Category Archives: kansas

Well, party in Lawerence, Kansas. When we arrived at the airport in Kansas City, there was a big sign that said , “Bienvenido a Missouri” which I sang all week to Will Smith’s Miami song. I entertained myself.

i.e. Mom and Dad by one of the big guns.

the very scary lizard that hissed and jumped a lot. I would have been okay in tennis shoes, but I was afraid he’d bite my toe. While my brother, Nick, scared and taunted his wife with the lizard, Nate and Dad generously shooed the lizard away.

brother Nick and his wife Leah by the biggest gun

brother Zak taking in the view. I think this one really shows how high we were.

Then we stopped in Manhattan, Kansas for lunch. Nathan and I ate at the Bluestem Bistro where I had the turkey and cranberry chutney sandwich. We looked around bookstores and headed back to Lawrence.

We dropped Nick and Leah off at their hotel to swim and went to the grocery store. We love Hy-Vee. Then we picked them up again. We finished up the evening with Zak’s choice of a new dish to try, Spaghetti alla Carbonara. I cooked at his apartment. Some of my family were kinda skeptical, but as always, Krissie came through. We played several rounds of Apples to Apples, and we had a really good time.

Sunday 6.17:
We started off the day on Mass Street. Nathan, Zak, and I got coffee at this great place that I have forgotten the name of. (edit: It was La Prima Taza. Thanks Zak!!) This time I was able to take some pictures of our favorite stores since it wasn’t dark! As mentioned above, the cool bookstore:

Shark’s Surf Shop. Who’da thunk a surf shop in Kansas?

One of our necessities is an outdoor store, and we found one at Sunflower Outdoor and Bike. This one has a cat named Stanley. And I have a sticker to put on the car now as well!

The rest of the fam opted for subs, but Nate and I decided to brave a new restaurant called ingredient, which unfortunately is too new for a website. I think it opened the day before we were there.It was awesome. Nate and I shared the Applewood Pizza you see below. Smoked chicken-apple sausage, rustic tomato sauce, and gouda cheese. Very yummy.

We then made our way back into Kansas City. We spent a while in Cabela’s, where I decided I need to be more of a vegetarian. Too many hunters and animals that were stuffed. Then we hung out at Legends for a while, this huge outdoor mall close to the speedway. Again, we bought nothing, but walking around the area was really cool.

We had dinner at the Yard House, which was nothing short of amazing food. I had tuna and Nate had lamb chops. So much for the vegetarian thing. But the food was great.

Then we took Nick and Leah to the airport and went back to Zak’s. On the way, we decided we wanted ice cream. Zak found a little spot on Mass Street (again, I don’t remember the name) that stayed open to serve us. (Edit: Zak to the rescue again! The ice cream was from Sylas and Maddy’s.) So they got a big tip. And they gave Dad his cone for free since it was Father’s Day. We went back to Zak’s and stayed up late discussing what’s going to happen in the last Harry Potter book. I’m excited!

Monday 8.18:

Ugh. Airport day. We started the day in Kansas City, where we had Starbucks and read for a while. I finished Icy Sparks and got started on Affluenza. We ended up eating lunch in the airport as well (Sbarro is good!). We read some more, got on a plane, and ended up in Atlanta. I am 90% sure we were on the Hank Aaron plane, which is pretty cool. Then we sat in Atlanta for a while, had Chick-Fil-A, and ended up in Louisville around midnight. We drove the hour home, and were very relieved to finally be in our own bed again.

Tuesday 8.19? Not a darn thing.

Yes.

I hope you all had a great weekend! I have so much more to say, but this has been an incredibly long post. Wish me luck at my new job tomorrow!

Last day of work! Last day of work! Woot woot!

I cannot thank my lovely blog buddies enough for all their help yesterday. You solved all my problems!

Mindy – thanks. I am taking an entire box of baggies. And I’ve found that they really help my organization as well. I can actually see what’s in my make-up bag. I wouldn’t have thought of the baggies.

Maryann – The website was a life saver. I actually now have a baggie that looks a lot like the picture.

Amy – I hate to hear that you are leaving Bellarmine, but we knew it was coming. Big congrats! And I think we are planning on coming to your celebration (not in Florida). So many changes for you! And, I too, now have short-term health insurance!

Marie – I know how you feel about airports. However, we are flying out of Louisville, and I am very comfortable there. When I was in college there, I spent a lot of time picking up and dropping off friends, and trying to spot famous people during derby week.

