A Spring Day In Black and White

Jenna's attention is off to the side in one because a flock of birds was going by:

Disposable Income (or how I spent some of my tax refund...)

My new friend arrived today:
http://garmin.com

Swearing at the dish

no its not about cooking......Our Directv dish has been on and off for the last 36 hours. They're coming out (another 75 dollars) to check things out.......

Played soccer and our "club" lost 4-1, but I did enjoy myself and must get some new contacts, playing in glasses ain't cutting it.

Went bowling with the family yesterday (havent been in years) and it proved itself when our FOUR year old beat us in one of the games. I will take a pic of the score sheet at some point to prove it

Bought a heart rate monitor and after running today, I may have to "rewind" my training just by a week. We'll see how the next two runs (they're easier) go. I also spent some pretty good $$ on a GPS tracker for running. garmin.com

Park at Spring vacation

It was very crowded so only two from our trip but I love the expression on Jennas face with her sippy cup (her first with me as we're starting to retire bottles). Shes Just taking it all in....

Easter Pix

Yes...it was quite busy with my two and two cousins over for the holiday....

Here's whats buggin me

...Actually its termites ....no we dont have them in the house, but we're doing preventive around the house. God its expensive. We also had Terminix out to get rid of the mice (all 3 of them) and the carpenter ants. Rodents make my skin crawl....

..Nice day today.....took the kids to the park again (pix coming), altho way too crowded with the kids on spring vacation.

..Got my 30 min run into today....I'm off by a day thanks to the suck ass Boston traffic that made me late yesterday. My running program starts to crank next week into 5 min intervals (3 min have been the max so far). Great day to run, surprised by the sea breeze today and i think my allergies are not helping my breathing.

..weather looks like shit for my soccer game on sunday.

First FENWAY park visit of the season

Tickets in LOGE 126 $170
Beer $60
Two (2) tshirts in the Red sox store $50
Parking $25
Steak Tips $9.25
Sausage $6
Soft serve ice cream $3.50
Popcorn $3.75
......seeing a homeless guy eating cheetos in the park: PRICELESS

Everybodys working for the Easter weekend brain dump

It feels like a Friday night at work (its not, its only thursday). If you are a english soccer fan, as you all know that i am.....This is the best weekend since xmas. Manchester United play tommorrow.....then games on saturday, sunday is quiet for easter (someday i will do an entire post on "What the FUCK the Easter bunny has to do with the resurrection of Jesus Christ). Then in England they have Easter monday....with a buffet of games starting at 7:30! Glorius for me, eye-rolling for my wife.

I've had no easter candy in TWO days......

This is what my running program calls a "recovery week"...nice easy runs....but i looked ahead two weeks and things start to get cranking, so I need to avoid the above mentioned easter candy (bookies are giving 2-1 I crack with all the friggin' candy hitting my house this weekend).

I'm going to my first Red Sox game of the season on saturday.

Fat is where its at (or in my case my gut)

...ok..this is something one only writes into their blog. Let me explain: I had a touch of hives in the last couple of days....nothing major.....but.......because some of them appeared on my stomach, I had the opportunity to really take stock of my flab. Did you ever have one of those moments where you realize, "my god, I'm fatter than i realize". Have I put on weight recently?
NO....but I have not made any progress either. fat boy holding pattern....

AND...I'm in the middle of the fourth week of running.....so I must be eating shit (so to speak)...then I ran today, didnt have enough time..didnt stretch enough and having just got over a quick cold, felt like crap.

Thursdaysrun is an easy one....a little shorter

Modern medicine

Last month I wrote that my one year old got a virus.....she ended up getting dehydrated and my wife took her to the ER for IV fluids:

Heres what the tab is to take your kid to the ER:

ONDANSETRON HCL 4 MG/2 ML ING $91.87
HEMOGRAM,PLAT AND AUTO DIG P $70.00
AEROBIC/ANAEROBIC BLOOD CULT $137.00
URINE CULTURE $95.00
URINALYSIS, AUTOMATED $47.00
STOOL CULTURE $82.00
STOLL CULTURE CAMPY $95.00
FECAL LEUKOCYTES QUAL $36.00
ROTAVIRUS DETECTION EIA $78.00
ER LEVEL 4 VISIT $1097.00
THERAPEUTIC INJECTION;IV $321.00
SODIUM $21.00
POTASSIUM $21.00
CHLORIDE SERUM $21.00
CARBON DIOXIDE CO2 $24.00
GLUCOSE, SERUM $24.00
UREA NITROGEN $24.00
CREATININE $24.00
CALCIUM, SERUM $24.00

Total tab-----------------------------------$2282.87

Having Blue cross............................Priceless.........................

Thats a big tab for kid with a stomach bug........................

..Been a pretty quiet week so far. I'm draggin' tho. Pushed wednesdays run to tomorrow. I now have Saturday as a bonus run day since i can't play soccer this sunday. Just as well today, we had snow....it didnt stick of course...but after hitting 70 on friday.....33 with snow was a bit much to take.

I'm in the middle of my third week of running...week three session two tomorrow.

Hanging at the park

Jenna gets some screen time as well.....

From the weekend brain dumpage:

Pretty quiet weekend...saturday I watched the kids while my wife and mother-in law went off to a show which allowed me to watch an obscene amount of soccer on tv.....starting early in the morning to watch Chelsea tie (manchester United big rivals...)...to United to the New England Revs at 11pm...

Sunday had another soccer scrimmage. The season begins next sunday but i may not be able to play since i have a work obligation, so with Easter it gives me almost another 3 weeks to improve my fitness......My running program is going well...i'm in week three and was a little sore today. My hamstrings were sore and I have a little knock just above my knee cap. The weather was pretty crummy....48 and windy again but enjoyed the longer daylight.

Took the kids to the park on sunday (i'll post pics tomorrow) and it was massively crowded.
Then off to Target to drop our $100 to their coffers....and there is WAY too much candy there.
Who doesnt LOVE cadbury cream eggs.....and my wife and I polished off a bag of Lifesavers Jelly beans.

So as you can see.....I'm exercising BUT eating for shit so i assume when I weigh in tomorrow I will be holding serve.

My life as soccer writer begins....

As promised I've begun a new blog ONLY focusing on soccer:http://soccernewz.blogspot.com