Tuesday Topics: My favorite food

This week’s Tuesday Topic: Today is National Food Day.  Tell us about your favorite food.  You can write about this topic or post any running-related blog post.  Remember to link up with Kim and Zenaida!  Visit at least two of the other linked posts – the more the merrier!  Remember to come back for later linkers! 

Hello there!  Another week went by too fast.  Just when I thought I was caught up on a few things at home and work, I am back to where I was.  Yesterday was the end of the quarter and I spent hours this past weekend on grades and lesson planning.  I have two weeks’ worth of laundry in a basket in my room and no idea when I will put the clothes away.  And yes, I am still behind on reading and responding to blog posts.  

It was hard to pick one food so I am listing a couple:

❤️ Pizza – I like pepperoni and sausage but I prefer mine with cheese only.  Sometimes I go wild and get pineapple, green, banana, and jalapeño peppers.

❤️ Sushi – Anything with shrimp is my preference.

❤️ Tacos – The neat thing is that there are so many options!  I love chicken, steak, and al pastor.  My mom and I found a food truck that serves really good tacos.  They’re not cheap and the tortilla is small, but the meat is good and each taco always comes with plenty of meat.

❤️ Shrimp – I could eat this every day but I won’t.

❤️ Cheeseburger I like mine with mayonnaise and lettuce.  One of the best burgers I’ve eaten is at Portillo’s.  I’ve also had some good ones at Red Robin.  I love eating a burger with a beer after a long run or a race.  

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Tuesday Topics: My thoughts on Halloween

This week’s Tuesday Topic:  NRR: Do you like or dislike Halloween?  Tell us why or why not.  You can write about this topic or post any running-related blog post.  Remember to link up with Kim and Zenaida!  Visit at least two of the other linked posts – the more the merrier!  Remember to come back for later linkers!

As a teacher, I only care about it because of the students.  They are excited because of their costume, the classroom party, the parade, and the treats.  I get excited because of them.  It makes me happy to see them happy.  However, we don’t get much work done that day and I get home exhausted.

I am looking forward to Halloween with my students this year.  It’s been a rough couple of weeks together.  Because of the new curriculum/schedule and how fast-paced everything is, we haven’t had much time to do fun things (last year we used to paint with watercolors and dance almost every Friday).  I will purchase a TpT Halloween Party Games Bundle so we can have a lot of fun that day.  Check out the various games!

As an adult, I do not care for it AT ALL.  I wouldn’t say I like it.  I don’t see the point of it.  🤪 🤷🏽‍♀️  Then again many things in life do not have a point.

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Fit Five Friday: 5 goals for the last 1/4 of the year

We’ve got FIVE incredible co-hosts My First 5K and MoreRunning With AttitudeRun Laugh Eat PieRuns with Pugs, and me for another Fit Five Friday link-up!  This week’s topic is “5 goals for the last 1/4 of the year.”  Feel free to write about this or any fitness topic you’d like.

How is it that we have less than 3 months left of this year?  This year didn’t go how I hoped it would (running-wise) but I cannot complain too much about it.  That is life.

Here are 5 goals for the remaining 3 months of the year:

Be consistent with running.  I sound like a broken record.  After a few weeks off, I started running again, early in the morning when it is dark, and I like it.  After spectating the marathon on Sunday, I was inspired to run another marathon.  I plan to enter the lottery next year for the Chicago Marathon.  

Stop working so much.  I have put in so many hours at work since August and noticed it was beginning to affect me.  I wasn’t taking care of myself.  I know I will never be caught up and that is OK.  Things are a bit smoother at work than they were a few weeks ago – my days are not so chaotic anymore.

Continue to read.  I have one book that I am trying to finish reading and hopefully can do it this month.  I have a few more waiting for me at the library.  Thanks, Wendy for all of your reviews!

Listen to Des and Kara’s podcast.  I am probably late to the party here but I recently began listening to it.  I am enjoying it a lot!  I know they were in town recording an episode and I am bummed I missed it.

Run a 5k.  I’ve run a variety of distances this year and only need that one.  Will it count if I do an “official” one on my own?

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Tuesday Topics: The house/street I grew up in

 

This week’s Tuesday Topic:  Let’s go down memory lane and tell us about the house/street you grew up inYou can write about this topic or post any running-related blog post.  Remember to link up with Kim and Zenaida!  Visit at least two of the other linked posts – the more the merrier!  Remember to come back for later linkers! 

