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 …
Tuesday Tell-All
*I discovered something very important about myself today. Apparently, I would prefer running 12 miles at a humanly-normal pace (aka, 10-min. miles) rather than running 3 miles at an unhuman pace (for me, that’s apparently 8:50 miles). I have a feeling that I’m going to start dreading my Tuesday speed runs… *I discovered something else very …
To-Be List
While the rest of our holiday weekend hasn’t exactly been as magical as planned (for starters, our heater blew out last night and we have been freezing all day, hence the Matt-burrowing-into-his-coat picture above), I did have the chance to get started on this week’s To-Be List. Can I share something pretty miraculous first? So …
Marathon Training, Week Seven
Matt and I made a big decision this last week about our marathon training: we decided, after much stewing and deliberation and advice-seeking, to switch up training programs. Thus far, we’ve been on a training program that called for running 6 days a week, with the shorter runs on Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays, mid-length runs …
Holiday Mid-Point
We’re only halfway through the holiday weekend, and I don’t know if we can pack much more fun into it. Our good friends, Kayla and Sam, came up to stay with us last night to celebrate Sam’s birthday (above). We started the evening out with a hot chicken and corn chowder, then went up to …