imollie, irun

Five things I thought about during my morning run:

1. Oooooooo. Nice and cool.

2. My cousin Barry doing the Ironman competition. Way to go, Barry! I am trying to hit 3 miles and you are running over 23 after biking and swimming. WHAT? ;-)

3. Rough morning--all the way around. Girls are tired from their big weekend and I woke up with a headache.

4. New York City...

5. Oh, that's why I shouldn't run while on imitrex...it makes me a little dizzy.

Five things I thought about during my morning run:

1.The way every muscle in my legs burn this morning. Sometimes, it doesn't bother me at all. This morning, it does. But I keep moving.

2. Emma trying to prank call us--not once but twice. First, she tried a British accent. "Excuse me madam, is your refrigerator running?"  Next, a Southern one. "There's been a bear spotted in your neighborhood."

3.Last King of Scotland. Really good film.

4. The other romance I picked up yesterday. Much better than the one I was reading from the publisher my agent has high hopes for Tempting Will. I feel much better.

5.  Kevin in Rome--LAWD, have mercy.

Five things I thought about during my morning run:

1.The way every muscle in my legs burn this morning. Sometimes, it doesn't bother me at all. This morning, it does. But I keep moving.

2. Emma trying to prank call us--not once but twice. First, she tried a British accent. "Excuse me madam, is your refrigerator running?"  Next, a Southern one. "There's been a bear spotted in your neighborhood."

3.Last King of Scotland. Really good film.

4. The other romance I picked up yesterday. Much better than the one I was reading from the publisher my agent has high hopes for Tempting Will. I feel much better.

5.  Kevin in Rome--LAWD, have mercy.

Five things I thought about during my morning run:

1. Pretty little calico kitty watching me run down the street. Is she smiling at me?

2. Missing my girls this morning. It's very strange. People tell me to enjoy my weekend with Eric and I am. I plan to. But we both feel sort of lost without them.

3. Someone is bothering my friend Jesse and I'm a little concerned about her. She may have to completely disappear from the internet for a while.

4. My right leg--hip and knee, both. Started bothering me yesterday and not during my run, but later in a pair of heels during my meeting with the principal.

5. I just don't know what to do about the Tess and her teacher thing. I am willing to give it another shot. Maybe she just got off to a bad start. I hope. But I don't like the teacher. After meeting with her, she kinda even scared me. She was cold. But I will go into the classroom and observe. And I know that I don't have to LOVE every teacher my children have. I've been so spoiled at Westwood, except for that one teacher years ago, we've had great experiences. Well, at least she knows I am an engaged parent and watching the situation.

Five things I thought about during my morning run:

1. Wilting honeysuckle blossoms.
2 They way every time I think of honeysuckle it reminds me of Wolf Trap and this one night I had there, listening to Sarah Vaughn. (Incredible.) I wrote a poem about it--if I can find it, I'll post it. But I was on a date with someone who turned out to be quite the ass. The world is full of them, heh? It's so hard to tell at first--but it always comes out it the wash, hopefully sooner rather than later.
3. Ohmmm Pie, ohmmmm Pie...shanti, pie.
4. Girls going away this weekend, leaving Eric and I to ourselves. That hasn't happened in a LONG time. He's not going to his folks house with his sister and the girl because he has work to do.
5. The way you can work through some pain and be okay. I didn't think I'd make it this morning, my thighs were burning, but I kept going and it was fine.

Five things I thought about during my morning run:

1. Conversation overheard this morning. Emma to Tess: "Yes, that's when we were young and foolish." I didn't ask.

2. Midwife of the Blue Ridge. It's much more a romance in the way the Outlander is. There's a great deal of history, with a little romance thrown in. It's certainly not genre romance. 

3. I ordered sample of a genre romance published by the publisher my agent is so hopeful about.The one who is interested and I am rewriting for.  I leafed through and thought "no fkg way." Really bad purple prose. And you know what? I've taken it to my limit. I don't mind sexing it up, but I won't write like that. So, I don't mind rewriting and resubmitting but I am not hopeful.

4. Eric changing his mind about going away this weekend. We are sending Emma and Tess with their Aunt  to spend the weekend in Westernport. If Emma keeps improving.

5. My meeting with the teacher and the principal tomorrow. Yes, indeed.

Five things I thought about during my morning run:

1. Emma not being able to move much this morning. She hurt her neck during sleep. I mean she can't even lift medicine to her mouth. I had to feed it to her. She is back in bed and I'll be phoning the dr. early this morning.
2. Tess not wanting to go to school today. The child has never complained about school or teachers--dancing, gymnastics, school. NEVER. I am asking that she be changed into another classroom.
3. Quite a morning. Lots of tears and drama.
4. Need to cut my run in half, just when I need it more, but Emma needs me close by and really, I wouldn't have it any other way.
5. Weekend plans up in the air. Wish something would settle soon.

Five things I thought about during my morning run:

1. Emma's dreams. So detailed and rich, like mine. I try to ask her every morning what she dreams about. I ask, Tess, too. Sometime she has a good one, but this morning she said "I can't remember my dream, Mother." (It just kills me when she calls me Mother...usually is Mama..) Reminds me of when she was like 2. In the middle of the night I woke up to her thrashing around in her crib and calling out for me :"I lost my binky, Mother." ;-)  It was funny, even at 3 a.m.

2. I need a trip to Charlottesville. Just not sure which day.

3. Timing is everything. And mine always seems to be off.

4. New runner in the neighborhood--a man, youngish, wearing a heart monitor.

5. I reallllllly need a hair cut.

Five things I thought about during my morning run:

1. I should have eaten before I took off. I'm so hungry.

2. I was feeling so good about my fiction work yesterday. This morning I woke up with a feeling of dread. Confidence crash.

3. So now that Brian has fixed my laptop, at least one day this week I'm going to Starbucks with it. At least it will get me away from FB, Twitter, email--it has no wireless card.

4. Still waiting to hear back from Yoga Journal.

5. Little girls at the bus stop loving my I LOVE MATH t-shirt. Yes. I still have it. I worked at NCTM SO many years ago and I still have the t-shirt. It's still in good shape. Anyway, these girls were all into MATH. Good sign. Maybe the work we did at NCTM mattered, just a little bit.

Five things I thought about during my morning run:

1. Beautiful morning for a run-nice and cool.
2. Tink and her bravado. I SO understand it. She acts all tough when she comes across one other dog. She just wants them to know she's not a pushover--it needs to back off. But when there's two dogs around who are barking at her, she whimpers and gets behind me. I understand that, too.
3. Feeling grateful this morning. Grateful to be here and to be in the space that allows me to play with words and images. Wild night of dreams and if I am reading them correctly, there's more of the frontier and colonies for me to explore. It sparks my imagination—the way this land grew.
4. Seeing Bob Dylan live was one of the most disappointing experiences of my life, years ago. He gave me a headache.
5. Pancakes. Mmmm.