marathoning

a co-worker just told me that they could tell that i've been running. they said  that I am beginning to look like a runner. this makes me excited, since we've got a long way to go and we've just started training. that means i'll probably look like a freakin olympian by the time the half-marathon comes around.

 

of course, i wonder if she said i looked like a runner because i'm still wearing my running shorts, shoes and sweaty t-shirt. i thought i'd take a casual monday, since i dressed nice on friday.

24 years OLD.

I just found a gray hair.

correction: my hairdresser found a gray hair.

he pulled it out and I saved it. I wasn't sure if this was one of those things that you keep in a memory book or not. Like you know a first locket of hair, first tooth. First major sign of aging and stress. I remember my first wrinkle like it was yesterday. because it was. wrinkles one day, gray hairs the next. i'm afraid i'll be buying adult diapers tomorrow.

dog training

we got our new puppy, ramona, on friday. not only is she a precious addition to our little family, but she also has long, hairy legs (like her mother) that carlos likes to bite. this has become a problem, as you can imagine. Last night as Carloswas preparing to chomp down on our little princess' leg, Bryan scooped him up and said "No carlos! Don't bite her legs!" I smiled and thought "you'll make a good dad someday." and then he said this: "How would you like it if i bit your legs? huh? does this feel good to you?" and then he took a bite of Carlos' leg. Carlos yelped "mercy!" and he ran off to hide in a dark corner where he called a nurse friend over for some bandages and extra-strength tylenol.

 

People ask why we don't have kids. I'll tell you why. Because legs don't grow back. That's why.

Happy Mother's Day!!

I love you momma :)

"maybe you should just stay in the back"

We had this "corporate go work in the retail store day" (not the official name). Anyways, I went on Friday and realized after not working in retail for two years, I'm a little rusty on my customer service/social skills. I know what you are saying "Oh, Kendi...don't be so hard on yourself. I'm sure you were fine, I"m sure you didn't do anything wrong." That's sweet, it really is. But I think I made a few mistakes on my first day back to retail:
Let's see I:
-made a baby cry
-I lost a bracelet,
-I messed up an order
- I locked myself and subsequentially someone else in the bathroom
- I got there late, left early
- and then I accidentally told a lady in a wheel chair that "I'll get things rolling" for her.

Oh you're right, maybe I am just being hard on myself. I'm sure she gets that all the time, the wheelchair lady that is. And I bet that I was just showing all of the other employees up and that's why they told me to take a late lunch, stay in the back and leave early.

I feel much better now.

I am a gross person.

There are a lot of crumbs on my desk at work. That's pretty gross considering the last time I ate anything with crumb-potential was a couple of weeks ago. And I tasted those crumbs and they didn't taste like anything I've ate before. Maybe someone is eating at my desk before I get here in the morning or at night after I leave.

Either way, I wish they would clean up their mess.

home sweet rental

I'm getting antsy in our little rental. i've got the new-furniture-fever, which i get about twice a year. (and it's very expensive to medicate, trust.) it's just hard because a) i can't get an opinion out of husband and b) i'm not exactly sure of what i want. Plus we can't paint. and i really, really like the idea of slate colored walls with crisp white crown molding. what's a po' girl to do?

Happy Cinco!

Carlos wanted to post this himself, but alas no opposable thumbs.

"Still No Cases of Swine Flu in Kerr County"

http://www.dailytimes.com/story.lasso?ewcd=29a7a5bdd9e81a2e

Front page of the local paper. Bryan saw this headline and asked: "Since when is no news, front page news?"

Since we've moved to a village of 23,000 people, one wal-mart and a tanning salon called "Skin Deep". That's when.

I can just imagine everyone sitting around the "newsroom", patiently by their phones, waiting to hear from the hospital of the first confirmed case of swine flu. "Man, that will be the day dreams come true around here."

muffin tops

someone would bring a freaking pastry spread to work the day i decide i need to lose 10 pounds.

it's cool though, i don't like eating muffins. the top reminds me of what my mid-section looks like.

wishing and hoping

is it sad that it's may and i've already started my christmas wish list? or is it sad that there is only one holiday that is conducive to wishlists? now that's sad. maybe this is my Memorial Day wish list....

the virus formerly know as swine flu

i'm getting bored with this swine flu crap. but i found a funny article on changing the name from swine flu to something else(http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2009/05/were_open_to_suggestions_name.html) and i couldn't resist sharing some of my favorite new names for this pandemic, or should I say SPAMdemic?

the dizzy pig
the baconic plague
chorizo fever
aporkalypse
hamageddon
madsows disease
and my personal favorite:

Hamthrax.

i guess it's all fun and games until someone loses an eye -- and gains a snout.