Crafts, leisure and happiness

I recently bought these walking shoes because I realized I enjoy taking a walk around the block and of course I knew it's a great way to burn off some calories. These shoes have a pocket into which I can place a chip that can talk to my iPhone and track my walks - miles, time, calories burned, pace, etc. I can even program my iPhone to play my fav music while tracking these walks. So I was inspired. The first day I walked with these shoes I found out I walk 1.89 miles in 35 mins and I'm not even tired.  So I figured, maybe I should have a goal. Until now my goal was just to get some exercise in. So I thought hmm how about walking/running a 5k race. So I started researching on what it takes to participate in a 5K run. All it takes is training and consistency. I think I'm up for it. Have to find a community / forum for encouragement and support probably. Anyone up for a run with me? First there is an 8 week program for beginners and then a 6 week training for the 5K . Ok,...

Not that I was out of town or anything. I was just away from my blog for quite some time now - 3 weeks since my last post. I did have a few things to blog about but let's just say I did not feel like it. What did I do then? I organized a birthday party for my DS he turned two recently. Here's the cake I'd ordered. Isn't it beautiful. I was heart broken cutting it. I'm almost done with the choo choo sweater. Just have to seam and weave in the millions of ends. That's been the case for the whole of last week. I finally started on finishing it today. Lazy lazy. Well not really. The last couple of days were spent on this really nice book that Tami suggested - The Hunger Games . Tami, I love it! I finished it in 2 days. I meant to buy it but then I found it at the local library so I grabbed it. I might have to buy the second book in the series - Catching Fire because I'm in a long line to borrow it at the library and I can't wait. I hope it's as good...