Road Trip

Liz and I drove down to Jefferson City, Missouri last weekend to visit her family and see her new baby nephew. The drive was only 7 hours, which was really pretty easy. I forgot how much I like road trips--it makes me want to rent a car and just GO somewhere soon. Maybe out to see the big trees in California, by way of Montana and Wyoming? Hmmm...
The trip was pretty fun--for all the grief that we all give Liz for being from "the country", it's not really that rural. And it's really pretty! We visited the Capital and I got a driving tour of her hometown.

And we visited Target! That will always make me happy.

Sadie went with as well and had a fabulous time chasing frogs and turtles (well, sniffing the turtles) and running around in the backyard with Missy.

ANTM

Top Model starts tomorrow. I'm way more excited for this than I should be.

Don't plan on calling me on Wednesday nights because you WILL be screened out.

Also? These pics? Ugh. I'm sick of them casting this show full of drama queens and crazy fools instead of people that actually might be able to, oh, I don't know, model? I'll still watch, of course!

Any Tyra? This picture is odd.

I need to figure out how to get real pictures in here...

12 of 12 September

It's 12 of 12 again. Look to Chad's site for more detail. For a look at other's people's 12 of 12s from around the world, go here.

Here we go!
6:38am: Family Room. Caught Sadie as she was just waking up.

7:00am: Kitchen. Packing up breakfast and lunch before heading to work.

7:08am: Walking to the el with my new iPod. Which is awesome.

7:35am: Corner of Dearborn and Monroe in Chicago. I pass the Chagall Mosaic "Four Seasons" on days I take the el. It's beautiful.

7:36: And then I pass a group of pigeons right next to the mosaic. It must be getting colder since they're all huddling by the heated steps. (It is. It is 56 degrees this morning)


7:46am: Wacker and Monroe, Chicago. The view from my office building. That's the Sears Tower in the middle.

9:21am: My desk. Checking my meeting schedule for the day. Not too bad.


12:56pm: My desk. Lunch. Built some houses and made $10 million in an hour.

3:23pm: My office/cubicle farm. Caught the hallway in a rare empty moment.

5:22pm: My desk. Got a picture of my cousin's new baby, Norah. Congrats Jessica and Tim!

6:11pm: California stop. Took the el home.

7:10pm: Point and Francis Place. Took Sadie for a walk and the neighborhood kids came running.

The rest of the evening was spent laying on my bed and watching old episodes of While You Were Out on my Tivo. No pictures of that! :)

See you next month!

Are You Taking Pictures?

Just 7 more hours for September's 12 of 12!

I have 5 pictures left. I guess I'm going to have to find something interesting to do tonight so you all don't just have pictures of my television!

12 of 12 for September is Tomorrow!

One day warning! Get out your cameras! :)

It'll be exciting. Wednesday work-day. Wee!

Weekend 9.8.07

After a too-late evening at Lemmings on Friday, I spent most of Saturday in front of the TV watching The O.C. Most people panned this season as the worst but I have to say that I'm really enjoying it! Maybe it's because I'm a little more removed from the previous seasons--it HAS been over a year since I've seen the show.

Or it could be that I really like Taylor. I think I relate to her. Not the scary mom part, but the kind of crazy/weird/talking to much part.

Sunday I went to the burbs to do laundry (I'm so regressing! Hello?) and have dinner with my sister's family and my dad. Good times.

Jack showed us his Halloween costume. How cute is he?? He's the red Power Ranger. Did they have names? or just colors???


Ben didn't want to put on his costume, but he'll be Peter Pan. I can't wait for official Halloween pictures in 1 1/2 months!

Running

So I joined a gym. Good for me! It's been a long time since I worked out with any consistency so this is a good thing.

My problem is that I'm such a spaz. I can do the elliptical just fine (as long as I don't use the ones with the arm things--those kick my butt) but if I try to run, I practically fall off unless I totally concentrate. Not off the back, mind you, but to the right. I lean or something.

And the running? That's another problem. I can't do it. I tried to do an interval thing last night and after 3 minutes (shorter than most songs on my ipod and some commercial breaks!) I'm gasping and sweating profusely and have to go back to walking. And no suggestions on taking it down a notch on the running speed! I can already pretty much walk at the speed I'm "running".

I'm getting there though. :) I'll keep trying. Maybe in a few months I can re-read this post and laugh at myself. Well, I'm already laughing at myself (as I said, I'm a spaz) but now I can shake my head and be all "oh, she was so naive" or something.

And I started a star chart to track my working out progress. 2 so far. Yay!