Mother, Run, Hike

I had not planned to run R'nR DC this year again, but last summer, Rock 'n' Roll offered a switch for those who would not make it to Virginia Beach. I took the transferred and wiped the expectations and tears off. In December, RnR had a sale and I got Roger a registration for the half marathon as well.   Race Details Cost : $50 (purchased during the Running day sale, originally for Virginia, then transferred to DC) Goodies: Plastic Drawstring bag, samples, coupons, woman's cut tech shirt. Water and Gatorade at the finish line. Plus course entertainment. Weather: 27, with windchills and real feel of 17-22. Sunny. Last year when I did R'n'R DC, I did it in 1:58:59, and I thought it was a realistic goal to try and beat that time this year. The course is *relatively* flat, with a major hill at mile 6, and small rolling hills after. But not pancake flat that it would hurt. A week before, the weather the forecast kept changing. At some point, it was showing p...

Today is Enrique Bunbury's Birthday... my phone reminded me early in the morning. So I decided to finish this post as a celebration of his birth! It took me a long time to get to write this, mostly because I wrote a long long post that went into a very detail account of what every song was. So I scrapped the whole thing and starting fresh, because the only person interested in this many details about the concert is me . This is the continuation of this post . In case you missed it... here is the short version: We drove to NYC, we parked in Staten Island, walked about 20 blocks, got lost on the subway, arrived to the concert venue to a line around the block.         We arrived and found our spot in the middle of the crow. New York City Bunbury Concert crowds are very rowdy... by the time the show starts some are drunk, some a high and they are not afraid to push, shove, kick and grab to get to the front. My sisters hate that . This year we got ...

Hello internet, and the three others who read my blog when it's not a link up.... Thank you for stopping by ! Today I'm doing two post, because I'm leaving for NYC in a couple of hours to go see Enrique Bunbury in Concert, and wont' be back until Thursday. I am a huge fan of Enrique Bunbury. I have loved his music for almost 20 years, from when he was in Heroes Del Silencio, to his own stuff. A lot of his music is the soundtrack to my life, so naturally I have all his albums, tons of his DVDs, concert DVDs, and have seen documentaries. When I saw that there would be a Documentary of his Las Concequencias Tour, I planned to watch it. Even though it took a long time to come out! I was fortunate to get it for Mother's Day and have been watching it this morning, here are a few things that I was blown away by from the Documentary (When I say he, I mean Enrique Bunbury) The documentary follows him along a 25 city tour in The United States in 2010....

Christmas Wish list I just finished putting together the Christmas list for my family. We have grown up a lot in the last 5 years and have made our list about things that we can / will use; which prevents wasting money for all of us and hoarding for others. Last year somebody even asked for a bottle of Ketchup, it was a joke but it ended up being used. In other years I have asked for things that I don’t use. For some reason that I don’t understand now, I asked for a deep fryer and a food processor one year. I lost the fryer on my divorce, but I’m glad to not have the fryer anymore. Other years I asked for work out leggings and I got an awesome pair of bright pink capris leggings. A color I would have never bought for myself, but that I love. Last year I didn’t ask for many things, I asked for a DVD/CD combo of my favorite Artist, Enrique Bunbury and a few movies. I was fortunate to get a pair of super awesome Adidas Hiking sneakers, an iPad mini and socks. Those sneakers wer...