SO in case you haven't heard, it snowed a little bit in Chicago this week. My biggest inconvenience was that our cable and internet was out for like 36 hours. Not too bad considering some people got stuck on Lakeshore Drive for 12 hours in their cars or on buses!! I can't go longer than like 3 hours without eating, so I would have probably eaten the stuffing from my car seats if it was me. Luckily all I really had on my schedule for the last few days was studying, baking some banana bread for a friend, cleaning the bathroom and napping off some really horrible PMS, so it all worked out ok. The gym was closed yesterday (so was every single other business in Chicago) so I had to do INSANITY again, but it shouldn't mess up my training schedule too much. Speaking of running...
AS OF FEBRUARY 1ST AT MIDNIGHT I WAS OFFICIALLY REGISTERED FOR THE CHICAGO MARATHON!!!! 10/9/2011 BABY!!!!!
Wooohooo!!! Trying not to think about it too much since I have two 8k's to train for in the mean time and I'd like to run FAST for 8k. Totally different from my goal for the marathon, where I just want to FINISH with all my limbs in tact and a smile on my face. I don't have to actually start marathon training until June, so I'm trying to put the running part of it on the back burner for now.
However, I do have to start the fundraising part of it!! I have 8 months to raise at least $600 for my favorite Chicago charity, PAWS Chicago!! I'm going to be sending out some personal messages to friends and family probably next month asking for donations, but if YOU would like to start the ball rolling, here's my personal fundraising page:
http://pawschicago.kintera.org/faf/donorReg/donorPledge.asp?ievent=451667&supId=318525784
PAWS is an awesome NO-KILL animal shelter here in Chicago. They rescue dogs and cats from animal control who would be euthanized and let them live out their lives in a state-of-the-art facility until someone adopts them. Oprah gets all her doggies from PAWS and I of course got the love of my...SAWYER PUT THAT SOCK DOWN! Sorry...the love of my life, Sawyer Soyjoy Soybug Smith-Pachella from PAWS.
One more exciting bit of news, JASON BOOKED THE CHICAGO AUTO SHOW!!! This is super exciting. The restaurant was super cool with him taking the time off to do it too. Not only is it BIG MONEY, it also gets him in with the Chevy people who will hopefully book him for many more shows in the future and MOST exciting of all, he gets issued a pair of skinny jeans for his uniform. HAHAH!!! Can't wait.
Every time I sit down to do a blog post I'm like "gosh I really don't have anything to write about today" and then I end up writing a ton! Sorry!!
How come I can't click on the donation web page? Can you change that or are you going to make me type out that whole long thing?
ReplyDeleteCut and Paste!!
ReplyDeleteI've been too lazy to figure out how to do hyperlinks, though it's probably pretty easy.