Random thoughts below
I have so much I want to write about…and it’s all random…
Let’s see – what about highlights?!
~~ I went and did it. Registered for the ING Georgia half-marathon. It’s < 5 weeks away!!! I had been following a training plan, as I had mentioned, but had not registered for it. Well, one night last week, I just bit the bullet and signed up. Then started to get sick and didn’t want to run! 
But I went back to the gym & treadmill this morning, a bit renewed. I still have a few long runs to do – unfortunately I am training by myself, which I think at this point, with long runs, I’d like to have some friends training with me. Oh well…I’ve got my music. That should keep me going! 
~~ I’m in the middle of making the chocolate-halva-babka, minus the halva! I don’t bake a lot with pastries – ya know, where you have to refrigerate dough and roll it out. But I decided to do so. It hasn’t been hard thus far. I thought it might be since I was rolling out dough that was cold, but it was quite easy!!!
~~ I like to try recipes before I serve them to others…well, except for Greg. When I try new dinners, he has to enjoy/suffer through them w/me. (Thank goodness he liked last night’s dinner – new recipe for me to make). But especially when it comes to desserts or complicated dishes, I usually like to make them once, before making them for others. And since I previously mentioned I have a sweet tooth, that means there are lots of desserts I want to try making, at least once…the reason I’m in the middle of the babka cake!
~~ I made a carrot soup, which I think I will post. I have mixed thoughts on it. I got the recipe from a friend – I think it just needs some work for my taste. I don’t know if it needs more spices – maybe more garlic and ginger. I asked Greg what he thought – he said maybe some potato, which I could see doing to add some substance to it. I look at it as a low calorie, filling dish, for cold days, or when I want to eat something filling and not very caloric.
~~ Social media – I’m becoming more enthralled with this. I’ll just leave it at that, for now, as I have a few thoughts on it…just interesting!
Those are my random thoughts, for now…
Great job on registering for the half marathon. I can’t believe you waited until now to do it. HA 9 miles on a TM this weekend, well my advice is to try to focus on the music and this might sound weird but I do a lot of visulization like visualizing that I am crossing the finish line and what it will be like and who all will be there and what I think I will be like. Doing this just helps me get through the boredom of the TM. I do this often even when running outside but especially if I have to do any thing over 5 miles on the TM. After every mile just think I only have 8 miles left, only 7 miles left and so on. B/c then when you get down to 4 or 5 you are thinking this is a piece of cake and you can do this. Listen to the music and sing or think of your grocery list or what good recipe you are going to cook next. You have to get your focus of the boredom of the TM and think about anything else that you can think of. You can do it though. Think how great you will feel when it is done.