Latest Reads

Since I have been a slacker in the running department, I have been spending a lot of time on the couch reading. Here are a few of the books I have read lately. I have a feeling you will be seeing more posts about books in the near future...

Let's Pretend This Never Happened-By Jenny Lawson
Oh. My. God. This is the funniest book I have read in a long time. If you aren't too keen on curse words, then I would advise you to stay away. Otherwise you are going to love this book if you have a weird, twisted sense of humor like me. Jenny Lawson started with her blog and branched out into being a writer. After I read the book I checked out her blog and found even more hilariousness like what was in the book. I now go to her blog regularly to get my daily fix. Some people need coffee, I need Jenny.


Don't Sing at the Table-By Adriana Trigiani
I've got to be honest, at first this book was a total snooze. I really don't care that one grandma worked in a mill and the other worked in a shoe shop or how they got there since honestly, their stories weren't all that interesting. About half way through the book though the author picked up the pace and started using noteworthy quotes and that kept me interested. Plus it was a book club book and I can't not finish those. If you want an easy, fast read and like this kind of stuff, then I say go for it. The discussion was that the other books by this author were better. Something about Big Stone Gap.

Breaking Dawn-By Stephanie Meyer
This is actually the second time I have read this. I went back and reread the whole series before BD part 1 came out, except for the fourth book. I think you all know what happens, but just thought I would throw it in there. Sometimes you just need a quick, easy read fix, and the best way to do that is by reading about vampires, humans and werewolves and love triangles between all these...By the way, does anyone else love the soundtracks to these movies (expect for 2 & 3) as much as I do??

One Thousand White Women-By
This one has taken me by surprise. I have been avoiding it for quite some time and it has been avoided by my book club for many months as well, always coming up as a choice but never getting picked. It was that poor last kid standing in line to be picked for kickball back in elementary school (and I can say that because I was usually that kid). So apparently the Cherokee people wanted 1,000 white women back in the day to mate with and the government said no. This story tells what it might have been like had the government said yes. It is from a white woman's point of view, but as a woman, I can totally tell it was written by a man. Ladies, read it and you will see what I mean.

I read in bed.

Wicked 10K 2012

With the commotion of finally being able to tell people about the pregnancy I totally forgot about my last race. C and I travelled down to Virginia Beach at the end of October so I could run the Wicked 10K one last time pre-children. I told my doctor about it a few weeks before and she is a runner as well so she was totally fine with me running it, but she said that distance is the tops for how far I should be going. And I am glad I listened because whoa...running pregnant is hard.

We got there Friday night and stayed with a friend of mine and had dinner at The Broken Egg Bistro, which was fabulous and I can't wait to go back. Chicken alfredo....yum.....

Saturday morning we got up and headed down to the oceanfront. Sandy was on the way in and it was a little ominous looking and rather windy out. It still wasn't as windy as last year, which was nice and it did not rain on us, so a few clouds were totally fine. Nothing sucks more than running in the rain. Unless you are doing it for fun in a bikini. Or scuba diving in the rain. That's actually pretty fabulous.

My friend R ran this one with me, and we had a blast. Running with a friend is a LOT of fun and something I haven't done since 2008. I now realize I need to do it more. The race goes faster and you don't overdo it since you are busy chatting away. Before the race started when we finally found each other in the mass of people, I told her that we had to take it easy today because I had an extra passenger riding along.

R: "Oh cool, where are they?" (looks around)

C and I looked at each other and grinned like pole cats. R looked back at our faces and suddenly it hit her and she freaked out. It was great :-) She has a little daughter who is about 5 months old and is the cutest little baby you've ever seen. We can't wait for play dates even though her daughter will be about a year older than my child by the time he/she finally gets here.

We were tired but excited. The chick in the background looks like she's about the sneak attack someone.

Running down the oceanfront boulevard with about 3 miles behind us.

Happily headed towards the finish line!

 This race would have been extremely hard for me had it not been for R. We took it easy but pushed each other just enough to finish strong. My body was sooooo not happy with me after. Near the end I really started to feel it in my lower back and legs. I have run once on my own since this race. I really want to start running more easy runs because I want to keep my legs in shape and my doctor says it makes labor easier. Definitely going to need a motivational pal though because the couch is just so tempting at the end of the day.

What do you use for motivation to work out when you just don't feel like it? Any experienced momma's have any workout advice for a new momma?