wild fire season?

I am originally from Wisconsin. I am a cheesehead, born and raised.
Where I am from we don't really have to worry about wild fires. 
Buildings catch fire in WI, but not so much the landscape. At least not to my knowledge.


Then we moved west.
We first lived in Jackpot, NV and I woke one morning and could smell smoke. I searched the house and found nothing. So I looked outside and lo and behold I saw this:

I made a frantic call to my father in law and asked him if the hills were really on fire or if I was just imagining it.
He laughed at me and said, yup, the hills are on fire, but not to worry the BLM will be here soon if it gets too close to town.
Now, distance is deceiving here in the west. What looks to be only a hop skip and a jump away is actually miles away, and the fire I could see from my back yard was about 15 miles from town.
So what did my curious self do? I jumped in the truck and drove around to get pictures:

It only took about 2 days for the BLM to show up and start fighting the fires. They camped on the lawn of the school in town, and amazingly enough, I felt a lot better knowing they were there. 


We are now in Utah and we still have wild fire season. I feel lucky to be living in a town, in a subdivision, thats far enough removed from the "wild" that the fires are something we watch at night and we don't worry about our property being damaged.
But others aren't always so lucky.

Public school

Band ~ $25                   Drivers Ed ~ $105               Honors Lang Arts ~ $6
Dance ~ $5                   Foods and fitness ~ $30   Textbook fee ~ $40
Science ~ $5                Health Ed ~ $10                   Handbook ~ $9
Activity card ~ $35     Yearbook ~ $47


That is the breakdown of my daughters sophomore year of high school.
$317 worth of fees for a public school, and yes, we pay property tax.
Thankfully we were able to set up a monthly payment plan. 
$42 a month for the duration of the school year.


and this does not include the $18 for her school pictures, the trip to St George with band in October, the $460 (not including spending money) we still have to pay for her trip to the Holiday Bowl in December, and the trip in May (?) to the Heritage Festival (band trip).


I'm kind of glad today that we only have one child going into high school this year.

oops

OK, so I have fallen off the wagon
I was fulling intending to continue getting on the treadmill at least every other day, but go figure, my laziness has won the day, repeatedly


I'll get there, sooner or later


Today I have the joy of registering my older two kids for school
Abby is a sophomore in high school this year, and who woulda thunk that public school would have registration fees upwards of $100
Oh well, we do what we gotta do, right?


This is the first year that we have to go to the school to register Will. He starts 3rd grade this year.


Once all of that is done we will be coming home and making jambalaya for dinner and then going to a band boosters meeting for Abby

hmmmm

I didn't get on the treadmill at all today, and yes I feel a bit guilty about that. I just wasn't feeling well.


I will make up for it though, possibly tomorrow.


This evening I managed to royally piss off my daughter.
She's 15 and dating a boy who treats her like shit. This is the third or fourth time they have dated, and after the last break up (which she swore would be the last) I told her if she get back together with him she would be grounded.
I didn't ground her, but I'm also not dealing with him.
She has to work her high school bands lemonade booth this evening at the county fair and she asked me if I would give him a ride as well so he could hang out.
I told her no.
There is no way I will encourage the relationship. 
It's poison to her. 
He is poison to her.
I will not encourage it, and I will not tolerate it.

Easy day

I'm not getting on the treadmill today.
Today I will rest.
Instead I will be spending my day doing domestic stuff.
I have some crocheting I want to do, and some ironing that needs to be done. I also plan on making some cupcakes with my 8 year old son (hopefully he will want to help)


and tonight we will be having breakfast for dinner

Something

Is better than nothing right?


I did get on the tread mill again this morning
On Monday it took me 36.5 minutes to do 2 miles, and I was only on the tread mill for a total of 45 minutes.


This morning I got the 2 miles done in 33 minutes and did a full hour.
I made a point of doing 3 miles at the least.
Obviously I am not running, yet. I have to work my way up to that, and its good so far (3 days in)
Tomorrow I will rest, maybe do some yoga, and we will see what I can accomplish on Friday morning.


Today I will be running out with the kids, and rehoming our Sock Monkey friend.

Sock Monkey! the real deal and some hats

I have posted before that I am crafty, and I have still been crocheting away.
I went nuts making some sock monkey hats, and even an actual Sock Monkey
here they are....

aren't they cute?

I must be out of my mind....

yesterday at work one of the ladies asked me if I would be willing to run a 10K with her.

Now, keep in mind, I'm 35, I'm a mom of 4, and I am 65 pounds over weight.

What did I say to her when she asked me? Sure I will.

I said what?

Yup, I told her that I would, indeed, run a 10k with her in October.

I must be out of my mind.

The race is Saturday October 8, 2001. It starts and ends at Thanksgiving Point in Lehi, UT.

It's called the Love Your Body 6k/10k and it's for women only.

Today being August 2, I only have (according to my Google countdown) 66 days to get into 10k shape.

So I'm going to start looking for a beginners 10k training program (maybe)

I used to run, I used to run all the time. I had no choice I was in the Army, but when I left the Army I was foolish enough to say I was never running again unless I was being chased (and depending on who was chasing me I wouldn't run too fast, or not at all). Now here I am, 11 years later, 2 more kids, and 65 pounds overweight.

I can do this.

Right?