Boy, I had an interesting week last week. I attended the MidSouth Conference on Communicative Disorders hosted by th University of Memphis' Speech and Hearing Department. It was a great conference. I learned a few new ways to help my children with articulation disorders. I also was able to gain more insight of an individual with Autism. My professor from Ole Miss was there. He has left Ole Miss and is teaching at another university. I was unaware of the fact that he had Autism. He gave an excellent insight on the struggles he has had to overcome and the way he communicates. He sees things in pictures in his mind. He has stimulating behaviors, he has seizures. However, without therapy or a diagnosis until the age of 48, he was able to obtain a PhD and is teaching students everyday. His is also a poet. It was a great presentation. I really enjoyed seeing him again. I didn't stay to obtain all of my CEUs. I got a little bored with the conference. A lot of the presentations held at the end of the day were not very interesting. So I left early both days. I was able to obtain about .8 CEUS. That's pretty good for $150.00.
Saturday, I was all geared up to run 14 miles with TNT. I woke up at about 4:30 am like I do every morning. I made my breakfast and headed out the door at about 6:15am. It usually takes me about 20 minutes to get to Shelby Farms. Well, I get to 240 and the interestate was backed up. I didn't worry about it at first. It looked as if the the traffic was moving pretty good. Then...after about 10 minutes of sitting there, I started to get the nervous gas in my stomach. I looked up and the police officers were directing traffic onto Getwell. GETWELL! I didn't know how to get to Shelby Farms from Getwell. I called Fred, but he was still asleep. He didn't answer. I felt my eyes begin to water as the clock in my car got closer to 7 am. The runners start as 7 am. Oh no, I was gonna be late. I kept going down Getwell, then, I decided that I really didn't want to get lost in Memphis, so I headed back home. Amy called my cell phone.."Mia, where are you.We are waiting." I told her about the back-up on the interstate. She sounded just as disappointed as I did. I headed home with a heavy heart. I love to run and I definitely don't like to miss our long runs. As I was on my way home, Fred called me and I told him about he back-up. He knew exactly how to get to Shelby Farms from Getwell, but it was a little to late. You know how I am. I was so upset, I was not going to run. But Fred just encouraged me to run at the gym or the park or in the neighborhood. So I decided to go to the internet and I mapped out as close to 14 miles as I could. I headed out the door and was able to complete 13.83 miles according to the website. The run was great! I ran through parts of my community that I had never taken the time to see. I also saw a couple of other people running. So I got my run in.
After my run, we were invited to attend our nephew's birthday party in Oxford. We probably would not have gone, but somebody wanted to go skating. That somebody is me. Yes, I am a true child of the 80's. LOVE TO SKATE. So Fred loaded up the truck. We took Bug and headed to Oxford. I ate too much at the party, but I went to the skating rink and burn a lot of calories. It was so fun. I was not the only adult on skates, but I was the only one with "mad skills". I was very surprised that I was the only one who could really skate. I was spinning and twirling and they were bearly able to maintain their balance. We had so much fun.
We ended up coming back home that night, but we headed back to Oxford to attend church Sunday morning. The service was great. It was called 'Soul Food' Sunday. This was their way of celebrating Black History Month. Everyone was dressed in the old way. Overalls and old dresses. It was a sight. The kids sang songs and old hymns were sung. The message was great. Pastor Hall gave us a black history lesson and talked about those of us who had the "slave or plantation mentality" after slavery. He pointed out to us that a lot of African Americans still have this mentality. He motivated us to do what we need to do as people to become better. This was right along with my journey. Become the best Mia I can be. It also motivated my husband to do whatever he needs to do as well. After church of course there was 'Soul Food'. I ate too. I mean I ate too much of the "sweets". I didn't sweat it though. I know that this was a special occassion. The only thing was, I knew that my birthday was the next day and I was going to celebrate by eating some things that I don't eat normally. So there you have it. Three, well actually four days in a row of eating off of my plan. That won't make for a good weight in today, but oh well...
Anyway for my birthday yesterday, I took the day off from work. Fred and I hung out. We didn't do anything out of the ordinary. We just got the opportunity to be together without Lil Fred (Bug). We took him to school. We went to my office. I had to handle a little business. Then, we went to red lobster. I ate about 4 or 6 of those biscuits. Then, we bought some new running shoes. I wanted to buy some new shoes about 6 weeks before the marathon so that they would be worn in for the big race in April. We also bought a very small birthday cake from the grocery store and we had a 'walmart' date. We just held hands and walked through walmart. How fun! By the time we did all of that, it was time to pick bug up from his daycare and head home. Well that was my week and 31st birthday in a nutshell. If 31 is anything like being 30 was. I am going to have a great year. I have strengthened my relationship with God and with Mia. Which in turn has made a lot of relationships better. I am better able to forgive and forgive quickly. I now love myself and am loving myself more and more everyday. Happy Birthday, Mia ...3/1/1979. I was supposed to get my drivers license renewed yesterday, but I didn't feel like doing it. So I will do it today and attend weight watchers. So I will write later to let you know how that goes.
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