Val-isms: Quiet and EXTREME training...

02/24/2008

Quiet and EXTREME training...

Our weekend was full and good.

Friday night, we watched a movie "Mr Brooks" - weird thriller with Kevin Costner. Still not sure if I liked it or not. I didn't hate it.

Saturday, we headed up to Sassy's for Blogfest '08, about noon. We were the first ones to arrive (hate that!) about 1:30-ish. Tina & Jess arrive soon after. Then EB & the Queen, Weese and Prunella & Suburban Lesbian & Wannabe arrived together, since they were spending the weekend with Weese and her wife. Kitty Litter and wife & baby boy arrived late afternoon and we all agreed that their boy was the cutest ever and he dazzled us all with his 6 month old charming ways!

We had a great time eating, drinking, decorating a huge plastic canvas that was spread across the kitchen table and just having a comfortable get together with people whom we've gotten to know over the internet. 7 lesbian couples who all get along. What could be better?!

We got home about 10:30 and watched our DVR'd recorded UCONN game to see our gals win, yet again!

This morning, Linda was to get up and out early to do her last 'long run' for her marathon training. We stirred about 7-ish and arose about 8. We headed out about 9 and got to our running destination about 10 at a starting point in Stratford that I remembered to be a fairly flat area. It was. And though the temps were in the high 30's and it was beautifully sunny out, it was still pretty cold for our marathon trainee. She did great, though. She ran 24 miles in 4 hours and 50 minutes, while I read yesterday and today's New York Times and kept moving every 2 miles to provide her with nutrients and Gatorade. I also got to read the new Sue Grafton novel, that I'm almost finished with.

Linda was beat when she was finished, but very proud of herself, as was I. We drove home where she promptly jumped into a nice hot shower, where she puked her guts up. Poor thing. She then crawled into bed, where she is happily sleeping as I blog.

I'm going to get ready to go bowling and we'll bowl with just her handicap tonight. The Rabbi is out of town tonight, as well, so the 3 remaining "Gutter Grrlz" will have to do our best. I hope the practicing I did on Wednesday help me tonight.

Tonight we'll be watching the Oscars! It will be a quiet evening at home rubbing my honey's sore feet.

Feb 24, 2008 4:48:37 PM | February 2008

7 Comments

Hey! the pics of you & Linda on Sassy's are bEAUtiful!! (Natch!) Wish I could have been there. You're lucky you live close by!

Posted by: KMae | 02/25/2008 at 02:26

Linda got sick after the run? Oh no! Poor thing is right. Hope she's okay now.

Loved seeing you guys on Sat. Look forward to seeing you in April!

Posted by: SassyFemme | 02/25/2008 at 05:44

I know, seeing you two days in a row is unheard of!

Had a lot of fun too.

And thanks a BUNCH for knocking our bowling team out of the 2nd place spot!

Posted by: Tina-cious.com | 02/25/2008 at 09:17

I love it when things fall into place. I have only met three people from the net. Two were disastrous and one was fantastic. The ones that didn't work were mainly because the first one neglected to tell me that she was a racist (only against black people, but it shocked the HELL out of me to hear one of ours using the N word) and the second because she somehow had decided that I needed seducing when I was clear that I didn't.

The one that worked was wonderful. We ended up taking a driving trip together and singing Aubrey ("And Aubrey was her nammmmmeeee...") after getting profoundly intoxicated in a hotel room. Sounds sort of tawdry, but we had a blast. She is now coupled up and so am I and we are both parents. This sort of startles us.

I'm going to slip to Sassy's and view the photos...

Posted by: Maria | 02/25/2008 at 15:19