Tuesday Tidbits

My lack of posting lately means this installment of Tuesday Tidbits will probably be pretty long.

• I've stuck to my half marathon training plan.  I've moved a few long runs from Sunday to Monday, but I've gotten everything in each week.  I think moving the long run to Monday may be the better option because my Sundays seem to stack up with plans quicker than other days.

• I had a six mile long run yesterday.  It was much easier than I expected it to me.  All mental.  Physically I could have kept running and running.  I've been listening to podcasts to distract me and it seems to really be helping.  I thought people talking would be a little too mundane and monotone to keep me at my normal pace but the few that I listen to are doing the trick.  My problem is that I've listened to them all and need to find new ones.  Or maybe a book on tape??

• I had the opportunity to get a behind the scenes look at the new museum being built in town.  It's huge and will be amazing when it's done.  It kind of made me sad seeing the new archives research room though.  It's amazing.  But I'm pretty sure the hours game and no benefits thing would have continued.  Departments only miraculously have money for a full position when the right person comes along and I wasn't that person.  While I miss the History realm, I know I made a good decision in the move I made.  Maybe someday when I'm retired, I can volunteer at an archive to get my fix again.

• I asked one of my cousins to be a model for me so that I could work on getting senior picture type photos for my online portfolio.  I've always love taking baseball pictures.  Way back in college I took some of my brother for an assignment.  That was back in the day of film and darkroom processing.  This time I had the luxury of digital and took advantage of endless possibilities! 

  

• I've made multiple batches of Brinkley food over the weekend.  I'm hoping to be set for a few weeks.  Maybe the next time I need to make some, I'll do a HUGE batch of two recipes so that we're set well into Fall or even Winter.  With training, fall volleyball, overtime work shenanigans, and me trying to catch any photo gig I can, preparing his food in a huge batch may be the best way to save me some time during the week.

• I finally finished reading Heat Rises that I started a few weeks.  I read about 90% of it and then just kind of forgot about it.  It was a good book but apparently not enough to keep me reading to the very end.  I finished it last night.  One thing about crime/suspense books that drives me mad is that there is never a way to truly investigate as you go and try to figure out the killer.  The whole thing wraps up in the last 10 pages being unravelled with information that was never revealed through the story.  It was still a good book though.  It's cool to see the connection between the book characters and the tv show.  Speaking of, Castle Season 5 starts September 24th!!!  Five weeks!  

• This afternoon I went on a blitz of errands.  Old dry cleaner stop, new dry cleaner stop, recycling drop off, one vet for cat food, another vet to weigh Brinkley Miles, and a trip to Safeway for bread.  I also headed out to Mom and Dad's house to wash the '67 Impala.  It was filthy!!  After washing it, I took it for a cruise out to my childhood home to pick some apples and pears from the fruit trees before my parents close their real estate sell in a few days.

• I loved driving the '67.  It's so quiet and the AM station comes in great!!  Once I got parked, I put a car cover on it to hopefully keep it a little cleaner until we can improve it's accommodations.

• I have a big box of pears and apples to hopefully turn into pear butter sometime this week.  And I still have a lot of chicken to use up in Brinkley recipes.  It's going to be a busy week full of lots of dishes around here.  Oh boy, my favorite.  

• I've been watching Gilmore Girls Season One on and off throughout the weekend.  I started at episode one and now I have the urge to just keep watching marathon style until I get through the whole series.  Although, I probably consume more coffee while watching this show.  It's not-so-subliminal coffee shout-outs always make me crave more coffee.

• Is it possible to teach yourself cross stitch??  I'm going to give it a try.  While going through random stuff in the garage last week I came across a little starter kit thing I bought a few years back.  At first it looked like a foreign language but I think I've figured it out.  I need to wash my pieces beforehand according to the instructions so I haven't officially begun.  But once I do, I'm sure I'll share my failure.  HA!