the week in advance.

Reasons this week wins the award for best week ever:

-Tomorrow is Patriots Day, also known as Marathon Monday in Boston. While this is a state holiday, a lot of people I know don't get it off. Of course, since I am on an "alternative work schedule," I am granting myself the day off (for my recent good work habits). Sara and I can be found wandering Boston starting in the early AM, possibly sipping coffee with Kahula. And looking for bars that will let us in so we can watch the Red Sox game. Eventually we will make our way to the Marathon finish line and revel in the fact that we live in the fabulosity that is Boston.

-Wednesday, my favorite UNHer is coming to town. We will be going to the Isabella Stuart Gardener Museum, which I'm ashamed I have never been to. Then I'm giving Kyle a tour of Paper Source, which I'm certain will quickly become her favorite store. Can't wait to see her!

-Wednesday evening I will start dogsitting for my two favorite little puppies in the world. Allegedly, my aunt now calls Mitzi "Houdini," as she has recently learned to escape from her pen. Sweet. Let's hope she doesn't destroy any more of my personal property.

-Friday, my sister and her fiancee are moving to Boston for 3 months! I'm already sad as I know the 3 months will fly, but maybe just maybe they will end up back here after they travel to North Carolina and Austin. I'm also quite excited to visit them and my lovely cousins in Austin.

So, my week basically looks fabulous. I'm going to be fitting a lot of work in the PM hours, but then, how is that any different than usual? Seriously though, I can't remember the last time I've been excited for a "week" as opposed to a "weekend."

Bed time now as I have to be up earlier tomorrow than I do on a normal Monday. Ahh, tough life taking a holiday, huh? Sorry to all of you poor kids who don't live in Boston and so don't get to celebrate one of the best holidays of the year!

Flashback! From last year's marathon. Wow. that feels like SO much longer than a year ago. Cannot even believe where I was at that point.

sweet nova dreams.

Lately, I've been really good at finding things to do at night besides sleeping. Tonight I was going to do pilates and was changing the channel on my TV to video mode, when I happened to stop on PBS. Nova was doing a show with 12 average people who they were training to run the Boston Marathon. I got sucked in and couldn't stop watching, which meant I couldn't do pilates. Oh well. Then the show started talking about health issues and claimed that even if you look like you're a healthy weight, you still could very well be overfat. Overfat?? What an absolutely horrible, disgusting word. All of the women on the Nova team are overfat. Eeek. And one of the ways you get overfat is by not using your muscles enough. So, I started to get all panicky and decided I'd do some pilates on my own while continuing to watch Nova. Then I discovered that I have actually memorized two routines from my favorite pilates DVD. Thank you every much, Denise Austin.

Sometimes I think it would be cool to run a marathon and other time I think it's absolutely ridiculous and horrible for your body. But then I realize I probably think this because I know I'm a horrible distance runner and am making excuses for why this isn't a big deal. Whatever. I'm actually a pretty amazing sprinter, which I think is a much more useful skill to have. When am I ever going to have to run a long distance? But there's no telling when I might need to sprint away from (or to) something. I just realized that the dad of a girl I know is on Team Nova. Pretty impressive that a 6'3", 290 lb former NFLer can run the 26.2 mile Boston Marathon. And I cannot.

I think I'll go to bed now and have nightmares about being overfat.

Oooh, on second thought, Frontline is doing a special on undertakers next. That should provide some fabulous nightmare material.