TGI Almost Friday!

I'm SO glad tomorrow is Friday. This week has literally lasted forever. It seems like ten million years ago that my boss was on vacation. One week with him is like five hundred years in prison. Tonight as I was doing some blog reading I ended up on one of JT's recent posts about things you wish you could say at work. So many of them apply to what I want to say at work that it's hard to even pick a few. Many times this week I've wanted to turn to my boss and ask "Did you hire me to do finance stuff or to be a marriage counselor?" He's repeatedly talked this week about how his wife USED to be fun, and next time around he plans to marry someone who would be fun. He goes on and on about how she sleeps with the kids now and is always on his back. My coworkers and I talk about it and have decided we don't blame her! If I lived with him life wouldn't be fun either! He's so completely random. He constantly rolls in to work at 8:30, 9:30, etc as a result of oversleeping (he's 45 - I would think you'd have the hang of it by then). Today he had an 8 am meeting. I KNEW how this would end. I get there at 7.30, and of course he wasn't there. 8 am rolls around, he's not there. The person who he was to meet with came looking for him and asked my boss's boss if he had seen him. Nope. I'm loving it because I am evil. About 10 after 8 my boss rolls in and the other guy is still talking to the boss's boss. My boss walks by and says "Oh good, there you are." AS IF! We all knew he just walked in, why even pretend like you had been looking somewhere for him. Perhaps he got confused and thought the meeting was in the parking lot. I did get a pretty big break from him yesterday as he had more doctor's appointments. Over the last 6 months he's had vertigo (that was a nice 5 day break!), numerous viral infections and sinus infections, asthma, the flu, stomach bugs, bronchitis, etc. This time we were back to asthma. I did want to be a total smart ass and tell I thought I knew what he had and it was something called hypochondria but he's such a smart ass he would know what that meant.

Anyway, enough about Mr Fun Times. On to running! The taper this week isn't a huge change. I'm just going from 45 miles to 35 miles, so the only difference was a 3 mile run eliminated from Sunday and my long run this Sat will "only" be 12 miles. Yeah!! I haven't had a long run that "short" since early November so I'm pretty excited. Wed night we came home, changed really quickly and started our run before dark. Since it appears the blinking and reflective things we wear only seem to serve as a target for a-hole drivers it was nice to get through the tricky part of our run before dark. We did 6 miles, the same route as Tues night. I DID wear my marathon shorts, with a bag of Cliff Bloks in the pocket. They worked great! We ended up doing the 6 in an average 9 min/mile pace, which is pretty fast for me lately. There were no random attacks from the woods and everything went great! Tonight we headed to the gym and I ran in full marathon outfit. I swear it was 110 degrees in there. I was sweating like a pig, and the only other person on a treadmill had to be walking at the minimum speed. She was wearing sweatpants and not even breaking a sweat. She was using the arms of the treadmill to support herself while she really focused on the magazine she was reading....what's the point really?

No other exercise news to report around here! Good luck to everyone racing this weekend in Arizona and Houston! Good luck to Tammy doing her first marathon and to Elizabeth who will also be in Arizona doing the half and cheering for Tammy! Good luck to Cassie and Manny in Houston doing the half and Dirt Runner Rick doing the whole Houston Marathon!!! I can't wait to read the race reports!!!!!