Friday Randomocities

In honor of not running…and therefore having nothing running related to discuss…here are a few things you never knew you always wanted to know about me:

1.   Prior to a few days ago, I had never tried a Swedish Fish.  I’m sure this has Janae shaking her head in shame and sadness at me.  Lo and behold, I’m at the store and I see this beauty:

So, now I have had Swedish Fish.  If I’m honest, I didn’t really like the fish that much.  However, the fish eggs were really tasty.  And if you put about 10 of them in your mouth at a time they were actually big enough to count as a bite.

2.   Incidentally, I ate the fish eggs while watching Survivor.  I was a little late to the party on this show, but now I LOVE it.  But I also wonder if I’m now the only one still watching it?  Philip (a.k.a. the dude in the pink party panties) is straight up crazy.

3.   Prior to a few days ago, I had never tried Nutella.  I brought the jar with me to work yesterday, along with a sliced up apple, to have as a snack.  Yes, I brought the whole jar.  Never having tried it before I wasn’t sure how much I would need.  Always be prepared people!  Ummmm…I ate half the jar. 

And now I love it like whoa:

4.   Yesterday was Opening Day.  Baseball is kind of a big deal at our house.  We took half a day off from work yesterday to go home and watch the first game of the season…which P.S. was AMAZING!  Tomorrow we are going to our first live game of the season and I have been counting down the days!!!

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5.       Did anyone watch Grey’s Anatomy: The Musical last night?  I’m not even sure there are words for that one…  One thing I did like was that the original theme song reappeared (a la Callie).  It was weird how the theme song just disappeared from the show way back when, and frankly I’ve missed it.  Welcome back old friend.

Lazy Friday Night

I'm having a fun, happening Friday night...how about y'all?  Sitting in my AE fleecy pants with a heating pad on my hip, catching up on last night's Grey's.  Actually, it's heavenly!!

We did manage to drag ourselves out to get some dinner.  Hubby hates when I take pictures of him eating.  Bahahaha!!!!!

I may have eaten copious amounts of bacon cheese fries and ranch dressing.  Pre-long run fuel baby!

Excuse the poor quality of the iPhone pictures.  Oops.

Tomorrow morning the hubs and I are running 6 miles.  I hope the cheese fries don't come back to haunt me.  No porta's on this route!

After the run we're meeting up with Dave's sister and her husband to try out a new Mexican place.  I love going out to eat after a long run.  The hungrier you are the more yummy food you can sample :)

Happy weekend!

Steven Tyler PJ's, Steven Tyler PJ's

Forgive me for being a little behind the times here.  Today during my lunch break I was reading the December issue of Runner’s World.  There’s a little recurring segment called Back Story that features a runner, who gives 10 little tidbits about his or herself.  In December it was Nolan Shaheed, a 60 year old runner who set six American running records in 2010.  Obviously he’s a good runner and knows his stuff.  I’m certainly impressed.  But the point I want to make here is Tidbit #3 where he says:

“I eat once a day.  Fruit, chicken, rice, veggies.  I love broccoli.  My meal lasts over an hour.”

What?!?!?  He only eats once a day?  How is that even possible?  I would be starvacious the entire rest of the day if I ate only one meal.  I wouldn’t have enough energy to function, let alone run fast and set American records.  I’m so very confused as to how he does it.

Moving on.  Yesterday I donated blood.  The Red Cross comes to our workplace every 56 days (the wait time before you can donate again) and holds a blood drive and I always try to go and donate.  It seems like an easy and relatively painless way to give back a little.  I usually don’t have any trouble donating.  I have never had any dizziness or fainting or anything.  But yesterday’s blood donation messed me up.  I gave blood about 9:00 yesterday morning and by about noon I was a wreck.  Every time I stood up I got dizzy, sometimes I got a dizzy spell just sitting in my chair.  I was pale and had a headache and I was so tired and weak feeling.  They tell you not to exercise on the day you give blood, but I’ve never had trouble before and figured I would still do my easy run last night, just a little slower than normal.  That did not happen!  I didn’t make it off the couch.  It was just me, some pizza, some Ben & Jerry’s, and my boys: Steven Tyler, Michael Scott, and McDreamy.  I heart Thursday night TV!  Not as much as in the Friends era, never as much as that.  But still some good veg on the couch material.

Anybody out there watching the new season of American Idol?  I used to love it, but gave it up during the whole Kara Dioguardi era.  I just got bored with it.  The judges were not doing it for me.  I tuned in this season out of sheer curiosity about Steven Tyler witnessing/judging a contest primarily focused on making a new pop star.  Somehow Mr. Tyler reeled me back in and I’m back to being hooked on Idol.  I just want to curl up in my Steven Tyler PJ’s and watch the spectacle unfold.