Friday Free-For-All….

Hippity Happity Friday!!!

I’m feeling a little flightiy and I have a lot of random things on my mind.

First of all -Will you take a look at this?!?!? 

Holy moly----- 90%! !!!!!

That is just ridiculously awesome!! I’m thinking of raising my goal amount to $2000 but we will see. Look for a list of donors soon! I want to thank each and every one  of you!

I made a pot of coffee this AM and it is weak. I’ve made it too strong before and just add some water, but how do you fix it when it’s too weak? I miss WA and having about 5 choices of coffee shops within about 8 blocks of my house. I have to drive to the Marathon gas station here for a cup of coffee, or about 30 minutes to the nearest Starbucks. Stupid.

Wednesday night I made dinner. It was gross. Sadly this happens to me pretty often. Too often actually. But to totally make me feel better about my ability to be a good wife/mom I made a bomb-diggity dinner last night!

I didn’t work out yesterday. I was pretty busy doing this:

I was renewing my CPR and First Aid. I have been CPR, First Aid, and AED certified for about 16 years now. I love having the knowledge and have only had to actually use the CPR once, the Heimlich, now called Abdominal Thrusts, a few too many times. I had to give LB the infant Heimlich, head down, back blows, flip him over and press on the chest, when he was about 9 months old, he was choking on an animal cracker. It was terrifying. Then last winter LB choked on a piece of ice and I had to do the abdominal thrusts. Also terrifying. And most recently, about three weeks ago, LB choked on a piece of hard candy and was seriously choking, the worst ever. I was once again terrified. But the good news is that after being certified for so long the reaction is automatic, there is no panic or stopping to think about what to do. You just react then the terror comes when the candy, ice, animal cracker flies across the room…It would take WAY too long for any emergency responders to get here. Choking scares me to death. I think I was traumatized in high school when my dad broke his jaw in an accident and had to have it wired shut. He would blend up food and in liquid form eat it. I have no idea now that I think about it, how this happened but one time he choked on cheese from a cheese pizza with  his mouth wired shut. It was awful. So I urge you all to think seriously about educating yourself about First Aid and CPR. It’s a skill you never want to use, but if you have to you will be so glad you have the knowledge.

Ok, that was random…..

Last Friday I forgot to take my lock off the locker after my swim. I didn’t even realize I had left it behind until I went in to swim on Tuesday and it was still dangling on the locker, with the key in it. I was happy to have it back and my faith in the human kind was renewed... Wednesday, at a different gym, I forgot to take my lock off the locker after my run….I hope the lock is still there but I don’t have high hopes. I hate being so flighty and forgetful and doing stupid things…and I hate even more not having a lock for my locker and having to buy a new one.

This morning I have a bit of work to do then I will hit up spin class and go for a swim. If I have time I may do an easy three mile run. I have missed spin this week….I am itchin’ for a good sweat! Tomorrow I have an 11 mile run on the plan! Is it weird that I am excited? I have total Marathon Envy these days. It’s real and don’t you doubt it! Have you ever had Marathon Envy?

Any awesome plans for the weekend? We are getting LB a trampoline! I can’t wait. I am totally going to work that into my training plan!

So a ton of you already entered my CEP Compression giveaway, but if you didn’t you still have time! Go ahead and enter, you might just win!!! HERE!!

Happy Friday everyone!!