Wonderful weekend

The sun has finally decided to shine this weekend and had perfect timing for Karen's 50K for her 50th birthday! Went out to Karens parents house in Hillsboro to hang out and catch up over dinner which was fabulous and much needed after our busy lives have sabotaged regular phone calls since me moving up to Portland. Where able to review pictures from her trip to Hawaii in Feb and show the pictures from the wedding and catch up on everything else going on in our lives.

Kristen came to town from Bend which made it extra fun as well. So wonderful to have her around for a few days, even though its never enough, we are continuing to develop a schema to move me to bend eventually, and work on a visit sooner.

*At the 15 miles mark/turn around point*

9 miles of walking around Forest Park in conjunction with Karens 50K Fat Ass Birthday run, with KC I and II (bf is a KC too) and boyfriends friend Pedro resulted in the same 5 conversations being had over and over again, but some good witted humor and poking fun of. And the sun shining made everyone enjoy it that much more. Oh and Ruby (the pup) joined as well.

Karen completed her 50K and we had a l-iner at the Oak Creek McMenamins Brew Pub and then completed the evening with a nap, showers, and Adult Mac and Cheese and Steaks cooked on the Tregar Grill.

A long day interrupted by a minor medicine mis-hap (conclusion of the story - always remark medicine bottles if something different is in it then the label says, even if you live alone or with one other person, and always ask about med's when you are a friends house looking for ibuprofen : ) )  but everyone is ok and survived.

In other news, looks like I should be able to move to the 7-5 Sun-Tuesday position at work, which should make everything and everyone a bit happier. No getting home at 11:30 pm and needing an hour to un-wind. Normal dinner times, and the potential to attend planning meetings and network more for a real planning job. Also still maintaining full time status and benefits at work, and the ability to pick up an additional shift to keep my 40 hours. Paperwork is being done and the last few that need to be talked to to make the switch happen is occurring, could be as early as next week! Excellent.

I hope you are all doing well, feeling healthy, and getting some of the sunshine and warmth that seems to be on the verge of spring/summer.

Any ideas of what I should do for my birthday??... 26 days and counting.

Oh and I found a few pictures of Kristen's 10K from Run with the Roses a few weekends ago here in Portland, so here are those!