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By kilax, December 3, 2011 10:39 pm

My last race of 2011 – the Rotary Santa 5K! I’ve run this race twice before – in 2008 with Steven, and in 2010 with Erin and Jen. And this year, I ran it with Kayla! It was our first time meeting. We starting bonding by figuring out how to put on our Santa suits,

All figured out!

then by running for about 37 minutes (not sure on our finish time) in the nice cool weather with light rain. We were too hot in our Santa outfits but kept them on – you have to have some holiday spirit! 

I love the fun spirit of this race, which is why I’ve done it so many times. It’s really amusing to run with a bunch of other Santas. Who knows how many there were this year, but it was pretty crowded for the first half mile. It clears up after that. It doesn’t really bother me, because I think of this as a fun race to take easy and enjoy at the end of the year!

I really enjoyed chatting with Kayla during our run, and at lunch… and in Starbucks. She probably wondered if I would ever let her go, or stop asking her tons of questions! I guess I love to chat, and Kayla is a sweetie! I can’t wait to meet up with her again. Hopefully her next quarter at school won’t be so crazy that we can’t fit in a date or two.

And lucky me – besides meeting Kayla my family was in town too, and got to watch me race! My grandma, Steven, dad and mom all wore their Team Kimbot shirts:

I don’t think I’ll ever get sick of the shirts! 

I’m kind of sad to think this will be my last race of December. Maybe I will fit another in? Ha ha, probably NOT. I’ve run 22 races this year and I think that might be too high for me! But, I did fit one in every month, which was a goal of mine. I did have some other goals for 2011, but I will go over those at the end of the year!

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By kilax, December 3, 2011 5:36 am

I was hard at work at a jewelry & accessories show with my mom and her mom yesterday, picking things out for my next giveaway…

But in the meantime, who is the winner of the FakeMeats.com giveaway? It’s…

Bobbi! Bobbi, please email your mailing address to me (kilax@ilaxstudio.com) and FakeMeats.com will send the package your way!

And don’t be bummed if you didn’t win. You can use coupon code ILAXSTUDIO2011 on FakeMeats.com until 12/31/11 for 10% off all orders. I recommend the Vegan Dream jerky (they’re all great, but that’s my fave)! Thanks for checking FakeMeats.com out!

Stay tuned for the next giveaway on Monday! 

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By kilax, December 1, 2011 7:05 am

Don’t forget to enter the Season of Giving Giveaway #2: FakeMeats.com!

• my work situation – remember that DC detail I was kind of excited about getting, even though I wasn’t sure if it was actually going to happen or how often I would travel to DC? Well, I was all set to start on Monday the 14th when I got back from NYC. I moved to a new desk and everything. Only to get a call that there’s been some restructuring of the program and the new office in charge is not sure if they can use me or not (because they are still trying to get a grasp on the entire project). And that my detail is canceled. I felt like an idiot. Even though I knew the detail could fall through, I had still let myself become excited, and jeez, I thought since I moved desks and all it might be official. I moved back to my old desk yesterday. I can’t explain in words how disappointed and discouraged I am (and I can’t really go in to a ton of details about work here), but… I am happy to have a steady job. 
• how clean our house is – my mom and dad are coming to visit tonight! And my mom confirmed yesterday that her mother is coming as well. Well, sh*t, I didn’t get the house grandma level clean! I just got it clean to parent level. And focused on putting up some holiday decorations. Oh well, we’ll still have a good time if there is dust on all the horizontal surfaces.
• my November running mileage – I have not had a running-friendly schedule lately, and I am disappointed I could not get more miles in in November (86.1, my second lowest month of the year). But really, who cares about this crap except for me? That would be… no one. And at this point, I’ve run over 500 more miles than last year, and started December off right with an early morning 8 mile run (Happy December!). Plus – I probably deserved a small break. 
• holiday gifts – I love picking out gifts for people and watching their reactions when opening them. I try really hard to get people thoughtful, interesting gifts, but I don’t always hit the mark. I just try my hardest. 
• how fast I lose weight – I just need to lose weight and keep it off. However slow that happens, I don’t care, as long as I can actually keep it off this time. Ha ha ha. Anyone want to bet on that?
• transit money – our work had to cut a lot out of our transit subsidy at the same time train ticket prices are being increased. It will amount to about $70 a month out of pocket, but hey, I am grateful work pays for any of my transit!
• the fact that there is no picture to go along with this post

Okay, I can provide a picture. Here is Ryan Gosling in Crazy Stupid Love, a movie Steven and I watched this week and really enjoyed. I recommend it!

Picture from here – that link is pretty funny if you want to click through!

What are you refusing to worry about?