I did it.

Tonight I had it set in my mind that I was going to do it. I WAS going to push through no matter what. And I did. I ran a whole mile without stopping. Again, slow going, but I don't care. This is an accomplishment for me. I still managed to run it. I actually got to thinking about this. I have NEVER run a full mile without stopping to walk at least a bit. Hard to imagine isnt it? It reminds me of this one time when I was in 6th grade gym class. We were supposed to run when the gym teacher, Mr. Herman, told us to run and walk when he again blew his whistle with the signal. I was going along with some of my friends and since none of us were huge runners we were walking when we were supposed to be running. Holy cow. When we got done Mr. Herman was so mad, I didn't even think teachers were allowed to voice their annoyance to students in such a manner. He was that gym teacher. The one that should have retired at least 5 years prior but was still holding on. Now, looking back, he was one fit man. For 70 or whatever he was he was in considerably better shape than most 30 somethings I know now. I respect him for it now, but he would still creep the hell out of me. Anyway, I digress. After this gym class he was so fuming mad he told us to each look up the dictionary definition of insubordination or face punishment. I didn't know what that meant and I still don't but I knew I was going to find out that definition. Sure enough I showed up to the next class and panicked when I realized I, in fact, did NOT look up the definition. I asked one of the other girls and memorized it faster than anything I ever had, or ever will again I think. To this day it comes to mind when I, or Lilly, or anyone does not do something they are asked. [ insubordination: The direct defiance of a reasonable request]. In case anyone was wondering and didn't want to look it up.

So back to my awesomeness. I am just really proud of this. For not wanting to be a runner I am pretty excited that I didn't die. My face was probably purple though. I just get overheated very easily when I run. I don't know if it is something I should be concerned about or not. My face also just naturally gets RED when I am embarrassed. You will definitely know if I am hiding something. I have a fun high school nostalgia story about that too, but I shall keep the flashbacks to a minimum tonight and share that some other time. Now I just have to make this a routine and I can maybe get up to more running or faster running. I weighed myself on Sunday and was not happy as it was the same, again! After a week of running I would have expected some difference. I guess it is better than going the other way but still. I weighed myself on the scale at the gym them yesterday just to see because that scale never changes. Even when I have lost weight in the week on the scale at home the one at the gym remains unchanged. Surprisingly yesterday it was 2 pounds less than usual. Then tonight, again just to see, it was down another half a pound. So, rock on to that I guess. We will see Sunday if the wii board shows the loss also. Let's hope for my sanity and motivation it does.

Today was pretty busy. Lilly had dance this morning. Then we had to run to the library to return books, stop in at the church to vote on a local option sales tax extension for flood crap (I voted NO, if you are in CR and want to know my reasoning because you object I'll give my reasons), ran to my moms to grab some of our homemade/canned manwich for dinner. Then I got home to give Edison a nap and an hour later went to my moms office to help her assemble a 4 drawer filing cabinet. Pain in the ass, that was. We were there until 3:45. Edison was AMAZING. He sat in his booster chair thing the whole time. First he ate lunch then we put the jungle thing on top and just played. Absolutely astounding considering I cant keep the kid still at home. Lilly was pretty good too. She was annoying when I was getting frustrated at a drawer because she just kept trying to play [with me and ON/IN the filing cabinet] and wouldn't stop talking, but let's face it, I was more annoyed at the drawer than her. Dumb drawer.

I'm ready for spring. Today was glorious and we didn't even get a chance to spend it outside. Oh well. There will be time for that I suppose. I am getting all itchy for garage sales. I really need to sell off some of the kids stuff to clean up our house and so I can buy some clothes for the kids. Really I mostly need things for Lilly because she grew so much this year her pants and shirts are all too short. She will never fit the waist so I need to figure that one out still... OH! and I did manage to get some sewing done this weekend. Yay! The things I made are super cute and I'm pretty happy with them. As always I found things I feel I can improve upon and will change the original tutorial to fit my own designs. I cant wait to sew more. I really just want/need a day to myself with no kids to do whatever I want.