Sprung

Hey everyone! I hope you're all having a wonderful start to your weekend, and hopefully you had some similar weather to ours today! It was a wonderful 75 degrees today, bright and sunny! Too bad most of it had to be spent at work and more of it couldn't be spent just stretching out on the deck. Our daffodils have been in bloom for about a week and a half now, and all the trees are starting to bud and bloom. Our giant hackberry tree in the backyard had some sort of strange buds earlier this week that attracted an absolute gaggle of birds who ate them and promptly pooped them back out ALL over our deck. Our grass has gotten so tall this week we're going to have to mow already! Ah, spring. When I got home today at 4:30 it was absolutely beautiful. I changed into jeans and Pips and I sat on the front porch swing until Brent got home around 5:30ish. All of our neighbors were out and about. I got two cat calls from passing cars and one redneck squealing tires in his Camero. I've still got it. We saw J running, then Mrs J on her way home and later we stopped and chatted with a different J while we walked Pippin. It must've been the afternoon of "J"s in the hood. We took Pippin for a looong walk and just enjoyed watching everyone else enjoying the evening - the outdoor seating at all our local pubs was overflowing and all 50 people who live in the "run-down-looking-house-where-50-people-live" were sitting outside.

It's been a good week workout wise. I've got 18 miles so far this week and ran on all 4 planned days. Tomorrow is supposed to be a big rain event, so this week's long run may be pushed to Sunday, we'll just have to see. Just two weeks and a day until ING Georgia! Am I ready? Not so much, but I'll have fun. No goals, just me and my nano. Since I rarely ever run with music it's going to be SO awesome to turn my tunes on and just sing for 4 and half-ish hours among the streets of Atlanta. My plan is to lose myself in my fave songs and take it step by step. The most important thing is we plan enough time to properly clear out IKEA. Everything else is secondary. And if there's a Crate and Barrel in Atlanta - well, that's going to be a priority, too!

In house news there's a lot going on in this old (former) slave house. Next week there's an interior person coming to measure out the kitchen so we can start selecting cabinets and drawing that remodel out. The following Monday the architect is coming to measure out the upstairs and start drawing out the expansion. We're really excited to hear her ideas. It's going to be crazy here this summer! I'm going to start looking for a doggie daycare for Pippin - he will lose his mind if he has to be crated while contractors go in and out all day. The move nearly sent him to the big house. And most importantly we're going out with friend S on Monday night to see her hot new BMW. =)

I truly have nothing else interesting to say, not that any of that was interesting! My belly is stuffed absolutely beyond full with awesome Indian food right now and I clearly can not think clearly!!!!

Happy Spring!!

Rae