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I am pretty domestic, but I am not even close to being Cherry Menlove.

Sun, 09 Aug 2009 03:06:45 GMT

My friend Phil posted a link to her site on facebook or twitter or some such and anyhow
I looked around and geez. I felt inspired and lame all at the same time.

http://www.cherrymenlove.com/

Sometimes I am reminded that Lyla have different growing up experiences

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:11:41 GMT

Yesterday in the car:

Lyla: I told Dad that when mom and dad get too old for me to take care that I
will move in with you and Daniel.
Clayre: When will that be?
Lyla: Probably when I'm 12. Then when you and Daniel get too old for me to
take care of I will move in with Amy and when she's too old I will move in with
Joel and when he gets too old I will probably be old enough to get an apartment
and live on my own.
Clayre: How old will you be when that happens?
Lyla: Probably your age.

Oh man.

Lyla wrote a brochure on weddings because she's the expert.

Tue, 02 Jun 2009 02:09:07 GMT

Weddings, by Lyla Allen

Wedding Facts:
Weddings are beautiful
If your in a wedding and your family is getting married you probly get to be in it.
On weddings you get to wear beautiful clothes if your a girl.

Steps for Planning a Wedding:
1. find a place
2. see when you are getting married
3. plan it with people
4. what time
5. stay at a hotel very close
6. have a rehersle dinner

On Your Wedding day:
On your wedding day bring snacks bring water.
Keep the bride and groom from seeing each other.
If your nervous breath.

Chicago Marathon Round Dos!

Tue, 05 May 2009 23:02:04 GMT

Hey all! I am doing it again. Yep. And I am dragging other crazy people along with me!

Tonight is our second "group run" for pretraining. We meet up at the church Tuesdays and
Saturdays at 8pm and 8 am respectively. We really want you to join us. All different levels
and paces etc. welcome!

Anywho we are running for World Vision to raise money for those affected by the AIDS/HIV
crisis in Africa. The money will build water wells, build up agriculture, provide medicine and
food etc. Our goal is to raise a whopping EIGHT THOUSAND DOLLARS!

YIKES! That's a lot of money. It's kind of frightening but we are confident that we'll get there!

These are the cool people who you really should encourage and pat on the back over the next several
months:
Greg Gantt
Ashley Phelan
Michael Overton
Jeff Strome
Jason Peoples
Will Riggs
Daniel Turner

It's hard work to train for a marathon and I know that we will need your support!

We will be sending out group emails from a shared email account updating you on our progress with
training and fundraising! I know Michael will be blogging about it as well so please read!

If you want to receive updates from us by email, leave me a comment and I will get your email
address from you!

If you want to donate, hop on over to http://www.firstgiving.com/hccteamworldvision

I've been feeling really "domestic" lately.

Mon, 27 Apr 2009 03:08:13 GMT

Laundry. Cleaning. Cooking. Menu planning. Ironing. Dishwashing.
Grocery shopping. Organizing.

I spent all day Saturday doing these things.

I am really really enjoying it. I totally didn't mind spending my Saturday being "domestic."

I am not sure how long this enthusiasm will last, but I hope it lasts long enough to work
though my cookbooks because I have a ton and there are a LOT of recipes I want to try.

So I had a really long post in the works

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:33:15 GMT

about the wedding and honeymoon and moving in etc. I had been working
on it for several days and kept it minimized at the bottom of my desktop.
Well, I accidentally turned my computer off and lost the whole post.

Bummer.

Let me just say, our wedding (and all the fun events leading up to it) was
the best wedding I have ever been to. It was perfect and awesome and
everything was exactly what I wanted from the kick-butt bachelorette party
to running through the crowd waving ribbon sticks as we left. All parts were
awesome. I hope you have (or had) the same feelings about your wedding.
That's how it should be.

So since I lost my post, instead of retyping it, I will just tell you about how I
threw up today.

I ran 5 miles today at noon. Geez it was hot, the first hot run of 2009. The
first one is always pretty brutal. I carried water with me and felt pretty great
despite the elements. Upon returning to the front of my apartment complex
I bent over to stretch my legs. Suddenly I felt nauseous. I threw up an entire
bowl of Kashi Honey Cinnamon Oatmeal all of the lawn in front of the office.

I have NEVER thrown up after a run. My stomach has hurt before, but never
have I hurled.

It could have been the heat. It also could have been that glass of skim milk I
drank 30 minutes prior to the run. But I am going to blame it on the Kashi.

I ate that bowl of oatmeal at flippin 6:30am this morning! The whole thing
was still undigested in my stomach by 12!

It didn't taste good going down or going up. I have yet to find a Kashi product
that tastes good. I know it's supposed to be all natural and whole grains on a
mission or something like that, but every product tastes like cardboard. Anyone
else with me on that? Or have I missed one of their tasty products?

So I am blaming it on the Kashi.

MISSION GET EVERYTHING DONE BEFORE 6:00PM SO THAT I CAN JUST HANG OUT AND PARTY FOR THE NEXT FEW DAY

Thu, 02 Apr 2009 12:21:04 GMT

has now begun!

Countdown: 9 hours and 47 minutes!

My goal is to get everything packed and squared away by 6:00pm tonight.
My sister rented a hotel in downtown Fort Worth for the bridesmaids to stay
tonight through the wedding. Tonight we are Bachelorette-partying it. Tomorrow
we rehearse, have a girly luncheon, get our nails done at a posh nail salon, and eat
an excellent fajita dinner at the church. Saturday we get to spend all day getting
ready.
I don't want these fun things to be interrupted by laundry, dress shopping, or packing.

So here. I. go!

I won't be speaking with yall via internet, probably, until a week from Monday!
Peace out!

Sleep! You know I never get enough!

Wed, 01 Apr 2009 11:51:38 GMT

I'm always waking tired.

I don't really have that much to say

Mon, 30 Mar 2009 15:44:36 GMT

and I am sorry for that. I have a BIG thing happening THIS weekend and
can't find a thing to blog about.

I think it's because anytime I start talking about this EVENT I end up rambling
aloud my HUGE to-do list, and I just don't want to do that to you dear xanga.

It might also be because I am not quite sure I know how to articulate something
so life-changing as my own wedding. Ive been waiting for a long time and talking
about it for a long time and now it's coming and I don't know what to say.

I am getting more and more excited about it but in a different way than I have ever
gotten excited about something before. If I were going to Seattle this weekend
with some friends or running a marathon in Chicago, this week would be going by
so slow; I would be trying to pass the time as quickly as possible. But THIS, well
THIS thing is making the week go by really fast and I find myself trying to hit the
breaks. If it passed by slowly I could certainly check more off of my to-do list, but
that's not it- I could also slow down and savor this thing.

I have been looking forward to this for 12 years (that's half of my life). And I don't
mean this wedding, like in the way all little girls look forward to their weddings. I
mean THIS wedding to THIS person. Seriously. 12 years. And now there's 5 days
left. It's just a lot to take in.

And it kind of leaves me without much to say. I am sorry.

My parents are at the store right now

Fri, 27 Mar 2009 22:46:47 GMT

and it dawned on me that this is the last time I will truly benefit from
their weekly store runs. No last minute requests I guess.....