Life is good

I have had an amazing weekend filled with good time with my friends and family. It started Friday morning with a 4 mile run down at Town Lake before work. Work was work and around 2PM my friend Emma call to meet for Happy Hour. We planned on meeting at a place I have never been before, Fino. Around 4 Erin called and was hoping to find a drinking partner. Who am I to let down a friend? I logged off and headed to Freddie's for a margarita:)

I have not been to Freddie's in a while and I had forgotten how much I really enjoy sitting out on the dog-friendly yard. We ordered a couple of margaritas and enjoyed the fact that the weekend was finally here. I entertained Erin with my story of what I did for lunch, got my eyebrows threaded. I will not go into the full details but it involved knocking on a door, several random women sitting around waiting for services. Services included threading, tarot card readings and shopping for imports from India. I left there with perfectly groomed eyebrows and not smelling like Curry. Buy me a margarita and I will tell you the rest. :) Our coach, Panther, met us there too. He did not find my story as entertaining as Erin did but we had a fantastic friday wind-down none-the-less.

Time was ticking and I had to get to Fino. As soon as I hit the top of the stair case at 29th and Lamar I was please to see the nice Patio. Emma had picked the perfect happy hour spot. We sat outside and had snacks, champagne and great conversation. We were there for a couple of hours and then all headed back to our families. I had an early moring so really needed to head back to the casa to chill.

4:30am came around super early but I jumped outta bed ready to face a full day of volunteering at the Austin Cycling Association's Armadillo Hill Country Classic. Kay, of coarse, was going with me so I was looking forward to spending the day with her too. I did have a battle with y FOMO since as I saw all my fellow Camp Punishment workout buddies in their cycling gear ready to head out on the ride. We helped the riders fuel up, slather on sunscreen and fill their water bottles. Once all the riders had left Liberty Hill H.S. we me and my crew prepared for all 300+ riders to return from the various route distances. The rides came in waves the rest of the day since they offered routes from 16 to 100 miles. We made tons of PB&J and prepared a spread of nuts, cookies, fruit, crackers, sodas and water. The day was long but filled with fun and by 4PM I was forced to leave before the last rider was back in. I had family stuff to make.

I barely made it home to shower and change when Todd and Evan zipped by the house to pick me up. We headed out towards Emma Long Park for the family Mother's Day celebration. Todd's family had reserved a party boat and invited all the brothers plus family out for a mass celebration. Now, I missed this last year and the last 3 family events of Todd's so in order to keep the peace I made sure that I was there. It was a fantastic time out on Lake Austin. It was really relaxing and I was glad that I was able to make it out. We ate, had a few beers and checked out all the high dollar real estate along the shore. It was the perfect in to a very long day.

This morning I actually got to "sleep in" until 7:30:)!!! Todd and I were running in my friends Wiley and Lulu's First Annual Mother F%$kers Trail Race. The race came about last Friday when they were both ticked that the annual Mother's Day Daisy 5K was moved to Cedar Park. Really....who wants to drive to Cedar Park for a 5K? We all met on the trail ready to run and more importantly have a few beers once it was over. With such short notice we were all happy to see that we had 25 runners and one doggie entry. The race went great despite falling, we both did, but that is the name of the game with trail running.

back at the ranch it was time to take care of laundry and house stuff. I was able to squeeze in 25 miles on the trainer thanks to The Soprano's Season 3 and last weeks The Office. I did not meet my workout goals for the weekend but I am happy that I got in what I did. I am also happy that I decided to switch to Team Affliction, the duathalon training group of Camp Punishment. I decided this would be better and much less stress about my swimming since it is non-existent right now.

So that is that.....my weekend and it was wonderful.