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weekend wrap up.

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Last week was a stressful week in the It’s A Hero household. It’s amazing what two misbehaving dogs will do to an already jam-packed week.
If you guessed they cause stress and exhaustion, you would be correct.

So Friday night BF and I got out of the house and went to dinner at Parasson’s Italian Restaurant in Stow. This is one of my favorite Italian restaurants!
I ordered the baked ravioli and I was so immersed in my food
that I couldn’t tell you what BF got
{but I’m pretty sure it was rigatoni something or other}.

We made it an early night cause Saturday morning was race day!
I headed to Hartville, Ohio for their 1st Annual Cannonball 5k Run!
While I have been training all summer, I was terrified to run this race.
The last race I ran was in 2007.
Plus BF was not running this race with me, so I was flying solo
{he badly sprained his ankle so he’s been laid up from it for two weeks}!

{Pre-race. Anxious.}
I came in 4th place for my age group, 10th overall female, and finished at 25 minutes 38 seconds! I may not be breaking records anytime soon, but I was pretty proud of myself!
{even if I almost threw up at the finish line – ha! That’s no joke.}

{Post-race}

I spent the afternoon in a food coma and sleeping.
It was just what my body needed!

After I recovered, I threw together some gluten-free cupcakes and put myself together for a Halloween party at the neighbors house.

{cupcakes}

For the party, I dressed up as a flapper
{great excuse to wear a dress I bought from Express}
and BF dressed up as a Biggest Loser contestant, post weight loss!

{all dolled up!}

I ended up taking my wig off shortly after some young kid
asked me if I was Lady Gaga…
He had no clue what a flapper was. Oh well.

Sunday I caught up on all many of the things on my to-do list!
Unfortunately not everything got crossed off my list,
but such is life!

What fun did you get yourself into this weekend?

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Weekend plans:


– relax at home with some delicious fall food

– run the Hartville McKinley Day 5k race on Saturday

– take a nap

– attend a Halloween party at the neighbors

– …but first find a costume to wear to the party

– lots of restorative yoga stretching

– a few weekend chores

– a long walk with two very special puppies

– bake yummy cupcakes

– finish a book I’ve been reading

– do a lot of thinking/reevaluating

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the most wonderful time of the year.

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How I know my favorite season is here:

1. Pumpkin everything. And. I. Love.it.

2. I no longer am getting funny looks for wearing 3 layers of clothing. Note: People do not think cardigans are appropriate summer attire.

3. We are five days away from my birthday. Yep, the big 2-6 is upon us!

4. I don’t recall the leaves changing color, but suddenly fallen leaves are all over our yard.

5. I want to do nothing more than cozy up with BF near the fire and watch awesome Fall TV, like Glee. Another sidenote: Holy heck I love that show.

6. We are thisclose to my fave holiday, Thanksgiving. Which means I am inches from going to Denver for the first time for Thanksgiving.

7. Football is back and the Bills are still losing, and I still love them. And I know have an excuse to drink beer and eat hotdogs on a Sunday again. Win!

8. Chili and amazing breads are back to being a staple in our diets.

9. Gray skies: they are just comforting this time of year.

10. Marking the anniversary of another year with BF. Yes, this just got a little cheesy. And now it’s done.

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happy “this feels like a monday” tuesday!

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Hope everyone had an awesome holiday weekend! We had a small get together on Sunday and it was lovely. True story.

One of my four freshman college roommates {in Buffalo, NY} just moved to Cleveland to do her residency at Rainbow Babies and Children hospital. I’m so excited to have someone from that part of my life living close to me. She and her boyfriend came over on Sunday and it was so good to see them! True story.

We also have yet another Whitewater Rafting trip in our immediate future. We’ve been wanting to do this for a while and a great deal came up on Groupon that we just couldn’t pass up. So sometime within the next month and a half we will be heading back to West Virginia for an awesome weekend away! True story!

My mother is itching for grandchildren like you wouldn’t believe. NIM and her husband came over on Sunday as well. They brought their adorable little one {seriously NIM, if you want a night out, BF & I are babysitting!}. My mother oohed and ahhed over the little one. I was watching her to make sure she wasn’t going to steal her when NIM wasn’t looking. True story.

This resulted in my mother making even more comments to BF about when she was going to be a real grandma {instead of just to her “grandpuppies”}. True story.

Last but not least, I’m excited to announce that I will be starting a new job next Monday! I am really excited about feeling like a productive member of society again. Not that my current part-time job doesn’t count. It does, but it doesn’t fulfill me. True story.

{weekend wrap-up, tuesday style}

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My weekend is officially coming to a close! It’s been a very busy weekend. Yes, I know it’s already Tuesday, but BF had today off from work, so we got to spend some extra time together.

Saturday we went to a graduation party for a cousin in our hometown {which is about an hour from where we live}. We brought the pups to stay at my parents house for the day so we could conveniently stop “home” to take them out throughout the day.

This was an awesome idea, except that we didn’t take into account the fact that right across the street from my parents a civil war reenactment was occurring… canons and all. {Note: Not really sure about why we do this. I know this is big in the South, but we are in Northeast Ohio…. pretty much on Lake Erie… which could practically be Canada… OK, that’s a stretch, but still}.

Luckily the little ones didn’t freak out too badly from the canons.

In other news, his family fed me a lot of food and booze. Which is no surprise. This continued on Sunday when we went to his other cousins house for a party. It was 90-degrees out {Note: In the Midwest we put unnecessary prepositions on the end of sentences… like I should have said “It was 90-degrees.” But instead we say things like, “Where’s my coat at?” instead of “Where’s my coat?” Have you noticed that from my writing? Random, sorry.}

So anyway, it was 90-degrees {out} and I decided to wear all black {genius} and drink while I had a pounding headache {super genius, obviously}.

But I still had a ton of fun! Love his family!

Monday we had my mom, sister and dad over for a very laid back mini cookout. It was really nice to just relax. We really stretched that relaxing out all the way through today. Unfortunately, back to being a stay-at-home-puppy-mom tomorrow, which means talking to two dogs who cannot respond so I sound like an idiot all day. Such is life!

Hope everyone had a fabulous weekend!

{true story tuesday}

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Well kids, I’m back in Syracuse! And this weekend was fabulous! BF and I made a fantastic Valentines Day dinner. This is a picture of the lobster BLT sandwiches.

True story.

Mad Men is a truly addicting show. I wish I could watch it much faster than I am.

True story.

If you own a business and don’t have a website, chances are slim to none that I will never frequent your business. Just the way it is.

True story.

If your business, be it whatever, does not have a website, chances are slim to none that I will come to your establishment.

True story.

If your business does have a website with contact information, and I reach out to you, say for example to inquire about yoga class times on, hmm, I dunno, let’s say December 10th 2008… and you respond to me on… I dunno… Fabruary 16th 2010, chances are I’m not going to come to your place of business.

True story.

That really happened. Today.

True story.

I will be a good little blogger this week.

True story.