Day 2! My head is a ball of snot. sorry 'bout that......

Ugh my head feels like.....a brick or a boulder or something else really really really heavy. I have been getting a cold this past week, but today it released all its bitchiness on me. And it really just needs to go away. Now.

So guess who woke up at 3:45 today?!?! ME! Yes that is correct. Long run day. Hooray! I run with the Cypress Running Club and was needed to meet at 5. Since I'm kind of....ummm....obsessive about things, I need to get up 1 hour before I need to leave to drive to our running place. So yes that is why I was up so early. I gotta have time to eat what I want to eat, do random computer surfing, do other stuff and be ready to leave 15 minutes before start time. Neat.

So the run was pretty swell. I ran about 3 and a half with Megan and the we looped back to the start and picked up KC for the rest of the run. I had 18 to do. Lots but not as lots as last weekend which was 20. Megan doesn't always run with KC and I, but it was nice to have another runner today. KC has been my main running buddy since moving down to TX.  And she's from Minnesota and has all her family back in the midwest.....and that's where I am from! Neat! We pretty much talk the entire time during our runs, and hopefully we'll be able to stay together during the Houston Marathon in January AND qualify for Boston together. That would rule. Lots. Ohhhhhh Boston how I just really want to run you. My friends back in PA, Angie and Flo already qualified, and are running it in 2013. Sweeet!  I'm so pumped and proud of them. Wish I could have qualified at my marathon in May....but then I collapsed so I didn't get to finish that f'ing thing. It would have been so fun to run Boston with to of my favorite running friends. Ugh I miss running with them. If I think about it for more then 5 seconds I start to tear up a little :(

Oh I miss these friends. so so so much.

Ok then. So, Paul was out of town ALL week. That sucked. I was most certainly crabby crazy no fun mommy by the end of the week. Oh who am I kidding...I was crabby most of the time. It's super sucky when he's gone. I am a thousand percent positive that I would hardcore suck at being a single mom. It didn't help that for some reason I have been extra weepy. Everything seems to make me tear up. Songs, thinking about Pennsylvania friends, family........so fricking much. And I have no idea what the deal is. I can't be going through menopause right? I'm only 32. That would be just my luck though.

Ok, so the election. I'm so so so so so times a million ba-jillion happy that Obama was reelected. So. So SO! I was super worried about if he would win or not. It seems like everyone around me was super  duper in love with Romney and hated Obama. But in the end.....Obama prevailed....and Romeny sure did look like a douche bag in his concession speech. It was almost like an SNL skit....but it wasn't. Weird.

Ok well, that's all for today. Date night with Paul! Scallops :)

Ok....here goes nothing....

Ok so I have decided to start a blog of my own. I have thought about it for awhile, and now I think it is time. This will hopefully be a place for me to get things off my chest, talk about running, and other things that come into my life....random or not. I have a huge passion for running. It is probably my favorite thing to do. I have run since 8th grade cross country, but I most certainly did not always like it. I remember dreading practices after school because I knew that it would involve lots of hard, painful WORK. I ran competitively throughout high school and even during my first year of college. Then I just kind of decided I was sick of it, and took a break. I ran off and on throughout college, and did a few races for fun. I kind of started to get more into running my senior year when my then fiancé and I decided to do a marathon along with one of our friends. We trained for it, and I whined a lot about how tired I was, but we did it! It was such a feeling of accomplishment to have done a marathon! I think that after that experience I was hooked for life! I have done many races since then, but that will be saved for another post.....or two ;)

My family and I recently made a big move from PA to TX. While I have enjoyed some things about our new home, and have made a few really great friends....not a day goes by when I don't feel sad about moving.  I am a person who has a very very VERY tough time meeting people and then maintaining a relationship with them. So moving to Texas was not only tough because moving sucks, but also because I knew NO ONE...and did I mention...I'm a stay at home mom so if I don't meet people to hang out with my kids with then I will go crrrrrazy.  Yup. 

Which brings me to the title of my blog: Crazy Mommy Runs. Why did I name it that you ask? Well....easy...if I don't run or workout then I will be crazy-crabby-no fun Mommy. Running is not only something I like to do, it's also my prozac. It's something I do for myself that makes me happy and helps me to be a better mom. But do not get me wrong, just because I run does not mean that I'm not just a little crazy or crabby sometimes. It happens.  I'm hoping that through writing about myself (that is not an easy thing to do) and venting about things too I will maybe be able to better cope with this move, maybe connect with others, and just talk about my running since really....it's my favorite :)

Yup pretty much. Just a little humor for ya