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October 17, 2005
Busy Birthday Weekend
Wow, this has been one crazy weekend. I am so tired. I almost took today as a sick day to recover, except that I don't have sick days so it would be a vacation day. And today has been one disaster after another!
Anyway I will start at the beginning. Friday night we went to dinner for my dad's birthday which was lots of fun, and lots of delicious food. I hope he had a good time, and I think that he did! Saturday I woke up early and ran 4 miles, then wished Matt a happy birthday and gave him his last gift (a CD he's been wanting), and then we headed up to the mountains. We got to the hotel, I realized I forgot my swim suit as always, and we checked in for our massages. My massage therapist was actually an elite runner back in the day - no one anyone probably would have heard of, but he was sponsored and stuff. So that was cool. He also had a bit of a PT background so it was a really informative massage. He told me that I have a pretty serious imbalance between my quads and my hamstrings, and that I really need to work on strengthening my hamstrings. He also said to stretch more and to lift more in general. Good advice! He did a great job.
After our massages we got dressed for the wedding. Now I have been annoyed by this wedding for the last 6 months, because this couple was getting married on their one year anniversary, which is truly obnoxious. The wedding itself proved to be equally annoying. However the music at the reception was awesome and we danced all night! Luckily some of our friends went to the wedding as well so my friend B. and I commiserated on how annoying everything was, which also helped.
Sunday morning we got up, laid around for a while, and went to breakfast with our friends T. and B. on the way down from the mountains. When we got home, I baked cupcakes for Matt's birthday as the carrot cake I tried to bake on Thursday turned out to be pretty gross! The cupcakes were delicious so that was good. Matt watched the Broncos game (and they won!! woo hoo!), and I went for another 4 mile run, because it was all I had time to do. This weekend was not my best running weekend ever.
Anyway the game took FOREVER, and we were supposed to be at a sushi restaurant nearby for the surprise party I planned for Matt at 5:30, but at that time there were still around 10 minutes left in the game and Matt did NOT want to leave. I finally convinced him to go and we went to the restaurant. He was very surprised and seemed to have a great time!
Now I am just exhausted. We each had a cupcake when we got home, and I think that they had so much chocolate in them (they were very rich) that the caffeine in the chocolate kept me awake until around 2:00 am, and the alarm and then Matt woke me up from around 6:15 to 7:30. Then when I went to email my client to say I could not drive to Greeley today because Matt had to take my car, our internet was down. It has been a truly bad day so far. But hopefully I will get to go for a run in about 45 minutes, and that will make things a lot better!
I hope everyone else had a good weekend and is starting to dry out. I am about to go read blogs and find out!
Posted by barb at October 17, 2005 09:43 AM
Comments
Wow! What a fun and busy weekend. You always seem to do so much on the weekends. I'm going to have to pay attention to what you do because it seems like Brad and I never do anything. I need to get out for some fun more often.
Posted by: Caitlin at October 17, 2005 05:22 PM
Having a knowledgable massage therapist is very informative. It sounds like you had a very busy weekend, as usual! The wedding does sound very annoying, too cutesy. Hope you have a good week...
Blondie
Posted by: Blondie at October 17, 2005 07:05 PM