Just a Little Notice

I have gotten a lot of comments and emails from people telling me that they have sent out their Christmas cards… Thank you!! :D

However, there are still quite a few that I have not heard from.  The deadline was supposed to be December 15th for sending out the cards.  If you have not sent them out yet, please please please, send them out in today’s mail!!

Thank you all for signing up!  This has been a lot of fun!!  If by tomorrow, I haven’t heard from someone, I will email you asking you if you’ve sent out your cards and just remind you to send them out as soon as possible, as Christmas is THIS Saturday!! woohoo!! :D

2010 Christmas Card Swap Group Info

Okie Dokie everyone… I stayed up a little past my bedtime emailing everyone their group info (addresses and introductions)!! :D  If anything needs fixed, please let me know as soon as possible so I can get it taken care of!!  Also, if you didn’t get an email, but signed up let me know!!! PLEASE send your cards out by December 15th!!  Also, let me know when you send your cards out! (this way, if someone for some reason doesn’t send out cards I can send cards to the people who are missing out!) I hope everyone has fun with this!! You all have made it fun to put together because you’re so excited!! :D  I hope everyone has a Merry Christmas!!

2010 Christmas Card Swap Groups

YAY!!! It’s snowing here in Ohio and it’s so pretty!!  I bet you all are excited to get your groups for the card swap?!  You will be getting an email with your group’s information (address and introductions) at some point tonight because I have to go to work, but here are the groups!!  I used random.org to put you in groups and made sure that if you said “max 5” you got put in the right group, or if you said “no mailing abroad”.  If for some reason you signed up but can’t find your name in a group, LET ME KNOW AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!  Also, once you get an email with your group, if there are any problems please let me know as soon as you can and I will switch the groups around!! Thanks for joining in on the fun everyone!!!  Cards must be sent out NO later than December 15th! Please comment on this post or send me an email letting me know that you sent your cards! :D

 

Group Reindeer

Jody from Running With Sharp Objects
Suzana from More to Life Than This
Karyn from This Mama's 26.2 Mile Journey
Christina from Making Healthy the Norm
Leslie from And Her Little Dog Too
Stacie from Impossible Is Nothing
April from Mommy's Fit for the King
Mr. and Mrs. Leonor Carey No Blog

Group Snowflake

Bobbie from 2010 Journey in Running
Caroline from Journey to a Half Marathon
Tiina from One Crazy Penguin
Scott from Big Daddy Diesel
Janae from Hungry Runner Girl
Zaneta from Runner’s Luck
Trish from Begin Again and Again and Again
Emily from If I Can't Convince You, I'll Atleast Confuse You

Group Mistletoe

Erica from I Run Because... I Can
Kim from (Just) Trying is for Little Girls
Laurie from The (Mis)Adventure of a Jogging-Stroller Mom
Randi from S Club 4
Courtney from Run, Courtney, Run
Amy Lauren from Amy Lauren's Blog
Monique from Confessions of a Lazy Athlete

Group Cookie

Jill from Run With Jill
Kadie from There She Runs
Christel from Silly Girl Running
Barefoot Neil Z from Because All the Cool Kids Are Doing It
Keeley from Wanderer in a Strange Land
Melanie from Half Marathon Rookie
Julie from The Hotlegs Runner

Group Joy

Irene from Tales From the Back of the Pack
Christina from Lace it up and Run
Alanna from Running 42km
Aneta from Running Bucket
Amy from Amy Runs a Marathon

Group Peace

Jamie from Heat Runner
Sherry from Life From My Perspective
Kate from Run With Kate
Daphne from Racing for the Rainbow
Kathy from Running, Life, Learning and Growing
Rae from 5k Rae
Jill from Run for the Hills

Hear Ye, Hear Ye…

The 2010 Christmas Card Swap is now CLOSED!!

Thanks to everyone who joined!! :)  If you didn’t get to join this year, there is always next year! :)  It was such a hit this year that I’ve decided to hold it annually!  How fun is that? Here is the list of people I have who signed up.  If for some reason you remember signing up but your name is NOT on this list… please please PLEASE contact me as soon as possible and we’ll get it all straightened out!  You guys rock and are making this fun to put together!!  I’ll start working on the groups and have them posted no later than December 5th!  Also, I have some more FUN stuff planned for the month of December so be on the lookout!!  I’m hoping to have a post up either tonight or tomorrow about it!

