Dear BB

I miss your smile
I miss your wisdom
I miss your guidance
I miss your kindness
I miss your comfort
I even miss your Bob Marley - sometimes
I miss your books
I miss your letters
I miss your notes
I miss your tea making calls
I miss your humour
I miss your conversation

I miss you.

Love you always,
SGB

the finish line

We did it. It's all over.

We really couldn't have asked for a better day. It was a cool 15 degrees partly cloudy and little wind; ideal conditions for the race. Let me tell you though, 5:30am came very quickly Sunday morning. It was so early we had to force down food and hope we had left enough time to digest. We started in the lobby with hundreds of other runners huddling to keep warm for an extra few minutes before venturing out to the start canals.

When the time came we made our way to the purple canal, which was not an easy task with thousands of other runners lined up and trying to get to their spots too. We finally arrived and started looking for our pace bunny. We decided to make a finish time of 2 hours and 15 minutes our goal. This was a bit of a stretch from our training time but not so much to be unrealistic. Once we got going I stuck to that pace bunny like my life depended on it. At least for the first few kilometers until I got my stride. The pace bunnies run with a specific end time in mind so that you can keep up with them and know when you will finish approximately. Very handy!

From the start gun we started moving forward finally crossing the start line. Then it was game time - Kilometer after kilometer. It truly was an amazing experience. Looking ahead of me all I could see was a mass of people from edge to edge of the street and as far as my eyes could see. Crazy! The last two kilometers almost killed me but somehow I made it through. Finish time 2 hours and 10 minutes. What a feeling! Crossing that finish line was such an amazing feeling and such a rush. The whole event was just so exciting with all the people lining the race way and people calling out my name, all the music along the way and people dressed up in funny costumes and the pure energy of thousands and thousands of runners.

I managed to raise almost $400 for the Sunshine Foundation and I managed to cross the finish line at a personal best and do it with such great friends. What a great day!










Pre race bib problems





Vic and I at 7AM















Finished the race











Thank god for these blankets!













That's a big check mark on my bucket list! CHECK!!

give me your money!

It is finally that time. The race is exactly one week from today. By this time next week it will all be over. 18 weeks of preparation, countless hours of running, 2 pairs of shoes, night after night of training - ok, I didn't work that hard, but pretty hard! :)

I am raising money for the Sunshine Foundation. This is a wonderful organization; please go to their website and see all the amazing things they are doing every day. This wonderful organization once granted a with to a very special personal and family close to my heart. It is so important that we do anything we can to help them keep helping other families.

To sponsor me on my run and thereby support this great Foundation please click here:

Sponsor Susie and Sunshine!

Thank you for your support - I will do you proud or collapse trying...

jackets

I love both of these looks. The jackets are so great!

Too bad it was the jeans that were up for sale...

new computer

So I came home the other night and I got a huge present! A new computer!! Den bought it for me for completing my half marathon - only, I haven't actually done it yet. Turns out he is as bad as me at keeping secrets so he gave it to me early :) And I love it! It's fun to put all the settings exactly as I want them. I suppose I have no excuses now to not be the best blogger I can be :P

Thank you honey, I love it!

free is my favourite!

Today I received a free sample of Pond's cleansing & makeup removing towelettes with my Chatelaine magazine. Yes, Chatelaine - don't judge me I love it. So being the lover of free stuff that I am I tried them out tonight and WOW, I love them. I am always looking for the quickest and easiest way to remove make up, that isn't greasy, too foamy, too smelly, travels well - yes I've tried a lot of these - and these Pond's are great!

Five stars for the Ponds! (If you are from Pond's and for some reason reading my blog, please send me more).

burning out

It was bound to happen; too much work, too much life, too much stress. I officially have my first cold of the season. Stuck in bed for most of the weekend trying desperately to get over it before Monday. It's sad when you are literally too busy with work to take a day off when sick. I also missed my 20k run this morning because of this silly cold. It is hard to run when you can't get your breath walking up your house stairs! I also can't breath out of my nose, which is also a problem when trying to run. sigh.. I hope it doesn't set me too far back considering I only have 2 weeks till the big race! Two weeks! Better get better soon.

Back to bed...

animal lover

Don't judge me but I love animal prints. I am in love with these Louboutin's; how could you not be? Gorgeous.

rhetorical questions

At what point do you admit the truth? If only you know the truth. And life is easier pretending.

At what time do you make the right decision? Even if it would change your life?

What would it take? And, could you do it?

Would you spend your whole life wondering?

Could you live with the decisions you chose?

Hmmm.

Mess to some, comfort to others

Ewok resting in the disaster that is my dressing room, or what was a disaster but has since been tidied up.

Girls Weekend

Vic and I went to Toronto this weekend to visit with our friend Kristin. Kristin`s been away in Korea doing PhD stuff for the last several months and this was our first opportunity to catch up. We spend Saturday shopping, chatting and and roaming around Toronto - good times! Vic arrived in time for dinner so went over to the Mill Street Pub in the Distillery District. What a cool place. Kristin lives basically across the street, which was super convenient and she has been to the pub before and knew the food was great. After dinner we headed out to Chovski`s for some drinks and fun. We had the two funniest bar tenders (picture below). With their help we drank way too much but had a really fun time!

Cityslips...Genius!

Today I came across a new item I have never seen before and I bought them immediately! Cityslips!! What a fantastic idea. So, you have a meeting, event, interview etc to go to that require you bust out a great pair of your trendiest heals, but you don't necessary want to wear the heels to walk to the event, all night at the event or after the big meeting/interview - what do you do?? Take your Cityslips in your bag/briefcase and as soon as you don't need your heels anymore whip them off and put on the slips. The flats fold up super small in their own little bag, then the little bag transforms into a larger tote to carry the heels you were sporting for the event. Brilliant!

They are pretty inexpensive and large on convenience and saving your feet from harm!

Look them up or order online at: Cityslips Genius!