Buffy Thursday!

So, my thought process for choosing episodes and seasons randomly was to treat the game as if Buffy was just rerunning on tv.  I have this idea that watching them out of order will make me pay attention to details that I havent seen or havent noticed in a while.  I thought that the seasons would jump around  but so far that isnt the case.  Maybe next week we'll skip to season 3?  We'll see what fate decides.

Anyway, let's see if I can stick to the present.

this week's Buffy!!

Season 7  

Episode 15 "Get it Done"

Episode 11 "Showtime"

Episode 16 "Storyteller"

On account of life, I haven't finished writing my summaries of the episodes, so that will come tomorrow.  Are you going to Comic Con this weekend in downtown Denver?  Georges Jeanty and James Marsters will be there!!

Mmmm......New running stuff......

Running Journal Week 15

Wednesday
Pre-run meal: crunchy peanut butter on toast and pre-workout formula
Stretching: Warm up and stretch of Insanity

Mileage: 4 miles
Time: 51 minutes

some walking- not too bad though-  good first day back after a week off.

Thursday
Snug Run!  3.1 miles
Time: not timed, just for  fun!!



Saturday
Breakfast: toast and crunchy peanut butter, banana, coffee, pre-workout formula
Stretching: insanity warm up and stretch

Mileage: 5 miles
Time: 1:10:31

I had a blog post prepared about my motivations and inspirations, but I am postponing that one and replacing it with a rant about my bad habits.  I was on pace to run 5 miles in under 60 minutes, which was very exciting for me, since I REALLY want to run 10 minute miles by the end of the month, but then....it happened.  Overheating!!!  Why?  Because I dont bring water with me on my runs.

At Bolder Boulder this year I got a little heat stroke because I refused to drink water during the race (I hate the water stations and I didnt bring my own), and I even read up on how to prevent over heating- but did I actually DO anything about it?  Of course not.

Here's the rule:  If you are going to run longer than 60 minutes (I'd say 45 minutes if you're a beginner like me), then you should drink water every twenty minutes.

If you dont drink water every twenty minutes, then you will end up like me- in the middle of the City Park Golf Course trail on Colorado Blvd at 11 AM with NO shade in sight, drenched in sweat, with mucous in your mouth so bad that you cant even spit it out- forced to walk the whole half mile back home so you dont screw up the rest of your training program by giving yourself heat stroke like a freaking idiot.  Plus, when you just ran four and a half miles, walking half a mile takes FOREVER.

So when I got home I immediately went to Roadrunners and got THIS:

I am extremely excited about it.  I just wanted something to loop around my hand, but this one has a little backpack.

  

My phone fits in it perfectly (and my keys will fit in there, too!)

It's got a little emergency ID card, love that!

Finally, it appears there's some kind of wicking on the hand strap- and who doesnt love a little reflective banding?  This couldnt be more awesome, I am excited to run with it.

Week 16, here I come!!

It's Buffy Thursday!!!!!

The selection is in!  Thanks random number generator!

Season 6
Episode 21 "Two to go" Part 1
Episode 1  "Bargaining" Part 1
Episode 19  "Seeing Red"

It's intriguing to me to watch practically the last episode and then the first episode- so.....Awesome!

Season summary:
This is probably my least favorite season of Buffy.  We see every character have a breakdown, the Scoobies drift the farthest apart they'll ever be, Spike tries to rape Buffy, and of course, Willow goes bad and kills people.

So, right off the bat my awesome game gets a wrench thrown in it.  There is only one trip to The Bronze in all three episodes and it must be DJ night because it doesnt involve a band cameo  Though in "Seeing Red,"  Azure Ray provides the soundtrack to the montage. Ah, Saddle Creek Records.  I am not currently a huge fan of this band, but when this song came out I was pretty much in love with it.  It's very pretty and takes me back to being 20/21 in Laramie, Wyoming. (Buffy is the same age as me....)

So, the one thing that I always wonder when I watch Episode 1 is' What is going on with the number t-shirts?  Willow has an 11 on her shirt, then Xander has a 13 on his.  Even later Dawn shows up with a 07 on her shirt.  Was this a trend then?  Did Old Navy just open?  Secret code?  Any ideas?  Let's talk it out.

Randomness:

Tara does the Grr Arg at the airport when Giles leaves!!

Do you like Gilmore Girls?  You should......Jonathan is in it......

My favorite quote is from Anya in episode 1:  "Just remember this whole marriage thing was your stupid idea.  I didn't ask to be all crazy."  I felt the exact same way during my wedding planning.  :)

So, the two points on how we relate:

1.  The Scoobies struggle with leaning on their significant others instead of each other.  Maybe it's called "growing up", but it happens to all childhood friends.  We are all hurt when our plutonic friends turn to their lovers for the emotional support that used to make that friendship special.
2.  Willow's inability to deal with her childhood "nerdiness".  She thinks that she is finally "cool" and worries that everyone will find out that she's really a huge loser.  It festers until it drives her to addiction.  The sad part is, her friends dont care if she's cool or not- it's only Willow that cares so much.

