28 July 2017 Seattle, Washington

Yesterday evening we met a couple of our friends (Nickie & Dave) at the local pub (sounds like we're back in Britain, eh? We're totally not.) and had a few pints and played a few pub games and visited and had a nice time. Yay, friends!!

Today we were up early again (PS – I slept way better last night) to go running. And we went running again. Four miles again (for those of you keeping track… I know I am… that's 3 times this week for four miles. Pretty sweet!!). The run today was good. I felt good (which was kind of a relief after the beers last night) and we actually improved our time quite a bit too. Under 12 minutes/mile. We're definitely making progress.

Sometimes I read the "running" "reddit" and today they have the Friday spotlight where a runner shares various running and personal stuff about herself or himself. Today's runner is a woman who's mantra used to be "earn your beer, bitch" which I thought was awesome, so now I'm stealing it from her. But also giving her proper credit, even though she's just a username on reddit, so I'm not even sure how to give proper credit and probably don't want to use her username in my blog since my readers are kind of sketchy and might… haha… that's a joke. My readers are awesome and there's only like 3 of them. But anyways, I thought the mantra was funny, so I'm borrowing it. And I'm just making it known that I am not that clever and didn't come up with it myself, but now it's the reason I run. That and to eat more. Because I love food.

ladies, put down the perfume and step away slowly with your hands in the air

Today on our run, we passed this lady walker who completely stunk of perfume. In fact, as we ran in the opposite direction, Husband muttered "her perfume is going to kill me." And I got a little concerned because he is very sensitive to scents and I wasn't sure if he had his rescue inhaler with him, but he said he was fine. And really, if you're outside on a nature trail, even if you're walking to your job or whatever (meaning, you're not out for an exercise/sweaty walk), that's cool, but lay off the perfume, for the love of all that is good and other things. I've noticed that people who wear perfumes sometimes (and this happened to me, so I know) become so desensitized to the smell that they end up putting on too much. And then everyone gets to smell it for MILES. Listen, if I can smell your perfume, you're wearing too much. Unless I'm nuzzling you. Then I should be able to. But I'm not usually nuzzling strangers anywhere, so I shouldn't smell your perfume. I seriously hate perfume. And air fresheners.

Food & Activity

Breakfast

Fruit (melon, blueberries, kiwi, banana) plus yogurt plus branflakes. Coffee plus milk. Calories: 449

Lunch

Scrambled eggs with green onion on my buns. With a tomato and cucumber salad on the side. Calories:

Dinner

I don't want to talk about it. Let's just say there might have been a burger with peanut butter and bacon, which sounds gross, but I assure you it's good. And several beers. Ugh. Tonight was not good. At all.

Activity

Beer earned. Four mile run (see above… and ease up on the perfume, please).