Traffic, I hate Traffic!

Friday evening Rocky and I headed to the A's game with Amy, Petra and Olivia. Petra had a bunch of extra tickets so she had invited us. Turned out the game was pretty boring and the place was pretty empty. Oh well, we had a good time chatting with each other and people watching. Everyone except for Petra was running on Saturday so we were good kids and ate pretty good. Well, pretty good for a ball game. Olivia and Petra had brought their own food and Amy and I managed to find a booth that sold stuff other than hot dogs. We had a nice yummy chicken taco salad. Only thing not so healthy in it was the sour cream but oh well :o) Rocky had a sandwich and a baked potato. Funny how much ballpark food has changed and gotten a little fancier. Rocky and I left the game at the start of the 7th inning, my goal was to be in bed by 10pm since I had to get up at 5:00 :o(

Saturday, alarm went off at 5:00 :o( and up I was. I got the doggies fed and pottied and then I got ready for the run. I had my oatmeal and luna bar, woke up Rocky (BOYS! how come it only takes them like 10min to get ready?), he got ready and ate and we were out of the house by 6:00am. I was meeting Olivia at 6:30 so I could get part of my run in before the teams arrived. My original plan was to do 7 miles with Olivia and then do 8 with the summer/fall teams. By the time we got going though it was about 6:45, after our first mile I went back to my car to drop off my sweater cause I was already hot, then we had to stretch. When I got to mile 3 I realized maybe I should turn around and start heading back. Rocky arrived around that time to set up the waterstop for the team but there was a little bit of chaos and confusion. Olivia and I stepped in to help out and by the time we got things squared away it was too late for me to run back so I got a ride back from Phil :o( my run plan wasn't working out so well. I got back to the start and did my Captain duties, I decided it was too late to head out and do 12 miles so I just hung around and helped out. I called Mrs. Jeanette and asked her if she'd run with me on Sunday since she wasn't able to run either. She said, YES! YAY! there was no way I was going to run 12 miles alone.

I have to admit though I was pretty cranky about having to run on Saturday because it meant no sleeping in on Sunday and basically my whole day would be gone :o( I was so looking forward to just cleaning my house, relaxing and catching up on TV. Oh well, gotta do what you gotta do.

Who signed me up to run New York???? Oh wait, I did, haa, haa!

Anywho, the rest of Saturday wasn't so bad, except for the part where we sat in TRAFFIC FOR 2 HOURS :o( We were going to head to Daly City to Rocky's parent's house for dinner and we knew there was a football game at Candlestick so we decided that we'd just take showers, get the doggies packed up and head out. We figured if we left the house by 3pm we'd be safe since the game didn't start til 7pm. We were so wrong! We pulled out of our house at exactly 3pm, I was pretty pooped from the morning and had fallen asleep by the time we got to Emeryville, which is only about 10 minutes from our house :o) I had seen that there was traffic but no biggie because even with traffic it never takes us long to get across the bridge and get to Daly City. I woke up about an hour later and we were still trying to get to the toll booth :o( I was not a happy camper. Lucky for us the doggies were also pooped and were sleeping also. We walked into Rocky's parents at 5 minutes to 5:00 :o( I hate traffic. We had much better luck going home.

Sunday, alarm went off at 5:30 :o( and did the whole routine from the previous morning all over again. I met Jeanette at the trail head starting at Rudgear in Walnut Creek at 7:30. The plan was to run from Walnut Creek to Danville. The trail was pretty shaded the whole way which was nice cause the sun was out pretty early. Going towards Danville is always a little tougher because you have a slight incline the whole way, the return is much nicer. We made it 5 miles out and decided we were feeling great so we kept going and made it to mile 6. The way back was much warmer but we had a nice breeze. We were both feeling great and around 8.75 Jeanette went ahead and took off and ran faster. She's been able to stay under 10 minute miles and feel good. I on the other hand don't do so well going that fast so I stayed back. I was feeling pretty good until about mile 10 1/2 when my belly started bothering me. The Gu was making me sick :o( I walked about half mile of the last mile. Other than the belly issues though we had a great run and lucky for us even though it was warm the breeze and the trail having a lot of shade helped us out quite a bit. We did 12.14 miles in 2:20 minutes. Afterwards we treated ourselves to a yummy breakfast at Sunrise Bistro in Walnut Creek.

