I. HATE. Chemistry!

That is all.

Date night

I went on a date last night with a super cute guy!  My little man and I went to see the new Pixar movie, Brave.  From seeing the previews, I wasn't sure if I would really like it, but I did.  It was much better than I was expecting.  It was fun hanging out, just me and my boy! :)

My weekend

Saturday my younger daughter's game went very well. They actually had to forfeit because they only had 6 players show up, so they scrimmaged. That being said, they played extremely well and ended up tying the other team. In actuality, they should have won, but near the end of the game, a girl on the other team foul tipped the ball and the ump "missed" it and 2 of their players stole home. So, they got ripped off, but I was crazy impressed with their game. :)

My aunt, uncle, and 2 youngest cousin's are in town this week, so yesterday, we spent the afternoon at my grandma's house for father's day and had a cook-out. Then, it started raining, so my brother, cousins, and oldest daughter started playing music on my daughter's guitar. She got it for her birthday last year and she played around with it some, but then it mostly sat in her room for most of the past year. Recently though, she started looking up how to play and has started learning a little bit. Here's a little video I took of her yesterday:

Well, that's nice...

My son, grandma, and I went to Olive Garden for lunch today.  My son has been begging to go there for at least a week, so I figured today would be a good day to go.  Free salad comes with every meal and I always order my salad with their light Italian dressing on the side.  Well, today, the waiter came back to the table a few minutes after ordering saying that they were out of the light dressing.  What?! Ugghhh!  He rattled off the other options, including squirting lemon on it.  Huh?  Ew!  I said it was okay, I just wouldn't have salad.  Well, the guy disappeared for a few minutes, and came back with 2 side cups of dressing saying "I don't know if you'll like it or not, but I walked next door to Red Lobster and got some of their reduced fat raspberry vinaigrette dressing for you because I felt bad".  That was certainly nice of him.  He didn't have to do that.  I ended up going ahead and using it (even though I couldn't find the nutritional information for it - I just found a generic version of it to go by) and it was decent.

On another note, I got the batteries changed in my heart rate monitor today and when I went to use it for a jog this afternoon, it was still acting stupid, so it must not have been the batteries. Sigh. :(

Busy week!

Between my younger daughter and my son, we have 7 softball/baseball games this week.  Two were tonight.  At the same time, of course.  I took my son to his game, but had to miss my daughter's game.  Next games are back to back on Wednesday, so I'll get to see them both.  Then Friday, they're at the same time again, so I'll have to miss one.  Then Saturday just my daughter plays.  On top of that, my oldest had color guard tonight, and another practice on Thursday.  Sheesh!  I guess it's a good thing I haven't been able to find a job yet!

My grandma is also here to visit for the week.  She got here today and is leaving Friday.  It will be nice to spend some time with her since I don't see her very often anymore.

Fortunately, I finished up spring classes on Friday and am off for 2 weeks!  I don't even want to think about the accelerated chemistry class I have to take this summer! :(

Fried

Yesterday, I took my younger 2 kiddos to the pool for the first time this summer.  Unfortunately, I forgot to put sunscreen on my legs and they got completely fried!  Ouch!  Even though it kind of hurts to move my legs, I was signed up for another 5k this morning, so I sucked it up and ran.  I, once again, felt like I wasn't going to make it, but I did.  I ran the whole time, sunburned legs (and one ear bud not working) and all!  When I crossed the finish line, the official clock said 33:41, which is a minute and 10 seconds faster than my 5k last month.  The people standing at the finish line asked me how old I am, I said 32, they said "well look at you, you're first place in your age group" and handed me this:

Pretty decent!  There must not have been many others competing in my group. ;)

Today is also my oldest daughter's 15th birthday!  Unbelievable!  Here is me and my "baby" girl tonight after her birthday dinner:

HRM

I have become a little obsessed with the whole calorie thing.  I want to know the exact number of calories in the food I'm eating and the exact number of calories I burn.  I know it's pretty much impossible to get exact numbers for both, but a close-enough estimate is good.  The way I have been tracking the calories I burn is by using a heart rate monitor that I wear during exercise.  However, after a month or so of using it, it started acting really dumb.  It would say my HR was 00, would say I needed to check the HR transmitter, or would just get stuck.  For example, it would monitor my HR as 140, but then there would be no fluctuation in the number and would even stay at 140 when I stopped.  Sometimes it will even throw a number at me like 275 when obviously, my HR was nowhere near that.

My point is, it thoroughly pisses me off when these things happen. I know it shouldn't, and I can get a fairly good estimate of how much I burned other ways, but I've really come to rely on this, perhaps a little too much. It actually went quite a while where it seemed to be working as it should.  However, as of the past week or so, it has started acting up again.  I'm going to take it to get the batteries replaced and see if that helps.  If not, it is time for a new one!

Got the leash!

I finally decided on a hands-free leash. I got the khaki color, which looks kind of green to me in the picture, but it is more of a khaki color. I've been able to use it a couple of times now and I've found that I actually prefer it when Bella runs ahead of me and pulls me a little bit.  Makes it easier on me! ;)

I also got some new running shoes:

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They are Nike Dual Fusion ST2.  I love the color and they're really comfortable too!