Dis5150
DIS Veteran
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- Jan 21, 2015
I have decided to start a training journal, if nothing else as a place I can gripe about the lack of training I am currently getting in for Star Wars!
About me. I am 50 year old mom of 2 adult kids, stepmom of 2 adult kids and doggie mom to 3 adorable pups. I started running in 2015 to get ready to run the Disney Wine & Dine race. DD29 and I discovered runDisney after visiting WDW during Princess Weekend 2014. That race ended up being cut short due to storms and lightning in the area so we went back and did Princess in 2016. Then we were hooked! We ran the marathon during Marathon Weekend in 2017, then ran Dopey in 2018. Due to life, our plans for running the marathon again this year were cancelled and we decided to run Star Wars in April of this year instead.
In the midst of training for Star Wars, we decided to completely remodel our house. Yep, we are crazy like that! We are starting with converting part of the house into an in-law suite for my mom. She has lived with us since my dad died of cancer in 2008 and has always just had a bedroom. We decided it was finally time for us all to have some space of our own. Our house is a 1940's farmhouse out in the country. It is currently a 3bdrm 1 bath. We are converting it to a 2 bdrm, 2 bath, with part of that being the in-law suite. I will post pics (a lot!) to show our progress since Christmas, which is when we started tearing things up.
My training has taken a back seat to getting this done. We want to get my mom back in her bedroom as she is currently in DH's office (with her cat) while we are redoing her bedroom. This old house has no insulation so we are adding that as we go. It also has old, old wiring so DH is replacing all that room by room too. Luckily I am married to an ex journeyman carpenter and current maintenance man, who is really a jack of all trades and can do anything! The only thing he didn't want to tackle on his own was moving the propane line and hooking it up to our new tankless hot water heater. Otherwise we are doing everything ourselves.
Oh, also, did I mention that my DS30 is getting married on June 1, 2019? In California. His fiance lives in St. Petersburg, Russia and won't be in the US until the week before the wedding. Because of this, DS30 is planning the whole wedding himself. Except that means I am helping him as much as I can from Arkansas. He had booked a venue, dj and photographer. DH and I are paying for the caterer. Well in the process of talking to his venue and my caterer, we discovered that the venue has a HUGE fly problem, being that it is surrounded on all 4 sides by dairy ranches! So we decided that was a huge NO since it was supposed to be all outside and that was not something we wanted to try and deal with with the food. So we are scrambling at the moment to get a new venue booked so his invitations can go out. Mama is a little stressed!
DS30 and his fiance right after he proposed at the Grand Canyon.
My current plan is to recycle an old Dopey Badger 1/2 marathon plan, just getting as many weeks completed as I have to train in, probably starting next Monday, 2/25. I will probably update this journal with many more house remodeling and wedding updates than training updates but we will see how it goes, lol!
About me. I am 50 year old mom of 2 adult kids, stepmom of 2 adult kids and doggie mom to 3 adorable pups. I started running in 2015 to get ready to run the Disney Wine & Dine race. DD29 and I discovered runDisney after visiting WDW during Princess Weekend 2014. That race ended up being cut short due to storms and lightning in the area so we went back and did Princess in 2016. Then we were hooked! We ran the marathon during Marathon Weekend in 2017, then ran Dopey in 2018. Due to life, our plans for running the marathon again this year were cancelled and we decided to run Star Wars in April of this year instead.
In the midst of training for Star Wars, we decided to completely remodel our house. Yep, we are crazy like that! We are starting with converting part of the house into an in-law suite for my mom. She has lived with us since my dad died of cancer in 2008 and has always just had a bedroom. We decided it was finally time for us all to have some space of our own. Our house is a 1940's farmhouse out in the country. It is currently a 3bdrm 1 bath. We are converting it to a 2 bdrm, 2 bath, with part of that being the in-law suite. I will post pics (a lot!) to show our progress since Christmas, which is when we started tearing things up.
My training has taken a back seat to getting this done. We want to get my mom back in her bedroom as she is currently in DH's office (with her cat) while we are redoing her bedroom. This old house has no insulation so we are adding that as we go. It also has old, old wiring so DH is replacing all that room by room too. Luckily I am married to an ex journeyman carpenter and current maintenance man, who is really a jack of all trades and can do anything! The only thing he didn't want to tackle on his own was moving the propane line and hooking it up to our new tankless hot water heater. Otherwise we are doing everything ourselves.
Oh, also, did I mention that my DS30 is getting married on June 1, 2019? In California. His fiance lives in St. Petersburg, Russia and won't be in the US until the week before the wedding. Because of this, DS30 is planning the whole wedding himself. Except that means I am helping him as much as I can from Arkansas. He had booked a venue, dj and photographer. DH and I are paying for the caterer. Well in the process of talking to his venue and my caterer, we discovered that the venue has a HUGE fly problem, being that it is surrounded on all 4 sides by dairy ranches! So we decided that was a huge NO since it was supposed to be all outside and that was not something we wanted to try and deal with with the food. So we are scrambling at the moment to get a new venue booked so his invitations can go out. Mama is a little stressed!
DS30 and his fiance right after he proposed at the Grand Canyon.
My current plan is to recycle an old Dopey Badger 1/2 marathon plan, just getting as many weeks completed as I have to train in, probably starting next Monday, 2/25. I will probably update this journal with many more house remodeling and wedding updates than training updates but we will see how it goes, lol!
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