First of all, I keep forgetting to post this on the blog, so let me do that first. A couple of weeks ago Mack made a video about some Monsuno characters he made out of Legos and posted it on YouTube. He did the video completely by himself with his little point and shoot camera, and I helped him edit it. It’s less than two minutes long, and he would be thrilled with more views (he already has over 100 views). He has gotten two comments, and would really appreciate more! One of the comments is somewhat negative, but we’ve talked about how when you put yourself out there on the internet, you have to be prepared for criticism and take it with a grain of salt. I think that’s a good lesson to learn early on, especially in this day and age. He’s all good with both negative and positive feedback. Anyway, here’s the video:

This morning Chewie and I walked the boys to school, then I hurried to shower and get to the lab to have blood drawn for a doctor’s appointment next week.

I was fasting since dinner last night, which includes no coffee, so I made sure that I brought my fix with me to have immediately after having blood drawn.

As I inhaled the first cup of coffee I drove to St. Pete Bagel to get some food stat.

This cute guy was patiently waiting outside the door for his human.

I have always loved Bernese Mountain Dogs because a family in my hometown that we were friends with when I was growing up had them. They are the sweetest gentle giants.

St. Pete Bagel has the best bagels in St. Pete, in my opinion.

I got a bacon, egg, and cheese on whole wheat bagel and it was awesome. Then I ran by Publix to grab some salads to have for lunch later with my friend Andrea. I was headed to her house for a morning of scrapbooking and fellowship.

Really the scrapbooking is just an excuse for us to hang out and we spent so much time talking that I only got one page done.

When I scrapbook I just sort of randomly pull out some old photos and then have fun playing with paper and stickers. I don’t scrapbook in order, or worry about making it perfect or logical or anything. It’s just a creative and social outlet for me. Those pictures are from a girls’ trip with my sister and high school friends in 2008. We call ourselves “the Bitties” because my Mom gets together with her college friends every year and my sister and I have always called them “the Bitties” also. We’re the second generation of Bitties, I guess.

After leaving Andrea’s I stopped by Publix (again) to get some groceries for the week.

I dropped the groceries off at home and went to pick the boys up from school. The afternoon has been homework, snacks, reading, laundry, kitchen cleaning…the usual.

Chad bought me these tulips on Saturday for Easter, and they are already starting to fade:

Anybody have tips on how to make tulips last longer? I know they keep growing and I need to trim the stems.

Not much else to report today. I finally updated my “Still Running” page. Speaking of running, does anybody watch New Girl? Chad dropped the show a long time ago, but I’ve still been watching it. I thought the last episode was hilarious. Jess and Cece run a 10K for charity and I was LOL’ing. At one point some guy comes up between them and says, “Get out of my way, I’m peeing!” Too funny. Jess and Cece come dragging up to the finish line as they are taking it down and the time clock reads over three hours. Jess says, “My shoes are filled with blood.”

I think I liked it because it ridiculously made me feel superior to Zooey Deschanel and her character’s best friend who is a model. Does the general public feel like a 10K is that tough? I guess I did before I got into running. Now I’m all jaded and have no perspective. I usually feel like the slowest, most pathetic runner ever, so the show perked me up about my running. I know that’s silly, but it’s true.

I guess that’s all I’ve got for today. Cya.

Last night was Secret Society time again. Apparently I was the only one who thought the theme was “Swiss Miss”.

The actual theme was “pot luck”, which I don’t think is really a theme at all since we do pot luck at every Secret Society meeting. I was going to bring chips and dip but Chad insisted that wasn’t really “pot luck”, so he made yummy spinach parmesan dip for me to bring. Good husband.

Every Secret Society meeting involves festive head-accessories.

Does this headband look like a flower flipping a bird?

I was so wiped out after getting up at 4:50 a.m. and running 8.75 miles that I really just wanted to stay horizontal.

It was a fun Secret Society meeting, but I went home and crashed around 11:00. (As always, there is more Secret Society fun in the tag cloud link in the sidebar —->>)

Last weekend Chad and the boys went to Subway for breakfast after their sleepover at our friends’ house. They all raved about it, so I was planning to take the boys to Subway for breakfast this morning so I could try it for myself. After driving to three Subways (all within a few minutes of each other, and all closed at 8:30 despite the fact that their website said they were open at 8:00 on Sunday…grrr) we ended up at Einstein Bagels.

It turned out to be great. Mack got a chocolate chip bagel with grape preserves:

I let Cal try a sample of decaf coffee (he begged for it, but then wasn’t a fan):

I had a delicious asparagus, mushroom, Swiss & egg bagel thin. A photo will be on my “I Eat” page later. They have a really great breakfast menu now with lots of healthy options and calories shown on the menu board! I think we will be going there again on Sundays (and screw you Subway…but we’ll probably see you Friday night before Soccer). Don’t you hate it when websites show incorrect information for businesses?

After breakfast we went to the gym.

First I did 45 minutes on the elliptical.

Then Bodypump, which for some reason was particularly awesome today. I love when Damien is the instructor…he always does old school releases.

I experimented with taking delayed shutter release photos. Look ma, no hands!

I felt really good at the gym today, despite my long run yesterday. Maybe it was because of the ice bath I took yesterday? After spending many hours today figuring out how to edit video using Windows Live Movie Maker (and uploading the stupid thing three times to YouTube which takes forever), here it is for your viewing pleasure.

My video camera mysteriously just shut off at eleven minutes, which I mercifully edited down to four minutes for you. I did stay in the ice bath for 20 minutes. I figured out that if I flexed my feet I could keep my knees under water but my toes above water. The feet under water were definitely the most painful part (especially the toes). I did get slightly acclimated to the water, or maybe the water just warmed up the longer I was in there, but by 20 minutes I was grateful to get out. My legs felt pretty numb when I first got out. After 45 minutes out of the tub they were still very cold to the touch. I did feel like I had not run at all, whereas before the ice bath I was hobbling around a bit. After 45 minutes out of the bath I took a nice hot shower and finally felt warm again. My legs felt really good for the rest of the day, so I’d say the ice bath was a success. As painful as it was, I do think I’ll be doing it again.

So, other than video editing and uploading, I have spent the afternoon doing laundry and watching Top Chef Just Desserts with Chewie.

Weekend’s over.