Temptations

So again taking way too much time off from blogging but what can you do.  Anyway I'll start my recap off with Thursday. Last week I had Thursday and Friday off from work.  I decided that on Thursday I'd head up to Methuen and get some chicken pies, it was a decision I do not regret.  It had been a while since I've had them so I was over due.  The one problem is that as I was stuffing my face with chicken pies on the ride back I happen to pass by the river trail in I think Andover but I'm not sure.  I ran there a few times with Jim and a few with Michelle.  It got me thinking about how great trail running is and how much I missed it.  Only problem was I don't even know where my running shoes are since moving and I was stuffing my face.  I got home and figured well maybe later today if I have time(I had a long list of things to do) or tomorrow I'd head to the trails for a few easy miles.  Well obviously I did not end up going because lets be serious I am me.  I didn't finish the stuff I planned to do Thursday, then the nice weather disappeared along with my motivation.  I suppose I can pretend the good news is I at least dug out my running shoes so I am aware of where they are now.  I will keep you posted if the unthinkable happens and I go for a run.

I think I just need to accept I am just not a self motivated person.  I really enjoy running and even running alone but apparently not enough to get in shape by myself so I can actually go for runs with my friends.  I think I'd just need someone that wants to get back in shape or just in shape and forces me to go with them.  That'd probably be a lot more likely to work than me actually getting back in shape on my own and staying that way.

The rest of the weekend wasn't too exciting.  Friday I did go to the Beer Summit in Boston which was really cool. If you are a beer drinker I'd definitely recommend going next time they have one.  50 different microbreweries and 200 different beers(and some ciders).  Next time though I'll have to figure out a way to document all the ones I try because there is maybe a handful of what I actually remember drinking.  I remember things like the expresso beer I tried that tasted a lot more like coffee than it did beer, it was pretty good but I can't remember at all who made it.  The same with the pear cider, it was different but pretty good and again no clue who made it.

Anyway I will leave you with this picture that I came across after Easter which had the funny headline "the lord has risen"  apparently some religious people have a problem with this picture.  I thought it was pretty funny.

The Gunners Dream

So to recap the weekend it was pretty fun.  Went out to Patriot Place on Friday night which is pretty cool.  The rain made it less fun walking around but still that place is impressive.  I had never been in a Bass Pro Shop before and it's odd to say but being inside that store has really made me want to spend more time outside.  Sunday we had our last regular season games of the regular season.  We had a double header due to 95% of our team being in Toronto next weekend for Mike's bachelor party.  The first game was a bit of a disaster from the start, again the league has the scheduled screwed up and gave people incorrect times, the field we played on was absolute crap which I'm sure we didn't have a permit for.  Anyway very few bright spots between the two games.  Between a couple of guys getting banged up in the first game and 2 guys having to leave before the second game we were tired and very short handed so we didn't stand much of a chance the second game against a team that was undefeated.  Anyway to highlight the day, I had two plays I was really happy with.  The first catch was a high ball that was a jump between me and the defender that I came down with.  A tough enough catch that the teams that played in the previous game that were still on the sidelines were commenting on it and giving me high fives as I went back to my huddle.  It was a bit awkward but cool that it apparently looked that good.  The second was just a great throw by Dan outside of the defender so only I could get it. I dragged my feet to stay in bounds and got a first down.  Sadly those type of plays were probably the only kind of highlights of the day since we got beat so bad.  Oh well it's been a fun season and now we know two things.  We need to find a better run league to join since this one sucks, and we need to find more people(specifically more committed people) since probably half of our games we had 2 or less subs.  Actually to be more specific we need more big guys since our lineman generally played both ways the entire game just about every game.  

Moving on.  So I've been still eating pretty poorly but one thing that has improved is breakfast.  So instead of either nothing or junk food for breakfast during the week I'm now having fruit smoothies.  The weekends I still go a little overboard with french toast, bacon and eggs or something like that.  Anyway so this is a picture of the smoothie pre mix.  

