Friday, March 24, 2006

The Big 5K

Saturday, June 10, 2006 at 8 a.m. will be my ultimate rite-of-passage into the foreign identity of "runner." It's the date of my first-ever 5K run. Last night was training day 1. With a reliable-looking training Web site as my guide, I set out for 30 minutes of walk/run intervals. I made it okay and it was even pretty fun. We'll see how it goes from here on out. Overall, I'm just excited to have a concrete goal to be shooting for.

I guess that's it. I've shared my quest, so now it's official. At 9 a.m. on June 10th, be sure to ask me if I'm a runner yet and I'll let you know. (-JoJo)

Wednesday, March 8, 2006

The Master of Disaster

Our home is currently in a state of fantastic disarray. There are boxes, bookshelves, and table parts strewed from one end of the apartment to the other. Our back room is so cluttered that there could be an entire village of people living in there and we wouldn't know about them until one of them came out hunting for food.

The cause of this disaster-like condition is the selling of the Stayner's former home base in Farmington. The close of the sale was announced several weeks ago, and items have been trickling into our apartment ever since, culminating in a wall-to-wall vanload of "stuff" last Saturday.

The missionaries who live in the apartment directly across from us helped me lift the heavier items into the house, and by the end of it all, they were hardpressed to even find a place to stand inside of our apartment. We thanked them for their help and Jocelyn suggested we make them cookies. That's a fine idea, but I'm afraid most of them would be eaten by the time I got them to their door if I am given the assignment of delivering them. I'm still hungry after all that work. (-Robert)