You all are awesome!

The potluck yesterday was awesome. My dear friend Courtney made my chicken salad (and well!) and there was tons of fruit and veggies and dips and one plate of cookies. It rocked. The food was great, the company was great, and I got great gifts. Gift certificates to the Fudgery and the store where I buy Vera Bradley bags. I’ve actually picked out the one I’m buying, and the one I am donating in return.

I am so excited about Kansas. Nate and I are driving to Louisville tonight, doing a little shopping, and staying in a hotel. Then we’ll be at the airport at 4:30 am to be ready for our 6am flight. I figure this way I’ll be sleepy and will sleep on the plane. Even with our layover, we’ll land in Kansas City before lunch. Very exciting! Carr family, here we come!! (that felt like something from Extreme Home Make Over!)

Yeah, Kansas. So we’ll be gone until really stinking late Monday night. I may be able to post while I am out there, but I don’t expect to. If you don’t see me for several days, please don’t forget about me! I look forward to catching up with everyone when I get back!

Have a great weekend!

Yippee! I am getting ready for my second-to-last day of my current job! I don’t know if I could be more excited. They (being people that work in our main office, not my own) are having a “healthy potluck end-of-the-day experience” for me this afternoon, and I am very excited about the loads of fruit and (gasp!) healthy chicken salad (!) I have been promised.

With all the job excitement and lack of healthiness overtaking this blog of late, I have barely mentioned the reason for most of my excitement. On Friday, we jump on a plane and head to Kansas! I am so excited to spend time with my family. It really is our vacation for the summer. People say, “Why Kansas?” And I explain that my littlest brother is there in Lawrence and has the coolest job in the world and lives in the coolest city in the world and I explain the sidewalks, I mean “fitness trails,” and Mass Street and the stinky Korean store…just so much excitement!

I’m a little nervous about the plane, though. I haven’t flown since 9/11. Not because of fear, but I just haven’t. I have a whole slew of fears regarding getting my stuff on the plane, all of which are very silly.

• What if I pack something I’m not supposed to pack? What if I foret to take the fingernail clippers out of my purse? Or someone deems my Clinique foundation suspicious and takes it from me? I’ll look scary in all my pictures!
• What if they say my carry-on is too big? I keep looking but can’t find anything that tells the dimensions of an acceptable carry-on! What if they won’t let me take the bag on the plane and I’m left without my favorite clothes and make-up? (again, I’ll look terrible in all the Kansas pics!)
• I had a nightmare that one of my flip flops was confiscated. One that I was wearing at the time. I had to get on the plane wearing one shoe. Now I’m considering not taking flip flops at all.

Ugh! I know it will be fine, and maybe I’m focusing on the stuff aspect to distract myself from the fact that I may be a little afraid to fly. That’s fine. Consider me distracted.

I am also really torn about health insurance. My new job has a 90 day wait before I an eligible for insurance. I KNOW I need it, but I also know that in the last 3 years, I have gone to the doctor twice. Twice. What are the chances that I’ll contract something in the next 3 months that can’t wait? I know, this would be the time where we would get pregnant, even though it hasn’t happened for 2 years. Do I spend a ton of money on the transition coverage (COBRA)? Do I not leave the house and pray for no injury or illness? Ugh. I just don’t know. But I’ve got to figure it out. My last day of work is tomorrow. TOMORROW! Yay!

I must get ready for work today now. Have a great day in blogland!

Days remaining of current job: 3

Today has been a huge, embarrassing failure because:

• I had 2 starbucks drinks today.
• I bought a new Vera Bradley bag. After all my purging of bags. I really did need one to have as a carry-on for Friday. That means I have to put one of the ones I decided to keep in the Goodwill pile. That will be done. Amen.
• I have eaten 3 mini Reese cups today.
• Nathan spent all evening working in the yard. I did very little. I mostly watched tv and played stupid games on the internet.
• The crap I cleaned out of my desk and shelves at work will almost fill up my trunk. I can’t bear to leave it behind because I paid for the stuff (art therapy supplies, play therapy supplies, books, toys, games, etc). Although I won’t use it in my new job, I’m not about to leave it there. It’s a stubbornness and pride thing for me I guess. I don’t know where I’m going to put it all in my house. I guess it’s a good thing I’d cleaned out so much stuff.

