Posted by Jill on May 9th, 2008 in Just Life
My head has been so full lately, I have so many conflicting thoughts about nearly every aspect of my life. The really difficult thing of this has been that I don’t feel I have anyone to truly “dump” all of this on and get some kind of feedback.
I don’t feel that my friends from the past are close enough to me anymore for me to burden them with my wild ramblings. They’ve all moved on and have their own lives in their own parts of the world. I’m very glad for them, they should have that kind of support system.
I don’t feel that my friends here in Vegas are close enough that I have any right to expect them to listen and identify with what I’m saying. They all had their own circles of friends and I’m just kind of this random outsider with everyone I’ve met.
I don’t feel that my mother needs to hear about all my trauma. I have figured out that she feels our pains and our joys so intensely. She has enough problems in her own life and with her own friends that my stupid self-inflicted drama will make her feel down and in turn make me feel more confused.
I don’t feel that my husband needs to hear about all of my inner-confusions because he has been working so hard for so many months. He is finally getting to a point where he can come home and shut down, take a breather. I don’t need to make his life more complicated.
So I sit here and stew, confusing myself more and more on every little detail of my life. But for now, I am going to try to shut off the mind and enjoy a dinner out with my husband. I’ve been away the past couple days for work and I need to release some steam.
Posted by Jill on May 6th, 2008 in Just Life
Did you know that today (May 6) is “International No Diet Day“?
Apparently you’re supposed to eat whatever you want without any thought about weight concerns, total body acceptance and wear a blue ribbon while you’re doing this. (If you actually wore a ribbon for every cause that has a ribbon out there now…. Wow! you’d be a walking rainbow.)
According to comedian Jim Gaffigan, every day would probably fit into the “no diet day” classification, at least for us gluttonous Americans. (Watch this video, the exact moment that would be applicable to this is at about 1:45, but the whole thing is funny. I LOVE Gaffigan, his whole ‘Beyond the Pale‘ album is hilarious!)
Really, there is no point to this post, except I wanted to link to a funny video and maybe give myself an excuse to eat some junk food. Except I don’t really have any junk food in the house. I’m a really bad wife, when I’m getting ready to leave town (which I’m doing on Wednesday for work), I tend to let us run out of food because I know my husband won’t eat anything around the house anyway, even if I leave it fully stocked and especially if I left him a bunch of produce.
Posted by Jill on May 3rd, 2008 in Just Life
Today my mom and I did the Susan G. Komen Race for the Cure. It’s held around Fremont Street in downtown Las Vegas.
They changed the course this year, I liked the route a little better than last year’s course. The timing at the event bothered me. Maybe I’m a little bit of an elitist snob after doing a marathon in January, but now I want a timing chip for everything so I can know my exact and accurate time. Here we were shoved into lines at the end of the race and stood in a queue while we waited for someone to take our race tags. There was no order to how we got into lines and they opened up more lines after several of us were standing in line for a while so later arrivals could wait for their tags to be taken. So my time estimate is that my actual race time was somewhere between 27 and 29 minutes. It felt very disorganized at the end, so who really knows and since it was for a good cause I guess it doesn’t really matter.
I was extremely annoyed with the greed all the people were exhibiting at the free food court after the race. I mean, chill out people… it’s only a 5K. Do you really need to beeline for the chips and then proceed to grab 10 bags of them, as well as multiple packages of nuts, yogurts, fruit, ice cream, etc. It’s fun to get freebies at athletic events, but when people are carrying around boxes and shoving children aside so they can get a free orange and bottle of protein water, it’s a little disturbing.
After the race we got cleaned up, Kevin came home from work (Yep, he’s still working on weekends - busy season seems like it will never end), and we went to lunch at Terra Rossa in the Red Rock Resort. It was a dual celebration for my mom since her birthday was last week and Mother’s Day is coming up. We took a few photos before lunch to show that we cleaned up nice, as opposed to our messy and sweaty post-race appearance.
