Wednesday Filler, Don't forget To Read Tuesday's!

As Many of you have caught On I am really bad with posting on Wednesday. So Here is a filler of Awesome.....


If you need more awesome I encourage you to read the late yet long post from last night.

Bolder Boulder, The Recap....

It is all said and done and frankly I looked good doing it...

There is alot to recap from beginning to End but instead of just writing beginning to end about the race, I think that I will do it in List Form!

Things that were NOT helpful

1. People running dressed in costume. I will completely own that I was taking this thing way to seriously, but come on. You are making a mockery of my struggle.

2. People with hoses wanting to spray me. I have enough Body weight, I have no need to carry water weight as well! What are you thinking?! And Now I have to run farther JUST to get away from you! Get back in your house!

3. Arrogant people....Fine, go sprinting for the first .2 miles, you have 6 more to go! Tortoise and the Hare, People! Tortoise and the Hare...

4. Hills....Uphill is hard and the first half is all uphill! Which makes you feel like a TOTAL loser!! But if you run it smart you will catch all those people in the end. I promise. See #3 above.

Things that WERE helpful.

1. College kids passing out cups of Vodka....From the bottom of my heart thank you and God bless. You have no idea how great that helped. The only thing better would be if you were passing out Narcotics!

2. People with Marshmallows....Yes I would love to catch it with my mouth while running!! What fun!! And frankly refreshing!

3. Running with my Ipod. This is a big "NoNo" in the Bolder Boulder because they want you to be able to hear things if something happens. But It really helped me get outta freakin' myself outta the race! I just put on the podcast that I trained to and had my virtual coach get me to the end.

4. People running dressed in costume. It made you easy to remember when I passed your cocky face on mile 5!

5. The 5 k Marker!

6. Shoes!

7. The course between mile marker 4 and 6. God Bless the person who designed that, may you have many children! Totally easy run! Well, it felt easy...that might have been the vodka...It is nearly all downhill and in the heart of Boulder and is totally easy and fun to run! I think that might have been my best mile time!

8. People Dressed as mascots cheering you on...I hugged all of them. They were both surprisingly comfy and comforting!

9. People watching with puppies and/or dogs. All puppies possess recharging people power! It is way easier to run when you are passing cute puppies as you run by. It's like a live Cuteoverload.com! (See Sidebar)

10. Live Bands...Again, Thank you! Especially the band whose act was entirely all Blues Brothers. And they truly looked like them! I would have stopped for a picture but it would have slowed me down!

And Last but certainly not least....

An entire stadium of people, equal to the population of Cheyenne, cheering you on as you cross the finish line. That orange banner you see there is the finish, you finish in front of them all while they cheer you to do your best. I kinda want to imagine that is what heaven will be like; Me sprinting in while everyone whose already is there cheers and reaches over to give me high fives as I pass. Awesome.

Now as you may remember the goal was not just to run the race. That would have been easy. No, The goal was to beat my 2007 time. So the question is, Did Lindsay beat her previous time of 1:57.48?

The Answer...

Yes...

Coming in at a whopping 1:43.23 is Lindsay Canterbury Simineo!! That is about a 15 minute difference. So we can add this one to the conquered list and call it a day. Thank God, thank college kids for vodka. Yeah, it was nice not having to countdown workouts today. And that a goal was accomplished. Go me. Go us.

Thanks for reading about it.

Tom Shoes, Everyone Should Own A Pair!

***Disclaimer: I know you would all hope that I would be writing about how the Bolder Boulder went today. But I knew ahead of time that I would be too tired. Count on it for tomorrow. But enjoy some randomness for today!!!***



Tom Shoes everyone!!

Tom Shoes is a Company where for every pair of shoes you buy, they will give a pair to a child in need of shoes. This is awesome because it protects many children from disease and gives them the opportunity to attend school, since many of their schools require shoes as part of their uniform.

