San Francisco Marathon – 14 days

Two weeks from today is the San Francisco Marathon, am I ready? are you every ready for a marathon? I don’t know, I know I have doubts about myself, I look at my friends, Kim, Annette, Bailey and Michele all of who are running the San Fran Marathon, except Kim who is running Chicago, and I would say they are all prepared to run 26.2 miles, me, the jury is still out.

Today Kim and I ran a recovery run, neither one of us wanted to run hills so I had a bright idea for us to run our morning loop backwards. I guess we just didn’t know how good we had it in the mornings, it seemed as though we were running uphill most of the 5 miles. It was slow going, but that was fine with both of us, it was supposed to be a recovery run after all.

After our run I made coffee and since it was still early we looked at the morning ads online and decided to go to Kohl’s where I needed to return a vacuum cleaner, we bought a couple of items and headed to Sports Academy, Kim was looking for a special pair of New Balance shoes, which of course they did not have. Off to Lowe’s to pay for the washer and dryer I had picked out yesterday, its a Fisher & Paykel, very water efficient, big Energy Star rating, not much more than I would have paid for the Whirlpool I was looking at so I decided to go ahead with the huge purchase. When we were checking out Kim had a $25.00 off coupon, yippee!! that helped too. Then we stopped at Target where we both got quite a bit of items, nothing just frivolous and then we were tired, seems like all we do is run and shop.

I wasn’t home long when the phone rang, the ex-fiance wanted to bring over the lawn mower and other items, I really wanted to go over there so I could see the kitties, my heart aches so much when I think about them. While he was here we talked about the cats and he said I should just leave them with him so Smokey could come and go as he pleases, that I could adopt a new cat that could just be an inside cat, this made me very sad and teary eyed. I really want my cats here with me, I know that soon I’ll be traveling A LOT and it won’t be a good situation, but giving them up would be like giving up a child, Smokey is almost 10 years old!! George is not even a year old yet, he’s still a baby and needs me!! I miss them, but he knows that I want what is best for them, it is more dangerous here for Smokey, I’m a lot closer to heavy traffic and he might get run over. I need to put this away for awhile.

After he left I couldn’t go back in the house so I started working in the yard, so I’ve been outside since about 1pm, it’s now 4pm, yes it’s a hot mofo out there, my neighbor Buck (I think he must be about 80) has come out a couple of times to check on me and tell me that it’s 98 degrees. The yard looks like crap, the guy that lived here must have NEVER done a thing to it, other than let his dog shit in it. It’ll take me months to get it looking decent.

Gotta run.