So I have been twitter for a while now... or I should say I have been stocking people and have made exactly six tweets.
So why I am I on twitter? Basically it was another opportunity to enter contests I am sure never to win. The latest being an entry into Ironman Canada 2011. I would have to take it, but I would also have to say goodbye to my family for six months. After the contest entry the next reason is to stock triathlon and ultra running celebrities. Then it is for the current events - although if the Owen Sound Sun times does not soon stop tweeting about hockey they will be off the list. A follow a few companies like Merrel and MEC to hear about promotions. Then there are the few real people I know. A friend here in town, old CH friends, and people from another lifetime. Then there are the real people strangers. People I have never met. Some I have connections too like Running Mania and others I have linked from there random blogs. Usually all running/ Triathlon related.
What I do not get is why people follow me? Even the people I know in real life don't follow me... cause I do not tweet. I have tweeted once cause I was writing something about being tired and I was so tired I tweeted instead of facebooked. I asked a question to somebody, and have tweeted things to enter contests. Which I do think is a scam but there is always the hope.
Back to why I am on twitter. Another reason I think I am attracted to it is because it creates a certain sense of community. Some days Luke comes home and asks if I have spoken to anybody today and I am surprised to answer no. But I certainly feel engaged to people virtually around me. I am piping up in conversations at Running Mania, I am email friends, I am hearing all about peoples day on facebook and peeking into the windows of professional triathletes. Whats this subject interesting is that my thought on twitter were nicely summed up on a freaknomics podcast... freakanomics.. perhaps I should follow them on twitter.http://www.freakonomics.com/radio/
Tuesday, March 29, 2011
Monday, March 28, 2011
Best Mail EVER
Sure it is not a car, but has even more love. Thank YOU Angela Hins.
I don't have to do it again- ATB 2011
My goal for this race has always been a silver metal or sub 2:30 time..... and third times a charm! Honestly I really do not like it. The hard pavement, the crazy unknown of the weather, I find the course boring, having to pay $20 to park. etc etc. Anyways based on how cold the weather network was saying it was going to be I didn't even want to do it this year if not for the race/ hotel already paid for. I have been so cold this year, and so done dealing with it have never spent so much time on the treadmill.
Going out I was thinking 49, 49, 50 for 10k splits leaving a two minute buffer. Accounting for I would have make up a start line deficit along the way as well. However my mantra this week was you don't know how the day will feel until you get there, you don't how the race will feel until you start and you don't know the finish line will look like until you are there so be prepared. I magically ended up seeding myself well due to a back alley and was off and I wasn't feeling the joy. I just wasn't happy to be there. I was dressed ok. Threw away my sweatshirt at 3k, and held on to my hat and mitts from 5k to the finish. For some reason I thought I might get cold if I slowed down and I actually really liked the hat I was intending to throw away. Again back to the joy, I was feeling no pain so it was a real effort to be in the joy place so I worked on the stress place. I focused on how absolutely devastated I would be if I didn't meet on my goal and how Luke would be disappointed and think I didn't work hard enough. So basically I ran scared for 30k. Scared I would get to the finish line and they would be putting away the silver metals and I wouldn't get one.
Back to pacing. I have never looked at my garmin so much. My thoughts were just keep it under 5min/k and not faster than 4:30......but when I did look down and see faster times I just thought it was banked time. The only pain I felt was my hip flexors, and mental boredom from road racing. Only walked at the water station. Ran abeit slowly up the big hill, but managed to catch up with people I was running with quickly. Did a fair bit of random singing of two to three words. The last four k's I found to be challenging due to the stress of thinking they were putting away my silver metal. Focused on a skinny guys bum encased in back tights. ...even told him to speed up. He got a hug in the end. Sprinted the finish line shoot and got my silver metal..... and kissed the lady who gave it to me.... and now I do not have to do that race again....until next year when I am trying to convince my husband that 2 person really would be fun. He is not a runner.
Once at the finished and a permismile on my face, and having met up with my husband we headed back out so I could run the last 1k in with my friends who have to put up with me endlessly running loops around them.
2009-2:31:27
2010-2:37:04
2011- 2:25:20
Going out I was thinking 49, 49, 50 for 10k splits leaving a two minute buffer. Accounting for I would have make up a start line deficit along the way as well. However my mantra this week was you don't know how the day will feel until you get there, you don't how the race will feel until you start and you don't know the finish line will look like until you are there so be prepared. I magically ended up seeding myself well due to a back alley and was off and I wasn't feeling the joy. I just wasn't happy to be there. I was dressed ok. Threw away my sweatshirt at 3k, and held on to my hat and mitts from 5k to the finish. For some reason I thought I might get cold if I slowed down and I actually really liked the hat I was intending to throw away. Again back to the joy, I was feeling no pain so it was a real effort to be in the joy place so I worked on the stress place. I focused on how absolutely devastated I would be if I didn't meet on my goal and how Luke would be disappointed and think I didn't work hard enough. So basically I ran scared for 30k. Scared I would get to the finish line and they would be putting away the silver metals and I wouldn't get one.