I hope everyone is having a GREAT Dec 1st!!

List of People in the 2010 Christmas Card Swap

Zaneta from Runner’s Luck
Randi from S Club 4
Laurie from The (Mis)Adventure of a Jogging-Stroller Mom
Tiina from One Crazy Penguin
Amy Lauren from A Couple Dents in my Fender, A Couple Rips in my Jeans
Keeley from Wanderer in a Strange Land
Christina from Lace it up and Run
Melanie from Half Marathon Rookie
Courtney from Run, Courtney, Run
Rae from 5k Rae
Kim from (Just) Trying is for Little Girls
Janae from Hungry Runner Girl
Irene from Tales From the Back of the Pack
Alanna from Running 42km 
Suzana from More to Life Than This
Kadie from There She Runs
Christina from Making Healthy the Norm
April from Mommys Fit for the King
Kathy from Running, Life, Learning and Growing
Daphne from Racing for the Rainbow
Amy from Amy Runs a Marathon
Christel from Silly Girl Running
Erica from I Run Because…I Can
Kate from Run With Kate
Aneta from Running Bucket
Trish from Begin Again and Again and Again
Monique from Confessions of a Lazy Athlete
Julie from The Hotlegs Runner
Caroline from Journey to a Half Marathon
Sherry from Life From My Perspective
Jamie from Heat Runner
Jill from Run for the Hills
Stacie from Impossible is Nothing
Jody from Running With Sharp Objects
Bobbie from 2010 Journey in Running
Barefoot Neil Z from Because All the Cool Kids Are Doing It
Scott from Big Daddy Diesel
Karyn from This Mama's 26.2 Mile Journey

Jill from Run With Jill
Leslie from And Her Little Dog Too
Emily from If I Can't Convince You, I'll At Least Confuse You
Mr. and Mrs. Leonor Carey (No Blog)

Here’s the Deal…

I got called into work, and realized that I have some people still signing up for the 2010 Christmas Card Swap so I’m going to move the deadline to 5pm ET tonight (DEC 1)!!  If you want to sign up, you still can until I get home from work!  Just click on the name of the swap above or the picture on my sidebar to get to the official page!  I hope everyone has a wonderful day!!  HAPPY DECEMBER!!!

LAST CHANCE!!!

Today is your last chance to sign up for the 2010 Christmas Card Swap!!!!  I have about 30 people signed up (all of the female kind) and am waiting on more!!  Trust me, you do NOT want to miss out on this fun!!  So sign up TODAY!!! 

I will be putting the groups together and posting them no later than December 5th!!  Cards must go out by December 15th!!  So, if you want to still get in on all this excitement, you can sign up by clicking on the picture above!! :D Also, you can check if you’ve already signed up by going to the official page (click the picture) and looking at the list… I believe I am all caught up on updating it, so if your name isn’t there I might have missed your email!  If I did, please send me another email letting me know!

Thanksgiving Recap

 

I hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving!! :D  I ran a 5k in the morning and then came home to eat a wonderful breakfast, watched the end of the Macy’s day parade and then went to my boyfriends for dinner, came back to my house for dinner AND dessert! haha… Yes, I was full!  I don’t think I’ll have to eat any the next 5 days or so ;)

Then yesterday everyone was home and the boyfriends and girlfriend came over and we played wii (what a workout!!), had homemade hot chocolate and pumpkin pie, watched some really funny home videos, and put our nativity up.  It’s a Christmas tradition that we put it up as a family.  It’s one that everyone enjoys and kind of a competition to see who can find baby Jesus first out of the box.

This morning, I ran another 5k! (That’s right… 2 in 3 days!!)  and had a blast!!!  I will start working on my race reports to put up when I can.  I’ve got some things that I’ve been working on that are quite time consuming (my mom’s afghan) so I’ll put them up when I get to it ;)  I can put my mom’s Christmas gifts on my blog because I know she doesn’t use a computer lol…

Also!!!  I wanted to remind everyone that you have only 3 days left to sign up for the 2010 Christmas Card Swap!!!  So get to it and invite your friends!! :D  CLICK HERE TO JOIN!

Did any of you go shopping yesterday (Black Friday)?  Any good deals?

[Almost] Wordless Wednesday

Well, I was supposed to work tonight, but it’s really cold and rainy so they called me off, telling me I wasn’t needed… Bad for the paycheck, but grateful I don’t have to go out in that weather!!

