OMG you guys my half-marathon starts in like nine hours!!!
I really don’t think I’m going to be able to sleep tonight.
Today was such a great day! I slept in until like noon (seriously) then planned to go meet Tiffany to lay out by her pool. But I didn’t have a swimsuit, so of course first I had to go to the mall, which I told Tiff would take me like an hour, but that was a gigantic lie. I decided to stop by Lucy to get Spandex shorts, and, as I was walking there, I passed a girl who looked a lot like Jordin Sparks. But I thought to myself, “No, that girl’s too heavy to be Jordin Sparks.” I saw not-Jordin walk into Marciano, and, by the time I had purchased my Lucy shorts, I thought maybe it was Jordin Sparks after all. So I went to Marciano, and she wasn’t in there, so I knew she had to be in a dressing room. I couldn’t just stand there staring at the dressing rooms, waiting — by the way, I have no idea why it was so important for me to know if this was Jordin Sparks — so I started grabbing dresses from the racks. Finally a sales girl was like, “Can I put those in a room for you?” I knew this was a brilliant way for me to get closer to maybe-Jordin, so I said sure. When I went back to try them on, definitely-Jordin was walking out of her dressing room. It was definitely Jordin Sparks! But then I couldn’t just be like, “Oh, mystery solved, I’m outtie.” So I ended up trying on the dresses, and then the salesgirl brought me these REALLY cute shoes to try on with them, and I loved it all, and I don’t even want to tell you guys how much I ended up spending at Marciano, where I wouldn’t have even been if I hadn’t been stalking Jordin Sparks around Fashion Square. Sigh.
Next I went to MAC — pre-teen girl I passed on the way: “Let’s go to the Em-Ay-See store!” — to buy my favorite black eyeliner, because I’m pretty sure Kate’s sister is currently in possession of my old one. That of course took forever, because everything at MAC always takes forever. I wanted to be like, “Listen, you poor, poor girls who have to wear fake eyelashes to work: I don’t want to steal this eyeliner, I really don’t, but it also shouldn’t take me 20 minutes to be permitted to pay for it.” Lastly, I went to Everything But Water, where I got a super-cute swimsuit that I’m in love with.
Finally, I made it to Tiff’s, and it was 3:30 by this point, but we sat out at the pool until like 4:45, when her Mom came to usher us inside before we turned into prunes. In Seattle, it would have been dark by 4:45. In Scottsdale, I was in a sunny swimming pool.
Around 7:30, I headed up to my mom’s for my carbo-loading dinner. My sister arrived last night with her boyfriend and two other friends from school, and my mom did a fantastic job of cooking us all a carbo-tastic dinner, with plenty of vegan options for me. It was absolutely delicious. Good job, Mom!
Then I made everybody pose in the Team Pasulka T-shirts I had made. Can you even believe how great these turned out? I am so proud of myself for coming up with the idea, and so proud of my uber-designer friend Anna for doing the logos.
My sister’s boyfriend does this hilarious imitation of Blue Steel from Zoolander, so we all took a Blue Steel photograph. I can’t stop laughing at this shit.
Oh, and my mother refuses to have her face on my blog, but she did give permission for this photo to be used:
Lastly, I would like to add that I am, in actuality, not the gigantic swamp monster I appear to be when standing next to my mother and/or sister. They are extremely tiny people. I got my dad’s genetics, meaning I am a normal-sized person. Seriously, when it comes to physical size, my mom and sister are just one evolutionary step past the teacup chihuahua. And when it comes to making annoying chirping sounds when you don’t do what she wants, my mother is pretty much the evolutionary equivalent. (Tee hee, I love you Mom!!!)
Okay I really don’t think I’m going to be able to sleep now, but I’m going to try.
My race starts at 8:30 am Arizona time! My sister and her friends are running with all the fast people, and I’m going to be running it with Tiffy and her mom, who will be wearing matching pink jogging suits.
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