Off to the airport in two and half hours! Naturally I got my period half an hour ago. Stupid uterus.

I also got my Ottawa bib number: 9844! Sounds like a good number to me.

In a fit of insanity inspiration I've just registered myself for the Scotiabank Toronto Waterfront 1/2 marathon and the full Toronto Marathon. For some reason now that I've done a half I just feel this overwhelming need to do a full marathon, even if I only ever do it once.

My dad's run Toronto before and he said it's a great run to do for a first ( Read more... )

I spent most the day playing around with my new camera and trying out all the different settings. It's tiny and adorable and I may have to call it Zelenka as a result. I was going to post a couple sample shots but I wasn't sure if there was anything that anyone would actually be interested in seeing. It's mostly just pictures of the dogs, my ( Read more... )

Do any of you clever people know anything about cameras? I want to get a new one for my birthday but I'm a little lost on what's considered good and what I should be looking for. At the moment I have a Kodak, which I got years and years ago and thus it's a little on the massive side which makes it a pain to actually take anywhere. I want something ( Read more... )

I tried on shorts the other day. This may not seem at all exciting but (with the exception of my gym shorts) this could possibly be the first time in over ten years that I've even attempted to wear shorts. I just couldn't wear shorts before because the mere thought of people seeing me in them made me feel fat, gross and horrible. Yesterday at the ( Read more... )

Happy St. Patrick's Day to everyone! One of these years I'm really going to have to drink some green beer just to say I've done it.

We had our very own R.O.U.S in the backyard the other day. Okay, it might not actually have been an unusual size for a possum but still it's not every day you look out the back window and see a rodent bigger than your dog wandering around. It was an ugly bastard too and naturally all the dogs wanted to go out a play with it. After all if chasing ( Read more... )

I'm sorry it took me so long to get this up but apparently one of the side affects of running a half marathon is that you then spend the next couple days randomly falling asleep, not to mention dreading walking down stairs (ouch!). But I did it and I had a really good time and I think I'm going to do it again at some point. At the moment my plan is ( Read more... )

I went to the race expo this afternoon and picked up my race kit. I know have my funky yellow race bag, my race shirt and my bib! I'm number 263. It all went very smoothly which was nice since when the bib numbers came out on Wednesday I realized that my name wasn't on the list. After a rather frantic email I found out that the race people had ( Read more... )

Hi, it's me. Yes I know I haven't posted in a ungodly long time and this officially makes me a horrible person. I'm very sorry. I promise I'll try and post much more often from here on out ( Read more... )