My neighbor's on again, off again internet happens to be on again at the moment, so I thought I should take advantage of it while it lasts and update my blog a bit. There hasn't been much running going on since my last posting. I developed what my doctor referred to as an "overuse injury of the hip stabilizers" on my left hip after my last half-marathon. He did give me rather hesitant permission to run the Ogden Marathon Relay, and I was able to do my leg in decent time, even with walking breaks, and relatively pain-free. But the pain was coming back so I took another 3 weeks completely off any weight bearing exercise at all. And let me tell you, it SUCKED. I am officially one of those crazies who is addicted to running. I've been substituting other exercise, like swimming and yoga, but it's just not the same. Yoga is nice, but it just doesn't get the heart rate up as much. And swimming is hard. I can only go a few laps before I'm totally exhausted. I am running again as of last Saturday, but starting completely over from square 1. Only a couple miles at a time for now, making sure I'm taking extra good care of my now weakened and stiff hip. I'll slowly build up to running longer and faster, and hopefully will be back where I was by the time the Disneyland 1/2 rolls around.
It was my 30th Birthday on the 6th, and my Mom and sisters were nice enough to leave their husbands/children for the weekend and go to Vegas with me. I had a great time, and I hope they did, too. I think my favorite part was all the ridiculously delicious (and unhealthy) food we ate while we were down there. (Fluffer Nutter Shake at the Sugar Factory, there are no words. Crepe Suzette, might beat out waffles as yummiest breakfast food ever.) And Freemont Street, which was a new and very fun experience for me. That place is a party!
I just like being in Vegas. Can't wait to go back in December. Again, I took my camera, but it pretty much spent the whole time in my purse. I really need to start taking pictures of stuff like this! Luckily Mom and Manda are much better at it, so I will have to borrow pictures from them. Like this one of a very expensive bench that was basically ceramic seats on marbles. Yep, MARBLES. Waaaant!
Unfortunately, just after we got home my cat got sick. (Which is scary for me, being for the first time the sole responsible party should this sweet thing die of a curable ailment.) I won't go into the gory details too much, but I had to invest in some carpet cleaner and was getting tired of the sound of vomiting cat. Obviously, the poor thing was pretty sick, but I didn't know why. She's an indoor cat, I hadn't changed her food, so why is she suddenly so miserable? Turns out she had at some point eaten about 5 or so inches of what looked like plastic safety seal that goes around the lids of food containers, like for yogurt or cottage cheese. Not good for little kitty's digestive system. That was Friday, and for most of Saturday she seemed fine. Then she started sneezing. And sneezing. And sneezing some more. Sunday night she was sneezing so bad that neither of us slept much. I felt silly calling the vet again, and I almost talked myself out of it. But figured its better to err on the side of caution. So back we went on Tuesday. Luckily it turned out to be a minor upper respiratory infection that's common for cats to get after they've been stressed. The vet didn't even charge me! (Phew!!) So finally things are settling down here in my little apartment. Shouldn't be too long before I can spend a whole day without worrying about cat barf or snotty sneezes. It's a good thing she's cute.
