Why can't we all get along???

First up, good luck to everyone racing this weekend!! I know Dawn has a cross country race, Shore Turtle has a Polar Plunge and Rob has a 15-miler. I'm sure they'll all do great and I'm also sure I've left someone out but I just can't remember who! We have a 4 mile fun run on Saturday, but with my foot I doubt I'll be able to do it. This pain is far worse than just a niggle or something sore, and I don't want to make it worse.

The foot does feel a little bit better today. No dress shoes work with my foot, so today I wore sandals with dress socks! I totally expect to see the look on the Runway this fall. I have a doctor's appointment tomorrow morning, just to make sure it's not a fracture or a bone spur, etc. Hopefully a couple more days of rest will clear it up. I hate not working out!! I feel like my weight is doubling and it's only been two days. Yesterday's pizza and soda sympathy binge is over and we were back to salad, grilled chicken, veggies & fruit for dinner. (Although this morning I would have sold my mother for some Doritos!!)

So, the reason for this post. Nashville is Talking is a great local blog sponsored by the local news channel that we tend to watch (mostly because the anchors have ACTUAL personality!). Brittney, the blog master, has been great to us. She's featured a lot of my marathon training/races, many of Brent's super funny posts on the great way he sees things (I think his roast beef sandwich post will forever be one of the funniest things I have ever read), and tons of links to Pippin's picture blog. Nothing irritates me more than people who drop by your blog for a grand total of 15 seconds and feel they need to voice an opinion about who THEY think you really are. Likely they are the same annoying coworkers you'd hope would fall into a deep well on any given day. Simply put, they have self confidence issues and feel that putting you down is their best bet.

Today Brittney posted a link to Pippin's "Olympic" picture. She's a dog lover, with a super cute dog of her own, and she happens to be a fan of Pippin. (But really, who isn't?? He's our baby!!) For some reason people seem to need to constantly say things like "there's a twelve step program for people like you" and "poor dog" and "you people need a life" (no one said that today, but they have) when she posts a Pippin link. Why is that even necessary? One a-hole even left a comment like that on Pippin's blog today. What's the point in that? If they spent more than 10 seconds looking at our life they'd see that I'd throw most of the children on our block in front of moving cars before I let something hurt Pippin. Pippin is spoiled rotten and obviously a very happy dog. And we DO have a life. We work full time, contributing to society -which is likely more than the person who left us the rude comment and calls himself something like "homeless guy". (I checked out your blog, and it's boring as hell. Good luck with that.) I graduated in the top 10% of my high school class, from a high school ranked as one of the top 100 in the country. I was first in the school of business at my college, constantly winning academic awards from my professors. I passed each part of the CPA exam on my first attempt. Roughly, only 25% of all people who take it EVER pass it. In my previous job, I won a professional award that only the top 10% in the company of over 50,000 employees ever receive. I've lost 38 pounds in the past 1.5 years and completely changed my life. I run races, and raise money for charities throughout this city and state. I've run a marathon. Less than 1% of all people EVER do that. So you see, we DO have a life, a rather exceptional life at that, and if it happens to involve dressing our dog warmly on days when the temps are in the teens, call PETA. I dare you. At least we ARE doing something positive for society.

And "homeless guy" I've deleted your comment. Because in my world, YOU don't exist. Maybe you should look for a 12 step program because I have plenty of activities to keep myself busy. And if you'd read my blog for more than 10 seconds you would've heard of Mean Rachel, and you would've kept on clicking before you ever posted that comment. Just a tip - she's extra mean when she hasn't been able to run in a couple of days.