Mortaine’s Blog

I made it!

Edited to remove stupid sig from Verizon. Guess the picture didn’t post– I might be close to my pic limit on LJ, which would not be surprising.

Anyway, I’ll post more pictures later (probably later this week) and a link.

In further revocation of my Grown Up License….

I forgot to pick up my race packet today. Or yesterday. Fortunately, I can get it tomorrow before 6:30 AM. This is the important thing with all my stuff, my number, and my chip that tracks my time in it. Yeah– I’m an idiot.

I discover this a few hours after realizing I also forgot to cancel our hotel reservation at the expensive Marriott last night…. fortunately, they screwed up the reservation and made it for tonight, so no harm, no foul.

If a loved one of yours is ever running a marathon and you are involved, here’s some advice: take care of everything related to the travel arrangements, and get a copy of their race paperwork, so at least YOU can be the grown up when they are not.

Just had the pasta party. I need to stop going to these things while wearing mascara– I always tear up.

I puff-painted my Team in Training shirt:

Group photo!

For more pictures, see the gallery! [I'll be adding to it after the run tomorrow!]

So, I’m in Portland right now. Have visited with many lovely friends from High School. More on that later– they are all doing beautifully, even those who are having life suckage right now (and there’s some pretty significant life suckage right now).

Anyway. The Marathon is in 14 hours. I am both excited and nervous at the same time.