a Very Special run

Run Time -- 15 minutes 10 seconds (+0:18)

• indoors

• Total Running Time for December -_______44 min 38 sec
____________________November -- 2 hours 18 min 45 sec
_____________________October ---_______57 min 06 sec
____(starting Oct. 1)
· Weight Loss Goal -- 24 pounds (11 kg)
_________· So Far -- 10 lb... finally double digits

Alright! Another excellent run today!! Another milestone kinda, sorta... no, not really... 1/16th of the way to running a marathon! Uhhh... whew, I've a lonnnnnngg way to go. [big sigh] Oh boy. Increasing by 15-20 seconds each run will never get me there. Actually sure it will, I haven't done the math, don't have the insanely impossible to comprehend Einstein-kind of ability to figure it out instantaneously, don't wanna take a whole part of a minute to figure it out, but if I did do the math then maybe I'd know in about 35 years or so I'd be up to 4 hours... if my body doesn't fall apart first. Ay caramba. Part of me wants to jump up to half minute increments. I know I can do it. Surely I can. I think. I'm not sure. The other part of me is just fine with the exercise I'm getting now. Better than nothing! And besides, running a marathon is not my dream... more like a crazy idea and with the sole purpose being to raise money for charity. I could care less about accomplishment. Since there are other ways and other things I can do to raise money, not using a marathon for that purpose will probably be just fine.

Yup, in any case -- good run at the gym today! Got there just before noon and as usual was in and outta there and back home gettin' cleaned up in less than an hour. Time for a nap soon... I gotta work at 9 tonight, all night long, another overnight shift, my last for at least a couple weeks.

Hopefully another run tomorrow.
I'll probably be too darn tired but I'll see how it goes!

Part 1 is one post
before this one...
here's the rest...


A
Very
Special
Christmas

1989






192 kbps whole album dload
► A Very Special Christmas (Volume 1)

256 kbps
Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) -- U2
I Wish Everyday Could Be Like Christmas -- Bon Jovi
Christmas In Hollis -- Run D.M.C.
Winter Wonderland -- The Eurythmics
Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas -- The Pretenders
Run Rudolph Run -- Bryan Adams
Merry Christmas, Baby -- Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
+ a bonus tune...
• Santa Claus Is Coming To Town -- Springsteen & The E Street Band

There are a bunch of really good tunes on this album. Part 1 has the songs I care less for while (most of) these are my favorites. Christmas (Baby Please Come Home) has seriously, I think, gotta be one of U2's best songs ever. Even the tune from Run D.M.C. is pretty cool as is Winter Wonderland from Annie Lennox and Dave Stewart (The Eurythmics.) And Run Rudolph Run is a fun romp from relic Bryan Adams... I guess he was pretty big when this was released in '89.

Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmasby The Pretenders is absolutely without a doubt one of the best versions I have ever heard. Chrissie Hyne makes this beautiful song just about perfect. It completely gives me the feeling of a peaceful and pleasant Christmas that I used to have years ago.

And while they don't have the same quiet sound as Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas, both of Springsteen's tunes here are also Christmas to me. Each of them I used to hear on the radio quite often around Christmastime, back on New York City's WNEW (the best radio station in the world once upon a time) when I was growing up out in the Jersey 'burbs.

So much Christmas music I can't tolerate because it's garbage. Fortunately there are collections like this that give me some excellent Christmas tuneage that can be enjoyed all through the year, not just in December. With this album there's something for almost everyone and it's for a great cause which makes even sweeter!

This is an album that benefits an amazing and wonderful 501(c)(3) non-profit that does a beautiful thing in the world so please consider buying this and/or other volumes in the series.

The Special Olympics doesn't operate solely in the United States. Currently they reach an incredible 2.5 million people in 165 countries. If they had their way, they would leave NO one out.

Or please consider donating your time or a few dollars to this great organization. You don't have to give $100 or even $25... they would still appreciate even just 5 dollars! Most charities would. Please help. Thanks.

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, Happy Festivus, misc, etc, yada yada yada...

I have a feeling that if I regularly listened to the radio, I would be sick of Christmas music more than ever right about now. Actually in a week it would be more than ever. Then a week after that it would be even worse.

This most special holiday has been so horribly commercialized. That's part of the reason why I despise much of what happens in America at Christmastime. It makes me sick. Something I've been thinking about I should have started this year, but perhaps next will be my first, I hope, of about a dozen in a row (or maybe an endless streak until the day I die?) when I'll take off to some remote part of the Earth for the whole month of December, somewhere I can volunteer my time in some medical clinic somewhere, helping people who won't be stopping at Starbucks after shopping at Walmart. I'll be completely removed this crap that everyone seems to wrap themselves up in at this time of the year. God, I love this country... it's just a shame so much of it is backwards, broken, and downright pathetic.

Rant over.

Anyway... I don't listen to the radio so at this time of the year I am not innudated with Fa La La La La and Grandma's Tragic Death From a Reindeer... so I can tolerate some Christmas tunes every now and then.

And here's some
for this morning,
Part 1:


A
Very
Special
Christmas

1989






256 kbps

I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus -- John Mellencamp
Santa Baby -- Madonna
The Little Drummer Boy -- Bob Seger & The Silver Bullet Band
Silent Night -- Stevie Nicks
Gabriel's Message -- Sting
The Coventry Carol -- Alison Moyet
Do You Hear What I Hear? -- Whitney Houston
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town -- The Pointer Sisters

(the other 7 tracks + an extra from Springsteen will come later today.)

This is an album that benefits an amazing and wonderful 501(c)(3) non-profit that does a beautiful thing in the world so please consider buying this and/or other volumes in the series.

The Special Olympics doesn't operate solely in the United States. Currently they reach an incredible 2.5 million people in 165 countries. If they had their way, they would leave NO one out.

Or please consider donating your time or a few dollars to this great organization. You don't have to give $100 or even $25... they would still appreciate even just 5 dollars! Most charities would. Please help. Thanks.