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December 24, 2005

Merry Christmas!

and happy other holidays, too!

It feels a little weird, but we're actually finished with our family celebrations. My dad's work schedule (be sure to heartily thank your flight crews this holiday season!) and Andy's sister's in-laws celebration schedule necessitated an early celebration on our part. We've already cleaned up all the boxes and tissue paper in the living room. *sigh* It was a good one.

I was inspired to blog this evening because of Calvin and Hobbes. Did anyone else get this for Christmas? I've already read the introduction and re-read the first few months' worth of strips. Reading it just puts me in a good mood, and makes me laugh out loud every now and then. In the intro there's a picture of the cat that served as an inspiration for Hobbes's personality and moves. It reminded me of Alison's pictures of Izzy and also reminded me that I hadn't checked in here for a while.

For Christmas I also got my father-in-law's guitar, a Yoga for Athletes DVD, and an herb garden starter kit. I've been pretty consistent cooking twice a week (like it ok) and with yoga twice a week (really like it) and have put some "teach yourself to play guitar" DVDs in our Netflix cue. I worry I won't have time to do any of this stuff (and do all the running and blogging I'd like to do in a few months), but I'm willing to try. Hopefully some of this stuff will stick.

Running's still good. SlowslowSLOW but good. And the weather has been so good. Cold in the morning and gorgeous in the afternoons. I'm amazed at how good running feels still. The one thing that keeps it from being perfect is that I get stitches (y'know, like the kind you got when you very first started running?) pretty regularly that I have to walk out.

At a White Elephant party last weekend I talked with a woman who was a former 2:44 marathoner who said she had some great workouts that brought about big breakthroughs for her back in the day. She described how bad she felt during those workouts and I was *jealous*! You know you have a sickness when you *miss* running so hard you wonder if you're going to vomit. I reminisced to her about running track in summers past and not being able to hear afterward because my ears had popped. Good times. Good times.

Maybe I'll think labor is fun, too?

Posted by jenandmats at December 24, 2005 7:06 PM