S-M-R-T

Friend: You weren't at institute.
Me: I know! I hate missing institute because then you miss part of the story.
Friend: You can always read it in the scriptures.
Me: Yeah ... I know ... I mean ...

True story. I can sound like a ditz. But the important thing to remember is that I only sound like one. Truly I'm quite brilliant.

7 random things about me

1. I always have a hair tie. If not in my hair. Then it’s on my wrist.

2. I haven’t read Harry Potter. And I don’t plan to.

3. I pretend to know DC. But I don’t know everything.

4. I love Charles Schulz’s Peanuts.

5. I’m typing although I shouldn’t. So my hands can heal.

6. I have an identical twin. We are 20½ months apart.

7. I love my family tons.

Now I’ll tag some people. Blog 7 randoms about you. 5 word sentences not required. Hot Cup, Axel, Marva, Howler.

All sentences only 5 words. As challenged by Iggy Bloggit.

Elder

My brother entered the MTC yesterday! He is going to spend the next two years sharing the restored gospel of Jesus Christ in the Spain Barcelona Mission. I know he is going to love this experience and I am just happy to be his sister!

The Marathon

Friday evening I went down to Richmond with my family for the marathon. Jeff and Clar ran it last year but I wasn’t able to go, so this was my first marathon spectator experience.

Careful to allow our hotel roommate and marathon runner Clar a quiet room to get her sleep, Gnome, my baby sister, and I stayed up ‘til 1am making posters for our beloved runners, Jeff, Clar, and Iggy.

Jeff wisely decided to switch to the 8k this year after his knee started bothering him during training. In the morning we went to cheer him through the finish line only to find he’d already finished – too fast for us!

On we went to the 17 mile mark where we learned we’d missed Iggy when we [luckily!] barely caught Clar, she was amazing running against the cold wind. We offered twizzlers to the runners for a bit, but not wanting to underestimate our heroes again we headed back to the finish line to be sure to catch them on their final stretch.

And then they came! Making great time and looking fabulous; as you can see they ran by nearly too fast for us to catch a photo!




Congratulations to the runners!

[The girls ran the marathon; the guys ran the 8k.]

The family of cheerleaders with our runners:

Ow! Update

My hand still hurts. Today it’s actually doing better than it has for a few days. I’m going to get an ergonomic keyboard to use at home with my laptop, and I’m going to get one for work too when my boss gets back from Australia.

A couple of people suggested I go to CVS and get a glove thing for it. There are two of them within two blocks of my work so I went today and am going to give it a try.

I'm afraid it might be early symptoms of carpal tunnel [or tendonitis]. I should get it checked out so I know, seeing as I’m employed and insured, but not today.

Ow!

My right hand has been really hurting. At first I thought it was in my head because we are having ergonomic workplace assessments at work; but it has been a month! The last few days have been the worst and I’ve been trying to not use that hand as much. I hope it’s not something serious!

Just FYI

Fox Sets Date for 'X-Files' Sequel
Nov. 1, 2007, 6:00 PM EST
By Pamela McClintock and Tatiana Siegel
Variety.com

The long-awaited second "X-Files" film is finally a go, with 20th Century Fox setting a July 25, 2008 release date.

The untitled project reunites "X-Files" creator Chris Carter with star actors David Duchovny and Gillian Anderson, who will reprise their signature roles as FBI agents Fox Mulder and Dana Scully.

Mark your calendars.

All Hallow's Eve

Halloween morning greeted me with a cat fight. And by ‘cat fight’ I mean cats were fighting. It was still a little dark outside and there were cats screeching at each other in the alley. It went on for about 20 minutes; every so often a lady would scream “shut up!” but I guess the cats didn’t understand or didn’t care. Later I saw clumps of cat hair as I walked that alley on my way to the bus stop.

I made a moderate effort to celebrate Halloween this year. I didn’t dress up or go to any of the weekend’s parties but I did wear pumpkin earrings [that’s gotta count for something].

At home my roommates and I celebrated by eating butternut squash soup, handing candy out to trick-or-treaters, of course eating more candy than we handed out, and watching The Watcher in the Woods.

I’d never seen the movie before but it was good. It’s not so much a scary movie, but it’s not intended to be. If you haven’t seen the alternate endings, I highly recommend them. They are hilarious, and just bad. It’s very much an early 80’s film. I couldn’t place where I knew the father from until I looked it up later. I don’t think I could have imagined “Ducky” in this role if I hadn’t seen it myself. But it's him!