Life: bad, good & funny

Life is all full of ups & downs, as we all know.  It's learning to dance through the downs...So let me start with my BIG BAD.  I haven't been able to run for over two weeks.  It's hurt to run for a month & a half.  I talked about it in my last run log...since then I've only run twice (well, three times if I count the 1/2 mile I tried to run after taking a week off.)  And it's not better.  My stupid foot hurts.  It hurts with each pounding step when I run.  It's tight when I walk.  I ice & stretch & roll it on a tennis ball ~ but it's not improving.  I don't go to the doctor when I'm hurt, because the doctor will tell me to REST.  I don't like to rest...but since I'm resting already...I made an appointment & I will find out if I'll ever run again at 3:30 this afternoon.
That sounds so dramatic.  I look around at other things in the world and realize that not running is not the end of the world...but it's amazing how it's really casting a shadow over everything.  I look longingly at my cute running skirts...I look at my fancy Garmon that would let me run where ever the desire took me and feel so SAD...I saw a very large girl running on the bike path the other day and I wanted to CRY!  I was JEALOUS!  JEALOUS! Such a strange emotion to have when looking at a runner!  
But there is still good ~ as always.  It all depends on where we look.


Saturday Mike & I celebrated our TWENTY-SECOND wedding anniversary.  22 years.  Amazing.  I am really so incredibly, amazingly, wonderfully blessed by a hard working, thoughtful, talented, handsome man.  To celebrate we went to the new "fancy-pants" (but we wore shorts) restaurant in Downtown Madison, The Vault.   We sat outside & the view from their patio, looking out over the square, made Madison look like a cute little town.  Mike was in HEAVEN.  They brought out a board with their different cuts of meat so you could see what you were ordering.  Mike got a really big Porterhouse & I got a sirloin.  They were both REALLY good.  It was a little pricey, but it's a million times better than Outback or Longhorn, and not that much more expensive.  And it's right in Madison.  Mike was so excited he even took pictures.  {if you know Mike, you know how big a deal that is!}

Before...Mike's HUGE steak & my girly size one

After

As you can see, he really enjoyed his meal.  He already called going there for his birthday!

Today I cleaned off my magnet wall...it had gotten pretty full of stuff.  I retired a few pieces & wanted to note my favorite two:

 

1.  A card from my friend, Bean.  It says, "If you don' have anything nice to say, come and sit by me."  Made me laugh!

2.  A comic that Mike cut out of the paper many many many years ago. I think it even made to move from our Moseley Road house, and that was in 2003.

I really like how he crossed out the name & wrote me in.  The story of my life.