So, tonight this is my perspective:

And this is what I’m working on:

While drinking this:

  

And I can’t wait to eat that pumpkin pie tomorrow!! :D  Yummy!!  What are your plans for Thanksgiving?  I have a 5k in the morning at 9am and it’s basically the last chance I have to go sub 25 because my last 5k (this Saturday) is on a cross country [grass] course. Yeah, that’s right… I have 2 (two!) 5ks in 3 days! haha… I don’t want to hurt myself pushing for a PR on grass since I’ve never run on just grass before… I’d rather run that one for fun.  Don’t forget to sign up for the 2010 Christmas Card Swap if you haven’t already!  We have about 30 people who have joined the party so far! :D

What do you do on cold, rainy nights?
Do you have any hobbies besides running?

Reminder!!

 

Ok, so I have the day off and I’m getting frustrated with the crochet pattern I’m working on!!  The pattern is HERE if anyone crochets and would like to help me…  I’m stuck on the Border Row 2 where it says “ch 3, 3dc over the last dc made”  Please and Thank You!

By the way, you guys will be seeing a lot more of my crafting (knitting and crocheting mainly) endeavors because I decided that having two blogs is really not that fun and my crafting one has been dormant mainly since I’ve started this blog.  I’m sorry if that makes anyone upset, but it’s part of who I am, so this blog is not just going to be strictly for running… hope that makes sense to everyone!

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Now that my little cry for help is over lol… I’m getting ready to go run with a friend after she gets off work so I’m looking forward to it!** :)  It’s nice and sunny and not too cold!!  I just wanted to remind everyone that the 2010 Christmas Card Swap signups are closing November 30th… so if you want to join but haven’t yet, you’ve got exactly ONE WEEK!!

Click the picture to take you to the official page! :D

**Well my friend cancelled so now I’ll probably just do some yoga and weights since its starting to get dark already…

Throwback Thursday

Yes, I’m stealing Q’s Move…. It’s late and I’m tired so no race recap tonight… tomorrow for sure though! I promise!!  I’m getting up early to go run with someone before I head to work…so that should be a fun time.  I’m sure you’ll hear about it at some point ;)

Throwback Time!!

This was probably taken around 1988-89… yeah, I was ballin’ way back then!! ;)  Little did I know that I’d play from 4th grade through college! lol

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In other news… we have 20 people signed up for the 2010 Christmas Card Swap so far and about 7 other people who said they are interested and want to join but haven’t sent me an email yet!  Don’t forget to send me an email because that is how you officially sign up!  It closes on November 30th, so get on it people!!

Also, Starting next week my work hours should go down from 45+ per week to about 13-25…. lots more free time!  BUT, smaller paycheck too lol… it’ll only be like that for a couple weeks or so before I take on more hours again, so let freedom ring! ;)

I guess I could’ve called this 3 thing thursday lol ;)  
I guess I just wanted to cramp Q’s style

Partayyyy!!

Well, I was getting ready to write a blog post when our electric went out. It’s cold, rainy, and so very windy with gusts up to 50 mph here in Ohio.  Then I remembered that I could write up an entry on Windows Live Writer and then post it when the electric comes back on… as long as my laptop battery lasts long enough!

Right now, my whole family (minus my youngest sister who is away at college) is sitting around in the living room with candles lit and we’re enjoying talking, eating ice cream, and spending time together even though its midnight!  It’s a lot of fun!  Brings back some memories :)

It seems like everyone around here is registering for 2011 races…  Guess I’m in the “in” crowd…  Lookie what I did Friday night!!

I’m so excited!!  Half Marathon #2 is now paid for and on my calendar!!  Anyone else running The Capital City Half Marathon?!

Also, I will post my race recap from this past weekend hopefully tomorrow or Thursday… I was hoping that the organizers would post some pictures but I’m not sure if they will or not and I wasn’t sure my parents were coming so they didn’t have my camera.

Last, but not least, I am hosting the 2010 Christmas Card Swap!! :D  If you haven’t already joined in on the party, head on over and sign up!!  It’s going to be loads of fun and I’m positive you don’t want to miss out!! ;)  You can click on the picture and it will take you to the official page!

Ok, well… I’m getting tired and I don’t think the electric is coming back on anytime soon, so I’ll have to post this in the morning!  Goodnight all!

