WORKOUT -
Ran outside in Newport Beach
14.1 miles/1:55
flat, paved bike path
Since I took nearly a month off from any serious running, I want to build up my mileage and endurance again which means some longer training runs.
I know I can still run a marathon, but man, it didn’t feel like that this morning. I’ve always thought that it’s easier to stay in shape than to get back into shape.
I really struggled the last 2 miles and threw out every inspirational thought I could just to finish…
Think of how good you’ll feel when you’re done… You’ve ran twice this distance before, you can do 14 today… Burn off all those pretzel chips you ate right before bed last night… Make it hurt, it’s not gonna kill you.
It wasn’t pretty but I’m happy I stuck with it instead of walking the last mile like I wanted to.
I was pimping black and pink hard today:
Pink Shoelaces – Fit Approach
Socks – Pro Compression
Shorts – 26.2 Apparel
Ripples and dipples – all mine
Oh, you know you wanna see the cellulite. Here you go:
You’re welcome.
I ran the Mountain to Sea trail near Back Bay and it was great running weather: misty, foggy and windy on the way back. It also did a fabulous number on my hair.
Luckily I have a party to attend tonight so I won’t waste this gorgeous ‘do on nothing.
CLEAN FREAK
When I got home I had to get down to business: cleaning the house while the man was at a meeting. We’re both leaving on Friday for about 10 days so we have to leave the house spotless or he’ll probably die.
Does anyone else’s dog HATE the vacuum cleaner? Marni goes wild over it. She’ll stand right next to it and stare until I move it and then she starts biting it.
She was biting it so hard that it fell over.
Does your pet do anything weird?
Marni really doesn’t except for the vacuum attacking. She doesn’t chew on anything, but she does “hunt” for rabbits, lizards, or birds.
Do you feed your dog table scraps or human food?
I don’t because our vet told us not to, but I know the boy does. I see him sneaking her crap all the time, and then I try to guilt-shame him by saying that she’s going to die of a heart attack.
Anyways I cleaned the whole house, not that hard when you live in a doll house, but I was sweating when vacuuming the stairs. Probably because I had to fend off a 4 lb werewolf.
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Nice job on the 14 miles! You rock, girl. And seriously, I don’t know what you’re smoking, but there is nothin’ that even looks like cellulite. You’ve got great legs! (I mean that in the non-creepiest way possible. hah)
Cute bedroom!
my dog “nibbles” us – socks, legs, hands, the couch, her bed, her toys…basically anything. she nibbles like she’s eating corn on the cob.
she also flips the inside of her ears out when she’s nervous – she’s a lab so she has those big triangle ears. she looks like dumbo. and she’s nervous ALL THE TIME.
she needs xanex.
My dog nibbles too!Toys, people, walls, anything really. I’ve never encountered someone else with a dog that does this, and honestly it makes me feel better! She also “plucks” things and once had to have the vet give her a dose of grease to flush out all of the fur that she had consumed from stuffed toys. You should have seen the colorful presents she left in the backyard.
I haven’t been down to BB since mid-April. I miss it so, so much. Blame the busy life and those kids that I slave to on an hourly basis! I am determined to get back down there by the end of the month.
Nice do…good thing you took a photo in case you want to repeat it sometime.
Our male dog literally attacks the vacuum, and if you’re not careful, he’ll bite your ankle in the process. Our female dog is uh, not so observant, and falls off of furniture all the time.
TOTALLY give our dogs human food/table scraps. We can’t resist their begging eyes. Total suckers. My dog Guinness hates this medicine that we had to give him once, so now if we look at him and open any bottle (that remotely looks like the medicine bottle) he starts making this crazy face and sneezing and running away from us. It is the FUNNIEST thing I have ever seen in my life. I really need to record it already b/c the world NEEDS to see it so they can pee there pants laughing. And then maybe I can go on the Today show.
Love seeing the pictures of your house! I love your style … can you come decorate my new house??
I can NOT leave out of town with a dirty house, must come home to a fully clean and organized house. I have plans to clean the heck out of my place tonight and can’t stand that I am still stuck here at work when I would much rather be home cleaning. Sad but true, I hate a dirty/messy house that much.
