Some quick catch-ups, for reasons below!
Beth: Thanks for checking in on me on 'Ohana. I needed it! Is your working full-time a permanent gig, just for next week, or something in between? Great job with the planning ahead and getting in your WOs. The double-dipping is supposed to be good for lean meanness, too! That stray pound is lonely and hiding--it's got to come out and off soon!
Julie: What do I have to do to get you to make ME brownies? Start hoarding boxes of Lucky Charms and trading them to you for brownies?
And doesn't the Wii count as XT (at least Wii Fit)?
Cindy: You can run Pgh all year round, a few days excepting. It seems to me that we get snow regularly in the winter, 3-4" at time, but then it alternates with days of warm weather and rain. So the roads tend to be clear and most days wet, not icy. Not that I like rainy weather, but it's better than bitter cold---like you get.
I'm SO glad you're going to give the race a chance and that you have a reasonable strategy planned out. I'll still cross my fingers and send PD in hopes that you sub-4, but I know you're not feeling anywhere close to 110%.
Maria: I think Wii Bowling sounds like the way to go--I failed my bowling class as an undergrad. (True story. Of course, I never went to class.....
I did, however, ace my ballroom dancing class.) You've been doing great with getting your miles in regularly. Tweensville? Sounds like a remote village in a horror story!
Mike: Good job listening to your doctor's order and taking it easy. And the Dewar's is just what this doctor (I don't play one on TV, just in my mind) ordered! What's the prognosis on the knee?
Tracey: Oh, I see how it is in your house. DS just decides to run a 1/2, ever so casually. Oh, to be young and athletically gifted. I do hope you get to do the 1/2 in January, although the budget thing is tough! (Our household empathizes with yours.
) That 2 pounds will come off--and it's probably headed my way! So it's you and DS15 this weekend? Great bonding time!
Amy: Congrats on your 2 pounds. (Why do they seem to come in pairs?) And on the arm-muscle definition! Have you been icing your shins and doing exercises--I'm subject to splints and do both even when the shins feel fine. You and Delena have a great time in NC!
Jeanne: Great to have you back here! Maybe if the wagon slows down for you it'll pick me up, too! If anyone can wing the half, it's you!
Vic: Great pictures, as always, and it's not just the camera. I think the photographer has some not-so-hidden talents! So glad you had the opportunity to take them! Thanks for your insight into the Jr.-Vickers crash. It got a lot of press, and I wondered what fans thought.
Aloha Jeff: I'm not so sure I'm getting in my reps and laps as I am my naps and laughs. Close enough, right?
As for me: With apologies to 'Ohana cousins, as Maria said about her post! Unfortuntely, I pulled a back muscle Wednesday night that's thrown my WO schedule off. I tried walking today, slow, and it's painful. I'm going to try a modified WO tomorrow at the gym. I told DOOD I was upset, not only because it hurts, but because I didn't pull the muscle doing anything athletic. I literally bent down to pick up something and immediately felt pain?
So I don't even get bragging rights for the injury. And that makes me cranky. Plus, it's been uncomfortable to sit with my computer, so limited posting.
Also in the cranky department, guess who DOESN'T get to go to her all-day Oscar fest? I'd asked DOOD to pick up the tickets last week--his commute is near the theater--and he put it off until yesterday. They're all sold out. He feels horrible, of course, because he'd told me it was all taken care of & then had to recant. I'm trying to look at it as all for the best, what with my back, but I'm still a little peeved. On the bright side, it's so seldom that DOOD fraks up I figure I should bank this one for the next time I pull a block-headed stunt. I figure that'll be in about 48 hours or so.
, but with 3 younger brothers
there is no peace or privacy
Congrats for reading on the elliptical (I have tried before and it just doesn't work for me). My neighbor's dog is the sweetest and was just really excited to see me.
day celebrations sound the same! Have fun at your run....where is it? Are you feeling better?
. How'd it go?
You guys have been really good about dieting and exercise. Seems like I just went and jumped off the wagon with both feet. 
Now i'm desperately trying to hitch a ride back on!
Monday Mixers w/ Team 'Ohana 
