Breakfast Day 4 of eating right., originally uploaded by Random and Odd.

What an amazing birthday I had!

On Friday, Lester picked up Sammy from the airport and Matthew made his way to Sacramento after work.
Tabitha, Matt and I went to the Almond Tree and I might have had a few or 7 drinks and danced to Morris Day. OhweOhweOh!

The next morning I got up to Matt looking very serious (and hungover), “I’m not hiking with you.”
To read the whole story: http://barefoottrailrunning.blogspot.com/2012/03/happy-birthday-trail-run.html

I was greeted at the house by Mara, Lester and Sam. I was sad to hear that Mara could only stay a little while, but I was so happy to have her there. She looked fantastic! I love that everyone is getting healthy!

We had a house full of people and it was such a relaxed day. The weatherman had been promising rain for a whole week, but the day came and only a couple drops fell out of the sky. We alternated being outside to hanging out in the house. Lester even spent some time showing off his shop and garage while I hung out with my friends in the living room.
He did take me aside to show me my birthday present and I was blown away. There are no words for how happy I was! I had mentioned something that I wanted for myself awhile ago and he had heard me. It was actually mentioned in passing through a Facebook question I had asked my friends when asking people if they could have their very own space, what would they do with it.

After my weekend I decided it was time to get on track for improving my health. On Monday I went out and bought all the stuff that I knew I would need to kick start it.
I decided to make the Iskiate. This is best described as a gelatinous goo. There is something a little bit wrong about how this looks after an hour of letting the seeds sit in the water. It’s a snot like consistency and it has seeds in it. This is what I was going to drink? OH HELL NO.
I went to the fridge and poured myself a nice glass of Coke Zero.
Then I stirred the iskiate again and looked back at the Coke. FINE. If I can put the crap that is in a Coke in my body, I can at least take a sip of this jelly like seed drink.
I’m not going to lie, I actually sat there and had to talk myself into it. The second I took a sip, I regretted it. There was no way I could swallow this down…but I did. I decided that the lemon juice wasn’t going to cut it and I added the Crystal Light peach tea mix to it. I’m not sure if it’s possible, but it actually got thicker. I put some ice in there and mixed it up again and just decided to gulp it down. No need, it wasn’t so bad.
YES, it takes some time to get use to drinking slimy seeds, but it got easier and I’m on day 3 and every time I make it, I have to laugh. WHO AM I ?? I’m hell bent on getting healthy and that includes eating eggs…something I absolutely hate.

I’ve signed up for 3 runs this year. They are all trail runs and I am so happy to see that they are really opening up a bunch more for us that don’t street run and don’t do the utra running…yet. Lester is running two of the three runs and I might just talk him into the third. I’m just happy to have him joining me. The last run is the Merrell Mud Run that I did last year, but this year I am going to do it barefoot. Tabitha is running for time and I am still just about the start and finish…and the beer afterward.