One of our dogs gets his own ice cubes from the icemaker, and the rest of them help clean up. We’re so used to it that we don’t think anything of it, but when we had some friends over for dinner, Jasper hopped up and did his thing, and they just stopped mid-sentence and stared. We forgot that it’s not really normal… Enjoy.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqG7rRrHsrc
My dogs love ice more than any other treat. I MUST teach Omar and to fetch his own now (I think Eth is too short, but she’ll be great for clean-up duty)! That is the most awesome thing ever.
That is awesome! My 12 pound dog would love it if she had a friend who could help her out, haha!
That is sooo hilarious!!! My golden LOVES ice cubes and will run from anywhere for an ice cube when he hears it turn on. If he knew how to dipense them himself, he wouldn’t ever leave the fridge. How often does Jasper get ice cubes for himself and his buddies?
He does it pretty much daily, especially when we get back from a walk. Fortunately, he doesn’t usually do it when we’re gone during the day, but we do occasionally come home to cold puddles in the kitchen; he prefers ones that have been freshly dispensed over the ones that have hit the floor. Clearly his palate is much more sophisticated than the pug’s.
Bungee is terrified of the vacuum. When I open the closet door she hides under the dining room table.
She does all kinds of weird things. Most recent is her obsession with fleece. It’s like doggy crack. She gets upset when I put her blanket in the wash. Have you given Marni anything fleece before? I’ve heard this isn’t an abnormal dog response.
The best, though, is that Bungee is so excited for treats (because we don’t feed her from the table) that as soon as you bring them out, she’ll cycle through all of the tricks she knows before you even give her a command.
My dog bites the darn vacuum cleaner too… I mean hating it is one thing from the noise, but biting it.. I just don’t understand. I only feed her “whole” human food… like plain lettuce when I’m making a salad- but I definitely am guilty of letting her “clean up” dropped foods without intervening from time to time.
My yorkie does the same thing. She totally acts like she is saving me from the big bad yellow Dyson. She also hates me when I bring her home from the groomer. She will completely ignore me for the rest of the day. So funny…so werid.
YES!! My pugs do the exact same thing, it’s so goofy. They stick their faces right up to the vacuum and then bark and try to “eat” it!!!!
I have an 80 pound chocolate lab, and she runs away from the vacuum! She never barks. Really, I don’t think she knows how.
rofl! my male chihuahua destorys our dyson!!
Ummmm I don’t know where you think you see cellulite, but I think you’re seeing things
My cellulite could eat your cellulite for breakfast.
Your dog is awesome, I love that she tries to attack the vacuum cleaner!! My dog is surprisingly cool with the vacuum, but she has lots of other weird fears. She doesn’t like any stuffed animals that can sing or talk! I have a stuffed Lazy-Boy raccoon that sings the Lazy-Boy song when you squeeze its paw – and the dog HATES it! Even when it’s not singing she just sits there and barks at it or gives it weird looks, it’s hilarious.
Can I borrow your 4lb werewolf? My vaccum just broke, maybe he can scare it back to life … (My dog is worthless and runs from the broom.)
Cellulite, schmellulite. I don’t see any. I used to have a dog and he would hide from the vacuum. It was pretty entertaining.
I literally laughed the entire way through this post. Good job. Marni is vicious!!!
Our german shepherd HATES the vacuum… perhaps it’s because I’ve used one of the attachments and attempted to get some of her loose hair off??
We also rarely feed her table food. I just don’t like when pets beg and she really doesn’t because she’s 7 and we never gave in when she was little.
When my oldest dog Coty was a pup, instead of using a baby gate to keep her out of a room, we would just put the vacuum in the doorway because she was terrified of it and wouldn’t go within 10 feet of it. Eventually when she got older (5-6years old) she finally started to bite it while I’d vacuum…..then she’d run away and hide. Pretty funny.
Right now, my dingaling of a young pup Madison can’t even walk across the hardwood floors without terrifying herself…..you’d think it was quicksand or something evil with how she flees across the room from mat to rug to mat….too funny.
