November 26, 2011
Thanksgiving

I have to say Thanksgiving for Dave and I was particulary relaxing and wonderful:)  Our day started with the birthday boy enjoying fresh coffee and me enjoying a nice long run.  I then made us a breakfast of eggs, some breakfast sausage for him, bagels, and cinnamon rolls:)  We enjoyed all of this upstairs in our newly decorated loft area.  We didn’t have furniture until Wednesday when our new couch arrived for our living room.  A chair will be arriving soon but it’s being made.  We spent all of Thursday upstairs watching football and skyping with family:)  We then started our vegetarian thanksgiving in the evening.  I made homemade stuffing and green bean casserole and Dave was in charge of the rosemary mashed potatoes with mushroom stuffing:)  Overall everything was amazing although I am still perfecting the homemade green bean casserole.

Stuffing

Green Bean Casserole

Goodness on plates

On Friday we slept in until 10am something we rarely do and then had leftovers for lunch:)  We ended up just going around the Northeast of Portland later and got ice cream in waffle cones…I had salted caramel ice cream and Dave had Almond Brittle with Salted Ganache.  This place was amazing and was called Salt & Straw.  Everything was homemade and delicious.  When we came home I found out that my final 69 page paper for Capstone project for my Masters was accepted.  I got up at 6am today and gave my oral presentation over the phone to my adviser.  I am officially done with everything for my masters!!!!!!  It’s an amazing feeling and to celebrate I went for a long run.  Dave and I went to Meat, Bread, and Cheese for lunch.  Let’s just say that it should probably be called Bread as my vegetarian option was lacking and Dave’s sandwich literally had one piece of meat.  We decided on a whim to go wine tasting in the Willamete Valley.  We went to Erath which was good but then we went to Tori Mor which was amazing.  Awesome views of the mountains and surrounding area, a Japenese influence, and amazing wine.  Dave and I are currently enjoying the rest of the evening:)

Happy Saturday!

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November 24, 2011
A Day of Thanks

Today is an extra special day because it is not only Thanksgiving but it’s husbands birthday!!!  I know he is one of the lucky ones that due to the date of his birthday the 24th his birthday lands on Thanksgiving every 6 to 7 years:)  So today I am thankful for my amazing families, my awesome friends, a body that allows me to exercise and run marathons, running itself, my job and the amazing coworkers and students I get to interact with, the God I get to serve every day and last but not least my husband:)  We have known each other over 9 years and I still find new things about him.  He is the love of my life, my best friend, my partner, the one who makes me laugh, and listens to me when I cry.  I don’t know what I would do without him and I thank God every day that I am blessed to spend my life with this man.  Dave and I are looking forward to him being the King of the day - a birthday tradition his mom started, an awesome brunch we just enjoyed, relaxing, and then a great turkey-less dinner tonight:)

Happy Birthday Husband!!!!

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November 20, 2011
The first of my D.I.Y Christmas decorations. Instructions are on pinterest-follow me @runnic18

The first of my D.I.Y Christmas decorations. Instructions are on pinterest-follow me @runnic18

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November 19, 2011
Peace

This morning I woke up and felt peace.  This is something I normally feel but the last 3 months have been some of the most stressful I have ever encountered.  Between being in 2 amazing weddings in Michigan, teaching full time, teaching night school one night a week, traveling to a math conference, and finishing up my masters I have been pretty stretched.  The last 4 weekends for me have been spent writing huge papers and submitting them for my class.  Every weekend I would wake up and the paper would be on my mind.  But this morning I submitted my last 2 papers.  I still have to put it all together and do a power point but I finally feel peace.  I am seeing a light at the end of the tunnel.  I can finally enjoy Thanksgiving and husbands birthday:)  I have been seeing so many posts about Thanksgiving and what people are thankful for.  For lack of time I didn’t participate but today I am thankful for peace, peace that comes from knowing I am almost done and knowing how grateful I am for God and his guidance through all of this.

Happy Saturday - I am off to enjoy the day with husband and have peace.

