short cut not so short

so my commute sucks. balls. the suck ballsiest part of it is the first 2.5 miles of it in the morning. at my old job, i still had to do that same first2.5 miles but i left considerably earlier and had no traffic woes. but ya know, i am just too damn tired to get up and leave the house by 6:15 every morning. so now i sleep in until 7 which is nice because that is when everyone at the house is up. its much better to start my day with some baby hugs and kisses. because i leave later when everyone else is leaving, i sit in traffic trying to get onto the freeway. so i have come up with a short cut that actually adds an extra 3/4 mile or so to the trip but if its gets me there quicker then hey. so today i have found that at least today, my short cut is no quicker. just as i was changing lanes to go toward the short cut i saw a lime green honda element stuck in the traffic. i said, ewww, why would someone get one of those in that color? then i went on my merry way. as i was finlly merging onto the freeway the honda element came right up beside me. hmmm. i don't know how i feel about that.

throughth3wallchallenge

i am participating in a keep fit over the winter challenge. its being run by iron wil who i am totally loving right now. i discovered her blog a month or so ago and got totally sucked into her account of her experience with ironman. so i signed up for the challenge, only days after talking about how a food log is a bad idea for me since i eat so much crap all the time. well, having a public log is much more effective then putting it in excel or somewhere where no one would ever look. as a result i have managed to realy curb the poopy chocolate consumption. i'll tell you what will really curb it will be when all the kids are all potty trained and go poopy in the potty because that is part of life and not going poopy in the potty just for some chocolate. eric brings home the big 1/2 pound bars ALL the time. he did before there was any potty training to be had but back then i was never tempted. now its totally pavlovian for me, any time a kid poops, i need some chocolate, too.
i have been sick and having the insomnia all week. tylonol pm is my new friend, but i was able to fall asleep on my own last night. i contribute my insomnia to a several things, because it hit about this same time last year, too. its either the time of year, work or my cloggs.
today i ran a 10k race. i wasn't sure what to expect. i did as well as i was hoping to - hit my goal, not my super stretch goal but my goal which was good. a few times i was thinking that maybe i should just stop. but i kept going and even managed to run the 6th mile in 7:15 which i was pretty suprised by! i am exhausted now though, partially because of the race and partially because we walked the two miles to the race, then i warmed up for about 1.5 miles then we walked the two miles home, UP HILL.
now i've got seamus on my lap, she is not wanting to take a nap but she really really needs to.
oh, we are heading to hawaii here pretty soon, which is pretty exhausting, too, but exciting none the less.

food log

i read a lot on fitness and health and diet sites that keeping a food log is a good idea. i will show you why this is not a god idea when it comes to me as this is what i had today:
1 peanut butter and jelly sandwich
1 americano
1 venti water
four (4) 4! pieces of pizza with giant roasted garlic cloves on them. tasty but stinky
1 venti water
another venti water
2 brautworsts
a coffee cup of granola cereal with mostly water but a splash of 2 days over the "best before" date of skim milk for color
way more poopy chocolate than anyone should really have
i thought i was done, but thenn eric and the kids came home with icecream. so i had to have some of that.

that was today. yesterday was even better:
1 peanut butter and jelly sandwich
1 americano
1 venti water
1 granola bar
1 giant slice of chocolate cake that someone brought to work and left on the table outside my office
1 venti water
1 and 1/2 grilled chicken breasts with lots o garlic
4 pieces of the tastiest bacon ever
1 and 1/2 bowls of rasin bran/granola cereal mix with mostly water but a splash of 1 day over the "best before" date of skim milk for color
dude, too much poopy chocolate
did i have a beer? i don't remember but i did have another venti water that when eric brought it to me he said he had put the straw up his arse, ya know, for flavor.

it might be a good idea to lay off the poopy chocolate, the way fattening cured meat products and maybe have a veggie or two other than garlic. its a good thing that i at least drink a decent amount of water.

baby boy isn't a baby any mo'

today is sirus's 2nd bday. do you remember this? i barely do. i can go on an on how much of a cutie he but he just is. we had a little bday party for him over the weekend and invited the cousins. it was a pirate themed party but he had a car shaped cake. then today for his actual birthday eric brought the kids out to my work and we went for a run together. in the rain. in the cold. in the wind. it kicked my arse. the guy at the grocery store told me it snowed 7 inches in the mountains today. that is no suprise, especially not to any of those stuck in the rediculous traffic today. apparently its hard to drive when it is cold out. i tried heading out of work at 4 but didn't get out until after 5 then rolled into the door at 630. we had some ballons and an icecream cake and a few presents, it is his birthday afterall.
what else? work is totally stressing me out. its good, but its exhausting.
and we head to hawaii in 23 days!! that stresses me out a little, too. when i reminded eric of is he puffed out his stomach and made the comment of how he is oh so ready to race at the world championships, which is funny. he will race and he will finish and hopefully it wil be fun for him. i am thinking of doing the 10k trail run the day before which goes through a "spooky forest". we will be in maui for halloween, so we are taking the kid's costumes and they will do their halloween action all maui style.
eric got a playstation 3 which i don't know how i feel about it. he rented fantastic 4 the silver surfer, but it wasn't. it was the first one. so he returned it and rented the real silver surfer. i have never had any interest in seeing this movie.
i do however like the show house. i am quite tickled that kumar is going to be on house's team. they are planning a harold and kumar go to white castle sequel which when i tried to reference NPH i said JHK instead. eric laughed at me.