I headed home, took a shower and climbed into bed with my little Patchie Poo. Ms. Daisy hung out in the living room with her daddy. 2 hours later I woke up from my nap to find Daisy playing by herself and her toys because he daddy had passed out :o) Uhhh, so much for Rocky babysitting. Good thing she is potty trained and isn't into tearing up our house.

After our naps we headed to Olivia's house to hang out. She made us a very yummy dinner. We read a blog called, Confessions of a Pioneer Women, the lady who writes it has recently started a separate blog of recipes so Olivia took her Spicy Shrimp recipe and cooked it up for us. It was easy to make and very very tasty. We also had salad, rice and bread. We opened up some of the latest wine we picked up at Cline and enjoyed it all. Afterwards we watched a movie, I can't remember the name, it was different but very funny. Of course the evening wouldn't be complete without dessert so Olivia provided us with an Apple Crisp and Vanilla ice cream. It was a nice ending to the weekend.

Circuit Drills

THANK YOU...KAREN, PETRA, MARK, TOM, AARON & BRUCE...for your generous donations


Last night we headed over to the track workout in San Leandro. It was circuit drill night and I gotta admit I really didn't want to go but I did. I decided to follow the workout for the Fall team :o) I can do that right? I'm on both teams, don't I get to pick which workout I do? hee, hee. So here is what we did:

1 lap warm-up
stretch

1 lap
20 squats
10 crunches
10 push-ups
20 squats
1 lap
and repeat and then do a 1 lap cool down

It was a good workout and I took it easy.

This weekend is actually fairly mellow...YAY!!! Tonight we are going to the A's game. Our friend Petra had a few extra tickets and invited us. Tomorrow it's up SUPER early for a 15 mile run and the rest of the weekend, RELAX :o)

Happy Weekend Everyone!

Holy Fastness

Last night I had a great run with Ms. Olivia and Ms. Amy. We met on the Ironhorse trail starting at Stonevalley in Alamo and headed back towards Danville. We decided to only do 3 miles. I've got circuit drills at track tonight followed by 15 miles on Sunday and Amy and her group are doing a 20 miler...YIKES! So we decided to take it easy. The first 1.5 miles was at our normal pace although I can't give you exact times because my darn Garmin pooped out. I think I lost my signal :o( I restarted my watch on our way back and it said I did 1.62 miles in 17 minutes. Um, I have no idea where I got the burst of energy especially because I was a bad girl at lunch and had french fries. My belly wasn't feeling so great but for the last part of my run I was flying. Okay, flying at 9:30/9:50 minute miles. That's probably turtle pace for some peeps but for me it's fast. I got back and was feeling it, I was totally out of breath. It was a great run though. Tonight, CIRCUIT DRILLS, fun fun! We'll see how much of those I get done, I don't want to overdue it before the run on Saturday.

OOHH, and the highlight of last night :o) Ms. Amy brought us back some really cute stitch markers from Stitches-Mid-West. They were doggies. THANK YOU AMY!

I almost forgot, here is what Rocky and I would look like if were were South Park characters :o)

Ruff Ruff Couture

I had a great run at the buddy run last night. I did 3.26 miles in 37 minutes :o) YAY! We had quite a big turnout because the Fall team started their buddy runs last night at the same location. I think from now on we'll have a large group out there at least til the Summer team is done. I ran most of the way with Odessa who's a mentor on the Fall team. I've been on a team with her before but have never really had a chance to talk to her. So we did and I got to know her a little better. It was nice to have someone to run with. I usually run by myself on Tuesday's.

It's starting to get darker earlier so we are thinking that we might switch the runs to be a little earlier. We'll have to see though how everyone else feels. I know it's tough getting out there sometimes by 6:30 so any earlier might be a problem and we don't want to lose our peeps.

