Wendy Mastripolito

So I get this really NIFTY.. NEAT-O... COOL as all get up.. idea for New Year's Eve… and I pitched it to Joe. "Honey.. what do you think about running at midnight?...we can start running about 10 minutes of and then continue into the new year..doing 3 miles? I mean would that be cool or what!??” Now this is not a new concept or idea as there are New Year's Eve races.. but alas I couldn’t find any local ones to do.. so this was the perfect idea… the Mastripolito 5K was born!!! Only problem now is the National Weather Forecast issued a high wind & wind chill warning for our area tonight… they are calling for sustained winds of 30-40 mph with gusts to 55 mph… (um...how hard is it to run INTO 30-40 mph winds?)... and well just because that is not enough they throw in the wind chill warning in which the forecast indicates that temperatures will drop into the teens by evening and will be in the single digits by morning and that anyone with travel plans on New Year’s Eve s...

Thanks S a n t a for my Compound Bow! Man.. I don’t know.. ...I am thinking..... if Santa was a WISE Santa he would have X'd out...SLASHED... or eradicated that request... and perhaps.. maybe... brought me a puzzle or something.... ...but Santa knows me real well.. and Santa is a FUN Santa... so he brought me TWO..... yes two compound bows for Christmas.. one was from Santa Joe and one was from Santa Parents... S-P-O-I-L-E-D ....R-O-T-T-O-N ....So I have the “training” bow and the full fledge a-s kicking split a tree in two bow... Did you know you have to have your arrows made to the specifications of the length of your draw?.... Yeah found that out just recently.. thanks KS....so not wanting to wait not one more second.. I grab my trainer bow with two trainer arrows and march outside to find some targets... hmm.. Joe seeing what I was about to attempt runs out and suggests perhaps maybe pulling the old pumpkin from the refuse pile and aiming at that... great idea honey... (much ...

H ow many blondes does it take to change a light bulb? .... .........I really don’t know what the fascination is with blonde jokes…. I mean brunettes and red heads have there fair of stupidiness…so why pick on blondes? So … my outside Christmas lights stopped working the other day… I figured it HAD to be due to the sleet and freezing rain that we were blessed with over the weekend.. perhaps freezing the outside receptacle…???.... I think that’s a fairly smart assumption… so I gave it a day… my daughter Heather tinkers with it a bit too….. " Mom cant get the lights to work" ….. yeah I know… I think it’s frozen… so I analyze the situation… I painstakingly and dang near froze to death in the 10 degree weather spending an excessive amount of time trying to eradicate the problem….. thoroughly inspecting all the wires… rechecking ALL the fuses… making sure all the extensions are connected… NOPE.. still nada.. still no freaking Christmas lights.!!... It must be the actual receptacle...

On March 7th.. Denise and I will be heading up to Vermont to participate in the Pittsfield Snowshoe Marathon ....I somehow persuaded her to buy snowshoes and come with me... VERY NICE! **************** For Denise… I AM SOO excited you are joining me this year!!!!!… its going to be an interesting road trip!!.... (get an ipod)…….. In case I forgot to mention last year’s adventure:… Pittsfield Snowshoe 2008 Story For my Better Half & E-O the Beast… you aint going to let two girlies show you up .. now are u? Pittsfield Snowshoe Marathon Website

Picked up the C h r i s t m a s T r e e on the way home last night.. the "REAL TREE".. the one that Santa puts the presents under.. ..and yeah so OK.. I KNOW I HAVE 15+ other trees decorated in the house.. BUT they ARE NOT the SANTA TREE…. !!! ....They are A-R-T-I- F-C-I-A-L …. But JEEZ US.. when did you have to take a bank loan out to buy a live Christmas tree????........ I stopped at the first Christmas Tree thievery place .... the place I usually stop… and asked the prices.. ..WELL.. the Douglas Firs are…bla..bla..bla…per foot…. and then the Blue Spruces….are like….bla… bla… bla.. and WHOA buddy… me no RELAT-O… how much is THAT TREE.. ????.....I point to a cute, not overly large tree…he brings out a GIANT RULER… hmm.. well… its.. almost 9 feet.. and soo.. hmmm….that would be $85 dollars… my EYEBALLS almost popped outta my head… R they F- kidding me.. ??????... DO they realize it’s NOT dipped in gold.. right???... So the man asks.. what SIZE you looking for???... Um… siz...

GOT the "LED..GIT".... Pics in and posted them in to the Birthday Extravaganza Story... That PICKLE MAN IS GREAT !!!!... Yes S.B.... I am a little wing nut! Birthday Extravaganza Story

This is … getting ridiculous … Coach Joe says I am not permitted to do A-N-Y-T-H-I-N-G .. until my two weeks are up.. and WTF..!!!.... all I said I was going to do was walk 3 miles tonight.. and I mean its walking.. I mean so..!!!.... maybe he thinks I would powerwalk… ???.....or that I couldn’t tell the difference between walking and say a light jog… ???......and he says " NO…..!!"..... I am SOOO looking for a new coach .. this s-cks ….

..... is finding a gumball with a smile.......

