Little Miss Runner Pants

BEST.

and it all started with, of course..... the best run ever. of my life. no, no. i exaggerate not. my best. run. ever.

why? oh..you wanna know why?! will i tell you please oh please?!

mmmmm. okay!!!

it all started (once upon a time) on friday night. ya know how sometimes you just know that yumminess in all its forms is headed in your direction?? and you know, you can feel the page turning to a new chapter (ya know. the page. of your life. in a book? its a metaphor.. i'm a bit hung-over. just roll with it...)

thats the feeling i had. i went to bed, after a delicious meal at a delicious restaurant, with one of my best friends and my cousin once removed (??? not sure. my grandma's sister's son and his wife. whatever that makes them to me...) and i dunno. it was just very "ahhhhhh" feeling. like, not the food, not the company (though both were divine) but just.. just this feeling. i've been so outta whack lately, like somethings just not quite been right, and i just got this feeling friday night that was like, okay. page. flip. new chapter. ready, set, go.

so i woke up saturday morning, and besides the fact that it was cuh-cuh-cold out (mid-30's) i was so ready to run. me, my music, my legs. let's do it. and by, what i've decided, was divine intervention... i was 45 minutes late to the run. i thought we were running at 7, turns out we were running at 6, so... i was late. which meant that i was running alone. which just, i dunno... fit perfectly, ya know? not that i dont like our big group runs, cuz i do, but i was glad not to have to deal with everyone. i could just go off in my own little yumminess world, and clear my brain out for a while. sort some things out. get lost, choose a new path, double back 3 times because i dont know where i'm going, and just run.

(and yes. thats me letting you know i got very lost on my little single-person run.) and thats what i did. i just ran. and ran. and ran. and at the turn-around point, decided screw 8 miles. lets do 10. so i ran some more. i felt lighter. i ran faster. i was in the zone... i mean hell. whatever it was, it was amazing. it was a good start to the new chapter type of a run. and when i finished, i checked out my time and....

10 miles. 1:48:06 avg. pace of 10:59

making this my fastest/longest run ever. yeah ok. start the chapter with a new PR? i can handle that. (fastest/longest? i just mean, ya know.... i maintained an 11 minute mile for 10 miles... i've never maintained that fast of a pace for so long before.... i dunno. for me, thats nuts. i got pretty excited!)

*********************************
*********************************

okay. um. craziness abounds. i wrote the above earlier today (1:30) and was interrupted by a phone-call, and i'm just now (10pm) coming back, and hello. yumminess??? its everywhere.

lemme break it down for ya.

friday...on a whim, i bought a new couch, chair & ottoman. love it. (will love it. it'll be delivered in a month..)

why a month? because saturday afternoon i went to look at apartments in my buddie's building. they had none (that i liked). but the tour-guy liked me (score) so he called his apartment complex down the street and found out they have basically exactly what i'm looking for, same price, they had a showing in half an hour and... badda-bing, badda-boom. a.maria's got a new aparment. LOFT, rather. and its going to be perfect.

then. (then?? oh yeah... i'm no where near done here kids...) i went dress shopping (for a wedding i'm quasi-in) and found the most perfect shoes to match my dress (i'd been sweating over it, cuz of color, blah blah. they're new shoes. 'nuff said) and. and i've gone down a dress size folks. hallllllllelujah!!!

more? yup...
its saturday night. Dancer Girl is in from Lawrence, and i never get to see her so.... party time. we go to bar, have a stellar time.... i wake up at friends place this morning and.... i have a boy's number in my phone?? i make some calls, we go to breakfast and.... who is this boy? nobody knows. we think it's gotta be Triathlon Guy (this guy a friend introduced me to), but really, we dont know (there was a lot of alcohol involved last night. parts of the night are very blurry) but meh. whatever. i'm not calling some random guy's number, so, whatever..

yumminess weekend with a boy's number to boot, that's gotta be it, right? done?
not done.

you know how i said i got interrupted by a phone call? mystery guy calls ME. we talk. we meet up, and i won't bore you with details, but i will say... the page has been flipped, and this new chapter is gunna be gooo-oood.