On the last Saturday in October, we celebrate Guavaween which is Tampa’s (actually Ybor City’s) Latin version of a Halloween Mardi Gras. Throughout the night, young and old parade the streets in slutty creepy outlandish costumes. Year after year (many moons ago before marriage and children), I found myself dressed in costume and beer crawling through the crowded [...]
Entries from October 2009
October 29, 2009
Agile Armadillos
It’s mornings like today that I’m grateful for a running partner who forces me to get up and tortures me with speedwork keeps me accountable. Honestly, the way I felt this morning, I would have rather stayed in bed a little longer and I probably would have if I faced speedwork alone. When the alarm [...]
October 28, 2009
Picked the Perfect One
At the Sweetfields Farm this past Saturday, my family and I hopped on a hay ride, ran through a hay maze, explored a corn field maze and pumped water from a trough. We love visiting pumpkin patches during the month of October, but this was our first time at the Sweetfields Farm. All the fun activities [...]
October 27, 2009
Steady as She Goes
With a little over 3 weeks left until the Women’s Half Marathon, I have been showing some steady improvement. 10/20 Tuesday 4.70 miles Time 47:25 Ave Pace 10:05 10/21 Wednesday 4 miles 40:04 Ave Pace 10:01 10/22 Thursday 3 miles 28:29 Ave Pace 9:30 Then last Friday, running at 10 a.m. in the [...]
October 26, 2009
There’s No Place Like Home for Halloween
When I saw this week’s I ♥ Faces Contest Halloween photo challenge, I instantly knew which picture to pick. When Allana was five years old, she was obsessed with The Wizard of Oz and wanted to dress as Dorothy for Halloween. We borrowed the costume from a friend, stumbled upon some ruby slippers at Target and found a [...]
October 26, 2009
It’s Magic, You Know
Every year to get into the Halloween spirit, I produce a playlist of our favorite spine tingling tunes. I posted some of our top picks already here, here and here. However, I realized the other day that I need to add one more song to our spooky playlist. My girls love the Wizards of [...]
October 23, 2009
Where the Woeful Things Are
Last Friday, my family and I caught Where the Wild Things Are on opening day, which coincidentally happed to be a dreary, rainy day and a perfect prelude to this film. A huge Maurice Sendak fan since childhood, this timeless classic piece of children’s literature as well as many of his other works has [...]
October 22, 2009
Our Looney Longleaf
Having always wanted to compete in a long distance triathlon relay, my friends and I assembled our relay team months ago for Sunday’s Longleaf International Relay (0.9 mile swim, 23 mile bike, 6.2 mile run). Allan, our swimmer, swam miles each day in the pool to finish close to 20 minutes. I tortured myself [...]
October 20, 2009
I Go Gaga Over Halloween
This past weekend, my friend, Kelly, hosted our Annual Adult Halloween party, which was a blast of course. I love slipping away for some grown-up fun, but throw a costume party into the mix and it’s becomes a great excuse to let your hair down or in my case, my store-bought blonde hair down. [...]
