And I did.
And 4 hours later I began to feel buyers remorse. I tend to be super cheap about certain things. I will go weeks and weeks without spending much money on myself, and then the next thing you know, I'm buying $150 swimsuits, traveling to Miami Beach, and buying an iPhone (which is not only $$$ but means you have to spend $30 more each month for a data plan).
And silly me, I didn't realize that 1052 songs would take up nearly all 16GB!
But let's be fair for a moment. Last week, my phone became possessed; the touch screen wouldn't work and when I was just holding the phone flat, random 'buttons' on the touch screen would appear to be pushed by some other unseen being or spirit. Eventually the touch screen went completely dead, and in order for me to use the phone in any way (to make or answer calls, set the alarm, etc), I would have to OPEN the phone, dial out, and then carefully close the phone and hope that I was not hanging up on anyone. Clearly, I 'needed' a new phone, and it had to be an iphone.
ugh. I am officially a modern day yuppie: expensive taste (trina turk swimwear-you rock), Nikon dSLr camera owner, foodie, kindle loving, iphone owning 31 year old in a DINK marriage.
moving on.....
The trip to SoFla was great. Either I'm getting older and my taste is running on the more conservative side, or people now take their 'fashion' ideas from Jersey Shore (it was a birthday weekend treat-ugh, 31, you just look so old. Much more serious than 30). There were so many spring-breakers, and with that, so many short, tight, and cheap cheap cheap looking clothes. I think sexy can be done without showing or pulling a britney.
I ate a lot of food that weekend and drank even more cuban coffee. My dear friend treated us all to mini-cupcakes at what we thought would be an outdoor mini-concert, but was really a $2.50 per ticket 30 minute mini-concert inside a new performance space for the New World. If you're in the south Florida area, you'd be a fool to pass up the mini-concerts or FREE outdoor concert wallcasts. (the sound and feel of the music indoors was pretty amazing too!)
We ran along the beach twice and had our photos taken by two men with telescopic paparazzi like cameras. I'm sure once they looked at the images and realized we were not anyone remotely famous they deleted the shots. Either that or we're on some TMZ-like celebrity stalker site. (but seriously why they bothered to shoot us beats me...if I was worthy of a paparazzi shot I would probably wear a hat, glasses, etc.)
Speaking of running....seems like I've been falling of the band wagon and need to print out a training plan to keep me on track. I'm not putting the amount of miles that I would like; especially if I'm going to have to start training for chicago soon. for the first time in a few weeks I was able to join the Thursday night runners and made the mistake of talking to Val just before the run. Which meant I started running with Val. Val who qualifies for Boston on the new time scale. We call each other the road hogs, and I tend to start with tail hogs (ie, the back). Yesterday I started with the people I call the head hogs.
Mile 1: 8:10. Eeks. Fast for me
Mile 2: 8:03. uh, I have three more to go?! and a bridge?!
Just beyond the 3 mile mark is a 4 lane road to cross and I had to stop for a second to avoid being roadkill a la Frogger. And that's where I completely lost it. I tried for a bit to catch up and run with the group, but at mile 4, I lost all drive and chilled at a 9:18 pace.
Total time: 42:38; 8:32 pace
Clearly I didn't stretch and am feeling it now, but the beer and greasy pizza afterwords was so worth it (look at the twitter stream for a picture....speaking of which, how can I upload the pictures on twitter to the blog??)
Today's plan: clean the house, hopefully re-discover the gym and its medieval looking weight machines, and tonight we'll have the neighbors over for dinner before a 3 day marathon weekend at work.
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