Food Co-op

After the race this morning, I stopped by the rec center to pick up my food co-op order for the month. Here's what I got this month... for just $16. ($14 for the harvest share and $2 for the rye bread). Find more info here.



This month: 5 bananas, 5 peaches, 6 plums, 6 ears of corn, 1 small watermelon, 1 bag of spinach, 3 cucumbers, 16 oz. pinto beans, 1 loaf whole wheat bread, 1 package mushrooms, 1 head of broccoli.

Chris told me I was crazy for signing up for it this month because we can't keep up with the food from our garden. But a girl can only eat so many zucchini and tomatoes before she just can't take it anymore! Here's what we have from our garden this week (minus the stuff we've eaten). I'm thinking of starting a "harvest swap" with other gardeners in the area. Will anyone trade fruit for my squash? Anything for squash?

5k tomorrow!

Hey - the Magna 5k is tomorrow. It's nothing official - just a chance to get out and have fun. Here's the info. Come if you can! There will be breakfast served afterward (everything is free!)

UPDATE: I just got home from running the 5k this morning. I finished in 25:58 and was first in my age group - 2nd woman overall. Granted, there were only about 30 of us, but still........

My strategy: Chase the men in front of me and run from the men behind me. I guess it worked well enough. I loved the run! A great way to "start" my training for the 10k in October, right?

We are thinking of doing a halloween run - where you can dress up and run to each booth/trunk to get your candy (plan those costumes well... dressing up like Usain Bolt is a good idea). Halloween run: good idea or bad idea?

Last year we did a family run on Thanksgiving and called it "The Parry Gobble Wobble"... and it ended up just the way the name of it would suggest. But it was a ton of fun.

Chubby Halloween

So, I've been doing some freelance work for Quickutz, a scrapbooking company and their Silhouette digital cutting machine (and so has Loni and Joel). I came up with a fun idea and figured it was time to start posting my designs!

I'm not sure how much everyone else likes it, but it's been a lot of fun to do. I've been designing chubby animals - some of which are in my header at the top of my blog.

Here are a few things I came up with a while ago, and finally got around to doing this week. Since halloween is coming, the timing was perfect.



So, what do you think? Any other halloween fiends that you think would look great chubby?

Please don't copy/download/etc. any of my designs without my permission.

Thanks!

Human Race 10k

I have a new goal: 10k on 10.24.09
I am going to run the Nike+ Human Race in October. I was determined to do a big race this year, but things haven't worked out like I hoped they would (that's some determination, huh?). So I have 9 weeks to get ready for this race. The good thing: I can run it wherever I want, whenever I want as long as it's that day. Go to the website and check it out!



Oh... and I changed my blog again. See? I told you the previous change wouldn't last long.