Running Dress Run Amuck

A running dress.... That is EXACTLY what I need.  In a running dress I will look svelte and lean like a strong gazelle as I speed through the woods of Fort Bragg.  I will run swiftly past man, animal, or child without even a jostle of the wind in a running dress! I will leap streams or rocks....or fallen logs...OR FALLEN TREES! 🔪but not snakes those I will go around.... I looked for said dress, I looked like a mere mortal online, where everyone looks. The dresses were DREADFUL, awful things no prideful gazelle would be caught dead running in. Don't get all PETA on me, I am certainly not planning to snare, then dress a gazelle in a test running dress...so hush it.  Now I would grill a gazelle if that is a legal act but I actually am not totally up to speed on the legal implications of hunting such said animal NOR have I ever been hunting in my life.....but all this ultra training has made me pretty much crave a good rare steak. Now my blogger guru (is that what you would call someone that is spectacular @ what they do??? She is the YODA of ultra blogging I am just saying...funny, smart, runs like a bazillion,chizillion miles) thought maybe a pattern would help. Of course it would! Anyone in their right mind would use a pattern. So after I got done laughing about using a pattern (I am an artist lol so I believe that legally excuses me from using a pattern, and yes I am aware I have never SOLD anything, but then I also still have both of my ears so my level of dedication is in question) 

This is what I have so far:

1-An awesome name for my new running dress company when the IPO goes out "Gritty Girl" a division of vintagegltrgirl we may also expand to offer "Gritty Guy" run skorts in the future

2-I ate 2 Krispy creame donuts 

3- I have a crooked half-finished run dress that is unwearable

4- I decided that since Friday is technically a rest day I should not be sewing.....

Ultra Runner

Leggs and I are training for an ultra.  The math that this entailed was insane.... Why? You might ask this question, after all any normal human can google a ultra training plan and simply follow the miles suggested. For example, when we did just that we resulted in hundreds of plans. We also came across some super cool bloggers!! DirtDiva and shawnaruns are now two of my new favs! BUT all of these plans were waaaaay ahead of our miles. Out came our swift nursing dosage calculation skills and the classic good nursing modification plan! This enabled our first long runs to be in a much more manageable split of 8 and 6. 

Twisted Yoga

Hot yoga.... I never learn.  Wednesday morning and I still feel like a truck ran over my body from Monday's hot yoga... I actually gained 2lbs because I have not stopped eating since I left this class. Literally not stopped! I ate half a pizza the second I walked in the door from class. I believe the incense they were burning had special properties to increase your hunger....

Grilled Ginger

Friday night in Fayetteville, North Carolina and the mission was on for fabulous food.  I had been told of a odd grouping of  business on Yadkin road that offered everything from clothing to Phad Thai to Bun Thit Nuong Cha Gio (an amazing combination of pork, egg roll, shredded veggies, noodles, and spicy sauce)  Music man had gone to the movies with our son so it was just my daughter, her bf, my bf, and two toddlers..... The perfect medley for an across town, payday week-end Friday night trip for take-out!  As always my beloved Faytastic traffic was a challenge to be tackled with purpose.  Our critical care nurse training proved valuable once again as Leggs multi-tasked. The skill at which she wielded two cell phones in which to view and place a complicated order, navigate Bing maps, and answer several texts makes me proud that we both can say we are veterans of the valley.  Upon arrival to Grilled Ginger, it is in fact, a strip mall shaped in a U with several restaurants.  The other we immediately notice is called Orchid Garden.  Then the problems begin.... I must first caveat with this story is about USER ERROR.....  The users with error are of course myself and Leggs (seems impossible I know!) Our food was ready and waiting but.... Leggs had ordered Phad Thai at a Vietnamese establishment and in the confusion they thought she had said Pho Tai.  Grilled Ginger was phenomenal and suggested we get the Thai part of our order at the Orchid Garden. We paid for and recieved our Bun Thit Nuong Cha Gio and Cah Gio.  This is why I love and stay in Fayetteville.  Families and restaurants like Grilled Ginger and Orchid Garden (who quickly whipped up some Phad Thai for Leggs and little bf even though they are a buffet).  Our food was AMAZING!!!!!!!!!!!!!  Even more than amazing food, we were wrong, we really made the mistake, but rather than have us pay for food we would have been unable to eat, Grilled Ginger sent Leggs where she could get what she really wanted.  Ironically, after trying my E7 Vietnamese...... Guess where we will be heading again?  

Hot Yoga

I am tempted to once again try hot yoga.... Or should I say I am tempted to once again pay someone good money to fold myself into child's pose (my only "good"pose) for 60 minutes in a room full of incredibly gorgeous women. Did I happen to mention the room is over a bizillion degrees and while the goddess women fold themselves into glistening pretzels yours truly slips on puddles of sweat and becomes anoxic trying to suck in her gut? How can you maintain an inversion with your hair twisted artfully in a messy bun?!! Me, my hair is stuck in my eye, my mouth and I believe a chunk of my ponytail is actually under the lady's left foot in warrior pose next to me.....

Where my cupcakes go?

Where did the weekend go..... Why after such a fabulous weekend in Savannah am I now left with just a huge pink box of cupcake crumbs from one spectacular bakery?  I do have to sadly say that despite my huge approval of Back in the Day's vintage charm and fab staff......And for that alone unless I was doing a take out order I would stick to that bakery, the cupcakes are handstands better at Sweet Carolina's Cupcakes. Unbelievable I know....

Savannah Sunday

Trying to drag myself from this bed on our last day in Savannah..... I am literally still in a food coma. Yesterday we ate at Back in the Day Bakery (twice), Green Truck Pub, the Alligator Soul, and Parker's Market.  I also had to try the bread our sweet Christine left for us at our cute little third floor hide out across from the park.  What is on mind this morning though.... Coffee and FOOD!