Happy things…and a marathon tomorrow!

In just ONE day, I will run my 3rd marathon.  I’m kind of wishing that I had trained better.  I told myself last year that I would.  I can’t really pinpoint why I didn’t either.  Oh yeah, because I’m a lazy runner!  I’ve already started telling myself that, next year, I will train smarter and run faster/better/more amazing.  I better start talking to myself in a different tone of voice then to make that happen.
Speaking of happy, here are a couple of things that are making me happy at the moment. (I wasn’t really speaking of happy stuff.  That was just a really stupid way to transition to a completely different topic. I’m cool like that.)
The worlds very bestest cake parfait…yep, cake!

I carefully selected the breakroom table and fridge as the backdrop for this photo session.  To impress you even further, an Avon catalog can be seen if you peer through the tines of the plastic fork.  Amazing photography skills?  You bet!

Friday was supposed to be margarita lime cupcake day Friday…but alas, the bakery had every other flavor BUT the MLC, as I like to call it…because I’m hip to the cupcake lingo.  So, my eyes landed on the cake parfait.  I don’t know what sucked me in more, the pretty little mason jar, the yellow string, the fresh fruit?  (Thanks to Joel, he gave me his mason jar too.) Whatever it was, it was the best $4 that I have spent all week.  Unless you count the $4 that went towards the $6 package of jalapeno jerky I bought for my lovey.

That right here (nice segue, huh?) is the cutest, tiniest pumpkin in the whooolee wide world!  When you hold it, you can’t HELP but talk to it in the itty-ist baby voice EVER!  My blond moment for the hour was that I had no clue, absolutley none, that a crazy normal person could actually grow these in their own backyard.  Whoda thunk?! Not me!  I just never actually considered where baby pumpkins came from. NOW, I’m very excited for next year as I want to grow my own little baby boos. Oh and WHITE PUMPKINS!  I bet I can grow those too!  Reminds me of the time I had three pumpkin plants take over my back yard.

See?  I gave you a nicer background this time….my day planner.  You are welcome.  I like to call this, “Tiny Pumpkin”.  It’s for sale.  Serious buyers only please.

Well, wish me luck on the marathon.  That’s all I will be talking about for the next year.  Especially if I’m able to meet my goal in running it under 5 hours.  I guess I should go pack since we are starting the road trip in a few minutes.