As you may have noticed, I love anything and everything that pertains to helping others, so of coarse I want like 5 pairs. And some of them look awesome. But One cannot afford 5 pairs, not when they are trying to go to grad school. But I can buy a pair as a gift!! And I have a sister's B-Day coming up!!

The only problem is that my sister is nothing like me. Nothing. And she will admit this. She is very fashionable, stylish, and loves the world of heels. And I am well...not. She's awesome at being a girl and girlie things and I am well...not. I have great taste in music and love jam bands and Amber does...Not...I mean we like a lot of the same music and then there is this sub universe where our IPods fight.

SO I had to stop and think, will my sister even like these shoes? I mean they are totally up my alley. Eco friendly, helps someone else, comfortable, not a heel. But Amber? I could totally see her opening these up and going, "These are ugly! I helped a kid get ugly shoes?!" So I had to call her am make sure that they were something she would actually wear...

And the best part is that they are! She's totally excited for them. She even picked out the same pair I was going to buy for myself. Lovely! I forgot how much I love and miss my big sister. I have resolved this year to call and see her more. She has moved to northern Denver so to get to her house is only about an hour and 10 minutes. That is not bad and totally doable. I miss my opposite.

But anyway. Get online! Buy some shoes! There is a pair for any occasion and can match any wardrobe. And best of all a child will get their own pair of shoes, get to attend school, and overall get to have a better life, just by having their feet protected.

Do it NOW!!!

Childhood fading....

At one point or another we all come to the realization that we make really crappy adults.

For many of us it happens somewhere between filing taxes and insurance claims. The little things that make you look back and say "What the junk?! How did I get here?"

I ask this question daily.

I have always been really bad at playing at the rules of any game. When rules are explained, I am usually the one questioning what I can get away with. You will notice this by the smirk of planning and evilness that crosses my face!

"Do I have to put on pants today?"

"Who says I owe you money?"

"I pay my taxes, I can choose what side of the road I drive on!!"

"I'll compromise...I'm not going to do whatever you are asking."

Don't ask me why. I am just really bad at being an adult and figuring out all the rules of the world, and road. That is why I have felt so much comfort in the things that have followed me from my childhood into my fake adulthood. Like Batman! He is never changing and still the coolest guy I've met in 10 years.

But what about the things that are changing. The world is an ever evolving place and it is selfish and unrealistic for me to expect that of my surroundings. I cherish the dolls in my hope chest and the toys in boxes. Yet it is so hard to let go of the things that you connect with your former cooler self.

Like Junior, my car. She got me to both proms, the best concerts I'd ever seen, scavenger hunts, street races, moved from the house to the dorms, to the apartment, back to another house, drove it to my wedding. Yet now she lays there in a junk yard, unusable, because a dog decided she was a chew toy. She deserved a better death than that.

Many times when we realize that our coolness is slowly slipping away we start to react irrationally. I am no exception.....


I...stole a cat.

Now, not just any cat; but Kitty. Kitty is MY cat from my childhood. I got her when I was 8 years old and got to name her all by myself. 8 year old Lindsay was also very original.

When I lived in my parents house Kitty was my best friend. Even though my parents hated it she was always in my room sleeping on my bed or in my closet. When I left for college I was so sad about leaving Kitty behind that my mom got me a stuffed kitty that looked like her. It kind of helped.

Then you know the rest of the story. I went from Dorm to Apartment, Apartment to Married, and Married to Another house living with a good looking but smelly boy. Life moved so fast that I forgot to take Kitty along with me. Before I knew it I had been married 3 years, and Kitty was still living at my parents house.

Now keep in mind that My dad loved Kitty but was not giving her the attention that kitties need. Earlier this year I went over to see Kitty and realize how in bad shape she was. She spent all day in the garage, she was looked at by my dad's large animal doctor once a year, with nothing being documented, and she was covered from head to toe with dreads. She was a Bob Marley Kitty.

