i'm working on making a few Christmas gifts for my girls here in town. but i don't have any pics of that to post yet. i will try to get them up over the weekend. this whole puter thing really sucks and i see no remedy in sight!!! ick.
anywho, just a little birthday card i made. just kidding. i got nothing. STUPID COMPUTER!!!
my official time for the Dallas White Rock Half Marathon!!! YAHOOOO!!! i cannot believe it! i'm looking at the official results right now and i'm in complete shock. maybe i'm misreading them.
i came in 91st in the half in my age group for women, 450th overall for the women's half marathon (out of 4,801 women) and 1553rd overall for the half (out of 8,355 men and women half marathoners)!!! is that right? i HAVE GOT TO BE MISREADING THAT!!! here's the link...i am in shock! tell me if i am WRONG!!?!?!
my girls were there in dallas to cheer me on. they completely rock. i had my peeps texting me all along the way and it made me feel phenomenal. but i must say, the last two miles SUCKED! we were on Katy Trail and i couldn't judge anything, my feel for mileage was completely lost...it was the longest two miles EVAH!!! i couldn't get my fat, cold hands in my pouch to get out my jolly rancher and those dopes handing out the oranges really sucked at it. i never get that last little bit of sugar. but i did it...and now my old lady hips are screaming at me!
here are a few pics from my weekend:
check the 'bar' in the room. strange.
we decided Wolfgang Puck sucks. he practically took over Reunion Tower and you can't even go up there and just look around and observe. suckage. ange should have been flipping him off in this pic:
aim, ange and me waiting for din-din. aimee is covering up mort with the water bottle lid. dork.
gearing up in the purple, baby! how convenient that the 1/2 marathon bibs were purple this year! i think i'm the only tool-box who wrote on her body. whatever. those other people are no fun!
if my Korean is any good, this says, "I run kind of fast." or something like that: 
and this says (again, if i'm correct), "hot like fire" 
ick. they misspelled my name completely! 
random favorite number for today:
and b/c...be cuz silly! why do i ever do anything? 
i'm so dumb...i took this picture of aim and yelled out in a crowd of people, "you look like the unabomber!" duh!!!
i don't have any finish pics. just too many people. i'll have to look at the professional running photos they take at the finish and afterwards.
ugh...needing a nap!!!
since i can't post any pics of the scrappy things i haven't been making this past week, i'm going to post my basic shopping lists:
green is my food items (cuz i'm lean, mean and clean...not sure how that equates to being green, cuz i'm far from it) orange is crap i buy for da boys, blue is for both:
Crap i buy every week:
sweet potatoes ($.25 lb)
Grape tomatoes ($2)
2 pears ($1)
Green bell peppers ($2)
Onion ($1)
5 or 6 Gala Apples ($3)
Orowheat bread ($2.50)
Grapes ($3)
Strawberries ($3)
Squash ($2)
2 cans Amy's Organic Soup ($4.14)
2 bags 50/50 lettuce ($6)
3-4 Star Kist Tuna Creations Hickory Smoked Packs ($1.48 each)
Ground Turkey ($4.28/lb.)
Emerald Almonds (single serving packs $2.98)
Skim Milk (1/2 gallon $2)
Juice ($3.98)
Fruit Snacks ($2.98)
Capri Sun ($1.97)
Box Cereal ($2.50)
2 packsYogurt Drinks (Bio-Salud--little mini deals. boys love them) ($.88 each)
2 loaves White Bread ($2 each)
Whole Milk or 2%
Lunch Meat ($4 average)
Chips of some sort ($3.50)
Microwave Popcorn ($4)
Granola Bars ($2.50)
2 Dozen eggs ($3)
Canned Beans, try to get those with no color enhancers and just sea salt--i guess that's organic (average about $1.50 per can)
2 cans No-Salt-added Diced Tomatoes ($2)
2 cans No-Salt-Added Tomato Sauce ($1-- i get the small cans)
----------------> 88.53 total for the week. my items are slightly more expensive and it's just one of me eating. of course i have non-food items, but for the week at the most it adds on an extra $25 or so dollars. like diapers (which are usually a two-week purchase).
Things I buy every two weeks or less:
Frozen Chicken Breast in bag ($7)
Pork Tenderloin ($8)
Ground Beef ($13 -- 80/20 jumbo pack)
Thin cut Steaks ($7 ave)like flank or sirloin for stir-frying)
Frozen Perch or Salmon Filets ($5--individually frozen)
Shrimp in Bag ($4 Frozen)
Brown Rice in bag ($2)
Quaker Old Fashioned Oatmeal ($2.50)
Raisins ($2)
Cinnamon ($2)
Wheat Germ ($4)
Naturally More Natural Peanut Butter ($3)
Low-Fat Yogurt ($3 like Oikos or Stonyfield Farms)
Fresh Parsley
Fresh Cilantro
Whole Wheat Rotini or Spaghetti ($2)
Clove Garlic ($1)
Haagen Dazs Five Vanilla Ice Cream ($3)
Nestle Toll-House Semi-Sweet Morsels ($2.50)
SHHH on the last two. a girl's gotta have something good!!!
This might be a good way to get started. Categorize things you will eat and things the rest of the family will eat. See what dishes they'll like that you can eat. Leave the things they don't like just for you. Example: i make 4 pieces of baked chicken & parsley that they don't like. I'll eat it over the course of 3 days.
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