Daisy and Patch are doing great. They harass each other like brothers and sisters would although once in a while one of them ends up crying because the other bite too hard :o( Daisy turned 11 weeks old last week and had her 3 set of shots. I think we have one more set of shots in 3 weeks and then the Rabies shot 2 weeks later. I can't wait til we can take her to the doggie park and start socializing her with other doggies.

My friends all make fun of me because I dress Patch and now of course I am dressing Daisy in cute little pink shirts and dresses. I am trying really hard to behave though :o) She is the second child so she's not getting as spoiled. On Monday I had gone to Molly's Pup-Purr-ee to look for a harness for Daisy. The store I usually shop at didn’t have any in her size and I needed it for Tuesday because I was bringing her to work, she had a vet appointment. Of course Molly’s was having a sale on their dresses :o) and I picked up a cute little dress for her to wear on Tuesday :o) Brand name, RUFF RUFF COUTURE out of Beverly Hills. Okay, I don't even own couture stuff. Pretty darn funny.

I’ve gotta say though that even though YES my dogs wear clothes I still stay low key when it comes to their outfits. Patch pretty much only wears tank top type shirts with designs on them and coats or sweaters in the winter. Daisy has 3 dresses but they aren’t too crazy. Here is the dress I got her on Monday. Oh and we found a super cute harness and leash to match all her pink stuff.

I at least don’t dress here in these type of dresses.


I don’t have a stroller for them.


I also don’t keep their clothes in a doggie wardrobe.


and they don’t have daybeds

See there are way crazier people out there and I can see how they get caught up in all this cute stuff especially if they don't have kids, but geesh there is a limit to how silly you should get with your dogs. They sell this stuff so there must be quite a few people out there buying it. I am close but not that close :o)

S.O.S

I don't have anything exciting to report today. Last night was a rest day so Rocky and I just had a nice dinner then caught up on TV shows. Today, my little munchkin Daisy is with me at work. She had another set of shots today so she has pretty much been sleeping all day long. She is so cute :o)

Anyway, here is a funny from Sunday. On our way out of Domain Carneros Olivia, Rocky and I grabbed some sodas out of the back cooler. Rocky and I had diet cokes and Olivia had a fizzy flavored water, we had the radio on and the song SOS (Rescue Me) by Rhianna was playing. Olivia started belting out the tunes

.......S.O.S. please someone help me. Its not healthy for me to feel this Y.O.U. are making this hard, I can't take it see it don't feel right S.O.S. please someone help me. Its not healthy for me to feel this Y.O.U. are making this hard, you got me tossing and turning i cant sleep at night.......

all of a sudden on one of her S.O.S's we hear this PPPPPHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH and a big watery explosion. Her fizzy soda had exploded everywhere, we had to stop the car and RESCUE HER :o) it was all over the back seat and her clothes but luckily she had gone for the clear drink and not the diet coke. Good times, we always have good times :o)

WOW and because I am sitting here typing about it and making fun of her, I just spilled orange gatorade ALL OVER my skirt and shirt :o( me go now :o(

Lily Tomlin Moment

Had a great weekend, did a few fun things and also managed to get some naps and rest in.

Friday night after work I headed over to Lindsay's mom's house for her 24th birthday. Rocky was pretty tired and still wasn't feeling great so he stayed home. He wanted to rest up for our run on Saturday. Birthday party was low key but fun. We had some yummy Zachary's Pizza and salad for dinner. A few beers were also had but we all did really great and had no more than two because we had to run the next day. I had hydrated well on Thursday and all day Friday so that helped. We had a good time laughing and being silly as always.

Saturday morning I was up at 5:30am so we could be out of the house by 6:30 and meet Jeanette and Olivia in Berkeley. I thought it was going to be warm because it had been so hot on Friday but lucky for us it was perfect running weather and the sun never came out and it was pretty cool the whole time. The only bad thing was that it was windy so during some parts of our run we had a head wind :o( We decided to head towards Emeryville so we could have a change of scenery. Rocky did 8 miles and Jeanette, Olivia and I did 10 miles. We all felt great and we all had a great run. Olivia and I finished 10.13 miles in 2 hours and Jeanette finished about 10 minutes before us. I was pretty sore yesterday but I'm feeling pretty good today. I am really happy that I am back on track and having such great runs.