And as I looked at my slightly ill-cared-for kitty; while listening to my dad talk about "Kidney Failure" and "Kitty Leukemia"; I felt that familiar feeling of loss all over again. Of childhood and youth further distancing itself from me. Of slowly forming into a stereotype that I so dreadfully feared. Of more familiarity slipping through my finger tips. I felt a need to control this situation. A need to fight. So, like any normal human reaction, I stole her back.

Has this signified my rebellion and unwillingness to change? Maybe, has it changed the fact that life is different and I am still an adult? No. Has it made me feel better about my future? Yes.

She signifies my dreams, heartbreaks, and ambitions, as silly as that sounds. I told her everything. And now she is on my couch sleeping, showing me that 17 yr old Lindsay is not dead, and never will be. I just have to channel her better.

Thanks for listening.

Mary, Mary, Quiet Contrary...

Here are my tiny little pods!! Aren't they Cute!!

Because of the CRASHING of the econ, and my pocketbook growing smaller, I thought that it would be a waste of time and money to grow another season of flowers. So I dug up all my bulbs and am trying a new approach, FOOD!!

Not just any food, organic food. I found organic plant food and everything. What you are seeing in this picture are the beginning of peas, watermelon, and the two big plants are parsley and basil for the kitchen. That's why they get fancy pots, they are not going to be moved.

Growing something is a very funny experience. Mainly because every move I make is followed by the thought of "Will I kill it?"

"I'll move them to the sun."
"Will I kill it?"

"It's time for watering."
"But will I kill it?"

The answer is probably. I kill nearly everything I have tried to grow indoors, but I have HUGE success with the growth of things outdoors. Which is why I get more and more excited for spring. The sooner I get them outside, the higher chance they have of survival!

So on the growing menu this year we have: Parsley, Basil, Oregano, Peas, Green Beans, Watermelon, Carrots, Lettuce, Cucumber, and Berries! The Berry Bushes are officially outside being awesome in the sun! Hopefully I will have enough to jam!!

Now I know what you are asking, "Lindsay What is this contraption your baby plants are in?"


Well I'll tell ya, its a greenhouse box. The green house box come with organic dirt pellets that puff up when wet; they puff up big enough to make room for one baby plant. Then you put the clear lid on top and you have your own greenhouse!! This have been great, because the tiny green house created enough heat and humidity to get my tough seeds to grow, seeds that I couldn't get to grow on my own like Watermelon, Peas, and Green Beans. They were all giving me a fight. But NOT ANYMORE!! BWAH HA HA HA!!

You can get the greenhouse box at any Home Depot or Lowe's store. I highly recommend them for the nervous gardener.

More Awesome things Lindsay has Seen Lately...

Baby Chicken Fighting!!

For the sake of privacy I will not say who the Children are, just that they are awesome. It's moments Like These where I think that I am goiong to have awesome kids who have awesome uncles and aunties and that I am going to be the coolest mom ever!!

Then I think about how inpatient I am with my dog. And how she is way more forgiving than a child or a teen will be. I think about all the youth I know and all the things their parents don't know and I can only come to one conclusion: I am going to screw up a kid!

But then I think that I will have the coolest kids imaginable. They will know GOOD music, they will know the value of a dollar, they will NOT have cell phones until they are 16. They will know how to give something away to someone that needs it. They will live in homemade Tie Die!! They will be smart and read Shakespeare because their dad insists and their mom hates KJV translation. They will conquer the world, and I will be witness to it.

Then I get greedy, aren't I suppose to conquer the world?! Aren't my parents suppose to witness it. They are; I am. But I can't keep all this awesomeness to myself, I have to pass it along.

Now This isn't the blog declaring that the Simineos are preggers. Just a reflection blog to let you know we're thinking about it. I'm thinking about it. And frankly, they will be the funniest children alive!!

Crazy Things Lindsay had seen Lately...

A Building being destroyed!!

Notice the Awesome song in the background. I wish I could say I planned that!

Its weird to watch something get destroyed. My knee jerk reaction is that I want to stop it, but know I can;t. My next reaction is to film the mother going down!! Hope it made your day.