And there was much rejoicing

So, we haven't seen our little bird "friend" in over 24 hours now. After work yesterday we may (or may not) have gone to Walmart, where a store associate may (or may not) have shown us what they use to get birds who somehow end up in the SuperCenter and can't find their way back out. When we got home our little friend was hard at work flying into our back windows. So Brent may (or may not) have suited up. This may (or may not) be the last time this little bird sat in a tree. He did sit there for quite a while and we waited for some incredibly slow neighbors to finish dinner on their deck and go inside. And Brent may (or may not) be an INCREDIBLE shot. Remind me not to piss him off. But I definitely did Windex all the reachable windows of our house last night, and there was much rejoicing. So, I'm not going to tell you what happened, and you can choose to believe what you want. Because some people do tend to exagerate on their blogs, use fake names, stage fake pictures, etc. And I'll leave it up to you to decide whether or not I'm one of those people. But we've all been much more "chipper" the past 24 hours INSIDE our house!!










I had a totally miserable run tonight. I've totally lost my mojo this past week. I've felt exhausted all the time and just want to sleep. I didn't want to run tonight but I thought I might feel better if I did get out there. Well....not tonight. We ran two miles out and back instead of our normal Thurs night 6. Around mile 2 I had major side stitches so I stopped to walk for a couple of minutes and then started back up. We ran the first two around an 8:30 and when I started running again I ran 9:00s, which felt much more comfortable. We ran at 6pm and it was still 81 degrees! It's really starting to be warm and I don't think I'm adjusted to that yet. We've got 14 miles planned for Saturday morning, so I hope to get some rest before then. We were thinking about doing a big 5K here on Saturday, but decided to focus on our distance instead. There's a 5K here somewhere every weekend, so we'll have plenty of time to do them all summer. I really enjoy distance more than speed anyway.

Good luck to everyone racing this weekend, especially everyone running Boston! I am proud of you and SO incredibly jealous!!! I'll see you there in 2008 (hopefully!)! So, good luck racers! I know Elizabeth is going to kick butt in Boston! Good luck wishes to Angie, Running Jayhawk, TriSaraTops & everyone else racing this weekend!

Rachel

Exercise-
Wed - 1 mile am walk with Pips, 2 mile evening walk
Thurs - 1 mile am walk with Pips, 4.44 mile run