Kiki Danger does...nothing

So,  I have been trying to figure out a new blog post for awhile. I don't want my blog to be all about running so I didn't want to do another running/fitness related one. So  I have been racking my brain. But, as it turns out there hasn't been anything terribly noteworthy going on lately. Most days I love love love what I do. Unfortunately, lately my job has ground to a halt. Here has been my agenda for today:

 2 hours at the gym.....






Yep, that's all. That is what I've accomplished for today. I'll get to the punchline...it's been that way for probably close to a month. We are in what they call a "transition time". Apparently that also means "come to work and dreamscape". So, I sit here day after day. My home life hasn't been any more exciting. Mr. Danger has had an intense schedule at school that has resulted in early mornings, late evenings, and sleep, for everyone, including the Danger-ettes. So its been rinse, lather and repeat at the Danger household.

I don't want to keep my adoring public (all two of you) waiting. So, here are 10 "interesting" facts about me:

1. I use "so" a LOT. I have tried to self edit out of previous posts, but as you can see in this one, I will put so in front of nearly every sentence. It's probably my favorite transition word so...

2. I love using the ellipsis...I love it so much that I won't edit myself on that. I could probably put it in every sentence I ever write...ever. I think every sentence can be improved by a well placed...pause. I love it so much that I have contemplated getting an ellipsis tattooed on me. I have had several people tell me this is dumb...including Mr. Danger.

3. I go full on rage when I see someone leave their grocery cart outside of the wrangler. Seriously, if you can put it up on a curb, you can walk your lazy ass over to the god damn wrangler. It's not fucking rocket science. I once tried to wrangle carts at Costco due to lazy jackasses...however, their carts are super heavy, and even more so when you try and wrangle multiples at a time. I'll just say this, that Honda I hit didn't have any noticeable damage. 

4. I still know all the words to the Beastie Boys Paul Revere. When it comes on I will crank it up and sing a-long.  I love singing the words to any songs I know. I try and sing out loud when I'm at the gym on the treadmill. I have an awful voice and I don't care. 

5. Until this year I could not spell restaurant with out spell check helping me out. I was fine with the "rest" part after that I would just putting random vowels together until it looked close enough, hit the space bar to get the squiggly red line and then fixed it. 

6. I hate click-bait stories on the internet. Any story that begins with "You thought he was going to tie a knot with the string, but you have no clue what happens next, it's amazing and beautiful" I refuse to click on, no matter how much I want to know WHAT IN THE LOVE OF GOD HAPPENS WITH THE STRING?!?!?!?!?!?!?!

7. I love spreadsheets. Specifically excel spreadsheets. I get a little bit giddy when its time to redo the Danger budget each year. I'm not even that good at it. I don't really know advanced formulas or anything. I just love the sum feature and making things different colors. 

8. Mr. Danger and I have been playing a 16 year long train game. The game goes like this...if you drive under train tracks with a train going over it and you don't hold the roof up and the other person does they get a point. The highlight of this game was when I got 3, yes 3, points in ONE DAY. You know  the odds of that?? It's crazy high I'm sure. At one point I was up by like 10 points. I went through a very very bad train game time after the kids we born....where he actually evened the score. It was 0-0 for a long time. I've finally recovered and am +1 again. The best part of getting a point is the gloating you get to do afterwards. 

9. I have 12 closed piercings, I'll let you guess where they were. 

10. I once gave myself a hickey on my chin by seeing how long I could stand a drinking cup suctioned to it. Turns out, I can leave it on for hours and hours. High school was uncomfortable for me because of things like this. 

Kiki Danger does...Things to the Max.

Last time I left you I was boohooing about my legs and their stupid shin splints and how I really needed to take things a bit more easily. 

Well, since then I decided to says balls on that and go in the exact opposite direction. I decided I'm going to do a 5k every month for the year. I decided to join the challenge 2,015 miles in 2015. You can join here. I got actual running shoes, that don't bruise the crap out of the tips of my toes. I got some sweet running socks and even actual running pants.

My first 5k went almost as good as I had hoped. I got a wicked stitch in my side right around the second mile that forced me to walk about a quarter of a mile, which I will blame for me finishing about 2 minutes slower than I wanted to. But, I felt really good after I finished. So good, I immediately went home and scarfed down all the food in the house signed up for my second 5k of the year. Which just happened to be the following weekend.

In my part of the country winter is winter, usually cold weather and snow sometimes ice. When I signed up for my second 5k that was going to be on superbowl Sunday at the stadiums, the weather report was calling for 40's and sunny skies. I watched with growing horror every day as the weather report got worse and worse. From 40s to 30s to high of 31 to snow to wind, gusts up to 28mph and snow....

I had mentally and physically prepared myself for snow and cold. Anyone who knows me knows that the cold turns me into a whiny bitch  more of a whiny bitch than I am in my everyday life. I have been know to make a low growl from the second I go out in the cold to the second I get warm again. So, this run was going to be all about mind over matter. When I opened the garage door to leave for the run...it was POURING down rain. And it was so cold that the rain was slushing up everywhere. I wanted to cry. I wanted to go back inside. I considered getting a trash bag to run in.

As luck would have it the closer I got to the stadiums the less it was raining. I won't lie and say the rain cleared the sun came out and it was a perfect 50 degree running day. No, I got a little bit of all the weathers. Rain, sleet, snow, wind. But, more importantly I did it. I made it through, in fact I enjoyed it a little bit and I cut 1 minute 9 seconds off my time from the week before.