So here we are, another weekend on the horizon. Time for another session of Chris's random thoughts!
Random thought #1 - Today I swam 2000 yards straight through no stopping. I learned a few things doing this. It gets so repetitive doing this that I had a difficult time keeping track of laps. So for example I'd be swimming along and think "is this 250 or 300 yards?" I kept myself honest and always went with the lower figure. But it is hard to keep focused on that and keep you mind entertained since there is no music or scenery to look at like when you are running.
Random thought #2 - Bridget traded some of her shifts and did some sort of crazy finagling and now she has from tomorrow through Wednesday completely off! What does this mean? Lots of painting. I've been trying to put it off cause it is really no fun to paint by yourself, so now we have the next several days together to get it done. Will post pics when it is all finished. I still dislike painting though!
Random thought #3 - For the second weekend in a row the Red Sox and Yankees meet, this time in New York. Hopefully this weekend goes as well as last weekend did! Good luck Sox.
Random thought #4 - Saturday is my first long run in my marathon training, at 8 miles. I ran 8 miles about 4 weeks ago and it went very well so I am optimistic that tomorrow will go well too! I am going to hide a water bottle on the path I'm going to take and try eating some GU on the way. Should be fun. Oh yeah, I'm also going to run it at 6:30 AM so that I can start conditioning my body to work out at that hour of the morning since that's what time my marathon starts! Yuck!!!
Random thought #5 - The compost heap is fully constructed and ready to go. Today I am going to add my first few components as I mow the lawn, and deadhead a few tulips. I also have 2 giant bags of last fall's leaves ready to go in there too! going to be fun.
Have a great weekend!
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Friday, April 27, 2007
Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Wednesday's news and notes
I really don't have anything exciting to report so I'm just going to ramble for a bit. I have been working and painting the house...that's about it. Boring I know. The good news is that the first coat of primer is almost totally done on the entire house. It is the slowest cause I have to scrape the old peeling paint off, then sand it with a wire brush, then paint. Very time consuming, but the next coat of primer should go much faster. Then we will be ready for color!
I have started my marathon training. Yesterday I ran 3 miles at 9:16/mile pace. It felt good, but the downside is I had to push the kids in the stroller....it's been a while since I have tried that with a serious run and it really sucked the energy right out of me. Could be a good training method for me, sort of like running with a 60 pound backpack on. If I did that for the next 17 weeks I'd run like a gazelle!
Rest easy, we recycle now. My goal for earth day was to establish some sort of recycling plan for our house. If that meant sorting our own recycle stuff and taking it to a facility somewhere or signing up through the trash company. We chose the latter after having checked out the closest 2 recycling centers which were nothing more than dumpsters filled with a ton of other trash (not recyclables). The downside is that it costs $48 a year to use the trash company's recycling service. Something tells me that a large majority of people are not willing to pay that price, it seems hard enough to get people to just put recyclable stuff in a separate bin...let alone pay $4 a month to do it! They need to find some lower cost alternative!
My other hair brained idea for earth day was to create a compost pile. A typical family disposes of over 500 pounds of scrap food each year (I just made that up to make this post look official) of which most of that can be turned into compost. So this morning I raided a trash heap outside someone's house in the neighborhood for 1 and a half wooden pallets. Those are going to be the walls of my compost heap, the 1/2 one will be the door and then I need to acquire 2 more pallets for the other walls. I hope to find those pallets by the middle of next week so I can start my own compost recipe!
I have started my marathon training. Yesterday I ran 3 miles at 9:16/mile pace. It felt good, but the downside is I had to push the kids in the stroller....it's been a while since I have tried that with a serious run and it really sucked the energy right out of me. Could be a good training method for me, sort of like running with a 60 pound backpack on. If I did that for the next 17 weeks I'd run like a gazelle!
Rest easy, we recycle now. My goal for earth day was to establish some sort of recycling plan for our house. If that meant sorting our own recycle stuff and taking it to a facility somewhere or signing up through the trash company. We chose the latter after having checked out the closest 2 recycling centers which were nothing more than dumpsters filled with a ton of other trash (not recyclables). The downside is that it costs $48 a year to use the trash company's recycling service. Something tells me that a large majority of people are not willing to pay that price, it seems hard enough to get people to just put recyclable stuff in a separate bin...let alone pay $4 a month to do it! They need to find some lower cost alternative!
My other hair brained idea for earth day was to create a compost pile. A typical family disposes of over 500 pounds of scrap food each year (I just made that up to make this post look official) of which most of that can be turned into compost. So this morning I raided a trash heap outside someone's house in the neighborhood for 1 and a half wooden pallets. Those are going to be the walls of my compost heap, the 1/2 one will be the door and then I need to acquire 2 more pallets for the other walls. I hope to find those pallets by the middle of next week so I can start my own compost recipe!
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