top 5 reasons

here's the top 5 reasons i had to go running today:

1. i made these cookies this morning (b/c we had a "weather day" which meant no school and also meant "must make cookies"). they're called mudslide cookies. they have real chocolate and eggs and cocoa and other good stuff. they're not out of a box. that means that they are good. the recipe came out of cooking light magazine, but still when you eat 3 of them, that means you had too many and should go run around to burn off at least 1 of them.
2. i'm supposed to run/walk/hobble across the cooper river bridge with 20,000+ other people in less than 2 weeks. i have one friend that i'm supposed to meet up with to do this. she wants to run, i want to meander. and rob is clearly going to beat me seeing as how he is now a half-marathoner.
3. i have to wear a bathing suit in may.
4. i strained my shoulder. apparently last week while i was couched with a stomach virus, i strained my shoulder. it's like the shoulder blade on my left side. i seriously strained it by doing nothing. who knew laziness and eating only crackers and gatorade could injure you? it can. i was all good during the run, but it hurt like hell after. the other thing is that right where the sports bra goes on my back, is where it hurts, this didn't feel that good either. hopefully being active will reverse the laziness-induced strain. i'll keep you posted.
5. the flowers in my neighborhood have bloomed and the wind was blowing a little and the sun was out and the sky was blue.

those are the top 5 reasons for running today. the run was great by the way.


in other news the bathroom is now without wallpaper. this means that tomorrow, after a LONG meeting that will most likely zap my brain and a statistics class, which will pretty much get whatever's left, i get to paint. this is good. and on another side note, my dog, lily, was just caught standing on the table trying to drink will's beer. she's had a rough day apparently.