My boxer likes to hop up on the back of the couch (that’s against the window) and curl up like a cat. She gets in the strangest positions!
And uh, I’d kill for your legs. I just registered for the Tinkerbell Half next January and my goal is to look as good as you in an Ariel costume…not gonna happen, but maybe I can come close!
haha thank you.
It’s so funny that your little bitty dog takes on the loud vacuum. Our dog is a big dog and she runs from it when we turn it on! She’s over weight and what makes me angry is that we rarely feed her table food. Cheese here and there and maybe a treat or two but that’s it. Literally she’s mostly dog food. We’ve started walking and feeding her less. I figured this walking will be a good excuse to try starting a couch to 5K program… better late than never.
Bummer, I will be at Newport beach on Friday June 22nd! Would love to meet you and see you out running, but I guess we won’t meet up. Looking forward to a family vacation in Southern California. Nice run!
My dog, Bella, HATES the vacuum but LOVES the hand held vacuum. She loves the hand held one so much that she actually sits and lets us “vacuum” her. She also uses my hair dryer more than I do. She is a diva!
My dog will bark at us if we put on any type of hat – mainly sombrero type hats. She goes nuts & just barks at us until we take the hat off.
We rarely give her table scraps but we do give her apple pieces, watermelon, carrots & ice cubes. She is obsessed with watermelon. I can’t blame her.
Oh yes, I hate the vacuum. My cat runs from it. However my cat loves re-usable grocery bags and licks plastic bags. Very odd cat.
My mother got a rumba thing, and the cats ignore it. Though, one of the cats tried to ride it once; but in the process of it she turned it off.
My hair goes super weird when I run in the humidity/rain, too. It gets super ratty and impossible to brush!
Harold (my dog) hates the vacuum, too. He doesn’t chew it though!
He’s a serious mouse hunter and squirrel chaser. He actually caught a mouse in our back yard the other day. Shudder.
Is that a wood paneled wall behind your bed or just “wood-like/looking” paint? Did your house come with shutters or did you install those? Very cute and lets in nice light!
its actually a grass/bamboo wallpaper and the plantain shutters were in the house when we bought it.
My Rottie, Summer, hates the broom. I have hardwood floors and sweep them two or three times a week (I’m lying of course), and she goes nuts over the broom. Like I’m stealing her essence! Good job running! I’m working my way back up to my half mileage.
OMG I feel you on the matted ponytail hair. I swear mine always tries to turn in to dreadlocks. It’s gotten to the point that I have to braid the ponytail or put 2 or 3 elastics down the length of it. Otherwise I’m left torturing myself with the hairbrush later.
My dog also attacks the vacuum! I tried the Ceasar Milan technique but it really didn’t work. There’s also a chance I didn’t do it correctly… I just put her in her kennel when I vacuum now. Problem solved!
We feed our cats wet food when we eat dinner. The one cat (that weighs about 6 lbs) gobbles his up in 2.2 seconds. The other cat (that weighs 17 lbs) dawdles to the point where we have to yell at the first cat to not go in the kitchen cuz he’ll eat his food. He may or may not finish it at the end of the night. No matter how much we give him, he just won’t eat it all and will take a few bites in a few trips to the kitchen… SO weird.
OK..my mutt USE to attack and bark wildly at the vacuum UNTIL I pulled a Ceasar M. on her. Oh, YES I DID!!! I actually put on her leash and then tied it around my waist so she was literally by my side the entire time I vacuumed the ENTIRE house. Probably about 20 minutes worth of “becoming one with me and the vacuum”. At first she barked but, then realized it did NO GOOD.
Now?
She sees the vacuum come out and DOES NOTHING! IT WORKED two thumbs up to the Dog Whisperer for that one!
Ha ha ha, we don’t have a dog but when my daughter was a toddler, she hated the vacuum. She would cry and yell at me to stop using it. She was really afraid of it and it would make me laugh – I’m so mean!
