Mind numbing

I know not everyone gets as excited as I do about running, but it is what it is I suppose. Saturdays are my long run days, and today it is extra nasty outside. It is raining, and windy and only 45 degrees. This forces me to run 9 miles on a treadmill at the rec center. BARF! I have been putting it off for as long as I can today, but now the time has come and I need to go do it. Bridget worked all night and we let her sleep till about 3 PM so she is now ready to take over kid watching duties. The kids and I went to the Children's museum today, it was fun and killed a large portion of our day so mommy could sleep.

Well off to the treadmill I go, to run like a lab rat in an exercise wheel!

In trouble?

I need every one's opinion. I have been e-mailing my brother in law about getting a mattress for some friends of mine (he works for a mattress company). Anyway we got the mattress ordered and it is all set to go. So I was e-mailing my friend the details and I just thought I would forward the last two e-mails in the list of 8 e-mails on the subject. Much to my dismay the e-mail program sent all 8 e-mails, of which the first is an e-mail to my sister in which I refer to my friends wife as "goofy." So if my friend reads all 8 e-mails he will find my little slip, so what should I do?

These are the 3 leading solutions:

1. Ignore it, it's not a big deal and he may not even read all 8 e-mails.
2. Send an apology e-mail saying it was a mistake and wasn't meant to reach him.
3. just hope that if he sees it he doesn't take any offense to it.

HELP! what should I do????

Rain, Rain.....at last!

We are finally getting a day of rain. The beauty of it is - NO PAINTING! Yeah! Yippie! Yahoo! I feel like a kid walking out of the school doors on the last day of school! Here in SLC we only had 1/2 an inch of rain in April, 4 1/2 inches is the average. So we really need the water! After last weeks upper 80's low 90's our yard already had brown spots. I guess I couldn't admit it to myself that we would really need to start watering, guess so.

The downside is that we are stuck indoors, but it's not so bad having spent so much time outside recently.

Tree Hugger Stuff

My sister sent me an e-mail today that has a great article describing an new wind farm being built by my Alma Mater, Colorado State University. The project should be completed in 8 years and will fully support the entire university in it's energy needs. CSU currently uses 16 MH at peak demand, and the new wind farm will produce 65 MH. I think this is a great program and I would hope that larger institutions, businesses, even cities and towns see that this is a great source of environmentally friendly power and adapt it to their particular situations. Read the article my sister sent me that got me all fired up....here!

Also as a side note, did you see the CFL counter in the lower right of my blog? It has gone over 33 million CFL bulbs sold! Do you have yours??

One other side note, I am not a big fan of Wal-Mart for countless reasons....to many to list in this post....but I have been pleasantly surprised by a few of their commercials recently. There is one with a lady talking about a bottle of concentrated laundry soap, another talking about CFL bulbs, and one more about natural fiber clothing. I think the idea of spreading the word on these things is awesome, and really send a powerful message that big business can promote environmentally friendly products and still earn a profit.

Are we there yet?

We get up, we paint. We take a break, then we paint. We paint before lunch, then we paint till dinner. We paint from dinner till dusk. Paint....Paint....Paint.....BARF. I hate painting so much. I really find myself looking forward to running because it is a break from painting. We got a pretty good start on the color though, I think I look like Shrek because my hands are all green from paint.

Bridget is enjoying her time off from work a lot. Even if she has to paint, she insists that she enjoys the fresh air and the sun. I think she is crazy, possible suffering from heat stroke or something! We went to the Rec Center this morning. We rode our bikes, I had the bike trailer with the kiddos in it. We decided to run on treadmills so that I could go at my pace and she could go at hers, I did 3 miles in 24 minutes and she did 3 miles in 30:21. It was the first time she went 3 miles in a LONG time, but she felt great. Bridget is joining me in the Race for a Cure in 2 weeks, so she is training for that 5K. She has to push the stroller for that one, so she is hoping for a non windy day!