5 days

while on my trip i found out the answer to that which i was going to find out in 4/15. i did not make it in to the kona ironman. it was a long shot, and really probably not the best idea, so there is a little releif that i didnt get in. that relief was felt even more when allie told me about the triple bricks she did - 20 mile bike, 7 mile run, 20 mile bike, 7 mile run, 20 mile bike, 7 mile run. yeah.
i got back from my great trip sunday night. monday was a nightmare. tuesday wasn't so great. wednesday eric called me at work sayind his parents were in town and they wanted to take the kids back to their house for the weekend. we both wrestled over it. i ran on the treadmill and almost started crying. but we decided it might be good to do. they stopped by my work on their way out of town. once back at my desk i emailed my girlfriends to find out what was going on and could we go out. i met up with feather that night and drank margaritas and eric went out mountain biking. we both stayed out late.
thursday was better at work. eric met me that evening on his bike and we rode home that night. then we went out for sushi. we drank big sapporos. we stayed out late.
for some reason i wsa sleeping very well. i guess because i wasn't always awake listening for the kids. or was it because i stopped drinking the coffee as recomended by alison dunlap.
friday night we played rock band at feather and dave's house. we stayed out late and drank a lot of beers.
saturday we got up and headed out for a bike ride. 22 miles then came home and headed out for a run. then, THEN we headed out to go shopping, have milk shakes and to a movie and then to the cactus for margaritas. we stayed out late but started to realize that if we didn't have kids we would get pretty bored and man, we would spend a lot of money trying to keep ourselves entertained. i did get a sweet pair of kakhi tan leather shoes, yes, made by jessica simpson, but have been looking for shoes like this forEVER so it wsa quite the find.
SUNDAY we got up and headed over to eric's friends house to go for a trail run in the issaquah highlands. everyone showed up and we took two cars - one to park at the top of the trail and one to park at the bottom. we started at the bottom and all ran up. i hadn't been trail running for forever, and my shoes were getting stuck, grabbing my socks and pulling them off. i spent 1/2 the run with my socks 1/2 off. it was snowing and beautiful, and even though my feet were totally soaked i was quite warm. there were three pretty good hills during the run, total elevation gain was supposedly 1000 feet. the middle hill about killed me, at the top of the 3rd i decided to stop and fix my socks. when i caught up with everyone else, i was ready to keep going, but apparently we were done. 45 minutes in and i was just getting started! we all packed into the car, drove to the car at the bottom, split up and headed back for tacos, cookies and pre-recorded paris-roubaix.
we weren't able to watch too much before we headed out to pick up the kids. 3 hrs there, 1 hr for dinner then 3 hrs back, even through a white out. the kids were awake the entire time, even though we didnt get home until 10pm.
today when i came home from work, the kids were fightover who got to sit in the middle of my lap. apparently the edges weren't enough. but i loved every second of it, with every several minutes that passed sirus would turn around, grab my face and give me a big smooch. can't get any better then that.