CRUMBS

My two favorite flavors
Chocolate with cream cheese frosting and coconut
Vanilla with Strawberry frosting.
Perfect pre-Race treat, right??

Norwalk 1/2 marathon

This past weekend I did a 1/2 marathon in CT with my BFF Lauren.
It went OK, not as well as the first one which I did in May. I think there are a few reasons for that.
1.) I didn't train
2.) It was all on pavement
3.) I didn't know the course

All in all, it was good though. I was in pain the last 3 miles, but I finished.

Fuel belt bottles ready to go


Pre-Race


Yup...it was drizzling that morning


Post-Race ice-cream :)
This was right before Lauren got her Popsicle stuck to her lip...think "The Christmas Story"


Yummy lunch at Centro after our post-run pedi's

...AND


Me and my two favorite kitties
Bristol and Hinkley

Late Fees

I refuse to ever pay a late fee on my credit cards. Granted I always pay them on time, but once in a while I blank and I end up paying one late, maybe this happens once or twice a year, if that much at all. Of course this past month I blanked and paid a bill 1 day late (usually this bill is due on the 2nd of every month and this month it happened to be the 1st). So, I just received my bill thats due October 2nd and there I see a $39.00 late fee, I immediately call customer service and tell them that it was one day late and I would like them to take the charge off...and guess what...poof! It's gone. I was even prepared to cancel the card...glad I didn't have to do that.

Moral of the story, don't pay late fees, call first (and be nice). Especially in this economy.

catamount 5K

Well, yesterday was the third week in a row that I ran the Catamount 5k trail run (they do it every Tuesday night in the summer). My time was better than last week, even with a few "mishaps"
1. We did a different trail this time and there were some congested areas where we had to walk/slow run.
2. I got stung by a bee on my a$$ (well more like the back of my thigh) and it HURT. This is only the second time in my entire life that I have been stung. When it happened I let out a pretty good scream, just ask Leslie. She did not know what was going on. We stopped for about 15 seconds so she could check it out and make sure the bee wasn't still there and the stinger was out...

So, all in all, my time for week 3 was 29 minutes and 16 seconds.

Week 2 was 30 minutes and 13 seconds
Week 1 was 28 minutes and 40 seconds

Busy Weekend

This past weekend was packed full of activities...

Friday J and I drove down to Boston to meet up with my parents and go to the Sox game. This was my dad's Christmas present, he had never been to Fenway before. It was also my mom's first baseball game! She lived across the street from Fenway Park in college and NEVER went to a game. The game was good, it lightly rained most of it, but it wasn't bad. We ended up leaving at the top of the 8th though, when it started pouring. Good timing too, they went onto a rain delay for a little under an hour at that point. We went back to the hotel and watched the end of the game there, Sox won 6-5 vs. the Toronto Blue Jays.








Another exciting thing about Boston...our $90 hotel room. We decided to try "name your price" on Priceline.com. We got rooms at the Hyatt Regency in Cambridge for $90!! Our room was nice and we had a river view :)



The Charles River

Saturday morning we all drive back to VT and then we had a great dinner with my parents and J's parents at the house. We ended up drinking 6 bottles of wine. Crazy Night.

Sunday my parents headed back to CT, J and I ran some errands, getting ready for all of our guests for next weekend and then we went on a sail with his parents and Bro for his dad's birthday...


The Highflyer

TIME TO VOTE

What color should we paint our bedroom??

A few things to consider:
1. The bedroom is large
2. It is very bright. Sun is shining in it all day.

Here are the choices
A.) Chateau (taupe)
B.) Elephant Skin (Grey #1, on the left)
C.) Creek Bend (Grey #2, on the right)
D.) Guacamole (Green)
E.) Cool Dusk (Blue)

Summer Time Cupcakes

I made these for book club last night, the decorating was super easy.
Brown sugar for the sand, mint for the beach ball and some blue dye for the frosting. You could also use blue decorating sugar for the water. I used it on the mini-cake at the bottom of the picture.





For the actual cupcakes, I made this recipe from cooking light. They were really good and not too sweet.

CLICK HERE FOR RECIPE