Our bull terrier watches tv and movies- like a person. She gets into some shows more than others, loves soaps, growls at bad guys, and oh, yeah, attacks the TV during the news any time there’s a terrorist pictured. Or a giant tortoise. She’s weird. Then our presa, he’s just a doofus. The biggest baby ever, he cries when he’s shut out of the bedroom in the morning, or when my husband leaves, or when he thinks his fat @$$ needs more food after inhaling bowl #2 of the day. He’s such a baby. But they’re both so, so sweet, it makes their idiocy worth it!
My ponytail does the same thing after a long run so I usually braid it. I never go out of town unless the house it spotless! I love coming back to a clean house. Love all you pictures. Your house if beautiful.
Oh stop! You totally do not have cellulite! Your like totally ripped!!!! Great job on the 14 miler:)
My chihuahua is afraid of flies and bees. Really anything that buzzes around his ears. When we go camping he spends the day in the tent till the bugs stop flying. It’s weird and funny.
my princess has Alzheimers and is maybe going blind. she barks at the dogs that live with us. Yes the ones she hangs out with all day. She will bark at them like they are an intruder and I need to be protected.
she is 10 years old on borrowed time so we excuse her behavior.
Alzheimers is rare in dogs. Ask your vet about treatment for canine cognitive dysfunction and ask them to do a neurologic exam to see if she could have a brain tumor.
Okay, you are too much. Hope you got to rock that hair to your fun party. It usually takes me a VERY long time to get those out. Ha. I want your vacuum by the way. Oh and your clean house.
Your 14 is way better my 6 this morning. Hey, take it easy on yourself. Soon you’ll be hitting 20s and 26.
BA! Cellulite! No way! You just wait til you get a load of my orange peel thighs then you’ll know cellulite… haha. My Mum had a dog that was crazy scared of anything louder than a human talking voice – funny until she got so scared she would wee – Oops!
The dog, not my Mum, that is
Your closet is freaking amazing! I love a good organized closet
My dog is afraid of the vacuum (70 lb lab) he usually tries to get away from it and goes in the room I’m headed into next. He’s also afraid of water, Aren’t labs suppose to save people in water??
Yup he gets table scraps, usually just meat, but he’ll eat anything except fruit.
My dogs try to attack the vacuum cleaner too! Though they run scared from headphone, the telephone, automatic open umbrellas, spinning dusters, the list could go on. My dogs are scaredy-cats most of the time.
Love your house!
We all give our little 8lb dog Chico table scraps, especially my 4 yr old. She always explains that “he’s hungry too, mommy”!
I also have a yorkie, though he’s twice Marni’s size at a whopping 9 pounds. He’s a total heffer. But, he does strange things too. He defends me against both the vacuum and steam mop (they’re out to get me), and thoroughly enjoyed chewing the basements when he got neutered and had to wear a cone. I think it was in retaliation.
I read a quote recently that the distinguishing feature between Man and Animal is Man’s lack of fear of the vacuum cleaner (also probably that we invented it but that’s a minor detail).
There are 2 much more important reasons to monitor table scrap feeding: obesity and pancreatitis. The latter is a terrible way to die and unfortunately if your pet develops pancreatitis there’s no way to predict if it will be a mild, treatable case or and ill-fated, mortal one. Vegetables (not onions or rutabaga greens) and fruit (not grapes and no apple seeds) are generally acceptable to feed from the table. It’s the fatty or spicy stuff you really have to worry about.
Oh gosh, my parents’ dog does so many weird things! For one, when my mom pulls the blender out to make something he starts going crazy. He starts barking and running in circles then as soon as she starts it he bolts into the other room and starts grabbing toys. Also, everytime we let him outside he ALWAYS has to run a lap around the house before doing anything else. He’s also way too smart for his own good–he loves chasing laser pointers but we can’t even say the word anymore (or SPELL it) because he starts freaking out in anticipation. I swear some dogs are smarter than humans! lol
My hair gets like that too! Actually one time a bird landed on it because I think he thought it was a nest. TRUE STORY.
WOW. now that is impressive.