Back to pacing. I have never looked at my garmin so much. My thoughts were just keep it under 5min/k and not faster than 4:30......but when I did look down and see faster times I just thought it was banked time. The only pain I felt was my hip flexors, and mental boredom from road racing. Only walked at the water station. Ran abeit slowly up the big hill, but managed to catch up with people I was running with quickly. Did a fair bit of random singing of two to three words. The last four k's I found to be challenging due to the stress of thinking they were putting away my silver metal. Focused on a skinny guys bum encased in back tights. ...even told him to speed up. He got a hug in the end. Sprinted the finish line shoot and got my silver metal..... and kissed the lady who gave it to me.... and now I do not have to do that race again....until next year when I am trying to convince my husband that 2 person really would be fun. He is not a runner.
Once at the finished and a permismile on my face, and having met up with my husband we headed back out so I could run the last 1k in with my friends who have to put up with me endlessly running loops around them.
2009-2:31:27
2010-2:37:04
2011- 2:25:20
Thursday, March 24, 2011
Freedom
I jumped right on the eat seasonally locally bandwagon. We belong to a summer and a winter CSA. I read labels religiously, go out of my way to buy the cheese produced in Tesswater, only buy butter from the local co-operative, meat cooked in this house is from one or two select farms, if there is Ontario fruit available there will purchasing of non local fruit. Hence we spend a small fortune on food. It is a priority in this house and so it is ok.... but....
At this time of year, the CSA is done. I am slightly burnt out from cooking, and we slack a bit. We generally have bananas in the house, I will buy items that are not in season, and come from lord knows where... and it is slightly freeing.
Back on the bandwagon in a month.
An Education
Yesterday Maya informed me that the president of Canada was Barack Obama.
Oh dear.
Definitely the programming on CBC radio is to blame.
Brainwashing session followed.
"Stephan Harper is the PRIME MINISTER of Canada." Let there not be an election before she memorizes this.
Oh dear.
Definitely the programming on CBC radio is to blame.
Brainwashing session followed.
"Stephan Harper is the PRIME MINISTER of Canada." Let there not be an election before she memorizes this.
Monday, March 21, 2011
0315 Poetry
The dreaded hospital gown.
It is always in the way, too long, trailing in the pee.
Oh so Ugly.
Being sat upon, twisted around.
Is it not uncomfortable?
Never- even if I am dead put one on me.
It is always in the way, too long, trailing in the pee.
Oh so Ugly.
Being sat upon, twisted around.
Is it not uncomfortable?
Never- even if I am dead put one on me.
Just for the record...
My name is Anne.
I really do not like being refereed to as hon, honey, girl, sweetie, or peach tree. Unless of course I am your .... and I think that role has been taken.
Could somebody please let everybody in my life know I do not like those terms of endearment.
I really do not like being refereed to as hon, honey, girl, sweetie, or peach tree. Unless of course I am your .... and I think that role has been taken.
Could somebody please let everybody in my life know I do not like those terms of endearment.
Friday, March 18, 2011
Lesson
Today while shopping with Maya, she was informed of a very important lesson.
Sometimes when you try on clothes, they just don't look good.
She does not believe me.
Sometimes when you try on clothes, they just don't look good.
She does not believe me.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Why I Love Luke reason #7476
The in sickness and in health part of our vows has definitely been well utilized. Lets face it Luke has had to do alot more of the caring for me than I caring for him.
He has nursed me:
- Through two pregnancies
- Two labours
- Two post pardom periods
- Surgery
- Post wisdom teeth out.
- Post many hard races where I could not move.
- I am a miserable sick person so even average colds, and gastros require extra special loving.
And Luke what does he get in return??? I was working nights the last time he got sick and wasn't even here to hold back his hair while he threw up. Oh and his vasectomy. Not that I am wishing he would get sick so we could even the score a little bit but I do feel bad. I was expressing my concerns to the man in question and he assures me that just as long as I continue to cook dinner every night it is all good. I say that's a good deal.
Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Cause I am sitting around all day...many blog posts.
This is a meal from last summer. I like taking pictures of what I eat sometimes.
I like this article on ultrarunning. I see many truths in it and simlarities between my my life. Although I am not as hardcore as the subject ...yet. I am wondering if I will be able to do my first 100miler in 2012?
Conversations in our house...
One
Maya....".......Mommy and Daddy are all about the roll of the rim.' For the record I am at 12 loses- 0 wins. The hot chocolate I got Maya was a loser too.
Two
Anne- You can tell me, are my thighs getting big?
Luke- No of course not.
Few minutes past
Luke: I just don't understand how a person who does so much has so much jiggly bits.
Violence erupts.
Maya....".......Mommy and Daddy are all about the roll of the rim.' For the record I am at 12 loses- 0 wins. The hot chocolate I got Maya was a loser too.
Two
Anne- You can tell me, are my thighs getting big?
Luke- No of course not.
