Just Kidding!

I was just kidding about waiting three months to post. Here's what happened:

First I went back to work. Of course, this is really no excuse, because I only substitute teach two or three days a week. (Subbing is the best job ever. Every day I go in and pop in a movie (at the teacher's request) and sit back and rob the board of education of $127. If I dislike a particular school, I don't have to go back. If I don't feel like getting up, I turn off my phone. It's the best.) And I have no planning to do during the hour and a half breaks I usually have...ample blogging time...

Anyway, my second excuse is that I decided around the time of my last post that I would pretend to be a runner. (You know, kind of like I pretend to be a writer...) I did pretty good for awhile. I broke my pinky toe and got right back on it. I had an asthma attack (for the first time ever) and got right back out there. After about 10 weeks I was on week 7 of the 9 week Couch to 5K program. And then for some reason I just quit. (Kinda like this blog...)

So yesterday, my awesome little cousin reminded me that my blog is hilarious (Shout out to Alex!) and I thought, "oh yeah. I AM pretty funny. I should get back on that." And then I thought "Hmmm...I haven't run for about 6 weeks. I should do that too."

Of course I decided that the proper way to get back to running was to just go out and run 3 miles. No warm-up, no intervals, just do it. More evidence that I'm a pretend runner. I'm feeling that today. But I ran 2.8 miles in 31 minutes. Not really worth publishing, but I was satisfied!

The kid is plugging along. She tells me to go to work on days that I don't so that she can play with her Grammy. Thanks, kid. She had her third birthday since my last post. I'll go back and talk about that later. It was quite a week of events. Probably the best conversation we've had in awhile went as follows:

Kid *randomly*: Mommy? Where's the north pole?
Me: Way up on top of the world.
Kid: Well...I don't see why Santa doesn't just move here. Then he wouldn't have to come so far to see me.

Awesome.

Well, since I waited so long to blog, there's all kinds of pressure to deliver greatness. I just wanted to get over the hump of getting back on here...sorry to disappoint! :) More laughs next time...