Finally!

The snow is about half melted, and I can now see the ice in the harbour peeking out from under its winter blanket. There are birds chirping and every sign that spring has not forgotten us up here in the tundra. My Honda and I are sporting the latest in designer fashion by wearing matching (mud)beige polka-dots on all our clothing, LOL! With the hills here, everything is melting and running down the roads, leaving puddles and small rivers everywhere. Needless to say, I splash through a lot of them riding back and forth, ergo the fashionable splatter-look. I am driving more this year as I think that is what kept the battery from keeping its charge last year. Ta-dum, I love my Honda!

The preparations for our 5K racing trip are well in hand. We have bought out the canteen, and are now running it daily. I am ordering in supplies and keeping my accounting records straight. Still waiting on the cheque from Sport Nunavut but we fortunately have raised enough to have been able to book our hotel and pay for our airline tickets out of our account. If all else fails, I will use one dedicated credit card for our expenses and simply sign out the cash to pay it off as soon as the cheque arrives (it's in the mail, natch!) We fly out on May 30th, and our itinerary includes a day at the Manitoba Museum, a day at the Assiniboine Zoo, a Goldeyes baseball game, some time exercising and scoping out the race course, and of course some quality shopping and movie time at Portage Place Mall. I am VERY excited, and so are the first four lucky runners! At least four more going to Montreal in October for a 10K, and maybe more if we can afford it. We now have 18 registered runners in the club and growing. I may have to break into Junior and Senior divisions...

Today I finally had my own first really good run in a long time. My hip is still bothering me, and I may have pulled or torn a ligament. I cannot lift my leg very well, and it is impossible to bend it to the side. I have to put my clothing on the floor to step into, and I find it challenging to put on socks or slippers. The left leg is fine, but the right one needs some TLC. Anyhow, after limping through a bare mile for the last few weeks I ran 4 miles today, a full hour, and felt like I could have gone much longer. I decided not to push it and left it feeling smugly content with myself.

Lots of fundraising ahead of us: Movie Nights every Saturday, two Music Nights, one Arctic Records concert night, and two cakewalk/yarn pull nights with another community showing of the film "People of a Feather" starring our own Mary Kavik's family here in Sanikiluaq. It will be coming with me for family showing this summer. Nice to be able to show others my town and community members!

We're also down to our last few weeks in the school calendar! Where has the year flown? I have my tickets home booked and paid, and my plans for several jaunts hither and yon made. I am most looking forward to my trip to Thailand. Now if only the price of the tickets would begin to drop...

Off to eat some lunch after my run...brought the fixings with me to work and I'll go get everything ready in the kitchen. The Jell-o and the monster cookies are made for tonight's movie, my canteen cart has been inventoried, pop is chilling in the fridge and we are set to roll.

TTFN!

Terri