Better. Faster. Stronger.

Yay! Finally, the sickness is gone around here and the rain finally let up long enough for me to go for a run. I even ran halfway up the big hill! Go me! I did 1.86 miles in 26 minutes 20 seconds. Faster than last time! Yay!

Okay, enough with the exclamation points. We'll see how my legs do and how my long run goes on Saturday. Assuming, of course, that it doesn't rain or something.

I'm so glad the Menace is feeling better. Poor little thing. She was just so pathetic for a couple of days. She just curled up into a little ball on the floor and watched cartoons for about three days. She couldn't keep hardly any food down, and was only marginally better on fluids.

We had another little blow last week. My parents raise horses, and my old horse that I was mine when I was a kid had to be put down. He was 37 years old (in case you're wondering, that's really old for a horse). He's been an old man for as long as I've known him. His health had really declined in the last year or so, but it was still sad. I hope he's in horse Heaven, kicking up his heels now.

Maybe it was because we were feeling sad about Mr. Pibb, or maybe it was just because we were suckers, but the Menace saw this kitty at PetsMart the other day that she instantly bonded with. She's been begging for a kitty "of her own" for months now. We've got two other cats, but in her mind, one of them is Daddy's and one of them is mine, so she needs one of her own. We discussed it over the weekend, and went back and forth. We finally caved and went in first thing Monday morning to get him. She is so excited. He really is a good kitty. Our only issue is that he has claws (the other cats are declawed) and our dogs need to learn some manners. We don't want to start off with any bad feelings, so we're introducing everyone very slowly. So far so good. We've only had one incident where a dog got too close, and I managed to pull Mr. Kitty off before any real damage was done. It's been an adventure though, with no end in sight at the moment.

So that's my week. Hopefully my legs don't hurt too badly tomorrow, because with all of these animals running around here, I'm having to vacuum double time now. Oh, and I broke an important piece off of the vacuum last week. It still works, but if I sit in one spot without moving for too long, it burns and melts the carpet. Awesome.