Gifts for Life

The great thing about this gift is that it should help me get healthier and hopefully fitter too. This is a present that will encourage me to want to exercise more...

My kids got me an IPod Nano for Mother's Day so I can listen to music while I run. I can plug my micoach into the Nano and listen to my songs, podcasts and books while micoach cuts in every now and then to tell me to speed up or slow down...usually micoach is telling me to speed up tho'.

This is super Kewl since I'm gearing up for the marathon next month and my runs have been getting longer and longer and lonelier and lonelier. Now I can turn on my tunes and have a little someone to take along with me.

Hopefully, this gift is going to make it easier for me to run, and run, and run...

How 'bout you...any special health-minded gifts for you?

Dark Shadows

Dark Shadows: I had high hopes for the replaying of my youth especially since it had Johnny Depp and Michelle Phiffer with Tim Burton too. Unfortunately, I was let down. It wasn't scarey... at all. I was only hoping for a little bit of scariness but I didn't even get that. It was fun hearing the names from my past: Barnabus Collins, Angelic, Dr. Julia Hoffman, those were fun to hear :)

And we all had a nice dinner. Mother's Day 2012 - it was a fun feasting day.

Doggie Dash May 12, 2012

This morning is the Doggie Dash! It's an Oregon Humane Society fund raiser. So if you love dogs or pets of any kind, come out and support the PAWS - I mean cause ;)

I'll be running with Sasha the 2.5 mile course. Plus it will be fun to see a variety of pets, breeds and dog owners :)

My hubby will be running along side me and my sis and a couple friends will be there too. It will be downtown on Portland's waterfront.

The run starts at 9:00 a.m. but there are events all morning long. If you are interested, check it out here.

Earth-Friendly Friday

June 9 is the date for "Avenues of Art," an art auction to benefit New Avenues. The event will be held on the third floor of the Pioneer Place Mall from 6:00 - 9:00 PM. Up for auction will be 100 pieces of art made by local professional artists on the theme of "reclamation", as well as collaborative pieces made by youth in conjunction with local professionals. There is no admission fee and there will be complimentary food and drinks.

For more information, you can visit www.newavenues.org

Sit and Sip

I've never collected much of anything but every once in a while I see a beautiful cup or saucer and I just have to have it. Perhaps it's because tea is such a wonderful liquid. It's warm and soothing when you're sick and it can be refreshing and exhilarating in the summer in the iced form: iced-tea.

And there is only one liquid that is consumed more than tea: water.

How 'bout you, do you have any items you collect?

Here are a few of the tea cups I've collected over the years. This one is my favorite:

But this one is pretty too:

 And I love the flowers and pretty patterns:

And even if the cup doesn't come with a saucer, sometimes I still buy it:

And the cups don't even have to be old or delicate. They just need to speak to me, like this one:

It's like drinking from a flower...at least that's how I think of it.

So sit and sip some beverage and enjoy more than the day. . .remember to even enjoy the vessel you're drinking from :)

Useless words

I usually do a word for Wednesday post but this past week my son and I were out to lunch and talking (guess what about???) ...yep, words and the ones that might seem a little redundant or - and I love words - but there are some pretty useless ones in the English language. Now, word lovers, hear me out...

Irregardless is a pretty useless word. I mean, after all, regardless means having or showing no regard - according to Dictionary.com and irregardless means regardless. . .

and what about

Reiterate...that's another fairly useless word.

After all, what does iterate mean? According to my old friend again Dictionary.com, it means to repeat again.

And what does (re)iterate means...why the same exact thing. It means to repeat again.

If you don't believe me, check with my old friend dictionary.com and you will see. Re-iterate is a useless word.

How 'bout you . . . any pet peevish words that seem a little useless to you? Share 'em in the comments section and help us all learn a little more about the language and become better educated.

Eye Candy

I'm thinking of eye candy . . .

And not this kind (even tho' he is my fav actor...and the man can sing - which only amplifies his appeal to me) but no - not this time - I'm thinking of real eye candy or something that makes eyes look a little better (while they help a person "look" or at least "see" better too).

Now, I have my idea of appealing and probably everyone in the world has a different idea...except when it comes to Gerard Butler of course. I think everyone (or at least every woman) would agree with me when it comes to him...I mean just look at those baby blues..that's what Frank was singing about...or, maybe he wasn't but what the heck, I can think of GB when I hear the swoonster wailing about those baby blues...because of course my hubby has brown beauties. But I digress from the point here - lingering a little too long on GB...

Anyway, I lost my fav pair of glasses (out on a run). My backpack ripped open (only time it has ever happened) and my glasses were lost forever. So, I had to go get some new spectacles so I could see again.

Here are the choices  I had to choose between:

My conservative look:

My whimsical look:

My in-between the two look:

My sporty look:

So ... I couldn't make up my mind...

My family all didn't like my whimsical look...So, which one do you think I got?

 Really...what do you think?


Well, I had to be true to me.

The glasses I loved the most of all are the whimsical ones ;) ha! That's the only way to be true to me. And, I'm not going to be told what not to wear. Not even if my kids laugh at me and my husband rolls his eyes. I love my Ziggy glasses.