Drug Dealer

Jason’s sister came over to visit yesterday and she told Jason she ran into some one that she knew. She asked the girl what she was doing and she told Jason's sister that she had just purchased some drugs at my neighbors house(the house is kiddy corner from us).

So today I called the Police and filed a report. The police man asked me if I noticed if there were cars always at that house around the same time of day. I have no clue but after Jason telling me about what his sister said it kind of made sense in the past there has been a lot of cars over at the house sometimes.

So I facebooked all my neighbors because a lot of them are stay at home moms and have asked them to watch the house and to call the police if they notice anything. I am going to be a fly looking out my front window now.

Watch out drug dealer you are going down.

Portland Marathon

I have chosen my fall marathon I am running the Portland Marathon October 4th.


When I was talking to my husband about running the race and going up to Portland he shocked me and said he would run the marathon with me. I almost fell out of my chair :)

I told him I would register him if he starts running with me and sticks to the training for a few months because the registration is expensive and you can't wing a marathon.

If I hit my goal I am going to order this Vermont Teddy Bear.

This Vermont Teddy Bear wears running shoes, blue running shorts, a white Portland Marathon T-shirt, and a runner's bib that can be personalized with a name, number, and race time.

Ogden Marathon & Race for the Cure & SLC Marathon Pictures

Because I couldn’t run the Ogden Marathon Due to my stress fracture Jason and I did support crew for my running friends. I didn’t want to miss out on all the fun. We set up a card table at mile 23 and handed out small cups of Coke, Fig Newtons, Pretzels, Water, Gatorade, Salt, Excedrin, Band Aid’s.
We had a great time it was fun to see my friends and cousin on the course. If you run a marathon get a family member or friend to be around mile 22-23 you hit the wall around mile 18-20 and having someone at mile 22-23 helps you push through those 3-5 miles knowing they are there waiting for you. Then after you see them you only have 3-4 miles which I would just tell myself I have a 5k left. My sister was at mile 23 of Salt Lake Marathon and it pushed me through the wall.
I saw some interesting things while watching the runners. Here is a list of some of the stuff we saw.
I couldn’t believe how many guys had bloody nipples. I just cringed when I saw them.
A runner dressed as a Clown (he was in probably 5th place)
A runner dressed as the statue of liberty
A runner with his face painted camo
Girls with princess crowns
A running few army men
1st place runner passed my station just before hour 2 of the marathon.
My cousin Nancy
My mom running 13.1 miles doing the marathon as a relay
2 people from the neighborhood I grew up in
And a lot of people that looked like they were ready to pass out
I know I saw some other crazy stuff but I can’t think of them right now.

Race for the Cure was great I walked it with some family members. Here are some pictures from the day.

I wore a pink Wig

My Nephew thought it was great playing in the cold water at the Gateway Mall

My mom and I early on at the Salt Lake Marathon & me crossing the finish

I purchased these pictures from the marathon I have them hanging in my office. I took a picture of them with my camera phone.

Good News I am out of the Boot that I had to wear for my stress fracture. I am suppose to wear it 8 hours a day this week but my foot feels better so I stopped wearing it Saturday. I haven't had any problems. I want to start running but I am going to follow the Doctor's orders and wait till Friday to start running.

I need to blog more so I don't do a big data dump in one post.

Why??

Why does all bad things hit at the same time?

Lately it seems like everything bad is happening at the same time.

I have blogged before that I got a stress fracture in my foot from running the Salt Lake Marathon. I couldn't run the Half Marathon that I was going to run while visiting my sister in California last week. I am also pretty sure I am not running Ogden Marathon on the 16th that I registered for last November and is the main race I wanted to run this spring and I can't transfer the registration to next year or another runner. Running is one thing that I do for myself and what has been keeping me going. I haven't run in almost 3 weeks and probably won't for another 3 weeks.

My husband has been having a lot of health problems and hasn't been working for a few months and the doctors haven't been able to find the right medications to get him feeling better. With not having his income we haven't had enough to cover all our bills and we have had to use almost all of our savings that we have built up.

We have great medical insurance but we have a deductible of $3,000 before the insurance covers anything. But guess what we hit the deductible amount last month and have %100 of our medical bills covered for rest of the year.

I was noticing on warmer days when I tried to use my car's air conditioning that it wasn't working. I thought it was just needed coolant so I checked it and it was low I filled it up and then we didn't have warm days for a few weeks. Then we had a warm day and it still didn't work so I took it in for repair. They said a rock or something must of bounced up under my car and broke the condenser and my AC wouldn't work unless we replaced it. I guess that is what happens when my drive to work is 25 miles each way.

Then I have noticed that our couch that we purchased December 2007 was bowing in the middle whenever someone sat on it. I had noticed it for a while but first thought it was just getting broken in but it was getting really bad. I talked to my brother and he said the frame was broken and would be easy to fix. I called RC Willey about it and it's warranty was only 1 year but it would only be $70 to have a repair man fix it. I think $70 is worth mine and my brother's time to just have a repair man fix it.

Our Fridge died the last Wednesday while I was in California visiting my sister. Jason didn't want to pick a fridge without me (which I am glad I got to pick it out). So Jason lived out of a cooler or ate over at his mom's house. I got home Sunday and Monday morning we went to RC Willey's first thing and picked a fridge out.

Then today while I was doing yard work our renter (we have a basement apartment) told me that the washer in the apartment isn't working and she had told Jason on Saturday I am the one that deals with all the Landlord stuff and Jason totally forgot that she told him. The washer is probably 15+ years old it was my parents old washer and we used it when we got married and left it in the apartment when we moved upstairs because we had to get a gas dryer for upstairs so got a new set and left the old downstairs. I could just not replace it and let them get their own washer and dryer. But it is nice when trying to find renters. So tomorrow after work I get to go shopping for a new Washer.

I was having a pitty party for myself yesterday because of everything breaking and Jason's health problems. It was one of those days that I just wanted to crawl under a rock and stay there.

I have know that I needed to have a better attitude about my hardships and remember that they are all just trials and that I can make it through anything. I am thankful that I have great family & friends. I have a great job at an awesome company. I am very blessed to have a home to live in, and that I have enough food to eat 3 meals a day. Which is more than a majority of the world doesn't have.

I am just hoping and praying that things turn around for us soon.