Google Wants Me to Swim the East River

Pretty sure that's not gonna work.

Name That Tune

Please appreciate how loud the music is to be audible on this low-quality, digital-camera video.

Thanksgiving Highlights

We were feeling like this, so we decided we needed a vacation.




Our trip started in Salt Lake City where we got to go back stage at the tabernacle. This picture is not back stage, in case you couldn't tell.




Then . . . I made the mistake of letting Yancy and my brother run free in Best Buy. Brother is on the left playing a game and Y is on the right trying out DJ Hero (Like Guitar Hero, but you're a DJ). Yancy says we were there for only 30 minutes. Hm.




Brother's got his game face on. This game had the added challenge of a defective controller that would periodically take over and send his character running in circles. That was my favorite part.




For Yancy's birthday, I made him chocolate covered pretzels. Look what happened when I tried to cool them in the over-full freezer.



(In case you can't tell what it is, one got stuck to the top of the freezer.)

The Goose Is Getting Fat

Why? Because Christmas is coming. Just ask Miss Piggy.

Before:


And After:

Business Trip to San Diego

My trip to San Diego was a lot of fun, but there weren't a lot of great photo opps. Here's a few pics to tell the story of my trip.

Probably the greatest acheivement of my trip is this:


For the first time, I ran five continuous miles. The extra .23 came from walking to cool down. I was so sweaty!

Now, this may not seem exciting, but what I am holding is a PORT KEY!!!



Well, actually it's the key to the Porthole room, where we had a bunch of meetings. I got all excited about the Harry Potter allusion, and then right after taking the picture I remembered that HP uses portkeys not porthole keys. Oops.

Yes, B, I've misquoted something again.

This was my magnificent breakfast: mint herbal tea, yogurt with a little granola and the most beautiful bowl of fruit ever.

One day, as we were loading these buses full of students we noticed something odd. Do you see it?

The BMW logo. David, when did BMW go into the business of 56-passenger buses? I don't imagine you'd pretend to be car shopping just to test drive one of these.

Finally, the night I came home, Yancy had a candle light dinner set up and had taken the day off to get the house clean. What more could a girl want?

Won't you be my neighbor

I have exceptional neighbors.

Last night, after mixing all the other ingredients, I realized I didn't have enough flour to make waffles. I ran across the hall, humbly extending my measuring cup, to ask, "Can I borrow a cup of flour?"

A couple days ago, I was on my way home from work when I got a call from Tiffany, who lives down the block.

"Want a potato?"

She peeled too many and didn't want it to go to waste. Viola! Mashed potatoes for Yancy.

I'm not even being chased

Last time I was jogging consistently was in 2004, and I ran BYU's Rex Lee Run, mostly because I wanted the t-shirt.
(Flag Football Girls, why did T-shirts motivate us so much?)

Here are photos Sarah, my roommate, took when I came home. I don't have any pics from the race because I was too embarrassed to tell anyone I running.



Well, I've decided to run a 15K on December 19.

15K = 9.32056788 miles

Any advice for a novice? I'd love tips on gear, running in the cold, training and all the things I haven't thought to worry about yet.