Isn’t it bad when I feel like I need a weekend break after my weekend?  I thought so.  Today was insane.  Last night, starting at 8pm, I had a project deployment at work.  Which means I had to work starting at 8pm.  I thought that it would just take a couple of hours, but we ran into a few issues during the deployment so we didn’t actually finish everything (including testing) until 2am.  Stephen stayed at my place and, bless his heart, stayed up the entire time with me.  I kept telling him to go to bed, because we planned to do our long run in the morning and I knew that running in the morning would be hard enough for him with a full night’s sleep – it would be torture with just a few hours.  But he stayed awake.  The deployment, although it took longer than expected, was ultimately successful so I was a combination of happy, grumpy and exhausted when I fell into bed at 2am.

The alarm went off at 7:30 to give us 1/2 hour to get ready for our long run.  Quick breakfast (not even any coffee!  I always have coffee before long runs…) and we were out the door.  I was doing 10 miles and Stephen was doing 8, so he did the first two with me on the bike.  For me it wasn’t too hard, because 10 is down from the 12 I did last week.  But 8 miles was the most that Stephen has ever done in his life.  Plus it was morning, and he HATES exercising in the morning, plus he got 5 hours of sleep.  Poor baby.  He did it, although he said he felt like he was going to die at the end and when we got back to my house he literally had to sit for a while because everything was spinning.  And he was limping for the rest of the day, which was (and still is) my greatest concern.

Here’s the garmin for the run.

Although I was certainly tired, I felt pretty good after I was finished.  After Stephen recovered, we went to Barnes and Nobles to meet his family.  And, drumroll please…. I freaking locked myself out of my house AGAIN!  I had taken my house key off my key chain when we went on the run, and forgot to put it back on before we left the house for B&N.  This time, though, since I didn’t lock the house key in my car but rather in my house, AAA couldn’t help me.  So I had to call a locksmith.  He met me at my house – it literally took him two seconds to get in.  He put something in the lock and then hit it with this little hammer-like thing and POP!  the door just opened.  Kind of scary.  And for that two seconds of work, it cost $140!!!  I was so upset.  What a stupid, expensive mistake.  I gave Stephen my spare key so this never happens to me again.  I can’t believe it… twice in one week.  ARGHHHH!

I was starving by then and had a Fiber One bar and two Kashi bars!

After B&N we went to Costco.  I was already so exhausted, I kind of didn’t want to go, but I did anyways because Stephen really wanted me too.  I have a love/hate relationship with Costco – I think it is cool and love to look at things, but at the same time I get major sensory overload the second I walk into the place and I feel like I have an automatic headache.  And it is always sooo crowded and hard to even find a parking space before you enter the place.  But I never had a card, only went occasionally with other people, so it’s not that big of a deal.  While I was there, I got a huge container of Jelly Belly jelly beans, my FAVORITE!!!  I am so excited.  Too bad that will probably only last a week.

At costco, I ate a second Fiber One bar:

At the end of our shopping trip, Stephen went up to the front desk and had me added to his Costco membership.  So I got my own card… I am now officially a Costco member!  I don’t know whether to celebrate or to cry…  Then, we headed up to our old stomping grounds – Dave and Busters!!  The family wanted to do a little bit of shopping at the mall so we got something to eat quickly.  I had a Promax protein bar and another kashi granola bar.  I eat like nobody’s business after long runs…

For dinner at D&B I got a greek salad with shrimp.  It was delicious!

Then we played games.  I swear, I don’t know how I played a single game because I was literally sleep walking by then.  But I managed to beat everybody in basketball at least twice.  Here is a highlight pic of Stephen playing the bowling game:

Also, because I forgot to post it yesterday, here is a pic of Stephen and I at the priest party we went to yesterday.  Like my red orangey hair???

And finally, we left and the highlight of my day:  We bought our plane tickets to go to Switzerland!!!  It is official, we will be leaving on October 10th.  Lots to do before then, but I am so, so, so excited!  We talked about the trip with his family and made plans while I ate a bag of sour cream and onion soy chips, some oreos, and some of my new jelly beans.  We had fun with the jelly beans – I hate the root beer flavor but Stephen’s dad loves them so I tried to root through and pick them all out.  I made this huge pile of root beer, black licorice and banana jelly beans on the table – all the flavors I don’t like.  It was funny.  I think that I accidently weeded out a few cappuccino ones, because they look a lot like the root beer ones, but better safe than sorry.  I’d rather accidently leave out a cappuccino one than accidentally leave in a root beer

Now I’m off to bed, with dances of sugarplums and switzerland in my head.  Whew, what a day!!!