that ends well...
the weekend is hours from being over and it's been a busy no-as-sick-as-i-felt-thursday 3 days....
friday: day off of work.. laid low, read, did a few errands, waitressed @ night. busy evening at usrula's helped bring in a little extra money for sunday's plans...
saturday: 9am, took part in the 'run for the apples' 5 mile race out at pine tree orchards out in white bear lake. just out past jesse ventura's heavily guarded house....
rudi, kim, cindy, kristi & i all ran the race. in good times too (cindy and i both PR'd, which means we ran our fastest 5 mile race time yet....)
we had heard from 4 other team mates of our's that this race is *horrible*. like the words 'hell' & 'satan' were both used....rather strong, and the mention of at least one killer hill, if not more than that were talked about. supposedly a horrible rutted trail race through an orchard & pumpkin patch, and oh yes, some corn.
well bring it on! i love a good challenge....
so the race started at 9, and just as we started, two majestic huge white trumpeter swans took off right over us. VERY cool! love me my birdlife, especially while out running...can't say why, but there it is...
finished about 46 minutes later, enjoyed fresh cider, apples (of course) and then purchased some yummy goods in their store before hitting a breakfast spot with the runner girls. and would i do that race again? heck, yes!! i don't know what those girls were beetchin' about....
saturday afternoon, did NOTHING. very bad. i should have been doing SOMETHING but just didn't feel like it.
saturday night, enjoyed a great campfire (i took to being the 'wood wench' to keep the fire big and hot) at a friend's big open house party. met some new friends of hers, hung out with a few i know well, and enjoyed a great fall evening by firelight...
it looked like this, without that lake in the background ;)
sunday: made up for saturday basically, in terms of doing something productive. started it at work. wanted to check in a great many new materials that came in for the kids dept on thursday & friday...and i really wanted time alone to weed. aka go through my Juvy nonfiction area, book by book in the 500s and choose what is old. out of date, or in bad condition (or all 3) and make space on the shelves....
so i put in a good three hours of solid work getting things in order, processed and weeded...without any interruption. bliss. and hugely productive!
then i was time to come home and restain the deck. (mark recently replaced 5 rotting boards that were in dire need of being taken out) and in that we had 20 red boards and 5 white ones. not good. esp for OCD girl.
so i stained the deck floor, sealed the windows with zip strip, cleaned the first floor, did laundry and a plethora of little tasks....
and mark was home most of the day as well, and he made some rockin' home made bread that has made the house smell like a bakery....:) there are worse things....
now we actually are heading on a date night with some friends, which hasn't happened in a long time. so i'm looking forward to that....and on that note, i must get my arss going as we're leaving shortly....have a good week...~jd
Refgrunt 4/15/22
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