Happy Tuesday!  I hope everyone had a great weekend!  I am still on cloud 9 from spectating the marathon.  I had a lot of fun going to Pilsen to cheer on the runners.  The best part was seeing Desi.  I saw my niece and a couple of other friends.  I was even inspired to enter the lottery for next year’s marathon.  We’ll see.  The first thing I need to do is start running again.  I ran yesterday for 20 minutes.  Baby steps.  

I emigrated to Chicago on July 4, 1978.  My dad was already living here so I came here with my mom and my 6 siblings.  My dad already had a house for us to live in.  It was a big building with about 10 apartments which he rented out.

We lived in a one-bedroom apartment by the middle front door, where I circled the AC unit.  Let’s count.  It was my parents and 6 girls.  My brother was lucky and had a room in the basement.  I remember my parent’s room was really small (I don’t think it was an actual bedroom) but it was big enough for a twin-size bed and a dresser.

There was a door that separated our apartment and the apartment next door.  The tenants must have moved out because then we also occupied that space.  The additional room gave us another bathroom and another living room/bedroom.  I don’t remember a kitchen so there’s that.

Next to the building was the alley and then next to it was a fire station.

Our school was diagonal from us.  The circle on the right of the photo is the church and the other circle is the actual school.  I don’t remember what the building in the middle was for, but I am sure it was part of the school.  Only 6 of us attended the grammar school and graduated from there.  I don’t think any of us were ever late to school!

I don’t remember how long we lived there but we then moved to another apartment building owned by my dad.  It was either my sophomore or junior year of high school because I remember my senior year living in the other building.  We then lived there until my dad passed away in 1991.  

I was tempted to drive by the old building to take pictures but instead used Google Maps.  I must have been back there maybe once or twice.  I have memories of living there but not that many.  I remember some of the neighbors, walking to Zayre (anyone else remembers that store) with my mom so she could buy me a bike, roller skating, and hanging out with family members and friends.  I remember walking 2 blocks to the bus stop to go to my high school.  There was a Farm Foods two blocks away where we did our grocery shopping.  I also remember going there to take bottles of Coca-Cola, RC, etc, and getting money for the empty bottles.  I remember the library.  I guess I do remember more than I thought I did.

I still know how to ride a bike, but how the heck did I forget how to rollerskate?  I didn’t have the actual skates but instead had the detachable ones.  🤨 🤔

I am behind on reading posts from Friday’s link-up.  I promise I will get to them.

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Fit Five Friday and October 2023 Ultimate Coffee Date

Welcome to the October edition of the Ultimate Coffee Date hosted by Coco and Deborah.  It’s also time for another edition of Fit Five Friday hosted by My First 5K and More, Running with AttitudeRun Laugh Eat PieRuns with Pugs, and me!  

Now, grab a mug of your favorite beverage, and let’s chat briefly!

If we were having coffee…
I’d ask you if you’ve been a victim of credit card fraud.  I’ve had two credit cards that were both in my possession ALL OF THE time used by two different people  One person used my Chase card and purchased over $600 on the Adidas website and someone else used a debit card (from another bank) to make multiple purchases (almost $200) from Little Caesar and Uber Eats.  Luckily, Chase removed the charges and issued me a new card.  I am still waiting on the other card.

If we were having coffee…
I’d tell you I had the Iced Apple Crisp Oatmilk Shaken Espresso from Starbucks and IT IS SO GOOD.  Thank you Marcia for the recommendation!

If we were having coffee…
I’d tell you that one of the things I hate about doing laundry at the laundromat is that I tend to lose some socks.  I don’t know how since I am careful and double-check the washer to ensure I don’t leave anything behind.  Well, somehow I “lost” a sock.  I noticed it when I got home and put the remaining one on top of the drawer meaning to throw it away but then I forgot about it.  Well, the other day I wore a jacket that I hadn’t worn in a while and guess what I found in the pocket?  Yep, the missing sock.  Running socks are not cheap so yes I was happy to find it.

If we were having coffee…
I’d ask you what your thoughts on about the cut-off time for the 2024 Boston Marathon.  It is unfortunate that even though people qualified, they cannot run it due to the cut-off time.  I understand the history of it, but why not just have a lottery like the other major marathons?  I wonder if people will still be drawn to it even though it doesn’t require a qualifying time.

If we were having coffee…
I’d tell you that I entered the lottery to win tickets to see Hamilton and I won.  Yep, I found out yesterday.  I was given 2 hours to claim the tickets and made it with 40 minutes to spare.  I asked my friend to go with me and we’ll be going on Wednesday.

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