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November 12, 2011
T-tests and the Little Things

I know funny name for a blog right?  Well not if you are a math teacher:)  Or if you are collecting and analyzing data which I have been doing for the last 2 months for my last ever grad school project.  I have slowly well I guess quickly been plugging away at doing my masters at Western Governors University.  It’s an online university and I recommend if you are self-motivated or if your husband is in his last semester of grad school and is in class 3 nights a week until 10:30 (like last semester):)  This combined with me doing this all summer has led me to my last class.  I have been doing a crazy research project that included a lot of information and teaching of a method by George Polya to my students.  Everything is done and now I am writing up my results stage 5 and 6 of 7 stages for this project.  Tonight I was doing a t-test which tests whether or not there is any difference in my data collected.  Now I think this stuff is really interesting and I have done it by hand in my stats class in college but that was quite a long time ago.  Thank you you-tube for showing me how to do it in Excel and thank you students for creating a difference:)  I really just ran into our living room to tell Dave that I had a p-value that was statistically significant and yes folks he knew what I was talking about:)  I know we are nerds but I love it.  It’s the little things that make my day.  Now off to enjoy my Saturday night of rain, a fire, a clean house, fresh made tofu, and a glass of wine.

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November 11, 2011
Coffee

My idea of a great morning is a long run and then a nice cup of coffee.  Growing up I never thought I would be a coffee drinker - my parents weren’t at all.  Then I met Dave in college and he enjoyed it.  We would go to late night diners and get coffee and I soon became hooked.  I started with cream and sugar and then switched to cream and equal - I know gross.  I had been using equal for years much to my husband and mother-in-laws dislike.  They would both send me articles on how bad it was for me.  I knew it was but this past year I have really taken an interest into what I am putting in my body and have really started to make sure I am eating fresh food.  I realized this summer equal had to go so I just stopped.  It took me a bit but now no sugar just soy creamer and coffee.  I have now officially become that person who really enjoys the taste of coffee:) 

Happy Friday and coffee day. 

Best coffee in Portland.

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November 9, 2011
One of those weeks

This week was just one of those weeks.  I had an awesome weekend with the husband in New Mexico and I loved my math conference but I came back to a ton of work.  Between teaching night school, the quarter ending today for school and having multiple papers to submit to finish my last grad class I am feeling a little overwhelmed.  Suffice to say last night I was crying on my ride home….oh yeah and I left work at 6:30.  Not late for some but remember I get there at 7:30 so that’s a pretty long day.  I was overwhelmed to the max and just not sure how I was going to make it.  A good cry and talk with God helped a lot to ease my mind.  Oh and my amazing husband who just hugged me:)  Tonight I am relaxing finally with still a lot of work to do but caught up for today so today is good.  I also came across this picture of the husband and me:

This was on our honeymoon over 5 years ago.  Love that man even more today and so blessed by him.

Happy Wednesday

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November 2, 2011
Snow in Denver - haven’t seen that in awhile

Snow in Denver - haven’t seen that in awhile

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October 30, 2011
Healthy Cob Salad

Had this for dinner tonight without the chicken, bacon, or eggs, and added cucumber and radishes….so good:)

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October 30, 2011
Toes

I know this is a random post and I promise I will have a wedding post up soon, but this one came to me in the shower and I just wanted to know does anyone else have really crazy toenails?  Let me preface this with the fact that I found out my toenails were different when I was in high school.  By that time I was obsessed with running but I had yet to learn to buy shoes a half size bigger because your feet expand while running.  Hence my toenails took a turn for the worse and were just gross for a lack of better words.  I never really minded and just kept them covered with toenail polish for the rest of high school and through college.  Right before my senior year I decided to check out my toenails since I knew the days of good insurance were about to be gone:)  My doctor described lamisil.  You know you have seen the commercials…but here is a reminder:

Little did I know that this drug also requires your liver to be tested every month due to how strong the medication was.  Yeah I wasn’t to pleased about this and the medicine only achieved me having a lot of stomach problems.  Anyways I kind of forgot about it and put it to the side until I started training for marathons oh and Dave made me use my own toenail clippers:)  Yeah they were that bad.  I made another appointment after my second marathon and the podiatrist said that my toenails were bad but not fatal.  He said if it didn’t bother me to not worry but that I had one of three options: 1 remove all my toenails, 2 have a laser go over them with not a very high success rate, or 3 just live with it.  Yeah you can guess 1 and 2 weren’t looking so hot so I chose option 3.  Cue 3 years later.  You ask why are you telling us this because my last marathon took a beating on my toenails….so my question is does anyone else have this problem and if so any suggestions for me?  Right now I guess I will just continue going on with life and running because I figure this if this is a problem I have life is pretty good:)

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