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    Trudging along

    I’ve been staring at a blank page practically all day now. I want to write. I need to write. But I can’t seem to put these convoluted thoughts into words. There are a lot of things bothering me lately. It’s not really one thing in particular that really stands out, just a…

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    April, and some running progress

    It appears that March has blew right past me and suddenly April is here. Not sure how that happened, but I’m not happy about it. Before I know it May will be here and our life gets even busier with foster care/adoption training 3 days a week. I don’t even…

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    Letting go

    We had a jam packed weekend, filled with some bits of fun but also a lot of work. Sunday we tackled putting the office back together after the “why didn’t I remember how much I hated painting before I decided to paint this room” project. Which involved going through the office…

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    $117 later…

    … I have new running shoes. Proper running shoes. Shoes that are better for the way I run. Just walking around the store I could tell a difference in how my feet and calves felt. I can’t wait to try them out on a run. This 5k is looking more…

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    Running

    I’ve never been a runner. Certainly not a runner of any kind of distance. I never played sports in school to build up much of an endurance. We ran warm-up laps in marching band and those never came easy. Those Nike shoes I had were just for looks, not actually…

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    Slowly

    I’m considering this project a learning experience. It’s not a particularly hard knit, though despite being on the 4th ball of yarn I still have yet to memorize the pattern and it does seem to take forever to get through a pattern repeat. It’s a commissioned piece – a baby…