Color

Sometimes I think I'm still 10. I love to color and I love good games. My fav Christmas giftst this year were:

Colorku: Everytime I have a little free time or when I'm just feeling grumpy I play this (alone or with a couple of kids) and I feel better!

Color Me Your Way: Found this awesome coloring book at Costco. I only wish I had bought a bunch. Now I can only seem to find them online for twice the price. arghh! We passed these out to the cousins on Christmas Day and everyone was working on them over the break. I finished another one this week- loved working on it.

Oh and I got a speed Rubick's cube. Not that I'm speedy, my best time is just over 2 minutes, a far cry from Curt's record of 30 seconds (when he was a studly 7th grader). But this cube is so smooth and fun to play with. I'll keep working on that time. Oh and a friend recommended kenken puzzles to me and they are really cool. I'm not very good at them but they're fun to work on with a kid.

So yeah, I'm 10, maybe 12.

NYC Race

Just got back from NYC late last night. Wow- it was an amazing trip! I cannot believe how much we crammed into 4 days. The race was tough. My ankle has really been bothering me and I really hadn't trained well, especially the last month. My running buddy developed a bad chest cold and was having trouble getting oxygen. But dangit we crossed that finish line. A bit slower than our last race but we lived!!

The course wasn't as pretty as the Dallas run but the weather was absolutely perfect. The whole time I was running I kept thinking about how I was going to take a huge break from running and focus more on spinning (I've really been loving the RPM class at the YMCA). But believe it or not, today my ankle is feeling good, really good. (Maybe all that walking in NYC was all I needed.) And the time I get with girlfriends running is just gold. It's like friendship and therapy and exercise all rolled into an hour or so early in the am so it doesn't even mess with my schedule. Running buddies- you rule!

Chair re-do

We have been looking for a chair for the corner of our living room for about 4 years. Stupid right? But I didn't want to spend ridiculous money and I refused to busy something affordable that I didn't love. Then when we were in Canada last summer I came across a picture of a reupholstered couch in a magazine. I was instantly in love with the fabric. I tried searching for it online but came up empty handed. A few days later I pulled out the magazine again and realized that the fabric name was included in the article!!! ya-hoo.

So I found a super creepy chair on Craigslist for $35, stripped it down to the bone, scrubbed it with bleach and vinegar AND let it sit in the sun for several days, refinished the wood (with Curt's help) and recushioned/covered the chair. The stripping was fun, everything else was pretty much torture.



I think recovering is a lot easier when you can keep the orignal padding. Making it all fit and look smooth proved to be pretty much impossible. I still havne't finished the nail heads that are supposed to line the borders. I'll get around to it.

I still adore the fabric and mostly I'm glad I did it but just don't look too closely. :)