$200 later

The window is fixed and we got some new windshield wipers. I have to give a HUGE recommendation to Safelite Auto Glass. You just give them a call, they tell you how much it will be and when a tech will be there. Then you wait patiently in front of your window watching your poor car that has a garbage bag over a window so that if there were to be a person that was interested in entering the car you could run outside and yell at them. Then they call you when they are there and 30 minutes later you have a new window. Very Slick. I don't know how much a window should cost, but I had too much work to do yesterday to be taking the car anywhere and getting stuck waiting around for it. So Safelite Auto Glass if you ever need a new window (next will be our windshield that has cracked due, we think, to the bitter cold temps that we had in Chicago land for the last apparently my lifetime).

Now the sad news. I don't think jason and I will be running the Sarasota half maraton. Not that we couldn't finish it, but we don't have the money to do it. It will be $110 for us both to do it and given then $200 that we just spent on the window it's just not possible. I don't think I would have had a problem finishing it and it would have been really fun to run a race down there, but it's just not finacially a good idea right now. I can always change my mind and sign up when I'm down there, but then the price shoots up again to 75 each I think and so it probably won't happen.

So that's that.

We went for a run last night in the awesome 45 degree weather. Just about 4 miles. I think we started to fast because we were a bit tired at the end....and by tired I mean we walked the last half...not mile...of the run. And you know. I wasn't thrilled, but Jason and I talked about what we were going to do when he gets a job in June and how nice it's going to be to have a slightly nicer apartment and be able to start looking for a condo in the next year or two years. It was so amazing outside that we just were loving walking around the neighborhood. Given that Tuesdays have been my off day anyways, I'm good with this.

It seems that my slip on the ice was a bit more of disaster than I had thought. I thought I was just going to have a scapped elbow and a sore butt as that is what I fell on, but as the evening progressed my entire back got more and more stiff. I went to bed last night and could barely move. I slept a long time and didn't want to get out of bed because it hurt too much to turn over. Hopefully this goes away sooner than later as it's literally a pain in the ass.

Tonight at Hopleaf there will be a very cool selections of science writers reading from their books as part of the Bookslut reading series. Jennifer Ouellette of Cocktail Party Physics is going to be there and I love her site so we are going to try and head over there. We'll see how work goes as I might still be here trying to find the elusive Bc.