Kuru Footwear shared this playlist of songs for running recently. It’s over 6 hours long and covers many decades. I remember one time I downloaded a running playlist recommended in a magazine and all the songs on it were catchy, but when listening while running it sure didn’t feel motivating. I can’t remember the whole thing but I remember the second song was Harder to Breathe by Maroon 5, followed by SOS by Rihanna. Good songs, but when you’re running in the heat of Vegas they were reminders of my discomfort in the moment! Got a favorite song? Whether it’s running or not, feel free to share ..read more

Mornings suck… I used to get up super early so I could run before I had to get my kid ready and start working by 7:00 AM. (I usually start working at 6:30 AM, because I suck at work/life balance.) But since my total thyroidectomy… mornings suck. For most of my life, I have woken just before my alarm, watched the time tick over, and then would quickly turn it off. I don’t hit snooze… ever. Never in my whole life have I been a snooze person. But now my alarm actually wakes me up each day. And even though I use this super peaceful piano song as my alarm, it startles me awake because I am always ..read more

See Part I of this story… Recovery from the second thyroid surgery sucked. It was just way worse than the first one and it continues to be worse. The “worse” started right there with that first night at the hospital.  When I woke up from anesthesia, someone at the hospital in the recovery room told me, “When your breathing tube was removed you bit your lip, so you probably feel that.” I kind of questioned that wording, but that was the explanation as to why I had a fat swollen lip with some little wounds upon waking up from surgery. My assumption is more that they caught my lip in be ..read more

I have lots of labels in my life. Mother, wife, boss, employee, runner, and so many others [insert most family relations here]… but in 2022 I added a new one to my list and it’s one I still can’t quite wrap my brain around. Cancer Survivor.  Let me explain. But to do that, we need to rewind 5ish years.  Actually, maybe we’ll rewind about 15ish years. A long long time ago…. I was feeling kind of crummy and tired and rundown. And I mentioned this to my OB/GYN at an annual appointment, as that seems to be the medical provider that a lot of women see the most regularly. (Except me, I hav ..read more

I’m debating… should I keep the blog here as an actual regular ol’ blog or should I move it to a Substack? Or just print it all off for myself and make it magically disappear? (as much as one can make things disappear from the internet… remember, that’s a hard thing to accomplish folks!) If anyone is still out there… how do you consume blogs? Do you follow them on feed readers still or just show up every now and then to see if something has changed? Or maybe you receive my posts via email already and migrating to Substack wouldn’t be much of a change for you? Maybe you hate getting email. Most ..read more

I have a new family member, but she’s definitely not my running buddy yet. This is Emmie… technically her name is Emerald Venom. Apparently, dogs that are AKC registered must have at least two names. (She has pedigree… her “ancestors” have some super long and strange names.) The name Emerald came about because our last dog was a boxer named Jade, and my kiddo decided that all future pets shall be named after gemstones. Emmie is a boxer. Her coloring is considered flashy brindle, black mask. Flashy because the white color comes up around her neck and face. She is NOT a black boxer, anyone who ..read more

I have not run a race in person since 2019. Between the pandemic, the mask mandates, surgeries… I just stuck close to home. But I changed that today! If you are on YouTube, please consider liking and subscribing. I’m just playing around there, but it would be nice to share! Or humiliate myself in front of others! Also, getting something posted about my surgeries in 2022 is on my to do list ..read more

lisdhglasihdg This treadmill is fairly inexpensive for a treadmill. Not sure I’d trust it entirely. But it’s the photos of the product that really crack me up. Pretty sure if you can’t get a real photo of a real human using your real product, there’s something sus going down. Consider subscribing to my YouTube channel… just for funsies, okay ..read more

I saw an ad for the styling company Wantable and their special “WFH Edit”. Basically, they call it an “edit” each time they send you a curated box of clothes. Since I work from home, I was suckered into the ad and I ordered it. And I made a video to show everything I got in that box! I think I’d be tempted to try Wantable again, maybe in a couple of months. They sent me too many sweaters and I’m at the cusp of it getting too hot to wear sweaters for a while. (I live in Las Vegas, where it isn’t hot all the time but it is fairly warm about half the year. At least ..read more

Morning Complete canister For the past month, I have been drinking a glass of Morning Complete from Activated You each morning. While I was sent the product free to review, the timing couldn’t have been better because at the same time I started drinking it I was prescribed antibiotics for a surgery I had. Since Morning Complete contains pre-biotics and pro-biotics to counter those anti-biotics, it seemed an ideal time to begin drinking it. This product comes in one flavor, Apple Cinnamon. So I hope you like apples and cinnamon! I think the flavor of this is fine, I wouldn’t say it’s an overly ..read more