Cynical Mom

La Luna

From the eclipse a few nights ago:

And more on the disturbing front...

While doing the grocery shopping[1], I needed some baloney. Safeway conveniently offers several options:

 

 

See, there's beef, and turkey, and... MEAT? Pardon me?

Oh, who am I kidding. I know darn well what's in baloney but it's still my favorite lunch meat. Just goes to show you that I'm still quite clearly a product of my upbringing[2].

 

[1] Can someone explain to me why it is the year 2008 and I still do most of my grocery shopping in person? Me, of all people? Who hasn't shot a roll of film since she went digital over ten years ago? Who has more computers in the house than people?

[2] That would be the same upbringing that brought me my wonderful grandmother, aka "Gram", who taught me to make one of life's delicacies: White bread, slathered in butter, with white sugar poured over it[3]. MMmmmm.

[3] The look on my husband's face when I go near the sugar jar is priceless.

Disturbing ad

I think it’s supposed to be of a young girl innocently licking some whipped cream off of her hot chocolate while her parents smile over her, indicating what a nice family-friendly place the four seasons is…

But oh my god, could they have found a more lascivious pose for her to be using? The only thing that convinced me it was definitely a kid was looking at the ruffles on the swimsuit, and noticing that the pony tail was on the side of her head.

Ew.

Let's be realistic here

This is from my washing machine:

 

Why isn't "baby poop" on this list? I've just got to assume that the users of this washing machine have far more loads with baby poop on them than they do with "dirty mechanical oil".

Best race ever!

So I did a 10k race this morning. My goal going in was to just do a 10k in a race format, I've run the distance on my own several times but not officially in a race and I figured it'd be good motivation to get that under my belt, as I continue to contemplate when I'd be ready for a half-marathon.

It was a pretty small affair, about 40 people total (most of them were doing only 5k - hah. to think I just said "only 5K", when four months ago I was terrified about running my first 5k).

The course was a loop around seward park including one absolutely killer hill in the first 1/2 mile, and let me tell you it is not very fun to pass the finish line, watch everyone else milling around because they're done... and realize that you just passed the halfway point and have that killer hill coming up again.

At any rate, it was a great race... because I came in second place - and got a medal!

OK, to be fair, only 3 women finished the 10k (two dropped out after 5k), so we all placed - but still - I am incredibly happy and proud of myself. I'm certainly never going to place in any of the races with large numbers of people in them, and that's just fine. The best part about it was that before every race, when I tell Jared I'm running a race, he asks me "Are you going to win?". I have to explain to him every time that I'm not in it to win, I'm just in it to run, etc... but this time I got to bring home a medal to him!

I averaged just under a ten minute mile, official time was 1:01:49. Really great time for me, when I run outside of a race I tend to average an 11 minute mile, it certainly was motivational to have people behind me. I walked a few times in the first 5k around (that first hill really beat me up), but I ran the last 25 minutes of the race solid without slowing or walking. What's funny is that my chest was killing me in the first 5k and I despaired of ever finishing... but on the second 5k I felt like I could just keep going. It hurt, but it was a manageable hurt, a good hurt. And hey, it's always fun to burn off 733 calories in one workout.