Can you spare a mile??

Hey guys! I had no idea several of you might find our housing search to be interesting, so I'll keep posting some random links as we go through this ordeal. Like Mia mentioned the cost of housing here is NOTHING compared to places like California, or New England. We've had several execs move here from Boston and flat out pay cash for their home based on what they had up there. But we also don't make as much money and we don't have the ocean or loads of fantastic skyscrapers so it's all relative. I really don't see much point in not providing links to the houses we look at - everything in this world is all public domain anyway. If you want to find out who I am it's not difficult, and usually when you try to be uber secretive people are more curious and will actually devote the time to finding out who you are. I got a letter from the AICPa today saying one of their hard drives was lost containing the names, social security #s, addresses, etc of us boring CPAs so they're providing a free year of credit monitoring in case our info falls into the wrong hands. If someone wants your social, it's really not that hard to come by anyway.

So, the real point of this post: Friday is Brent's birthday. We joked around and said we should run 29 miles for his 29th birthday. HA! For my 29th birthday we'll be running 26.2 in Twin Cities, but we'll also be trained for that. Right now we're in half shape. So, I figured I could get you guys to run 29 miles for him, one mile at a time. This won't be a surprise because he reads my blog and my comments, but here's my idea. Run a mile anytime on Thursday or Friday and leave me a comment on a special birthday post I'll be putting up early Friday morning (probably around 6 am Central Time). On that post, tell me what your time was for your mile. This can be a mile you walk, a mile you run full out, or any random mile from within your normal workout. If you do it with a friend, that would be 2 miles total, one for each of you. I plan to do my mile Friday morning with Pippin, so that will count for 2 of the 29 miles. If we get more than 29 miles, even better! Afterwards I'll have a post with everyone's names/blog link and their time, as well as what Brent's total 29 mile run time would be with them all accumulated. Please don't leave a comment to this posting saying whether or not you plan to do it, that way whoever does participate will be a surprise, since he'll know about this activity anyway. (I do have other stuff planned for Saturday that will be a surprise!) You can leave a comment saying it's a cute idea, a stupid idea, etc etc, just not whether you're in!

Have a great night!

Rachel