Reading by candle light

We were only without power for 7 hours during the "Tristate Blackout", but I was at a loss when it got dark around 8:30. I discovered that my candles were not meant to be used to read by. After I lit 8 I could finally see fairly well.

Exercising vs. Blogging

At the beginning of September I began exercising. I'm not extreme - I only walk. I try to walk at least 3 miles, 3 days a week. When I started, I knew that adding an activity would mean another activity would suffer. It looks like blogging was at the bottom of the priority list. One of the high points is that walking has increased my ipod time. Now I can listen to all the podcasts that have been piling up on my ipod and learn while I'm walking. I guess it's a good trade: less blogging, more ipod-ing.

Where's Sadie?

Has anyone seen Sadie?

Oh, there she is!

Raging Sweet Tooth

I had a little down time so I thought I would catch up on email and visit some blogs. Well maybe it's because I had such a light, healthy lunch of salad with black-eyed peas or maybe it's because I have a raging sweet tooth, but everywhere I looked there were delicious desserts.

• I received an email with a cookie recipe
• Melissa had blueberry buckle on her blog
• Paulina had pumpkin pie on hers and
• Kate had a layered jello dessert

I was left with no option but to make something to satisfy my sweet tooth. So what did I make?
Well here are the ingredients and it's not hard to see that there was nothing redeeming about my recipe...no fruit like Melissa, no squash like Paulina and no water added like Kate. Mine was just sugar and fat mixed with more sugar and fat.

Yum, yum.

Hottie Husband Runs 10k and Brings Home Medal

Brad ran a 10k (6.2 miles) this morning and the girls and I got to be there to cheer him on. He did great and came home with a medal...but then again, everyone did. Noelle thinks his medal is the most amazing thing.Before the race: Brad with his cheerleaders

Starting strong!

Ending strong, averaging under 8 minutes a mile!