Mount Krumpet… or so our home is sometimes referred to… .. BUT WHY ?.... (Pic is from last year's snow) Perhaps because we live on a slight hill….???.... Perhaps it is in reference to the Grinch (aka: MY Better Half)....????..... Perhaps… it’s just because Mt. Krumpet is associated with Dr. Seuss characters… which would explain a lot…CRAZY STRANGE characters …. .....but either case.. Mount Krumpet was blessed last night….…we had about an inch and a half of snow… nothing to usually write home about…. BUT on top of the snow was a really fine coating of ice…. it was MAGNIFICENT … a crystal winter wonderland… like being in a DREAM……the icicles were making a slight tinkling sound as they slipped off the branches… and the moonlight was shimmering across the lawn caused a sparkling glaze that looked like glitter…and OH WOW……breathtaking… .…. HONESTLY… I didn’t realize this “magical kingdom” at first ….since I was all in a HUFF… chasing my dog up the back hill at 5am (don’t ask)…. in my ...

He just does not understand…… " How can you do that to you body?" .... "How can you eat that sh-t?" ........ .... how to explain my utter complete LOVE & ADORATION .....in STUFFING my face full of raw cookie dough batter… ???.....with as my mother puts it… lethal doses of “uncooked raw eggs”… ???....if I have to explain it to you .. you will never understand… poor Joe..some things in life you just have to experience.... I FINISHED my final…I am basking in my glory… you know 20+ years of stale air hasn’t killed all the cells… give me that A+ thank you very much!.... Waited around for the final grade…. aced the final with a 100% … Y-E-S…..and completed the course with a 96%... thank G_D that course is done… don’t anyone ask me about freaking oligopoly, limited liability, or what the h-ll the marketing mix is…just give me some dough ........

This is a direct quote from my cousin regarding my activities: ......" I would swear you got enough attention growing up and enough hugs. The only thing I can come up with is you had to have been dropped on your head!!!"

… one week on “REST”…… and I THINK I am handling it quite well .. thank you very much ....!!!..... so... Joe and I attended his work’s Holiday Party Saturday night… and it got me thinking...... (which is NEVER a good thing ).. see I met this really special gal there… who kinda stood out with a special zest… and in my conversations with her I come to find out we were kindred spirits.. we both were belly dancers… (Yes this is me a couple years ago ..during my troupe's Middle Eastern Dance Performances).. ....SO ...... she got me thinking... .. hmmm ......can I fit this back in the schedule??...oh come on.. family… I gotta think on this..... .. GOING TO GO STUDY NOW for my college final tomorrow night ...... . whew... another class down only 2-1/2 years to go......... N-I-C-E....

Birthday Extravaganza Pre-week .....like a good girl .. I got my physical... yeah...doc says I am in perfect health.. that whatever I am doing ...to keep doing (....he has no idea.. does he????!!).... ....flash ahead three days later ....I end up with the “Rhino” virus... aka " Common Cold"... WTF!...... I have NOT been sick for over two years....and I picked up something as simple as a common cold at the doctor's office.... ....GRRR...ARGH... .... So each day I get worse.. crawling to work...crawling home... convinced I am on death’s door...whining... and then some... but somehow still managed to whip up a jfffy cool costume for Saturday's Reindeer Race......I was determined.. N-O-T-H-I-N-G...was going to spoil my birthday weekend!!!.... now...not only was this MY birthday weekend...... we also would be celebrating Joe’s birthday... his birthday is 3 days before mine.. .. Part 1 - Saturday, December 6th .....rise and shine birt hday weekend time!!!.....@ 6am I head...

YOU KNOW ….…just when you think I have exhausted all my eyebrow raising resources in finding new and unique things to do…I find one friend who does something that.. well .. dang it…. is just too cool......have you ever heard of HUFFY BIKE THROWING ?? …. No …. NOT HUFFING@!!!!!... Like Huffy Mountain Bike Tossing.. ..???.... yeah like picking up a bike and seeing how far you can throw it… ??!!!........NOW how cool is that….!!!!... ...Of course I wouldn’t do that with my beloved Ghoul MTB bike… but I most certainly may do that with my Triathlon bike if it gets another flat tire this year…. And I think I may practice this… and yeah… sounds like something I need to do.. if I can just get these pidgin arms to lift the bike.. Check out the Huffy Toss Champion Story from Eric’s Blog: ( note Eric is a friend of Joe’s and mine from way back.. he just completed his first Ironman Triathlon and was an Olympic caliber thrower in college/high school… he is suppose to teach me how to throw the Hamme...

Birthday Extravaganza weekend ...... ******I will post our story in the next few days..… ………REST………..I am officially on Rest for two weeks.. .. no work outs.. no running, no biking, no swimming, no um snowshoeing… then approx a month no races… I AM MOST CERTAIN that I better come back freaking bionic or there will be H-ll to pay!

This is picture of Joe and I at the Rehoboth Marathon on November 22nd... I told you we looked like Ninjas! ...I added this pic and a few others to that race report....click here: Rehoboth Marathon Story

So what do you do when you have to get rid of 72 race t-shirts …?????..... hmmm… donate them to a local charity and then go run another race!!.......... I had to clean out my closet this weekend ........ so I carefully made two piles.. keepers and get ridders… the ones that made the keeper pile were usually ones that were unique, meaningful, or downright comfy… well yesterday’s race t-shirt was a KEEPER… Technically I am not on “REST” yet as that is suppose to happen AFTER my birthday weekend.. next weekend.. so the Dirty Bird 15K (9.3 miles) Trail Run just so happen to be yesterday and well… I signed Joe and I up!!!...... My friends Denise, Tom, and Barb were also doing it… and why not… ???.....it was on trails….and trails are suppose to be “easier” on the legs… right!!??? Well the fact that it was 32 degrees and freezing rain that am… .. and then a VERY COLD steady rain during the race…… and that we all couldn’t feel our fingers, toes, or other body parts for quite some time….. I t...