Few minutes past
Luke: I just don't understand how a person who does so much has so much jiggly bits.
Violence erupts.
Todays Lesson... Genetics Suck
Bright and early this morning I got two wisdom teeth extracted and one root canal. Yes at my age. Should have gotten rid of the wisdom teeth durning the brief window I had coverage and to prove genetics suck I needed a root canal at my age. Thus I just had the most expensive hour of my life. Should have known it would have been that expensive based on the pourche in the parking lot.
I am very very frozen right now, so much so I can not swallow my drool and it is running down my chin. I am so frozen I can not close my mouth. I am so so frozen I can't talk. I am so frozen my ear and armpit are numb. I am soo frozen I can not actually swallow any pills yet.
But honestly the time in the chair was great. Bang get the freezing in, than bang pull them out. Fast. I was going to post a picture of the actually teeth... but I think it is too graphic. I am thinking of getting them framed so the kids will brush their teeth more. The dentist was even good at putting the needles in- which is a reason I have got fillings done without freezing in the past.
I was thinking Luke keeps going on about losing a part of my body. Well I lost two othedr 'things', and that wasn't that bad. Didn't take painkillers then.
So the next couple of days are all about painkillers, naps, movies, and no running.......perhaps a bike ride or two though.
Thursday, March 10, 2011
Sunday, March 06, 2011
Trauma Drama
Saturday, March 05, 2011
ABCs
ABC
The Abc of me cause I saw it on a strangers blog that I stalk and cause I have not posted in a bit and cause we all want to more about Anne. ( There can be a collective gag now).
A-Age- 32... soon another depressing day is coming up.
B-Bed Size- Queen...my advice to couples buying their first mattress is just go for the king. Who knows who/what will end up in bed with you.
C- Chore you hate- Dishes. Firmly Luke's job.
D- Dogs- Mosty hate them. Did like a doggie named Popcorn and Brew.
E- Essential Start to your day- Oatmeal, berries, chia seeds, almonds, maple syrup.
F-Favorite Colour- Blue
G- Gold or Silver- Silver
H- Height- 5,4
I- Instruments you play- You really don't want me doing that.
J- Job Title- Registered Nurse
K- Kids- Two. One of each variety.
L- Live- Hanover ON.
M-Mothers name- Kathryn June
N-Nick Name- Annie- But only from persons older than me.
O- Overnight hospital stay- I guess when I was born.
P- Pet Peeve- Really is there anything that does not bug me?? I will offend every single person I know if I even start.
Q- Quote from a movie- Got me there.
R- Right or Left- Very right dormant. Might as well get rid of the left.
S- Siblings- One of each variety
T- Time you wake up- As late as possible. When Luke leaves in the morning then I have to.
U- Underwear- Victoria's Secret
V-Vegetables you dislike- Beets- but I will still eat them- I just don't like to cook with them. Or cold, but I like most food hot.
W- What make you late- My children fussing.
X-rays you have had done- Right arm, both ankles, tib/fib many many times.
Y-Yummy Food you make- Everything I make is yummy.
Z- Zoo animal of the most favorite- Giraffes.
The Abc of me cause I saw it on a strangers blog that I stalk and cause I have not posted in a bit and cause we all want to more about Anne. ( There can be a collective gag now).
A-Age- 32... soon another depressing day is coming up.
B-Bed Size- Queen...my advice to couples buying their first mattress is just go for the king. Who knows who/what will end up in bed with you.
C- Chore you hate- Dishes. Firmly Luke's job.
D- Dogs- Mosty hate them. Did like a doggie named Popcorn and Brew.
E- Essential Start to your day- Oatmeal, berries, chia seeds, almonds, maple syrup.
F-Favorite Colour- Blue
G- Gold or Silver- Silver
H- Height- 5,4
I- Instruments you play- You really don't want me doing that.
J- Job Title- Registered Nurse
K- Kids- Two. One of each variety.
L- Live- Hanover ON.
M-Mothers name- Kathryn June
N-Nick Name- Annie- But only from persons older than me.
O- Overnight hospital stay- I guess when I was born.
P- Pet Peeve- Really is there anything that does not bug me?? I will offend every single person I know if I even start.
Q- Quote from a movie- Got me there.
R- Right or Left- Very right dormant. Might as well get rid of the left.
S- Siblings- One of each variety
T- Time you wake up- As late as possible. When Luke leaves in the morning then I have to.
U- Underwear- Victoria's Secret
V-Vegetables you dislike- Beets- but I will still eat them- I just don't like to cook with them. Or cold, but I like most food hot.
W- What make you late- My children fussing.
X-rays you have had done- Right arm, both ankles, tib/fib many many times.
Y-Yummy Food you make- Everything I make is yummy.
Z- Zoo animal of the most favorite- Giraffes.
Prayer tonight
During fmaily prayer time tonight Ever prayed that all the bad guys and pirates have a good day and Maya prayed for Mommy not to get so angry when it was time to clean up the house.
Just so you all know.
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