Be safe, be seen...

Sunday 01/04/07:
Another new month... hard to believe that we are a quarter of the way thru 2007 already! It's also one year today since we finally moved into the new house we had built. What did I do to celebrate? Spent almost the whole day cleaning!

As if washing my car wasn't enough, I then gave the house a thorough going over and then got stuck into the garage. Didn't have much choice there tho - there was a reason... Bungie had bought a couple of teeny field mice into the garage via the cat flap the other night when I was out. Evidently (and you can imagine the excited account I got from Courtney) the moment Baxter saw Bungie drop one from her mouth, he grabbed it and took up the fight! My dear old Mum is much too "rodent-phobic" to 'intervene' so she ushered Courtney out and hastily shut the door between the garage and the house, shoved a towel up against the gap under the door and left the cats to it! By the time I got home, there was not only one dead mouse in the garage, but presumably one on the loose somewhere! Turns out it was cleverly hiding behind the washing machine and dryer for a few days, happily sneaking out to grab a snack of cat biscuits whenever the coast was clear - a fact I discovered today when I found a trail of poop! Not only was it all behind the appliances, but also inside the tub cupboard! And not just poop but pee too! Gross! First we had to find the mouse and get it out - gosh those things can move, but eventually between Courtney and I we managed to shepard it in the right direction and out the door to freedom it ran! Then the clean up job began and after I had dealt to the mouse's mess, I figured I had might as well keep on going and gave everything a much needed going-over... I also made some banana muffins right before cooking dinner - geez sometimes I am so domesticated it makes me wanna puke!

Before all that, I had been out for a very leisurely recovery jog at 9.30am - I had Courtney with me on her bike today and we headed up the road to the park. Its about 1.5km to get there, then she decided she wanted to do some running with me, so she parked her bike up and made two laps around the perimeter of the park, which was actually a pretty impressive effort! I carried on for a few more laps while she had a play, then it was back on her bike and we headed home again. All up 32mins of running and 4.7kms covered! So a very gentle pace, incessant chatter all the while and included me giving her a push up a couple of hills as I ran!

Now to the title - this slogan came back to me yesterday when I popped into Rebel after hearing they had 25% off everything Nike & Adidas. I was thinking ahead to winter and the fact that I need another long sleeved running top and that another pair of 3/4 leggings wouldn't go amiss either.
This is what I walked out with, as well as a pair of shorts!

And the top looks even brighter in the flesh!! You will sure be able to see me coming! I usually prefer the Nike gear, but what I really liked about this Adidas stuff is that both top and pants have a lot of reflectorised bits and bobs, including those 3 strips at the bottom of the legs and sleeves. The shorts are similar. As I do a lot of my running in the dark and on main roads, it really is important to be visible. I also have a yellow reflectorised belt that I wear once it gets really bad, so between that and the top, I'm gonna be bright! Unfortunately, as usual - they didn't have any shoes in my size - I could do with another pair of Nike Air Pegasus and really love the 2006 model, so will need to get them soon!

Oh and here are a couple of photos I took the other night when Courtney was trying to choose which of her two new outfits she should wear to the school disco! She settled for the top one... No idea where she gets her posing from...!



Oh and a note to Em, we nibbled on the chocolate bunnies while watching Harry Potter after the disco. They were soooo divine - I love praline! Courtney refused to eat the head of her one, she's keeping it in a bowl in the pantry for now, as it is "just way too cute to eat"!

Weekly total: 61kms - a bit of a leap from 50.5 last week, but I was very pleased with how good the legs felt today after yesterdays long run. Mind you, sleeping in the Skins last night probably helped.