Richard's B-Day/Halloween 2011 Pics

Fun stuff coming up and some Halloween treats!!

I want to start off by saying how excited we were about this race that was being held in Austin in December. Seriously, combining running, obstacle courses and ZOMBIES, who could ask for more. We were pumped for the race and for a quick trip to Austin. However when I went to register us for the race, I realized that the Austin race was in December of 2012 not 2011. Which means that its going to be one very long year until we get to live out this little fantasy, but at least we have something to look forward to. Hopefully the Mayan's got it wrong, I will be pissed.

Next up on my plate is something totally exciting and scary all at the same time. I have registered to participate in NaNoWriMo. Which is one of those wonderful acronyms standing for National Novel Writing Month. Basically, it is a writing challenge in which you have the entire month of November to write a 50,000 word novel. I got a wild hair and decided this was a challenge I wanted to accept. It is also a fun tool for writers to use where they can throw all conventional writing out the window. Winning is based on quantity not quality. While I don't expect to have a 100% publishing ready novel at the end, I will have the rewarding feeling that comes with accomplishing something completely unexpected. I will try and blog once a week about my progress. Wish me luck and send me messages of support!!!



Lastly, in my job, I am in big box retailers and grocery stores and I see tons of Halloween displays that are very creative so I figured I would share them with you in honor of the season. Clearly pumpkins are the winning theme.

Happy Halloween Everyone!!!

Walking Dead Mongoose

In honor of Halloween and Season 2 of Walking Dead, Mongoose takes on the undead!!

Running, it isn't just for exercise anymore!

Hey everyone, I have been bad about keeping this updated for a while, but here is where we start up again!!! Yes yes, your thundering cheers and applause are inspiring! Well, let's get right to it, here we go. As I have talked about before, we have been running 5 days a week and have recently started doing actual races. We did one in September for Wipe Out Kids' Cancer and then this past weekend we did Race for the Cure.

 
It's great, you donate money to a cause you feel passionate about, you get some good exercise, and who could pass up FREE T-SHIRTS!!!!!