Things 2-9 things Thursday

2.  I am met a friend for lunch who is going to make me some custom running skirts.  I am so excited.  There are so many fabric to choose from she might just have to put me on a payment plan.  She is supposed to have one to me to wear for Joplin in a few weeks.

3.  I shut the middle finger of my right hand in my garage door about a month ago.  I am pretty sure the nail is coming off.  It looks so gross and will only get worse.

4.  We had an office challange yesterday to eat 10 pretzels in a minute or less.  I tried my best to stay out of it but if there is one thing a runner can do it is eat pretzels when you have no saliva (they hand pretzels out at the water stops for the sodium).  They only had 6 left so I took the challange and was the only one that was able to do it.  I was so scared I was going to throw it up as soon as I swollowed the last bite.  Note to self, you are no more food challanges, period.

5.  Running schedule for the rest of the month is filling up.  I need to do a 5 mile training run this weekend, signed up for a 5K the next saturday and the Joplin half marathon is the week after.  I may just take a break from road running after that for a few weeks and do aqua jogging

6.  Which leads me to....I have to buy a swim suit this weekend.  I don't think this is ever an easy task.  I want to start taking aqua jogging this summer when it is too hot to run outside but the last bathing suit I bought around this time last year was a 16.  I have no idea where to even start. 

7.  According to the picture in the last post I really need to start working on my arms.  I  am getting bat wings. 

8.  Dennis' birthday is May 10 and I don't have anything for him.  He is so hard to buy for.  It is his 50th so I feel like I need to do something but I have no clue what.  I asked him if he wanted an iPad and he wasn't interested.  He is such a low maintenance person that it makes buying him something special that he will actually use really difficult.  For his 40th I had training in San Francisco and I bought his plane ticket, work paid for the room, and I used my per diem for meals.  We had a blast.  Can't top that.  He has changed jobs and it isn't easy for him to just take off and go with me anymore.

9. I am trying to decide if I want to plan something special on my bandiverary, which is coming up at the end of June.  It falls on a falls on a Saturday so I don't have to worry about work.  I have a few groupons that I can cash in.  I have a little time to think about it, but since it is a weekend I probably need to figure it out pretty soon or I won't have many options.

10.  I am trying to update my workout playlist.  I have a ton of songs but they are getting a little old.  My problem is I don't listen to a lot of new stuff.  This is what is on it now.  You can tell I am from the hair metal/grunge era.  Not a huge fan of country but gotta support the locals, Garth and I are almost neighbors.

Paint it Black - Rolling Stones
Rumor has it – Adelle
We all die young – Steelheart
Hero – Foo Fighters
Devine thing – Soup Dragons
I hate everything about you – Three Days Grace
Shiny happy people – REM
Viva la vida – Coldplay
Sunday morning – No Doubt
Alive – POD
Rearviewmirror - Pearl Jam
Play with me – Extreme
Judith – A Perfect Circle
A small victory – Faith no More
Standing outside the Fire – Garth Brooks
Times like these – Foo Fighters
So strange – Kik Tracee
Gives you hell – Glee
Don’t let me get me – Pink
Prayer – Disturbed
Everything about you – Ugly Kid Joe
Standing still - Jewel
We used to be friends – Dandy Warhols
Dog days are over – Glee
My life would suck without you – Kelly Clarkson
I’m not Jesus – Apocalyptica
Up all night – Slaughter
Boys in the hood – Dynamite Hack
One step closer – Linkin Park
We belong – Pat Benatar
Garden – Pearl Jam
I’ll never let you go – Steelheart
Tones of home – Blind Melon
Shake – Ying Yang Twins/Pitbull
Riot – Three Days Grace
Song 2 – Blur
Wish you were here – Incubus
Click click boom – Saliva
Change – Blind Melon
Speed of Sound – Coldplay
No excuses – Alice in Chains
Start the fire – No Doubt
Tainted love – Soft Cell
Raise your glass – Pink
No rain – Blind Melon
Use somebody – Kings of Leon
F@ck you – Cee Lo Green
New Thing – Enuff Z’nuff
Hooch – Everything
We shall be free – Garth Brooks
Hey there Delilah – Plain White T’s
Landslide – Smashing Pumpkins
I won’t back down – Tom Petty
Get the funk out – Extreme
Falling to pieces – Faith no more
Hole Hearted – Extreme
Corduroy – Pearl Jam
Not afraid – Eminem
Walk – Pantera
I’m Free – Soup Dragons
Best of you – Foo Fighters
Jump around – House of Pain
Here it goes again – OK Go
Buddy Holly – Weezer
Ex-girlfriend – No Doubt
Santeria – Sublime
The River – Garth Brooks
Since you been gone – Kelly Clarkson
Drive – Incubus
Clocks – Coldplay
I can only imagine – MercyMe
Release – Pearl Jam
From out of nowhere – Faith no More
A thousand miles from nowhere – Dwight Yoakam
Superman – REM
Callin’ Baton Rouge – Garth Brooks
It’s my life – No Doubt
Just like a pill – Pink
Rusty Cage – Soundgarden
Stronger – Kelly Clarkson
Friends in low places – Garth Brooks
Scars – Papa Roach
Lift – Shannon Noll
Never been to Spain – Three Dog Night
‘Till I collapse – Eminem
Proud – Heather Small
Lose yourself – Eminem
Suddenly I see – KT Tunstall
Should’ve been a cowboy – Toby Keith
Headstrong - Trapt
Praise you – Fatboy Slim
In your eyes – Peter Gabriel
Better Days – Citizen King
We Were Meant – Switchfoot
Paradise – Coldplay
Fast as you – Dwight Yoakam
Learn to fly – Foo Fighters
Into your arms – Lemonheads
Stand – REM
Once – Pearl Jam
Sugar, we’re going down – Fall Our Boy
Prison sex – Tool
My own worst enemy – Lit
Groove is in the heart – Dee-Lite
So what – Pink
Even flow – Pearl Jam
It’s the end of the world – REM