I've been up too long already, and I'm driving Kristin and Stephanie nuts by my overactive behavior... so I'm going to confide here for a bit and annoy all of you with a dozen different thoughts, reflections and absurdities rushing through my mind. Yes, I've been encouraging Kate's love of running. We were all excited when she joined the track team... and being a family of highly competitive people, none of us really understood why when watching her run, she didn't seem to be bothered by being passed. Don't get me wrong, it's not like we're not proud of her, we are. But, she could run faster. As in, she'd finish the race, and not be out of breath. She just likes to run. I like to run, but you know what I like even more? To win. So, we've been trying to encourage her to push herself more. Mostly, I've just been trying to give her more opportunities to run. This morning, that meant waking up at 4:50a. My parents don't like her running alone and I've been meaning to start running in the mornings again. But 4:50 was a little earlier than I was thinking. She has to be at the bus stop for school by 6:30.

So that brings us here, a run, some laundry, reading, time with the Lord, blogging, emailing and 3 cups of coffee later I showed up at work like Cameron Diaz's character on the stock floor in What Happens in Vegas. I was reading to make work happen. And Kristin and Steph wanted to shoot me. I'm anticipating the crash that will come around 1pm I am sure. But in the meantime...

* It is a proven fact that a UPS or Fedex man will show up with a delivery for me to sign for the moment I start eating. Happens without fail. I washed my hands, sat down to eat my cheese danish and walla! Please use this germ-covered pen to sign in this box please... oh yes, and then continue to carry food from your plate to your mouth with that same hand. I don't think so buddy. I can only celebrate that it was fedex this time so I didn't have to here the same guy sing "U-P-S" as he walked in the door. Something about his little ditty just fails to catch me. :/ I tend to dread it when I look up and see him approaching the glass doors at our office entrance.

*I listened to a woman tell a man all about her annual international trips, as they walked a few paces behind to work. It was very interesting, until she started eating. I suddenly quickened my pace and tried to leave them behind at some crosswalk. I don't love my morning stroll to work to be set to the soundtrack of another woman's breakfast-filled-mouth.


*I want to go fishing. On my run a couple days ago I came across a man sitting alone on a dock, fishing. I haven't gone in years, and I don't like to have to bait my own hook... but I love sitting on a sunny day by a lake. Enjoying something cold and delicious and a close friend's company.

*My boss has already left work for the day. So he said. And I think he was being serious. Lame. Apparently while I was away this morning, he told Kristin he was going to let me have the day off to go hangout in my swimsuit and longboard, as a thank you for my hard work. He'd changed his mind by the time I got back. I guess he liked the sound of it himself. ;) It's okay, I'm ready to work.

*Our weather forecast is better than San Francisco's. FYI. :)