the freight train that lived in my head today

my kids were late to school today because i slept through my alarm! i've been running 3 miles on the tread mill (or turd mill as my kids cleverly say) every night to get ready for the dino dash, msu museum's benefit 5K run on october 1st. it is the first race i will have ever run, and i want to finish it in under 30 minutes. (my sister is 7 years older than me and can run a 5K in 22 minutes!! i can't do that. i must not be old enough yet.)

so after running, i blogged and drank too much wine and stayed up until 4 am reading old papers trying to cram some of the knowledge i used to have back into my head. suddenly i realized my 4 year old son was shaking me while the alarm beeped merrily away in the backgorund and a run-away freight train slammed through my brain. "don't we have school today, mom?" he said. ow ow ow ow ow ow ow i said. then i looked at the clock that read 8:20, about the time we leave for the bus stop.

i jumped up and ran downstairs to take some aspirin. "we're going to be a little late today," i said. i was so ferociously hung over. After the first crop of aspirin slowed down the freight train, a microscopic expedition of ice climbers got off it and stomped on my brain with their crampooned boots and climbed their way up my brain stem with tiny ice-axes. another round of aspirin slowed them down for a while, but they were remarkably persistent throughout the day. i spent the day laying around and drinking water. now i am finally starting to perk up just in time to do it all over again. i am getting the blogging part done first, then the running and i am going to skip the wine altogether.

mitch will be home wednesday so i will get back into a regular routine then. plus, two sets of ears are more likely to hear the alarm. bye for now. the kids are almost asleep so it's time to run.