SAC weekend

So, as mentioned below, I hung out with my Super Awesome Cousin all weekend, I'm going to call her SAC for all intensive purposes.
We had a grand ole time while she was here.

We ran in a 5k where she placed 9th out of 181 women, and I placed 181st because I walked my pregnant ass around the lake. But I didn't see any other pregnant people out there so technically that means I'm the winner. Duh.

I brought with my 25 dollar Camelbak water bottle because I can't function without it. Just so you know.

We went to the Sculpture Garden after that where SAC and I made almost every single piece of art there into something dirty. Is this wrong? Yes. Were we doing what everyone was thinking of doing? Yes. (see picture in post below). I posted most of those photos on my Flickr site so check them out there. But there is one that I will post here, and it is SAC with a giant piece of turd coming out of a drain pipe:

That's art.

After all that running and sweating and poking fun at arting, we were tired, so we went back to my place and took naps. I love naps and so does SAC. That's awesome.

Our plan was to meet up with MN sister and NAW at McGovern's Pub in St Paul but I (thought) I left my precious Camelbak at the lake where the 5k was. I couldn't find it when we got back so I wanted to check, just in case it was there. (long shot I know but I spent good money on the thing and I'm in love with it). So we go back to the lake and look around for about 20 minutes, peeking in all the garbage's, looking in the bathrooms, along the gutters but to no avail, it wasn't there. Totally bummed we walk back to my car and I wonder if maybe it just didn't roll underneath my seat.
This is where I think the best moment of the trip happened for me. SAC didn't really pick up on any Minnesotan accents, she just picked up on my terrible sailor mouth tendencies. As soon as I looked underneath the seat I seen my beautiful water bottle and exclaim Here it is!
SAC didn't quite share my enthusiasm, says this:
Mother Fucker!!
That's funny.

Giddy with pleasure that I found my water bottle and that I have corrupted SAC's language, we head over the the restaurant and had a lovely dinner with all the free popcorn one can handle.

On our way out, we happened to cross a professional photographer (see: college stoner) and he took our picture:


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She left the next day, full with the knowledge and influence of my potty mouth and too much food. I had such a great time hanging out with her and getting to know her better. Husband liked her too. How great is that?

I hope the next time I see her it'll be in Philly and she can show me how people are suppose to drive (traffic lights being a mear suggestion) and meet her dogs.

On an unrelated note: You were right, I was wrong, I think ninja is a girl.

Craving apple pie,
JSC

Hi Pretty!

I've seen some pretty cool pictures, but this one takes the cake over anything I've seen in a long time.

Happy New Year!

We arrived back safe and sound from our skiing adventure in Lutsen. I'll post more details and photos in the coming days. Whew! What a great time we had!!!
Quick special thanks to NorCalMrs who changed her blog, so I changed mine too.
I never claimed to be a leader, so why start now?
Kidding of course.
Not really.

We did it!

Sister and I ran in a 5k on Thanksgiving Day morning successfully.

All those weeks of training really paid off. I'm so glad that we did this together. It was so great and having her there gave me memories that will last forever. Plus I beat her. How awesome is that?!?!?!? (Sorry, had to throw that in there. She probably would have creamed me but towards the end she was at war with her hair and that spiraled into having a mini-heart attack or wanted to throw up, more on that below).

I am going to attempt to post pictures but if Blogger starts acting up, this might be published as a partial post. It's early, I have a hangover, and I was woken up by French Kitty barfing up the gorgeous flowers that were given to us by sister all over the hallway. Work with me Blogger, work with me.

Oh, and I normally don't like posting pictures of my actual mug shot but I think it's almost unavoidable. Oh well. Couldn't keep it a secret forever.

We started off the day being the first one's there, which left us about an hour to take some pictures, which helped us warm up:

We found the restroom to be warm and toasty, so we stayed in there for a while, finding peace and solitude amongst the sinks:

More and more people started to show and stand in line to register, I am in there, can you find me?

We still had about 35 minutes so we decided to wait in the truck until the race started (why we didn't think of this sooner, I'm not sure) :

The time arrived for us to stand and wait for the big start, I was so excited!

We were informed that in order to complete the 5k, we would have to run around the lake twice. Here's me the first time around:

That guy next to was like 'lady your crazy' I was yelling. :)

Here's me the 2nd time around in almost the exact same spot, I was flying:

Like I mentioned above, towards the end sister was having some difficulties with her hair, which I really think lead to the end of her demise. She wanted to walk off her heart attack, I mean hair troubles, and told me to go ahead. She was kind enough to take a shot of me doing just that:

This was really close to the end. She caught up to me and we kicked up into 5 gear and sprinted to the end. It was so exciting. Even more great was they were playing the song that sister picked out for me for the wedding. Isn't that funny? Of all the songs in the world they could have played they were playing that one.

