All right, I’ve been tagged. I guess I’ll play along, in the spirit of procrastination that I’m in 🙂Game rules:1. post these rules.2. post a photo of yourself and 11 random things.3. answer the questions set for you in the original post.4. create 11 new questions and tag people to answer them.5. go to their …
Marathon Training, Week Nine
Guess what? I ran 16 miles on Saturday. SIXTEEN MILES. My mind is still blown. I still can hardly believe that I (yes, me, the girl who had always considered herself a non-runner) ran 16 miles in one go. Without walking. And with just one short water (and banana piece with peanut butter) break, too. …
Book #4: Freak the Mighty
Title: Freak the MightyAuthor: Rodman PhilbrickPages: 160 Even when you end up loving the books that you’re assigned to read, there’s just something about assigned reading that makes the task ridiculously more difficult than it should be. Such was the case with me and Freak the Mighty–I’ve known for weeks that I would be teaching …
Tuesday Tell-All
*While I was loading pictures onto the computer, I somehow got the feeling that Matt got a hold of my camera when he was bored… *I wish it would stop snowing so that I could go and get my run out of the way already. *Remember these cookies that I made for Valentine’s Day? Well, Matt …
Pot Roast & Pals
Guess what? I made my first pot roast ever yesterday. Of course, if it were up to me, I would make pot roast every week for dinner (because it’s probably my favorite meal of all time), but due to those rump roasts just being so darn expensive, I haven’t had much opportunity. But, thanks to …
Marathon Training, Week Eight
I am officially more than halfway through my training. While a part of me rejoices at that fact, the greater part of me (and perhaps the wiser part) is starting to freak out a little–it’s starting to wonder if I will really be ready for a 26.2 mile race in less than two short months. …
Spontaneous Cheese Date
Yesterday I came home from the school with a raging headache, only to come home and find Matt at his wit’s end as he slogged through hours’ worth of French homework. Something had to be done. We needed some cheap cheese, and stat. Remember this bad day, when the only fix was a 50-pc. discounted …
Book #3: Teach Like Your Hair’s On Fire
Title: Teach Like Your Hair’s on Fire (aff link) Author: Rafe Esquith # of Pages: 240ish Last year, Matt and I checked out the Scholastic Book Fair mega-sale on USU’s campus, where we ended up spending about $180 on two dozen books that would have cost us $500 anywhere else. This book by Rafe Esquith …