Today has been a success because:

• I went through the drive-thru at Taco Bell today. I had a single soft taco supreme and an extra large ice water.
• I managed to have a meeting with the boss’s boss and stayed objective and factual about why I am unhappy with my current job.
• I pulled weeds in the flowerbeds in the front of the house and around trees.
• I talked to my friend Vanessa in Idaho. I’m going to make hotel reservations so we can attend her wedding in July. It’s not in Idaho, just Ohio.

Despite my annoyances with today, the next week will be awesome because:

I finish my job on Thursday!Thursday night finds me and Nate in a hotel in Louisville so that…

Friday we will board a plane and head to see the brother Zak in Kansas! We are meeting my parents, my other brother and his wife for a long weekend in the Sunflower State. It’s been a while since we’ve all been together that hasn’t been due to illness. I miss my brothers. We’re all growing up, and away, now. I’m three hours from home, Nick’s still home but he works and goes to school all the time, and Zak’s 12 hours from home. There was a day when we used to look like this. Sigh. I have no idea how old this picture is. I mean, isn’t the spiral perm every young girl’s dream? But at least the boys don’t have mullets. They must have outgrown them by then…

We’re going back to Kansas! In June, Nathan and I are meeting Mom and Dad to visit Zak in Lawrence! I got plane tickets yesterday. Nathan and I have never flown together before, so I am very excited!

A few updates. I did not go to Weight Watchers yesterday. After looking at my schedule, it’s just not realistic right now to expect that I’d be able to get off work 30 minutes early once a week. But my plan is to drive into Lexington in the morning for a meeting. I figure that I can handle Saturday mornings, or when we go home do a different morning during the week. And then when we switch to summer hours, I’ll be able to go to the Thursday evening meetings with Courtney and Katie.

I got The Beck Diet Solution in the mail today, and I think I’m going to really enjoy it. The author wrote several of my grad school textbooks, so she’s not a quack or a diet guru, she’s a therapist in a school of therapy that I respect and believe in. It’s a 42 day program, and today was day 1 (I think it may also be day 2 and day 3, based on things I have read). So far, though, I have only done the homework for day 1. Today I am supposed to identify reasons I want to be thin. And it works like my mindset when I started this blog. I am just identifying who I want to be and then practicing until I become that person. So the advantages to being thin are as follows:

1. I will be healthier.
2. Nathan will be proud of me.
3. It will be easier for us to get pregnant.
4. I will have fewer skin issues (as a byproduct of eating better, not being thin itself).
5. I will feel more in control.
6. I will feel that I accomplished something.
7. I will be able to be more physically active.
8. I will be able to choose clothes that look good, not clothes that just fit.
9. I will be able to listen to music when I run.
10. I will look better.
11. I will like myself more.
12. I will be less self-critical.
13. I will feel better about my body.
14. I will feel better in my body.
15. I will be a positive influence on others.
16. I will care for the body God has given me.

That’s where I am today. I am going to check out day 2 and possibly day 3 before I go to bed. I’m not trying to rush things, but I think the therapist in me has a pretty good handle on all the cognitive behavioral stuff she’s introducing in the first few days. I am excited. I feel like I have found a real resource in this book.

I downloaded a sermon today that I’m really excited to listen to. Mars Hill (the one in Grand Rapids this time) puts the occassional podcast on iTunes that looks at the spiritual implications in movies (past movies including X-Men 3 and others that I haven’t seen). The most recent one? Talledega Nights. I’m going to listen to it when I do dishes later. I’ll let you know.

We watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at work today with the kids (gotta love Fun Day!). I have seen the movie so many times, but didn’t realize that I’d be able to lead a very productive group about the movie. The dangers of being greedy, gluttonous, uber-competitive and television-addicted are presented in a funny but meaningful way. So is the importance of family. Definitely a movie to check out for morals and the beauty that is Johnny Depp.

Nate’s birthday is next week and he doesn’t know what he wants. And, for once, I have no idea either. Anyone able to help? Ideas for a red-headed, mandolin-playing, librarian-to-be? Please?

Wish me luck as I weigh in tomorrow morning!

We’re going back to Kansas! In June, Nathan and I are meeting Mom and Dad to visit Zak in Lawrence! I got plane tickets yesterday. Nathan and I have never flown together before, so I am very excited!

A few updates. I did not go to Weight Watchers yesterday. After looking at my schedule, it’s just not realistic right now to expect that I’d be able to get off work 30 minutes early once a week. But my plan is to drive into Lexington in the morning for a meeting. I figure that I can handle Saturday mornings, or when we go home do a different morning during the week. And then when we switch to summer hours, I’ll be able to go to the Thursday evening meetings with Courtney and Katie.

