Running

So, yesterday I ran 2.6km.  not far you say - - you say that if you're a runner.  if you're not one you understand when I say I was happy to be able to run 3/4 of it.  I did walk a few times.  My goal used to be the 10km Terry Fox Run in September.  Now my goal is to do the 5km portion of the Terry Fox run this September.  which when I have never been a runner is a pretty good goal I think.  My husband and brother just ran their first Marathons in July.  the training was crazy! I was happy to be running 1 km and Dan was running 30km.  he is a runner - I am not.  But I'll tell you, I am at least becoming someone who does enjoy going for a run for the fitness/health of it.  and I miss it when I go too long between.  i have no plans to ever do a marathon but I do want to, next year, do the 10km Terry Fox Run.  http://www.terryfox.org/Run/

I watched the people running the half marathon and full marathon in July up at the 'Friendly Massey Marathon', in Massey ON (up near Sudbury and Espanola), and was so impressed and proud that Dan and my brother, Timmy could do it.  Terry Fox could do it - on a prosthetic leg - the least I can do is work up to the 10km run next year. 
I want to run for my health, for the fact that I actually feel really good after I go for a run, so I plan to keep it up even after the TFR in September. 

after having 2 kids I wanted to get back into shape and i have found running is a good way to do it - who knows, maybe I'll end up in even better shape than I was - - i could handle that.

PInk Eye

I Hate Pink Eye.  That's right I said Pink Eye.  this is the first time in my life that i have it, hopefully the last.  I can't do drops, I get nauseous when I have to touch my eye or look deeply into it.  or someone else's for that matter. 
my son, my husband and I have all experienced it over the last week.  sometimes i just want to scream!!!
crusty eyes wake me up in the night, and painful, red - not pink - eyes greet me in the morning when I look in the mirror. 
Oh well, one day this too will pass.  Thankfully Dan and the boy have moved on already.. hopfully the girl doesn't get it now.  lt'll be done with it once and for all. 

I know there are more important things in life to think about, to write about.. or i guess it's 'type' about.  but currently as I sit here, creating this blog, i am resisting the desire to rub, scratch, rip out my eye, so for the moment this is the deep thought for me. 

Other blogs will be about more important aspects of life such as God, my family, my dreams.... but for now, today it's all about the Pink Eye!