random updates

well, my back is back to normal. just a day of stiffness and now i'm back in business.

so, i realized last night that i've signed up for the turkey trot 5k on thanksgiving morning. ummm. right. i haven't done a lick of running since the iron girl in september. this will be fun.
i guess in my goals to get in shape i've committed to these things and i need to stick with it. but, it would be great to have to head out of town at the last minute, so i can get out of it..


this week has gone by quickly. probably not for dan, who has worked till about 1-2 a.m. each night for a project due today. i'm sure he's looking forward to the weekend off!

griffin has been really getting into pretending he's a lion lately. every morning he wants to go under the covers in our bed and call it the cave. then he'll call out to dan and say "lion! come here lion!" then dan will growl and find him in the cave and then griffin will do it and pretend he's the baby lion. it's cute. he will mostly say he's a nice lion..but occasionally he'll say, i'm mean...i bite you!"

he also has been getting into dancing around in a mosh pit lately. "mama mosh with me?" and he'll run around and bump into various things like he's moshing. i haven't actually BEEN in a mosh pit to verify these things happen, but dan's probably been in plenty....so he can teach griffin the technical ins and outs of moshing properly.

anyway, griffin will ASK dan to put in "cookie monster", so he can mosh.

i think it all started when dan would listen to some of his metal music upstairs in our room while working or cleaning. griffin kinda seemed to like it. so, dan told him the guy sounded like cookie monster, and ever since griffin wants to hear cookie sing.

we'll have some nice wholesome music playing and griffin will demand cookie monster...so in goes the death metal. i think griffins current favorite is "neckrofagious" or something like that. i'm sure dan will correct me on the spelling of that one.

clearly as he gets older we'll be more particular with the lyrics...but with this death metal...you can't even understand the lyrics anyway...so if griffin thinks its cookie monster singing...then hey, that's cool.