Watermelon Fiasco of Halloween 2012

Soooooooooooooooooooooo.  (Don't you just love it when a story starts with a long "So".) The goober was all packed, in costume, on route to the car for daycare and Halloween party.  As it is, I end up with a bunch of bags every morning I take him to daycare.  I have my purse, his diaper/clothes bag, my lunchbag, his lunchbag, and, of course, the goober himself.  Last night, I had to bring some work home so I also had my backpack.  Adding the crazy bag-lady look I was carrying the bowl of watermelon that my lovely hubby had cut up for the kiddo's Halloween party.  I made it half way to the car when the wee one decided he wanted to drum on the lid of the watermelon bowl.  It was not ideal but not really too much of a problem. UNTIL.... he decide he wanted the bowl.  He grabbed. We struggled.  The bowl lost.  The lid flew in one direction.  Some watermelon escape the bowl when it hit the ground. Goober is SCREAMING.

BAH

So I put down the goober.  Lid up the bowl with the watermelon that's left. Clean up the melon as best I could with a screaming goober (the planter will have lots of nice organic material to break down today).  And, to tried to calm aforementioned screaming goober.  Luckily, a neighbor came by with her son.  He grabbed all of the bags. She got the bowl.  I grabbed the wee one.  He seriously, cried the whole way to daycare.  I think he was more upset about the lost watermelon than anything.  Kiddo seriously loves the watermelon... :)
 
Happy Halloweeny, Everyone!

Good Lord, Woman, have you been living under a rock?

To which I answer, "why, yes, I have"... sort of. I had been studying for my State Geology Exam so, that sort of counts, right?  I finally took the exam (yay!) but don't find out the results for a few months (boo!) and now I have rejoined the land of the living.

I'm trying to get my book situation back in order.  I'm trying to get back on my P90X. I'm trying to keep up at work.  Basically, I'm back to the usual.  I'm perfecting my crazy headless chicken dance which I love so very much.

I just got back from the library so I'll be updating my 30 Books by 30 list.  Yes, yes, I'm past that 30 mark but I haven't found a good 40 by 40 list yet so I'm sticking to the 30s.  I'll probably move it into it's own page so that I can update it.

OK, kiddo is up from his nap.  Mommaness calls!

Finally caught up on the family photos, sort of...

So I've finally loaded up a ton of photos on our family photo site http://pgobiren.shutterfly.com/!

Keep in mind, that it is quite a feat to get a non-blurry photo of Flash Gordan!  Seriously, I'm lucky if most of him is in focus.  I hope you enjoy!  :)

Seriously, what's with two months of silence?

So it has been two months... stinkers. Well, I do have a wee wiggly one who has decided that 5am is his new wake up time... Joy!

Sadly, my running has not been progressing as I hoped it would. Fear not, hiccups and general failure have never stopped me before. There has simply been a readjustment of priorities and running has been put back on that list.

So, I'm back... let see how it works out this time...

Seriously, what's with the running?

HA!  To say that I'm a bit random would be not untrue :)  but how the running bug got stuck in my bonnet is actually an interesting story.  Sooooooooooo, here goes....

As many of you know, I am a geologist (supporting the "Pao is a bit random" theory).  So part of my seriously-super-cool-yo job is that I get to oversee when these big hulky guys bring these huge hulky drill rigs onto a Property and we do our thing.  This past week, I was drilling out where the sun shines (constantly... seriously, no shade).  I was hiding out in the back seat of the company truck which someone else had recently used.  I found in the door pocket a running magazine.  The guys when on a lunch break so I started reading the magazine while I waited for them to get back.  I read a tribute article about Michah True how had recently passed.  I remember reading about him in the book Born to Run by Christoper McDougall.  I had seen McDougall on The Daily Show and thought he was cool so I read his book.  The idea of running barefoot lead me to the Vibram FiveFinger phenomenom and the purchase of my own pair of Vibrams (which Steve loves to call my "feet shoes").  Three years later I finally bought my second pair of Vibrams having seriously worn out the first pair.  I realized, "hey, I haven't run in these yet."

So sitting in the back of a company truck, hiding from the sun on a lunch break, I read an article in a random magazine one of my co-workers left behind and WALA, I'm running again.  See?  It all makes sense... :) sort of... sure it does!  :)