I can’t believe there’s been another plane crash in NYC. Let’s just pray that it was only an accident.

Now on to the good news: I ran yesterday! And my foot didn’t hurt! It’s still a little sore when I’m barefoot, but since it’s hardly as if I run barefoot, I think I’ll be okay. Seriously, I couldn’t even tell that I’d ever hurt it. Just to be on the safe side, though, I’m not running today, but am going to start running again regularly tomorrow morning. Yay! So happy! It was a really nice run, too. We had to return a video to Blockbuster, which is about 2/3 of a mile away, and we ran the whole way there, pretty fast. I think our sense of pace has been thrown out of whack, but maybe this was just what I needed to go a little faster. We walked back home from the Blockbuster, so it wasn’t a huge workout, but considering we haven’t done anything in two and a half weeks, I’m very proud of us.

I think tomorrow we’ll go to the park. I miss the park.

Much less pain, even when barefoot. Yay! Still planning on a Sunday run. Aaaaannnnddddd….

I got tickets to see Harry Potter next Friday night! Yay!!! Ack! So excited! I thought it’d be sold out already, but it wasn’t! Yay! Yay! Yay! I can’t wait!!! And then Saturday night, mom’s new sugar daddy (I’m sorry, I can’t refer to him as a “boyfriend” if he’s in his 70’s and he’s rich, can I?) is taking me and Kristina (and mom, naturally) to Commander’s Palace, the nicest restaurant in New Orleans, and that’s really saying something. Must run on Saturday to work off the meal ahead of time! That’s going to be a really fun weekend.

Foot hurting slightly less. Am planning on running Sunday. Yes!

Still can’t run. Foot still hurts. Not as bad, seems to be improving a little. On the other hand, everything to do with my car is going wrong. Nothing’s wrong with my car, at least, but I failed inspection yesterday because (this kills me. this is why New Orleans is corrupt) my windshield wiper blades were too short! Can you beat that? And I had them installed at the Ford dealership, so why would they be? And of course the Ford dealership is giving me trouble now about it. Arrrgh! What a pain! As if I can afford this?

Not to mention, Isabel (my cat, her real name) is sick or something. Her hair is falling out. So I have to take her to the vet today. Poor baby. I don’t mind spending money making her better, but for ridiculous things like new windshield wiper blades? Don’t get me started! Don’t even get me started! (sorry, possibly obscure SNL reference.)

I think I can run tomorrow. I want tooooooo! Until this enforced two week break from running, I didn’t realize how much my self-esteem and self-confidence relies now on getting out and exercising. Need to get started again!

What a weekend. Lots happened, no running though. My foot still hurts. Boo hoo! I want to run again! I wish there was something I could do to make it better, but aside from icing, really, what is there? (Yes, yes, rest and compression, blah blah blah…)

So Saturday morning, Chris (my London running partner who is running the Disney marathon as his first in January) ran the Baton Rouge Beach half-marathon, and I went to Baton Rouge to watch him finish. Yay! That was exciting and got me psyched up for the marathon. Everyone who I saw finish, though, was really fast (Chris finished in 1:43) and we left before the runners who are as slow as me got to the finish line, so I didn’t get to see any fellow slowpokes. But it was still cool.

Then I went back to New Orleans that afternoon, and when I was online, I noticed that plane tickets from New Orleans to London (roundtrip) were only $195!!! That is insanely, crazily, fantastically low. But it wasn’t until later that night that I tried to get two tickets for me and Kristina (as her graduation present from me) and the fares had gone up to $425 or something.  I was very sad. Now I’m determined to get really cheap tickets to London for us, through Priceline or something. We want to go the first week in January, before Kristina starts school again. It would be a perfect birthday present for meeeee! But, I know the money would be better spent elsewhere, but I’m sorry, I just can’t resist $200 plane tickets to London. No way.

The other thing that happened was I got pulled over by a police officer on the way to a work function, and I got 5 citations! Arrrgh! Fortunately, none were moving violations, all were because I didn’t change my address on my driver’s license when I moved. Just what I need! Yippee! So this morning, I had to sort all that out, getting a new driver’s license and registration and such. Bleeeccccch.

Nothing to say today, but I can’t start the month without an entry, can I? No way! Oh wait – I did get some new socks at K-Mart yesterday. That was exciting, in a sad, pathetic way, because I’ve been looking for another pair or two of socks like the ones I got a few months ago – they’re CoolMax and Lycra, so they don’t squish around in my shoe like cotton ones do, and they have ribbing around the arch which I like – it just makes them feel more secure. And, it was doubly exciting because they were only $4.50 for two pairs. And, wait, triply exciting, because they were women’s socks for big feet, which I have. What wasn’t exciting was that I got the last pack, so who knows if I’ll ever find them again.

Woah! That was exciting, huh?

Non running-related, mostly: Lucky Ren is going to New York this weekend to see the Chemical Brothers with Kristie and the Boston girls and her cousin. I’m insanely jealous. If I had gone (wish I had thought of this before two seconds ago, dumb Pam!) not only would I have gotten to see the boys, but I could have watched the NYC Marathon! Sheeeesh!!!! Come to think of it, I can’t believe Ren got such cheap tickets, considering…lucky! (BTW, in 1998, Kristie, Ren, and I got to meet the Chemical Brothers when they played in New Orleans. That’s why I’m jealous. And that’s why I can call them “the boys.” Tee hee.