**The power is now back on… It was out for about 1 1/2 hours

2010 Christmas Card Swap

Ok, so I had a lot of you say that my idea for the swap was a fun idea and would definitely join!  So, it’s official!  2010 Christmas Card Swap is now underway!

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Depending on how many people sign up, I will divide you all into groups of 5 or more people.  You will send a Christmas card to all the people in your group, and will be receiving cards from the people in your group.  Let’s say you are put in a group with X,Y,Z…  You will send cards to X, Y, and Z and will receive a card from X, Y, and Z.  Make sense?! Good! :)

Your cards can be store bought or handmade and you can feel free to add a little something to the card like your favorite running quote, running advice, candy, a little ornament, a sticker, a note of encouragement or a funny note, or you can just send the card… Whatever you want to do is PERFECT!  Just don’t be sending pairs of running shoes, an Ipod, or a free entry to Boston (unless you’re sending it to me)  We want to keep this cheap so everyone can join and doesn’t feel bad for just sending a card!   :)

After everyone is put into their groups I will be sending out an email including your group members ONLY with their blog links (so you can get to know them if you don’t already) and addresses so that there’s still a bit of privacy and everyone’s addresses aren’t out there floating around on the internet somewhere!  Safety people!!  :D   The groups will be picked by Random.org so we keep things mixed up!

I will be adding people to a list at the bottom of this page as they sign up…  So, if you sign up and for some reason, do not see your name on the list after a couple days… just shoot me an email and we’ll get it taken care of!

If you can think of anything that I may have left out, let me know!  Let’s get this PARTY STARTED!!!  You are welcome to invite your friends!  All are welcome! :)  Feel free to put the logo on your blog and link it back to this page as an invite to other bloggers! AND YES, international bloggers are welcome to join!!!

How to sign up:

Send an email to runners.luck@hotmail.com with the subject “2010 Christmas Card Swap” and include the following:

Name:
Blog Title and URL:
Mailing Address:
Introduce yourself in a couple sentences:  (so that others in your group can get to know you)
Additional Information:  (if you feel you can only send to 1, 2, or 3 people instead of 5 or more, its totally cool!! OR if you are willing to send a card internationally or not!  Just let me know!)

Come back to this page and just post a quick comment stating that you’re in. That’s it…  So easy a caveman could do it!   ;)

SIGN UPS WILL CLOSE ON NOVEMBER 30TH @ 11:59PM
(Basically if you sign up before I wake up December 1st , you’re golden!

 

Sign ups OPEN November 15-30th
Sign ups Close November 30th @ 11:59 pm
Partners Emailed December 1-5th
Cards need to be sent by December 15th

 

People who are IN LIKE FLYNN!

Zaneta from Runner’s Luck
Randi from S Club 4
Laurie from The (Mis)Adventure of a Jogging-Stroller Mom
Tiina from One Crazy Penguin
Amy Lauren from A Couple Dents in my Fender, A Couple Rips in my Jeans
Keeley from Wanderer in a Strange Land
Christina from Lace it up and Run
Melanie from Half Marathon Rookie
Courtney from Run, Courtney, Run
Rae from 5k Rae
Kim from (Just) Trying is for Little Girls
Janae from Hungry Runner Girl
Irene from Tales From the Back of the Pack
Alanna from Running 42km 
Suzana from More to Life Than This
Kadie from There She Runs
Christina from Making Healthy the Norm
April from Mommys Fit for the King
Kathy from Running, Life, Learning and Growing
Daphne from Racing for the Rainbow
Amy from Amy Runs a Marathon
Christel from Silly Girl Running
Erica from I Run Because…I Can
Kate from Run With Kate
Aneta from Running Bucket
Trish from Begin Again and Again and Again
Monique from Confessions of a Lazy Athlete
Julie from The Hotlegs Runner
Caroline from Journey to a Half Marathon
Sherry from Life From My Perspective
Jamie from Heat Runner
Jill from Run for the Hills
Stacie from Impossible is Nothing
Jody from Running With Sharp Objects
Bobbie from 2010 Journey in Running
Barefoot Neil Z from Because All the Cool Kids Are Doing It
Scott from Big Daddy Diesel
Karyn from This Mama's 26.2 Mile Journey
Jill from Run With Jill
Leslie from And Her Little Dog Too
Emily from If I Can't Convince You, I'll At Least Confuse You
Mr. and Mrs. Leonor Carey (No Blog)