I got The Beck Diet Solution in the mail today, and I think I’m going to really enjoy it. The author wrote several of my grad school textbooks, so she’s not a quack or a diet guru, she’s a therapist in a school of therapy that I respect and believe in. It’s a 42 day program, and today was day 1 (I think it may also be day 2 and day 3, based on things I have read). So far, though, I have only done the homework for day 1. Today I am supposed to identify reasons I want to be thin. And it works like my mindset when I started this blog. I am just identifying who I want to be and then practicing until I become that person. So the advantages to being thin are as follows:

1. I will be healthier.
2. Nathan will be proud of me.
3. It will be easier for us to get pregnant.
4. I will have fewer skin issues (as a byproduct of eating better, not being thin itself).
5. I will feel more in control.
6. I will feel that I accomplished something.
7. I will be able to be more physically active.
8. I will be able to choose clothes that look good, not clothes that just fit.
9. I will be able to listen to music when I run.
10. I will look better.
11. I will like myself more.
12. I will be less self-critical.
13. I will feel better about my body.
14. I will feel better in my body.
15. I will be a positive influence on others.
16. I will care for the body God has given me.

That’s where I am today. I am going to check out day 2 and possibly day 3 before I go to bed. I’m not trying to rush things, but I think the therapist in me has a pretty good handle on all the cognitive behavioral stuff she’s introducing in the first few days. I am excited. I feel like I have found a real resource in this book.

I downloaded a sermon today that I’m really excited to listen to. Mars Hill (the one in Grand Rapids this time) puts the occassional podcast on iTunes that looks at the spiritual implications in movies (past movies including X-Men 3 and others that I haven’t seen). The most recent one? Talledega Nights. I’m going to listen to it when I do dishes later. I’ll let you know.

We watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at work today with the kids (gotta love Fun Day!). I have seen the movie so many times, but didn’t realize that I’d be able to lead a very productive group about the movie. The dangers of being greedy, gluttonous, uber-competitive and television-addicted are presented in a funny but meaningful way. So is the importance of family. Definitely a movie to check out for morals and the beauty that is Johnny Depp.

Nate’s birthday is next week and he doesn’t know what he wants. And, for once, I have no idea either. Anyone able to help? Ideas for a red-headed, mandolin-playing, librarian-to-be? Please?

Wish me luck as I weigh in tomorrow morning!

We’re going back to Kansas! In June, Nathan and I are meeting Mom and Dad to visit Zak in Lawrence! I got plane tickets yesterday. Nathan and I have never flown together before, so I am very excited!

A few updates. I did not go to Weight Watchers yesterday. After looking at my schedule, it’s just not realistic right now to expect that I’d be able to get off work 30 minutes early once a week. But my plan is to drive into Lexington in the morning for a meeting. I figure that I can handle Saturday mornings, or when we go home do a different morning during the week. And then when we switch to summer hours, I’ll be able to go to the Thursday evening meetings with Courtney and Katie.

I got The Beck Diet Solution in the mail today, and I think I’m going to really enjoy it. The author wrote several of my grad school textbooks, so she’s not a quack or a diet guru, she’s a therapist in a school of therapy that I respect and believe in. It’s a 42 day program, and today was day 1 (I think it may also be day 2 and day 3, based on things I have read). So far, though, I have only done the homework for day 1. Today I am supposed to identify reasons I want to be thin. And it works like my mindset when I started this blog. I am just identifying who I want to be and then practicing until I become that person. So the advantages to being thin are as follows:

1. I will be healthier.
2. Nathan will be proud of me.
3. It will be easier for us to get pregnant.
4. I will have fewer skin issues (as a byproduct of eating better, not being thin itself).
5. I will feel more in control.
6. I will feel that I accomplished something.
7. I will be able to be more physically active.
8. I will be able to choose clothes that look good, not clothes that just fit.
9. I will be able to listen to music when I run.
10. I will look better.
11. I will like myself more.
12. I will be less self-critical.
13. I will feel better about my body.
14. I will feel better in my body.
15. I will be a positive influence on others.
16. I will care for the body God has given me.

That’s where I am today. I am going to check out day 2 and possibly day 3 before I go to bed. I’m not trying to rush things, but I think the therapist in me has a pretty good handle on all the cognitive behavioral stuff she’s introducing in the first few days. I am excited. I feel like I have found a real resource in this book.