It was such a wonderful feeling of accomplishment for me to do this and have sister by my side. She didn't have to come with, but she did and that means the world to me. Running in an event like this has been a goal of mine for so long, and I did it. Well, we did it. Together. Thanks sister, I love you.

We took another picture at the end, sweaty red cherry popped faces and all:

Attractive, right?

I plan on continuing to run, and hopefully run in more and more events in the future. I have caught the running bug and can only hope to accomplish a 10k, half marathon and full marathon. What? A girl can dream, can't she?

The biggest thing I learned from this experience would be to make sure my toe nails are properly trimmed. The toenail on my 4th toe attacked my middle toe with avengece and this is was what happened:

Can you see on the left shoe on the outside how it looks like it's a different color? It is because it's blood. Literally my toe bled right thru my shoe.

Thanks to everyone for cheering me on in spirit!

Cheers!

(side bar: I am going to attempt to publish this now, and it looks fine here. But I have learned that Blogger does weird things when it come to pictures so if it looks f*cked up I am blaming Blogger. Or maybe it's something I'm doing. No, let's blame Blogger).

It has to be said...again

Today is a very special day.

Today is someone's birthday.

That special someone has made me realize how important life is.

He is someone who makes me smile.

Someone who tells me I look beautiful even when I know I don't.

Someone who says 'This is the best chicken and cheese hotdish I've ever tasted' even though the rice is undercooked and there is too much cheese and mushy vegetables.

Someone who truly truly truly believes in the golden rule.

Someone, who in his short (now) 8 years, has a heart of gold.

Happy Birthday Super Kid.

You are one in a million.

Your my Hero

Dear Kathy,

Your my hero. Your show last night was absolutely hilarious. I've never laughed so hard for so long. Your bit about Sarah Palin and shushing people in movie theaters was off the charts funny. I have now put you on the list of people I love. Which is sorta weird because we've never met, but I don't care, I love you.

The only things I would slightly change about the night, would be that my sister in VT had a go-go gadget copter so she could have been there with me to see it. I thought about her almost the whole time and thought how much she would love you too after seeing the show. I must ask that you make a pit stop in Burlington VT and do a show there so she can see you live because my dreams of materializing a go-go gadget copter are pretty out there. Thanks.

Although your bit about celebrity baby names, stemming from the weird names that Sarah Palin gave her kids, was funny, the girl I went with has the same name as Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes' little girl (spelled different but pronounced the same). I sorta felt bad for her because you went off about how odd that name is and it caused for an uncomfortable moment when I glanced over at her out of the corner of my eye. She looked pretty miffed. (It was funny though I just didn't laugh because she was sitting right next to me and I barely know the girl, but I really wanted to).

Remember mama loves you and the next time you swoop into Minneapolis, I am going to buy two tickets and drag my husband with me, just so he can see how funny you are and because your bj joke at the beginning will only be funny coming from you.

A huge fan in the Minneapolis,

Super

She shoots She SCORES!!!

Well, technically I didn't really do much to SCORE A TICKET to see this lady on October 3rd for one of her comedy shows, but I do have a ticket none the less! WHOOP WHOOP! I am beyond excited to see her show. I love love love My Life on the D List so to see her in concert is going to be great. It is actually a funny story how I came to get the ticket in the first place. Last week, Husband sent me an e-mail, it said 'so do you maybe want to go to this concert thingy?...' It didn't register with me right away so I replied 'What is it and where?' Only after I sent that reply did I scroll down to see an attached e-mail from one of husbands' co-workers saying that she had to sell her ticket because of some family obligations and maybe I would want it? Umm...let's think together...YES. I quickly replied back 'YES TAKE THE TICKET I WANT IT I'M SHAKING TAKE THE F**KING TICKET' K, maybe I exaggerate but you get the gist. So I now am the official owner of one ticket, the other person she was going to go with I sorta kinda know but not really 'cause who really cares I'm going. Jealous?

Also, last week, I went to see Family Groove Company in concert, here's a little sampling of their music. And a little some thing extra. Heeheeheeheheee...

They are excellent in concert. I highly highly highly suggest going to one of their shows. I'm so proud to say I'm related to one of the band members.

Later bitches!