Catch up

I feel as though I need to catch you up on the randoms of my life. Meaning, this is a miscellany post.

1. I'm officially attending the St. Louis Komen Race for the Cure! If you are feeling particularly giving and would like to donate to the Komen organization, click here for my webpage. I'm especially excited not only because I get to see my St. Louis girls, but because Keri will be at the race as well. In fact, I'm on the team called 'Wilkie's Warriors' and here are our fabulous shirts:
They say "team Keri" on the back and "Attitude is Everything" on the front. I love them. I can't wait for this experience!!

2. Happy belated 33rd anniversary to Mom and Dad!! I called them on their big day and they said it was officially a 'no cooking weekend' in honor of their celebration. And Dad got Mom a dozen red roses. Aren't they squeezable?

3. We are in week #1 out of 18 weeks of marathon training and it's going well so far. We only have to run 3 miles during the week, but we have to do it for three days in a row [barf!]. And this weekend is a 6 miler so we'll see how that goes. I'm not liking the three consecutive days of running after being on my feet all day long, so maybe I'll try to run before work [I doubt it will happen].

4. I'm still sick from San Diego! I have lots of drainage and coughing fits and it's been a week and a half. Do you think I'm dying?

5. Nate is rocking PT school so far. He's so cute studying each night and telling me about his new little school friends he's made. His first big test is next week already, so wish him luck!

6. Apparently I passed my 200th post without a blip in the radar. I don't know how this happened without me noticing but....whoo hoo for 200 posts!

7. Also, apparently my knot bios committed suicide. Either that or they've expired a year after my wedding. Someone emailed me for hairstyle pictures, since the ones in my bio are whacked out and fuzzy now. Anyone know why this could be? You can see for yourself through my link on the right column. Maybe I should just delete the whole thing anyway. I mean, I haven't even been on The Knot for almost a year....but still, I put a lot of work into those bad boys back in the day.

8. Can I just reiterate how awesome our new computer is right now? Because it's the bomb. Case in point: the new iPhoto 08. Now they store your pictures in groups with a little album cover. When you roll over the album cover you can scroll through all of your pictures, too. It's superfab, you guys, and here is a screen shot for you:


9. I am putting the finishing touches on our San Diego Blurb album. Want to see a few layouts? Click to make bigger and check my website under 'examples' for all of them.




10. I have decided that I need to be more social up here. I mean, I've lived in Milwaukee for a whole year now [gasp!] and I've been too lazy to make friends. I keep saying, "I already have my friends and don't feel like putting forth the effort to make new ones." Well that is all fine and good but my friends are in other states. We keep in touch through phone calls and email but I need some girls here, too.

And so, watch out: next Wednesday I'm meeting a few of the local bloggers for dinner and drinks. Thursday I'm going to a farewell party for a co-worker. Saturday some of us girls at work have organized a 'girls night out and SATC party.' My co-workers and I rarely plan fun activities like this since everyone has such busy schedules with kids and families and what not [ahem, everyone but me:)].

Just call me a social butterfly, I suppose. Not really sure how I'm going to do all of that and train for this marathon, but whatever.

11. Speaking of, after watching The Dog Whisperer I decided that Henry needs to start running with me again. He used to love a good long jog but lately he's been lazy [just like his mommy]. So I took him with me on a 3 mile run and this was the result later that night:



He actually LOVED running with me but later on he pooped out for the whole night. Can't say that I blame him because this is how I usually feel, too:)

And I think that is all the randomness I can remember right now. Enjoy the weekend!