December 21, 2012

It has been WONDERFUL to have Jeremy home!!!! I did ask him to help me with a HUGE favor while he was home.... We have a squirrel that seems to think MY ATTIC is his vacation home... WRONG!!!! Poor Jeremy, he has tried everything.... There is a hole where this varmit is getting in. There is some inhibiting factors on getting this squirrel. #1 our roof-line has a wierd angle; #2 the side of the hole is on a very steep hill; #3 to go from the inside of the attic you cannot reach the hole due to the wierd angle of this part of the roof.... So Jeremy in PURE military style has taken on the mission of the squirrel... He has borrowed a high powered pellet gun from a friend and has been shooting at it. Now he has been mindful of the recent horrible tragedies where a person has gone nuts and shot people. Plus the other thing, we live very close to a grade school. So YES - he is been cautious of shooting at the squirrel. Now this is a U.S.A. Marine who has a sharp-shooter status... He says that he has hit the squirrel - he thinks in the rear quarters... I did not hear the squirrel yesterday but this morning - HE'S BACK!!!! I could hear him early in the morning, running in the attic and clawing away.... We just had our first blizzard yesterday... so this squirrel is thinking he has a pretty nice deal winter vacation home... No - this is not going to happen... So Jeremy is wrestling with the squirrel that is out-whitting a Sargent in the U.S. Marines.... hummmmmm.... Right now, the only thing is that the poor squirrel has a sore bottom.... I think it may be time for me to treat the squirrel to a nice cocktail... Or go the humane way and use the live trap. Either way - that squirrel is going DOWN!!!!! My running has not gone has well as I have hoped. These shin splints are a bitch! I have received the compression leggings. They really do help ALOT. When I first tried to run with them - I did not have any issues. It wasn't until I was a few miles in that it started acting up. I have really been taking it easy on them. The weather till yesterday has been fairly mild. I have been running outside as much as possible. I have just be running shorter distance and also taking rest days. (That is SO UNHEARD OF for me!!!!) I think I have gotten up to about 5 miles and then it really starts in. The leg wants to give out and it really starts to hurt... I tried to do the treadmill. I don't know what it is - but it JUST ABOUT KILLS me, no matter what the distance. So I have been running on the Cybex - that seems to be MUCH MUCH better. I cannot go as far as fast on those machines.. But it better than not doing anything. Plus they are so EXTREMELY boring --- I just keep thinking I want to go outside and play.... So with my 100K in December challenge... We just figured - I have completed 50 miles (or 80.4672 km). Leaving me 12.13 miles to go and I have 10 days. Now we have Christmas in there so I know that will knock off a day or two. So I have to concentrate on a minimum of 1.5 miles per day to finish. That would even put me over in the number of miles for the challenge. So I am still in the running (LOL) for this challenge... But as always --- I am moving forward. ALWAYS AND FOREVER FORWARD!!!!!