That about says it all…

I received this in an email today and pretty much spewed coffee all over my monitor at work while I was reading it.  And, considering the kind of afternoon/evening I have had, I should probably have some wine…

 

The Hormone Guide Women will understand this! Men should memorize it! Every woman knows that there are days when all a man has to do is open his mouth and he takes his life in his hands! This is a handy guide that should be carried like a driver's license in the wallet of every husband, boyfriend, co-worker or significant other! DANGEROUS SAFER SAFEST ULTRA  SAFE What's for dinner? Can I help you with dinner? Where would you like to go for dinner? Here, have some wine. Are you wearing that? You sure look good in brown! WOW! Look at you! Here, have some wine What are you so worked up about? Could we be overreacting? Here's my paycheck. Here, have some wine. Should you be eating that? You know, there are a lot of apples left. Can I get you a piece of chocolate with that? Here, have some wine. What did you DO all day? I hope you didn't over-do it today. I've always loved you in that robe! Here, have some wine. 13  Things PMS Stands For: 1. Pass My Shotgun 2.  Psychotic Mood Shift 3.  Perpetual Munching Spree 4.  Puffy Mid-Section 5.  People Make me Sick 6.  Provide Me Sweets 7.  Pardon My Sobbing 8.  Pimples May Surface 9.  Pass My Sweatpants 10.  Pissy Mood Syndrome 11.  Plainly; Men Suck 12.  Pack My Stuff and my favorite one: 13. Potential Murder Suspect Pass this  information on to all of your friends, to those who might need a good  laugh... and men who need a  warning. Oh, and, have some wine.

Craptastic

That’s about how well my run went on Monday.  After taking a week off for bronchitis, and another week off for the stomach flu, I tried to play catch-up and smacked down a 5-miler on the treadmill.  And pretty much every minute of it felt lousy.  It was apparently the gift that keeps on giving, because the next day both my hips hurt and there was a muscle in my lower back that was spasming angrily away.  It’s now Thursday and I still hurt.

I’m considering just becoming a non-runner, except that I just dropped $55 for the May half marathon.

I’ve spent the last two days stretching and trying to keep my wonky hip in place, but I just have no idea if I’m being successful or not.  I’m considering an easy 2-3miler this evening during “Grey’s Anatomy” and I’m hoping it helps more than hinders.  I guess we’ll see.

This is all really frustrating, because I’ve been sporadic at best with my running for the last month or so.  My hip is having *issues*, so I’ve taken time off for that, but then there have been the regular winter colds and other normal things, so the base that I should have built already leading into my half marathon training just isn’t there.  At all.  The Brainsport Brainfreeze half marathon is on Sunday, and I was totally planning to run it (mostly so that I could say I ran a race called the Brainfreeze – sounds hard core) but obviously won’t be since I can’t even manage an easy 5miler.  It was going to be my “confidence builder” and a lead-in to the half marathon in May, where I was going to smash my PR and come in at or under the 2hr mark.

Ah well, the most predictable thing about life is that it’s unpredictable, right?

Changes

So I’m working out a few little tweaks to the old blog here.  I’ve decided to separate my running and home life – posts about Running can be found by clicking on the link in my sidebar under “My Running Blog - Really Runnerific”.  I know, lame name, but I’m trying to keep with the *theme*.

We’ll see how this goes – it may not go at all if I find it’s just too much work…

So anyway, you can pop on over to the other page if you want to hear about how fantastic my running isn’t, and you can visit here for more witty and enlightening posts about puke and parenting and life in general.