Ugh my dad is a sucker for giving our golden retreiver and german shepherd people food. He’s either throwing them potato chips, spooning them blobs of peanut butter, or letting them go to town on near empty ice cream containers.
My naughty little black pug HATES the vaccum cleaner. He starts going crazy when he hears the cord being pulled out before it is even plugged in. I have to put him in the backyard while I clean;)
My 14lb Yorkie-Bichon mix does that to our Hoover! She goes NUTS and bites the vacuum and yanks the brush off the end of the upright. She even barks at it. I think she’s under the impression that she’s beating up the Hoover monster.
As far as table scraps, we’ll give our dogs lettuce, rice, chicken and watermelon. They don’t get any unhealthy processed foods from us.
Your cellulite is most womens’ dream problem
You go girl!
My Jack Russell goes crazy when we get a new garbage bag out to put in the trash basket. He barks and barks and runs around in circles. Also, when ANYONE sneezes, he starts barking like a crazy dog and jumps on the poor person, scaring the crap out of them. He only gets dog food, but he’s completely addicted to Beggin’ Strips treats.
My cat likes to be spanked… No seriously, the harder the better too. She comes up and sticks her butt in your
direction until you oblige. I even looked it up online and other cats like it too. It’s really embarrassing to have to explain it to a pet sitter and my mom flat out refused to do it when I first explained that she just had to when watching her.
I give my cats chicken sometimes and maybe a tiny shred of cheese every once in a while, I can’t resist their begging.
I swear that my dog thinks the vacuum is some sort of god to whom he needs to make constant sacrifices so that it will go away and leave us all alone. If he is inside he jumps around in front of it and tries to give it balls, toys, anything he can get his jaws on. I push them out of the way and he just gets them and does it again. If I put him outside, he barks the ENTIRE time I’m vacuuming so that he can be let in to appease it. It would probably be hilarious if he didn’t weigh 100 lbs and wasn’t the reason I have to vacuum every other day.
My Yorkie hates the duster. She follows me around yipping at it. Does Marni think she can beat up big dogs? Mine does. She has no fear and weighs in at 3 lbs (she was 2.5lbs, but I have been giving her treats). I do give her people food sometimes because she was so tiny I could feel her ribs. Not anymore, I’ve plumped her up! So proud.
Love that comforter! Been looking for one like it…where is it from?? Thanks
We got it at TJ Maxx homegoods i believe. it was just a cheap one and not too thick, not that we need a thick one in SoCal, but we should have bought a duvet cover because now its getting stained and dirty.
My 18mo old toddler thinks he’s a dog and barks “woo, woo” whenever he sees a dog or hears a dog or a big truck, no lie. When I vacuum he shouts as loud as he can to be heard over the vacuum hum and follows me around!
We don’t have a dog but my cat is SO scared of the vacuum cleaner. Hafta put her out before i turn it on! Oh, and tell Jaymo the reason we don’t have a dog anymore is I fed her table scraps (and my kids were itty bitty then…had a LOT of scraps from each meal…ok, i was really overdoing it..) and she got heavy and developed diabetes…had really crazy high sugar levels that even daily shots weren’t getting down so she got really really skinny and died. It is a sad story and i’m not trying to make you cry, but don’t do like i did and use the dog as a quieter vacuum cleaner b/c it wasn’t a good idea!
Wash your nasty hair. GROSS!
Love ya!
Yesterday, my dog totally freaked out about the pressure cooker. So weird!
I wonder what Marni would with a Roomba. I belt that would make her go batsh*t.
Caught my cat chowing on my curry pho soup last night, actually eating the bamboo shoots. good thing I was done…can never leave food out.
I used to have the ponytail trauma too, living in Hawaii was deadly to the locks…humidity + super salty = dry, brittle, impossible to comb; preparing it for even a short run was a chore. Hacked it off to shoulder length, miss the long but not the labor.
My cat likes to chew on anything metal and plastic bags…as well as ripping off all the toilet paper from the roll. Maybe she just misses me while I am at work…or just hates me!
P.S. – Way to rock black & pink!!!
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