We saw a few other people out at Berkeley on Saturday who didn't really feel like making the drive to Fremont for the Mentor Led Run. Brandy was one of those people and I was really happy to see her out there. She's not always able to run with the team and meeting us at 7am was too early for her but she made it a point to get out there even if it meant doing her run on her own. I'm really proud of her. She's been doing great with her training.

Rocky and I had breakfast after the run then headed home for showers and a nap. The doggies decided they needed a nap too but were so busy trying to snuggle with me and make sure that one didn't have more space next to me than the other that I never really fell asleep, oh well. We got up and headed over to Walnut Creek for some shopping. We had some wedding gifts to return and an insane amount of gift cards to use up :o) I love going shopping with gift cards, you get to spend money but not really. We picked out a really nice headboard/footboard for our bed and an extra chair for our dining room table. Can't wait til they arrive. It'll be the last pieces of furniture we need to make our home complete.

Saturday evening we headed over to Daly City to celebrate Rocky's grandmother's 85th birthday. She looks amazing for 85 and other than a bum shoulder she is in great health. We had a good time hanging out with the family.

Sunday we headed to Sonoma for our quarterly trip up there to pick up our wine from Cline Cellars Winery. I didn't think we were going to have time to get up there this month but after talking with my sister-in-law, Minnelli, a few weeks ago we figured that Sunday would work and what the heck we should just head up there. It's always a nice trip up there and we always have a good time. This time we decided that we'd have a picnic since Cline has a great picnic area and the weather was suppose to be nice. I got up at 6am and headed to the grocery store to stock up on picnic stuff. We got salami, turkey, lettuce, tomatoes, avocados and bread to make sandwich's. Olivia brought our favorite Rachel Ray Pasta Salad, nectarines that Martin and Minnelli had brought and for dessert some cookies. We opened up a couple of bottles of wine that we had picked up from our membership and just enjoyed the nice weather, the food and the company. It was a perfect Sunday afternoon. Afterwards we headed across the street to see the new addition to the Cellar Family, the Jacuzzi Family Vineyards. The grounds were really pretty and they did a great job with the new building. We did a little wine tasting there and then headed home.

BUT not before we did a little Lily Tomlin reenactment. The last time we were in Sonoma we had seen some huge beach chairs on the side of the road. They are right at the entrance to the Visitor's center in Sonoma. Rocky had kept wanting to stop there to take pictures so this time on our way out we did, it was pretty funny, especially cause I couldn't get in the chair :o(

When you drive into Sonoma, Domain Carneros is one of the first wineries you see, it's a gorgeous building and I always want to go check it out so on our way home we headed in there. It was really pretty inside and had a really pretty view so we decided to go ahead and have a seat outside and enjoy the view and do some champagne tasting. The champagne was yummy, I think I even liked it better than the one we'd tried at Gloria Ferrer the first time we went tasting in this area.

We got home at a decent time so the rest of the evening was spent relaxing.

More B-Day Celebrations

Tonight we'll be heading over to Ms. Lindsay's house to celebrate her 24th birthday. It feels like just yesterday we (Olivia, Lindsay and I) were headed up to Tahoe to celebrate her 21st birthday. It's already been 3 years since that trip and boy did we have a blast.

Tahoe 2004 - Lindsay's 21st B-Day

Rocky is on the mend. He went to the doctor yesterday and came home with lots of decongesting medicines. I think last night was the first night he slept in a week. Last night we decided to just carbo load and relax some more so no track workout.

Tomorrow we are meeting Olivia and Jeanette at 7am :o( for our 10 mile run. We'll be running at the Berkeley Marina. I sure hope it's cool. In the evening we'll be in Daly City for Rocky's grandmother's bday. Sunday will be a day in Sonoma enjoying the outdoors. I think it's suppose to heat up again this weekend.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY LINDSAY AND GRANDMA!