01-28-13

lily and me in our matching carlsbad shirts and jackets!

 what kelly thinks i should be doing today, even though i am sore =/

modeling the old ap calc shirt (not mine, but an abandoned one last year!) that i cut up to make t-yarn.

01-27-13

5am, and getting ready to run the carlsbad full marathon!

 lily and i before the big race

 lily and her new guy, jim

 me, 4:45:12 later...
resting and waiting for lily

found her~

all in all, i was pleased with this race.
the hilly section from mile 4-9 was not bad at all, compared to the santa monica hills we ran, and the hill on hillview way in montana.
despite the rain for the first 4 miles and me being sick, it all worked out.
we ran together for the first 8 miles, and then she fell back a little bit after she had to make a porta-potty stop.  it helps me to know she's behind me, ready to catch up at any second.
she caught up to me at mile 18, when i was feeling quite lethargic.  i couldn't keep up to her 'catch up to cindy' pace!
but a water station came up, and she slowed down and fell back a bit again (she can't quite get the hang of drinking without slowing down too much)
i decided to push harder and see if i could increase the distance between us again.  i had wanted to wait till at least mile 20 to pull out and put on my ipod, but i got it out before i hit mile 19.
it helped me A LOT.  the first song up was avril lavigne's girlfriend.  from prior experience, i knew that sone got me going.  great beat, perfect tempo for kicking it up.  i looped it on replay FOUR times.  i was flying (well, not really).  i searched for songs that had a good beat, and it kept me going for the remaining 8 miles, which seemed to fly by.
after mile 20, the half marathoners merged with the full marathoners.  by that time, they were mostly half marathon walkers; so it literally felt like i was flying past them.  i really wasn't, but it helped me mentally.  when my watch read 4hrs, i had about 4 more miles to go.  i knew that i could even slow down and walk and i would make it sub-5.  woo-hoo!  i was ecstatic.  i was feeling pretty good.
even though i still had a pretty runny/snotty nose (eww!) i had my arm warmers on and used it as a hankie.  i kept well-hydrated; only missing one water station (because there were too many walkers on the left side where the water was) and the very last one because they were out of water =/
i literally drank the last sip of my water just before finishing.
i was NOT dehydrated, the weather was pretty great (except for the light rain in the beginning) and although i was sick, i wasn't feeling it then.  yay for adrenaline.  and double-yay for training with lily.
i had not had a training partner who pushed me like she did.  those hills were evil, but a necessary evil to making this race a success.
what more could i ask for in a run?

01-26-13

 personalized pancakes for breakfast
yummy!

 after picking up my race bib at the expo, i met up with garee, one of my besties in high school, for lunch.
we hadn't seen each other in a LONG time.
he still looks the same.  =)

finisher's jacket they gave all full marathoners!

oops. upside-down.

01-25-13

my custom carved wood hooks came in!
this one is size N

01-24-13

gramma's here!

 went to go see stephanie pfingsten as gen. cartwright in guys & dolls at the biola youth theater tonight
brought my two moms with me to see the show.
it was GREAT but long (ended at 11pm!)

just before i found her to give her the flowers, i heard her say, "i have to find my calculus teacher!"
=D

01-23-13

getting ready to head downstairs with his zebra-y for some breakfast

 look at what i made last night!
brenny is modeling them for me.

 he likes the small brennan-sized bag.

 ummm...waiting for peterson...
he was trying to get his internet back online, so i waited about 1/2 hour. oh well.

 homework time!

 this is the weather forecast for this coming weekend in carlsbad.  not good.
reminiscent of a could've been soaking wet LA marathon last year...
this time it's the carslbad marathon.  i sure hope it doesn't really rain.  or at least not a lot.
*sigh*

01-22-13

this was NOT staged.
as i was getting ready to go to bed, i went to check in on the boys.
dashiell was all over, hugging his brother!

01-21-13

brenny asked dashiell to read this book to him, 

which he did! =D

then brenny wanted to pretend to read back to dashiell

so cute~

derek's 'heater' has been broken.

it's 80 degrees outside and he's cold and under THREE of my afghans!

oh my.

01-20-13

maui-girl curled up on my marathon blanket (fleece side up)

01-19-13

went back to sushi world with mom =)

(had another groupon.  yay!)

 christina (not pictured; taking the pic!) accompanied me to my high school friend's book signing.
this is the only other cindy i ever knew while in school
CINDY PON!  =D
haven't seen her since high school, as a matter of fact.  and she's a tall asian, just like me!

 doesn't she look awesome?
she was signing her newest book, diverse energies, which she has a short story in...it's an anthology written about dystopian societies, but without the 'traditional' white characters.
her story is set in taipei

 talking about her book...

 listening to the other author, greg van eekhout

 reading an excerpt from her book

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dashiell and brennan swore they could go to bed in their room together this time.
...and they did..
wow.

01-18-13

 his martin luther king, jr. mask that he had to finish up at home
(cut out the hair and glue it on)

 "take another picture so that you can tell it's a mask, mama!"

brennan wanted to make a face just like dashiell's, so i had to look for a (cheap-o paper plate.  thank goodness i had one!)

brennan claims his is just the same. =)

and he had to glue a piece onto his as well, which was a scrap from dashiell's

after his bath, he wanted to have a picture taken with his sheepie

 mer asked me if i could make a bag with a longer strap...so this is what i came up with...

 derek was reading a book and fell asleep.
i took the book out of his hands and his hands were still in the same place ;-)
but then the flash stirred him.  oops!

 not quite satisfied with the previous bag, i stayed up to watch the series finale of fringe, and made this rounder bag with a short strap.  the strap would have been longer, but i didn't have enough t-yarn of that last color to make it longer.  hah!
this one's actually kind of cute.

01-17-13

he looks so long...

 ...and why sleep on a bed when you can sleep on a bed of pillows??