Happy (Birthday) Halloween! Or When Oscar and FelixSwitch Places

She wears heels and dresses and jewelry...Prada sunglasses and has manicured and pedicured nails....I wear shorts or skorts, Converse or Vans, Nike golf shirts with my keys and whistle on a lanyard and ID around my neck....

until Halloween when she was me and I was her.....

and the kids thought it was hilarious...and the principal said it we the best costumes in the history of the school.....now to soak my aching feet!

My Halloween birthday was a hit...one little girl said, "When we were in first grade you told us your birthday was in February."

My answer, "Yes, and this year my birthday is in October."

(It might be more mind boggling if she remembered that in kindergarten my birthday was my real birthday in April....pre-birthday change.)

She just looked at me trying to figure it all out and no one else even gave it another thought....and that was the end of that.

*HAPPY HALLOWEEN*HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO ME*LIVESTRONG*LOVESTRONGER*LAUGH HARDER*EAT SOME CANDY*

Mileage Update

So I was complaining about the gadgets not working...I have used them every day that I exercise for the past 4 years....putting my totals in the sidebar to motivate myself...and this month, the gadgets suddenly stopped working. I finally found a way to send a concern to blogger...no reply of course but when I tried the gadgets today...WHA-LA! they work!!

I am proud of my running miles this year...I haven't run this many miles since I was in college (way more per month,)...and weighed a lot less and ran 7 and 8 minute miles....but I am twice as old now and feel pretty good at coming in 299/1520 in my age group in the S.F. Nike half marathon.

Halloween is Thursday...I have a very cool costume planned...and it is always a favorite day for me with the kids....I will be sure to post- besides, it's my "birthday!"

*LIVESTRONG*LOVESTRONGER*LAUGH HARDER*RUN LIKE A GIRL*

We Rocked The City!

We were up at 4:30 a.m. and The Captain was driving us to The City by 4:50. This year's race was set up so much better than the past...each corral, with your specific time per mile was entered at a different street...and once in the corral there were port-o-potties. This made for less of a wait for the potties. Then about a minute was added between letting the corrals start the run...we still had to dodge walkers (who think rules don't apply to them,) and much slower runners. 30,000 participants with 306 Legacy Runners...those are participants who have RUN all 10 year's events!

That's not an orange mustache but the straw :)

We bought some funny hair spirals that light up at CVS and wore them in the run...Ali's was purple for TNT and mine was green and purple...and the back of my tank top said, "MOM OF A CHILDHOOD leukemia SURVIVOR." (Terry, Julianna Banana's dad taught me that you never give cancer the power of capital letters.) 

We rocked the run- well, The Teacher dragged my butt the entire way and could have beaten me handsomely but she chose to run with her mom...which made me go faster- oh those hills! But at the end, a tuxedoed fireman awaits with a silver tray full of Tiffany boxes...holding the coveted necklace.....

 Pretty cool!
And all the proceeds go to the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society...so one day soon

all children with leukemia can stand by this sign!

*LIVESTRONG*LOVESTRONGER*LAUGH HARDER*RUN LIKE A GIRL*

HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Happy almost Birthday to me...this year my school birthday falls on Halloween! Last year it was Valentine's Day!

I grew tired of my birthday at the end of April when Open House, report cards and teacher Appreciation Day all run together with Mother's Day....so I decided, there's no law about changing my work birthday...should have done it years ago! So last year, my birthday conveniently coincided with Valentine's Day and one party day! This year Halloween is the day of choice and my party is part of another. Technically I did have 2 birthdays this year....but the great thing is, I take my real birthday off work and the students don't get cheated out of not celebrating with me...which is a big deal when you are 7 or 8.

*LIVESTRONG*LOVESTRONGER*LAUGH HARDER*CELEBRATE YOUR 

BIRTHDAY...REAL OR NOT*

Gadgets

Anyone else having trouble with blogspot's gadgets? I cannot update my mileage...I put int eh new info and then it won't save. I have tried on several computers so I know it isn't my computer...hmmm...and of course there is no way to contact a real human at blogspot. Thankfully I have it on XL.

The good news is I have suprpassed 200 miles running this year...I know some people who do that in a month...but for me it is abig deal.

*LIVESTRONG*LOVESTRONGER*LAUGH HARDER*HAPPY HUMP DAY*

We Did It!

SAN JOSE ROCK N ROLL HALF MARATHON SURVIVORS!!

Finishers get a "heavy" medal and beer...in this crappy cell phone photo it is hard to tell that we are sporting our medals and beer.

We survived the run...Teacher (Daughter #1) kicked my butt...she and her boyfriend, Nuclear Physicist, who has asthma beat me by 4+ minutes...but they didn't beat my time from the last San Jose Rock N Roll I ran.

2:15:27 was my time today...but 2:07 was what I needed to beat...but there's always the S.F. Nike Women's coming up in two weeks! GO GIRLS! Just me and the teacher then.

*LIVESTRONG*LOVESTRONGER*LAUGH HARDER*RUN LIKE A GIRL*

By this time tomorrow...

I will have finished the San Jose Rock N Roll Half Marathon!!

*LIVESTRONG*LOVESTRONGER*LAUGH HARDER*RUN WITH YOUR KIDS*

Happy Birthday Johnny

He was born 239 years ago that John Chapman....right when the apples were ripe for pickin'. And that means celebrating with applesauce makin' in kindergarten- along with graphing and counting and eating applesauce of course. In first grade you can get away with it too...but by second, well that's when I had to get a little sophisticated.

 I went shopping...and we did a taste test...

 And we did a little recording and adjective work....

And we tasted and tasted until the apples were all gone.And then we used the apple-corer thingy to core and peel more Fuji apples.
Then we topped off the day with "The Legend of Johnny Appleseed" film circa 1948!

Then the kids wrote the best bios on Johnny Appleseed I have ever read.

*LIVESTRONG*LOVESTRONGER*LAUGH HARDER*AN APPLE A DAY KEEPS 

THE TEACHER FULL*