happy sunday

well i am safely back from St. Louis. didnt do horrible. made a couple of choices that could have been better, but no real regrets.

I WENT SHOPPPPPPING!!!! Hopefully my last shopping spree (430*ish dollars) at The Avenue.
and that is after quite a bit of savings. it was buy 1 get 1 half-off AND i had a 20% coupon off everything! wow wow wow.

you know the really cool thing - 18/20 pants!! ALL of them!! all but 2 shirts were 18/20. 2 were 22/24 but they were just too fitted for me. i wasnt going to try on those dress pants, but i thought why not? grabbed the 22/24 and the 26/28 cause my belly is still huge... the 22/24s were too big! i had to get the smaller size ... OMG OMG O M G!!

i am now the same size as my sister. i know i weigh more than she does, but that's not going to be true for long.

running really is working i think.

speaking of Running - thoughts are with JulieNYC who ran in the New York marathon today. LBT is down (grrr) so i have no idea how she did. hopefully she had a great injury free race!!

i dunno if i've mentioned it here or not, but i was thinking about running the BOSTON MARATHON in 2009. **sigh** i dunno if that is going to be a reality now. turns out i have to qualify from a different marathon with a 5 hour something minute finish time ... **sigh** dunno if that can happen. : \ but i'm gunna try!

im thinking about going back to a step class to help speed up the weight loss. i guess i sound selfish or whatever, but i need to get this weight off YESTERDAY!! i will not injure myself though. if it is too much, i will stop and just continue to run.

not sure how i am going to handle my training sessions. i only have 1 hour-long session left, then a few half-hour sessions. i am thinking about training for an hour a week instead of 1 1/2 hours. the other day i normally trained would be spent on cardio / weights, just not structured. i dunno though. i feel like i am 'firing' her, ya know?? and she really has been great with me so far.

ok ... i am going to try to run tomorrow morning and then do something else tomorrow afternoon or just come home early ; )

LBT is still down and i am bummed ... i didnt get to read much this weekend at all and am starting to suffer withdrawl symptoms.

later gater ... (DD's new fave expression)