  So what I have in there is an orange, a banana, two kiwi's, some mango, blue berries, strawberries and raspberries.  I think thats everything at least.  Then I add green tea to it, it's surprisingly pretty good and I'm sure better for me than pop tarts or nothing.  

I am about as good at blogging as I am at running.

So it's been about 2 weeks since my last post.  Woah, ok that sounds a bit too much like catholic confession so I have to stop.  Anyway  I've been pretty busy lately, obviously not with running.

Where to start, well since I started this blog to be about running I'll at least start with football since it's the most exercise I get without running.  So well my left ankle is still swollen to about twice the size of my right one.  It doesn't hurt really, I don't ice it which is really dumb of me but since it doesn't hurt I really don't think about it except on Sundays.  The first game of the last two weeks was awful.  We showed up at Arlington High where our game was at and started warming up etc... only to find out that our game was an hour after it was scheduled since AGAIN the league did not get a permit for the field and the early game was forced to play on a separate field and it delayed the start of all the games.  It makes me wonder what we paid $600 bucks for since we supplied our own uniforms, flags, ball, tee, and we pay ref fees every game.  We haven't played at the same field more than once with the exception of double headers and we were only supposed to have one game that wasn't on the same field.  Anyway  I'm not sure if it was the delayed start, or what but for some reason our team was just not in the game that week.  The opposing team was good but very beatable and we just couldn't get it together.  Needless to say we lost.

The second week we played a game at 8am on Easter Sunday in Milton which was pretty shitty since it's like 45 minutes away.  Anyway because of the holiday we only had 8 people show up for an 8 on 8 game.  No subs and we ended up having to play with some nagging injuries the entire game.  Not only that our quarterback was one of the people who could not make the game forcing me to step in as the backup.  I was not really looking forward to that but what can you do.  Somehow early in the game I'm not sure if it was dehydration from being out drinking for a friends bday the night before or what but I had my right calf cramp up pretty bad.  This isn't just a normal cramp this is a recurring thing  with me, I've had it happen before just from running and it's bad enough that on one run with my friend Michelle in the Dracut/Tyngsboro woods she noticed me limping and refused to continue running despite being fine herself and me insisting that we continue on.  Now imagine that playing football with lots of cuts and sprinting instead of just running at a measly 8:30 pace(I have no idea what we were running but it probably was close to that).  So this cramp came up within the first 10 minutes of the game which was nice since we had no subs, but at least I was quarterback so on offense I didn't have to run too much.  The first half of the game went alright Mark bailed me out of a bad pass and ended up scoring a TD which was my first throwing for the season and I think Mark's first receiving since he's been out with a bad foot.  We kept it close, I scored another TD running the ball to keep the score tied at 13.  The second half however was when our lack of subs really killed us.  Jeff hurt his leg so he couldn't run too well so he needed to switch with me at QB.  So now limping around I was still playing receiver, which I did well enough at but at this point in the game we had too many people either tired, hurt or not playing their normal position and we gave up a couple of big plays and were not able to respond.  So that was that, another game we could have won but did not.  We need to find a better run league and maybe some more players so we aren't always so short handed.

Aside from that work is going really well.  Things are finally after a few years coming into place for me.  Plenty of money coming in and I've decided I need to get my CFP within the next year.  Now if it happens who knows I need to take 6 classes and shell out over 6 grand before I can even take the test so we'll see if I can get all that done soon so I can start studying for that wonderful 10 hour 2 day test.

Another reason I have been busy is I have some how beyond everyone I knows expectations I have manged to get myself a girl friend.  How this has happened is still to be determined but it's been going pretty well so far considering my general retardation when it comes to girls.  And since people will find a hard time believing me I will offer a picture as an attempt at proof.

Trust me this has nothing to do with my recent download of photoshop.  Anyway thats it for tonight.  I have a double header for football in the morning and I'm just hanging out at home by myself for the night.  I'll try to keep the posts coming more often than once every 15 days.