I downloaded a sermon today that I’m really excited to listen to. Mars Hill (the one in Grand Rapids this time) puts the occassional podcast on iTunes that looks at the spiritual implications in movies (past movies including X-Men 3 and others that I haven’t seen). The most recent one? Talledega Nights. I’m going to listen to it when I do dishes later. I’ll let you know.

We watched Charlie and the Chocolate Factory at work today with the kids (gotta love Fun Day!). I have seen the movie so many times, but didn’t realize that I’d be able to lead a very productive group about the movie. The dangers of being greedy, gluttonous, uber-competitive and television-addicted are presented in a funny but meaningful way. So is the importance of family. Definitely a movie to check out for morals and the beauty that is Johnny Depp.

Nate’s birthday is next week and he doesn’t know what he wants. And, for once, I have no idea either. Anyone able to help? Ideas for a red-headed, mandolin-playing, librarian-to-be? Please?

Wish me luck as I weigh in tomorrow morning!

Yikes. Not a good day for Krissie’s NCAA bracket. 9 for 16 in the second round. So much for bragging rights. And I feel pretty unloyal…I cheered for Kansas today. Kentucky is going to strip me of my degree and the right to call myself a Wildcat. I don’t go by “Wildcat” much anymore. Wait, I never did. Anyway, Nate’s wearing his new Kansas shirt to work tomorrow just to ruffle feathers. Jayhawk feathers. I have Kansas winning it all. I hope they don’t let me down.

Oh, did you know Tricia (Whitt) Halleck had a baby? Little Colten Ray. If I had a scanner or received the pic electronically I’d post it. But, alas, neither of those statements apply to me. He is so cute…looks like a miniature old man. Awww.

Nothing too exciting went on today. I cooked for the first time in several weeks. Beef and noodles. Yumm.

Oh, I never discussed Thursday’s Greys. I LOVED it. I mean, George is a total tool, but I was seriously concerned about where the show was headed after the three-part mess. Last week totally redeemed the show. But if they mess up Cristina and Burke I will be very upset. I feel like they are the couple that has what it takes to make it because he understands and (usually) accepts her bizarreness. I just really want them to work. And I want George and Callie to work. But George and Izzie make that difficult…I guess I’ll just have to wait until Thursday. I’m already dreading the season finale, whenever that is.

Tomorrow is running day. I’m very excited. I hope it will be warm enough for me to run outside when I get home from work. Yeah. Hello green running shoes! (Saucony Pro-Grid Triumph 4 for anyone interested.) Hello iPod running podcast! (Robert Ullery C25K for anyone interested.) Hello Rock Chalk Shamrock t-shirt! (Go Kansas!)

I listened to a few sermons (via podcasts) the last few days, and I am feeling much better, much less bitter. I wasn’t bitter, just angry. Acceptance is a good place to be. Any of you looking for podcasts in iTunes, I strongly recommend Southland church in Lexington. Nate and I went to their college-aged service for a while before we moved. I like the preaching a lot. I feel convicted every time I listen to them. The sermon I listened to today talked about suicide and the sin involved. It gave me a lot of tools I can use as a therapist if I have a suidical client.

So I hope all of you enjoyed your weekend (I know I sure enjoyed Nathan after over a week apart!). I spent a lot of it searching for live covers. My prize finds for the day: Alicia Keys and Bono doing Don’t Give Up (Peter Gabriel), Travis doing Hit Me Baby One More Time, and Rufus Wainwright and Ben Fold’s Careless Whisper (WHAM!). Other favorites I’ve had and loved for a while: Ben Fold’s Tiny Dancer (Elton John), Johnny Cash’s One (U2) and Nickel Creek’s Toxic (Brittney Spears).

Have a happy Monday! The weather will be beautiful…where I am anyway. What’s this thing I heard about snow in Greenup yesterday?

And, to revive a Kansas conversation, do you say “running” or “runnin”? “Fishing” or “fishin”? “Finger” or “fanger”? Is it only relevant to us eastern Kentuckians? Let me know!

Yikes. Not a good day for Krissie’s NCAA bracket. 9 for 16 in the second round. So much for bragging rights. And I feel pretty unloyal…I cheered for Kansas today. Kentucky is going to strip me of my degree and the right to call myself a Wildcat. I don’t go by “Wildcat” much anymore. Wait, I never did. Anyway, Nate’s wearing his new Kansas shirt to work tomorrow just to ruffle feathers. Jayhawk feathers. I have Kansas winning it all. I hope they don’t let me down.

