Trying New Things

Three new things happened this week.

1) David and I started training for a half marathon.  We don't have an actual race picked out (most of the big races in the East happen on a Sunday, so we can't choose those races), but we still started training.  Week 1 is done!  11 more weeks to go... yikes!  Let's hope I continue pushing forward with this training schedule. 

 2) We put a mouse trap behind our portable dishwasher.  David is convinced we don't have any mice.  I am a little skeptical.  We live in a Philadelphia row home built in 1925.  In the cupboard below the kitchen sink we have steelwool tucked in all the crevices and mouse poison (courtesy of previous tennants).  We haven't seen any mice or any of their droppings....that is, until the other day. 

I was pulling the portable dishwasher out to do my usual routine of cleaning the kitchen floor, when I noticed 3 black specks that looked like minature, tiny poop.  I immediately surfed the web for pictures of mice droppings- since I wasn't exactly sure what they looked like.  My heart dropped when the pictures I saw matched the little specks I found on my kitchen floor.  I didn't want mice! 

About a week later I pulled out the dishwasher again and found 3 more droppings.  So David and I went to our local Pathmark (which I'm sure has their own fair share of mice) to buy some mouse traps.  $1.69 later we walked out with 2 nasty little traps.  David set the trap with peanut butter as our bait.  We put it behind the dishwasher and waited to catch the little culprit.

That was a week ago.  The trap is still sitting there- with peanut butter on it- and no mouse.  How long does it take to catch a mouse?  I check everyday for little Mickey to get trapped.  Even though David saw the droppings, he still thinks that we don't have any mice.

This is the extra mouse trap, which I hope we never have to use.

3) I got a blister.  Today I ran 3.1 miles for my half marathon training.  I wore a new pair of asic socks.  They were called the Hera Sleek.  The socks were a very pretty pink color, and felt very thin and nice. However, they gave me a blister on my heel.  Great!  I rarely get blisters.  But I got one today.

I am not going to wear those socks again- but instead I will stick with my Feetures socks (which I love!)  I wore them when I hiked Mt. Timp 2 years ago and didn't get a single blister!  My body felt like it was going to fall apart, but my feet were blister free!

Please do not zoom in on the picture.  You will probably find a crusty heel and some stray leg hairs that the razor skipped over today.