everything else in our lives feels like it's on hold while we wait to sell the condo. Hopefully, the new baseball season will bring around a buyer and we can move on.

Hope everyone has a great opening day.

Oooh shiney

The appliances came in. There were no issues, my measurements were right (phew). The only one tiny itty bitty thing that went wrong is that my cell phone battery died and Lowes was going to call me an hour ahead. So I had to leave work around 10:45 knowing that they would be there between 11-3. There was a message on our answering machinge saying they would be there around 11:15. Everything worked out just fine.

Here are a few pics of the beauties!