Oy. I need to confess.

What a bad week for this blog. I'm embarrassed. BUT I started this to keep accountable, so here I am!! Ready to spill.

SOOOOOOooooooooo I didn't really just fall off the bandwagon last week, I LEPT from it. Couldn't have been more blatant or intentional a fall if I'd tried.

You know I was sick, and that was really true. Friday last week I was sick, on my period, and just heading OUT of the semester's classes and IN to the semester's finals....

I caved.

I opened a little baggie of candies on my work-desk that I use for prizes and gifts at events, and ate it. Now, not really all that big a deal - small baggie of candy. BUT it was Friday, not Saturday.

Then, Saturday, I ate candy like it was going out of style. Then cake, and ice cream. Then Sunday I had some ice cream with chocolate sauce. Then Monday I finished the ice cream by myself and topped it off with chocolate sauce. Between handfuls of chocolate chips.

I've been downing chocolate chips all week.

Two nights ago I had extraordinarily-wonderfully buttered popcorn at midnight while watching "The Office" and ate until my belly hurt before I passed the bowl to Mr. Man and Bravo, who was over. Then last night after dinner I made this amazing not-quite-caramel popcorn to go with "Transformers." I REALLY wanted to go for a run yesterday, clear the last of this cold, and work out the I-had-two-finals-this-week tension buuuuut it didn't work with Little Miss yesterday. So we substituted with the movie.

This morning I was going to run on Optimus Prime but had a couple of leads for work AAAND was expecting someone for lunch (who didn't show! Sad...) so cleaned and tidied the house, showered, and got dressed. I guess theoretically I still have time today, but I don't have time today. Little Miss should wake up from her nap at any moment, and I have choir practice tonight that will take up my entire evening.

At least I won't be able to stuff my face...

Thankfully ShopGirl hasn't called in for my results for the challenge, but if she does I'd say it's safe to assume I did NOT win, though I haven't checked anything lately. My pants still fit....

In two days I'm to participate in my first ever race. I'm scared out of my mind, and I haven't run in over a week. Due to the cold, at first, and today to my being a lazy bum.

Someone yell at me and get me back on track, will ya'??

Back, and faster than ever!

Well, we're BACK! And it's finally time to tell you all about it! I know, I know. You're just as excited as I am by the whole thing, I know.

Actually, we've been back for a few days now, but this is the first time I've found to tell you about it, SO I have to tell you ALL about Ottawa *ahem* I mean, last week's exercising ;) aaaaaand how it's been going (GANGBUSTERS!) since we got back.

FIRST I just have to say, I don't know WHERE the camera with my pictures went. I just went to grab it so I can upload wonderful photos of my family and I being active in the blistering cold for your enjoyment aaaaaaand it's missing. Incognito. Disparu. I wonder if it got left at my mom's yesterday.... And of course it just FIGURES because I always always always promise photos and never ever ever post them. I'm a bad person. Okay, so now we know, we've accepted it, we can move on.

OTTAWA: Last week, as I said, we went to Ottawa. We left home Sunday afternoon, arrived Sunday night and spent 'till Thursday morning interloping on the fantastic hospitality of one of my favourite it-girls, Ferret-Mama. We had SUCH a good visit and relaxing time, and I will be completely honest - because it was a relatively SHORT stay I didn't even TAKE my workout/running gear with me. I had ample time during the rest of the week to at least maintain my training up until this point so took a few days off!! I know, shocker, right? Can you believe it? I'm a running phenom and I took time OFF?! (Riiiiiiiiiiiiight......phenom....... What's the purpose of this blog again?)

BUT just because I (we - Mr. Man was with me!) didn't 'workout' doesn't mean we spent EVERY day on the couch!! On Monday we wandered (read: WALKED = MOVED = EXERCISE! BOOM baby!) over to the lake and skated (EXERCISE!) along to the Rideau Canal, which was SO much fun, except for the fact that it was cold enough for an entire lake and canal to be frozen solid enough that people skate on it to work . AND Little Miss wasn't a HUGE fan, though she had a great view from her stroller, which took to the ice like it was made for it.

Also Monday was 'Family Day' in Ontario so Ferret-Mama & the Ultimate Boyfriend, Freedom Jackson (HA hahaha), had the day off work so they took us to downtown and we wandered (= exercise!) all over downtown for about an hour and a half and saw a bunch of the (outsides of) sites, took silly tourist pictures, and had a (freezing cold) blast. (Mr. Man and I were definitely the only people in downtown Ottawa on Monday stupid enough to not be wearing mittens - when we left home it was like SPRING so it never occurred to my dumb little brain that I'd need mittens....)

Tuesday we hid from the cold inside and let poor Little Miss sleep off some of the exhaustion she'd built up over the traveling and a couple of late nights.

But WEDNESDAY, again Mr. Man, Little Miss and I hit the lake for some more skating.

See? It's easy to stay 'active' on vacation!! ;) hahaha

SINCE getting back: Thursday night I ran about 20 minutes on Optimus Prime but was (happily) interrupted when my mommy called. (She did offer to call back but I was looking for any excuse 'cause, well, it's me and that's what I do best!)

THEN I got an e-mail from the Drill Sargent, Mi, asking if I was as insane as she is and 'wanted' to meet at school at 8AM to RUN and then STUDY. At SCHOOL. At EIGHT. During my week OFF. WHAT the heck is that girl ON?!?! Psycho.... SO I went up to the school (she was late after sleeping in - HA!!) FOR 8:30 and we ran 5K. In 28:33. Yup, that's right. Twenty-eight minutes and thirty-three seconds. My previous best time? Do you remember? 29:20. I know, I know. I'm a machine.

Today Mi and I had a midterm in our Training Principles class, finished with an hour to spare before our next class, and fit in another 5K run. I got a HORRID stitch part way through but still managed to finish under 29 minutes: 28:45. And also today we did some activity in a lab for another class, but I won't bore you with all that nonsense.

The moral of the story? Go on vacation to bust your best times. ;) hahaha

OH and just quick before I finish - ShopGirl got me on this Twenty-Something-Bloggers site thing. If you happen to be from there and think I'm an idiot, well, I AM but I'm still definitely in the learning curve part of 20SB so be PATIENT with me and I'll get it. I just haven't had time to devote to figuring it out yet... I think I'm supposed to thank people for adding me as a friend? But it all happened while I was away and I missed a lot of it... Okay, that's enough grovelling for now.

I'm the greatest runner in the world!!

(hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha)

Bath Time!

REAL quick 'cause my bath water is running BUT I wanted to let you know that I'm done TWO midterms, which may or may not have gone...okay....hahaha AND then after Mr. Man came home to help Little Miss get to sleep I had a date with Optimus Prime tonight to help get out of the this-day-is-too-long-and-houses-two-midterms-funk I was in. I only did 5 kilometres tonight BUT there it is. Better than nothing. Took me 30 minutes like, on the nose -I was surprised, actually; felt like I was working harder than that. OH well!

Mr. Man is playing video games and admitted he wants to play for a bit so I'm taking a book to the bath to continue the post-midterm chillax. I know, you WISH you were as relaxed as I'm going to be in a few minutes.... ;)