One of the guys in our group got a picture of me crossing the finish line. Usually I look like crap in pictures taken during races. I saw his camera and really made it a point to try to smile! :) I think I succeeded in a decent picture of me running, for once.
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So I had all that up yesterday but then got a call and hopped in the shower and headed out last night. So posting all together now.
Labor Day today. It's already a nice day. I'm exhausted from the weekend though. Friday night I had too much to drink and was up early on Saturday. I spent Saturday running around. I was up at mom's for a while and we went shopping. I ended up finding a dress for my cousin's wedding, plus another dress too. Mom bought me both for my birthday. They are really cute!
I have backup shoes and jewelry I found at my house that I could wear for the wedding, but I still want to get a pair of sandals for my cousin's wedding. Just need a cute pair of silver earrings.
Then I went to my cousin's uncles wake on Saturday. I haven't seen my cousin in 6 1/2 years! Met her boyfriend too. He's flying home tomorrow but she's here until Saturday. My mom is having a cookout now on Wednesday night so we can all get together up at her house. That'll be fun.
Saturday night, after getting home, I headed over to the boyfriends house. We went out for dinner and I carbed up. I didn't sleep very well Saturday night and I was worried about not getting up in time on Sunday morning. I was up at 5:20 on Sunday morning! WAY before the alarm was due to go off. I just shut it off.
I headed home early, got ready and my friend Carrie picked me up at 6:45. We got to the T station and headed into Cambridge for the 5K race. I literally had sweat dripping off of me BEFORE the race started. I was standing near a tree, in the shade, waiting for the race to start and felt sweat dripping off of me. At 9am. It was gross out! But considering how horrible I do running in humidity and the fact that I walked close to a mile of this race, I'm surprised my time was 34:08. That's crazy considering I walked so much. I know I had a great pace for the first mile and a half or so. I can't remember where the water station was... I think it was around 1.75 miles. I started walking there to get the water down and walked to the mile 2 marker. Then I started running again for a little bit, but not too far. And then I walked until I hit the mile 3 marker and ran to the finish. SO hot and humid. But just over 34 minutes in that humidity with all that walking is a really good time for me.
I figure if I can get in a couple of runs over the next couple of weeks, and if the weather is ok with low humidity, I should have good times for the Jeff Coombs and the Forget Me Not 5K's that I have coming up.
Hmm... what else?
I got home yesterday around 1, still pretty buzzed from drinking and dancing in the parking lot at the post race party, and a little sunburned on my shoulders too. Chilled on my laptop for a bit when my boyfriend called about us going out. SO I hopped in the shower and got ready. He wanted to finish up some stuff at his house so we did a little shopping for that. Bought the new curtain rods for his kitchen and horrible curtains (he's going to be looking for different ones instead), a new pillow for his sofa that looks great in that room, and tried looking for shoes to go with my dress.
We ended up at The Ale House for dinner, sitting on the deck. It was so nice out. Then back at my house to feed the cats and give McGraw his shot. And back over to his house. I took a nap while he was doing some cleaning. And MAN did his house need it. I helped pick up and organize the crap he had all over the kitchen counters while he was doing some work on the bedroom closet. Then I cleaned the counters with the special cleaner stuff he has for the granite. It just looks SO nice clean. He even did the floors and cleaned the bathroom too! I don't think I've seen his house this clean since we started dating.
He already hung up, well, mounted the touch screen TV in the kitchen. Its pretty cool! The TV/computer will be tied to the electrical and heat in his house. He can adjust everything from the screen in the kitchen or from his phone. And the screen is really nice... flat screen, pretty wide and SO clear. It just looks great. The whole living room/kitchen area looks really really good. He just needs to get new curtains and the new bar stools for the kitchen island and I think it will all be done.
We went to bed pretty early last night, both of us were exhausted. The Direct TV guy was due to come between 8-12 this morning. Um yeah... he called at 7:10 and was on his way! Glad I went to bed early, but the dog kept me up a bit during the night. So it was just really early for me.
As the boyfriend was doing a couple of other things to finish cleaning up this morning, I headed over to dunkin around the corner and the TV guy was there when I got back. I hung out for a few and ended up leaving at 8:10. Really?? WOW, that was early.
But last night was so much fun. We were just out shopping for his house, hanging curtain rods and curtains and cleaning, but it was fun. How sick is that? He said it this morning too. I like things like that. I don't care what we do. Its just being together that is important to me.
He'll have cable at his house now... so we can just hang in and watch a Sox game or something on tv, instead of going out all the time. That'll be good for both of us. No eating out, eating crappy food and spending unnecessary money.
I can't wait until he starts doing more work on the house. He's going to be finishing up the downstairs apartment to have that available to rent out but at the same time he's working on that, he wants to do more work on his unit upstairs. He wants to raise the roof in the attic and extend it back to make a master suit up in the attic along with another bathroom. And then he'll extend behind his kitchen, put a spiral staircase going down to the basement instead of the weird staircase that is there now.
He has 3 bedrooms in his apartment, but its weird. Behind the kitchen is the stairs going downstairs, after going down about 8 or so stairs, and turning towards the right, you can keep going to the right to down stairs, or the stairs also go up to the left, another 8 or so stairs, up to the back 2 bedrooms. So when he extends the roof and the back area, he'll level that off, so it won't be stairs to go from the the kitchen to the back 2 rooms. I think that'll be cool. OH, and he's going to put in a back door and back deck off of that too. It'll look awesome when its done!
So that's where I'm at. Hanging at home now, still now even 10am. Had breakfast and finishing up coffee. Cats are fed and McGraw had his shot. Kitchen is clean. For cleaning my house, all I have is to vacuum and then do the bathroom floors and change the little box. Trash day is tomorrow, so I'll put everything, including the recycling out tonight. Then my house will be spotless for the week.
I'm not sure if I'm going to do much today or not. I'm exhausted, so nap would be AMAZING! I do want to get that cleaning out of the way so I don't need to think about it, and I need to get an oil change too. I'd rather get that out of the way as well. But I might head to the park to go out for a walk too, depending on how I feel. But its still pretty warm and humid out, so who knows. I could always go out for a movie too. I still want to see The Help, but I have all week! :)
Happy Labor Day and happy week off. :)
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