Oh, did you know Tricia (Whitt) Halleck had a baby? Little Colten Ray. If I had a scanner or received the pic electronically I’d post it. But, alas, neither of those statements apply to me. He is so cute…looks like a miniature old man. Awww.

Nothing too exciting went on today. I cooked for the first time in several weeks. Beef and noodles. Yumm.

Oh, I never discussed Thursday’s Greys. I LOVED it. I mean, George is a total tool, but I was seriously concerned about where the show was headed after the three-part mess. Last week totally redeemed the show. But if they mess up Cristina and Burke I will be very upset. I feel like they are the couple that has what it takes to make it because he understands and (usually) accepts her bizarreness. I just really want them to work. And I want George and Callie to work. But George and Izzie make that difficult…I guess I’ll just have to wait until Thursday. I’m already dreading the season finale, whenever that is.

Tomorrow is running day. I’m very excited. I hope it will be warm enough for me to run outside when I get home from work. Yeah. Hello green running shoes! (Saucony Pro-Grid Triumph 4 for anyone interested.) Hello iPod running podcast! (Robert Ullery C25K for anyone interested.) Hello Rock Chalk Shamrock t-shirt! (Go Kansas!)

I listened to a few sermons (via podcasts) the last few days, and I am feeling much better, much less bitter. I wasn’t bitter, just angry. Acceptance is a good place to be. Any of you looking for podcasts in iTunes, I strongly recommend Southland church in Lexington. Nate and I went to their college-aged service for a while before we moved. I like the preaching a lot. I feel convicted every time I listen to them. The sermon I listened to today talked about suicide and the sin involved. It gave me a lot of tools I can use as a therapist if I have a suidical client.

So I hope all of you enjoyed your weekend (I know I sure enjoyed Nathan after over a week apart!). I spent a lot of it searching for live covers. My prize finds for the day: Alicia Keys and Bono doing Don’t Give Up (Peter Gabriel), Travis doing Hit Me Baby One More Time, and Rufus Wainwright and Ben Fold’s Careless Whisper (WHAM!). Other favorites I’ve had and loved for a while: Ben Fold’s Tiny Dancer (Elton John), Johnny Cash’s One (U2) and Nickel Creek’s Toxic (Brittney Spears).

Have a happy Monday! The weather will be beautiful…where I am anyway. What’s this thing I heard about snow in Greenup yesterday?

And, to revive a Kansas conversation, do you say “running” or “runnin”? “Fishing” or “fishin”? “Finger” or “fanger”? Is it only relevant to us eastern Kentuckians? Let me know!

(I’ll smack you in the mouth, I’m Neil Diamond!)

After a LONG drive today, I am back in Kentucky. I am slightly sad to be back. I really liked it in Kansas. Nathan is in Atlanta until Friday. I have to go to work tomorrow. All this makes me slightly unhappy. But I am home with my cats and Courtney is staying with me this week, so it’s all good.

You know what else is good? Zak’s roommate asked which one of us is older. I’ll let you decide. (I can’t get the picture posted in the post, so there’s a new pic over there –> )

I love Lawrence, Kansas. It just feels like a place where I would be better able to be the me I am trying to be. It’s a different world there. It seems like everyone is so much healthier. There are “fitness trails” all over the city. People are out running, walking their dogs, and biking everywhere. We went to the grocery store and people’s buggies amazed me. I’m used to going to Krogers and seeing buggies full of pop, cookies, and chips. Not in Lawrence. Buggies held fruit, organic cereals, yogurt. The city is young, friendly, healthy, but a dozen hours from home. Zak is there, though, so I’d be closer to family than I am now!

We went to so many cool places. The University of Kansas has a beautiful campus and I might be a Rock Chalk Jayhawk fan! Mass Street reminds me of Asheville’s downtown with less hippy-ish hippies. Legends is a great shopping area. KC,Mo has a great Farmer’s Market and the Plaza had amazing shopping…Dad loved Williams Sonoma and I shopped at Tiffany’s. Neither of us bought anything.

I was going to run tonight (I feel well today!) but I’ve been in the car ALL DAY and That 70′s Show starts in 10 minutes. So I’ll start tomorrow. I am so excited to get back to the gym! I’ll give you a running update tomorrow.