September 14-20, 2008
Hmm … where did this week go? Not too much to share this time around but here it goes:
Moonlight
Meadow napping
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I can’t believe it’s already Greeblepix time again!
This afternoon, I was going through my Flickr photos, trying to decide which to enter. I hadn’t planned on taking a new shot.
But when I came home tonight, the sky looked really cool. I grabbed my camera and here’s what I got:
I know it’s not perfect, and I suppose I would have gotten a better result if I actually knew how to use the settings on my camera. (I’ll get on that one of these days …) But I still like it, anyway!
There are lots of talented photographers participating. Come on over and join us!
September 7-13, 2008
Currently this is hanging on the sliding glass door in our kitchen:
‘Tis the season for these guys in the garden:
They sometimes decide to make their webs across our door frames. This guy took residence across the back door for a few days, thus the warning sign:
Since he feeds our “stray” Meadow every morning, my husband unfortunately walked through a web one morning this week. At least the spider was gone!
Now for some non-creepy photos:
(Taken from my cell phone. They were both on my lap.
I had to use the flash so they blinked, but it’s still a cute photo!)
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Hubby: So did you buy a lot of CDs today?
Me: Uh, no. Why?
Hubby: (Laughing) Because I bought shoes!
He was wondering if maybe we’d traded habits for the day. (He’s not normally shopping for shoes online … but I passed along a great deal from Mir.)
It was funny that minutes that after the above conversation, we returned home to find a pair of shoes for me waiting on the doorstep!
Though, I’m not sure about these. I actually only went looking for shoes because I was making an online Old Navy purchase, and they had a promo to get free shipping if you added something from Piperlime. I figured I’d see what was on sale!
I added these to my shopping cart. On sale for $19.97, marked down from $70. Since they got rid of the $7 Old Navy shipping charge, I figure they were really only $12.97.
(Let’s not discuss the failure of the majority of items in that Old Navy order.)
So … the shoes came. I love the color. I love the texture — they’re “patent canvas.” I’m just not sure about the peep-toe. I normally love a peep-toe, but usually the placement/shape is different.
What do you think?
A couple weeks ago, Reid at Life Strides announced a virtual 1-mile race. This would go along with his attempt to run a mile under five minutes. The “race” could be done any time between September 1 and 7, and at any speed. Which is good, because I’m nowhere near a five-minute mile!
He’s been training and had already made several attempts, and he knew he was getting close. I don’t want to give his results away — so read his report here!
The fastest mile I ever ran was for a one-mile track race a few years ago, 7:57. I haven’t been doing any speed work lately, but I figured I’d try to break eight minutes again.
Only, I new it wasn’t going to happen pretty early on.
First off, I didn’t run until after 2:30 pm today. It would have been cooler in the morning, but I had a late night and wanted to sleep in!
I’ve also had some stiffness in my knee for a couple weeks. Last week’s 1/2 marathon didn’t help. It doesn’t hurt to run, but it doesn’t feel right. I should probably get it checked out.
And then I decided to eat a couple cookies before heading out the door since I was a little hungry.
I ran to a track that is about a 1/2 mile from my house, and continued to run around the track until my iPod announced I had completed one mile.
At that point, I started my Garmin and picked up the pace.
I don’t know my splits, but I’m pretty sure I had a gradual decline for each lap. I tried to pick it up once the iPod told me I only had 100 meters left.
Once I hit my mile mark (announced by iPod, confirmed by Garmin beep), I stopped my watch. I’m glad they decided to agree today!
Nope, not even close, 8:35. But still considerably quicker than my normal pace!
I walked around the track to recover, and once the feeling that I could possibly lose those cookies passed, I ran home. Might as well get a little more mileage in!
No new personal record, but I had a good run, anyway!