I didnt mean for this blog to get so serious so fast.  I thought I'd be making fun of shiny shirt fashion faux paxs and pop punk bands for a few weeks before I posted something to serious, but here it goes.  There was a time in junior high when I was a huge "loser."  I got teased and bullied every day.  Names, spit balls, rumors- it was horrible.  Luckily I moved away and when I did I vowed that I would never be "a loser" again.  So this led to some horrible decision making- one being drinking.  I wasnt a huge drinker to begin with but over time I believed that only the drinking me was fun and cool and that everyone only liked drunk me.  When I finally decided to quit I truly thought that no one would like sober me, and that everyone would see what a huge stupid loser I really was.  The truth I had to face was that I thought that I was a loser- I was the one who didnt like myself.

Of course, sober me is awesome-nerdiness and all.  Like Willow, it took a long time to figure it out and apparently I was the last one to know.  (friends knew all along, thanks friends!)   We all deal with this insecurity and Buffy and Zander deal with it in their own ways, and earlier in time (Zander in 4 and 5 and Buffy in 3).  Sadly, Willow's bad choice in coping mechanisms will cause her to struggle with her addiction for the rest of her life (are you READING THE COMICS?!).

This season is so effing sad.  

Did I tell you that I'm running a marathon?

Probably!  I can't stop talking about it.  Now I'm going to blog about it.  

I'm on week 15 of Hal Higdon's Super Novice training program, which is HALFWAY through the program.  I'm halfway to running 26.2 miles.

The most important things I've learned to far:

Eat breakfast.  Even though I knew this was a must from the get-go, it took me a long time to figure out WHAT to eat before a run.  I tried a lot of different things before I found the perfect thing: crunchy peanut butter on multi-grain toast.  Simple.  Perfect.  Yummy.  I sm still struggling with my nutrition throughout the day but I'm getting somewhere and I will keep working on it!

Stretch before a run.  When I first started running, it was during the stretching that I'd injure myself.  Always.  In fact, one time I injured myself so bad stretching (then proceeded to run with my injury) that I could barely walk for the next two weeks.  I "solved" this by not stretching before a run, just walking fast for the first quarter mile- then just do some quick basic stretches at the end.  This was fine for a while, but when I started running over four miles, it had to change.  Now I have a sort of long but really awesome routine where I do the warm up and stretching parts of one of my Insanity Workout DVDs- it gets my heart rate up and my muscles warm, then I can get a good safe stretch in- then out the door I go! So far, it's working out great.

Have faith in myself.  I will run 26.2 miles on September 22.  There are ups and downs- good runs, bad runs- crappy moods, tired legs, breakthroughs, successes, and boring, boring paces.  All these things have to happen- it's part of the adventure.  In the end I win, so- I can make it through the yucky parts.

I'll post running journals on Mondays for the week prior- that way I will actually READ my journal to help me out for the next week's runs.

Summer Fun

Hello!!  I have been going crazy brainstorming ways  to reintroduce my blog.  My goal is to have one post a week about crafting and one a week about running.  I have been coming up with subjects to write about but something was missing and I could not figure out what it was.  Then I got a message about a Buffy Rewatch on the website No White Noise.  I checked out their project, which is awesome by the way, but not quite up my alley.  The rewatch schedule is just the first four seasons in order and it seems to best experience it, you have to have twitter.  Well, I dont have twitter AND I seriously JUST finished watching the first five seasons of Buffy in order.  So I came up with my own little Buffy game.  Here it is:

I have used an online random number generator to pick a season and then three episodes from that season to watch every Thursday (or at least post for watching throughout the week).  I will blog about it here and hope that maybe someone else will think this is a fun game and leave comments and we can all talk about Buffy on my blog.  Sound fun?

These are the things I will definitely write about in each blog:

The band playing at the Bronze
The fashion (go 1990's midriff!)
Best one liner
and a little bit I'm going to call "why we relate"

there will be other tidbits, I'm sure.

Also there may be contests.  That way I can integrate crafts.

Oh my god, fun!!!

If my blog sounds too nerdy, please enjoy the Rewatch on No White Noise.  If you were REALLY a fan, you'd probably do both.

By the way, if you don't have the entire Buffy series in your home (its a great investment, really) you can find it at any of these places (maybe you already have memberships)
Hulu Plus
Amazon Prime
Netflix
iTunes

Aren't you SO excited for Thursday?  I am!!