My Yahoo sends me cheap flight every day.  I am waiting for one to get us to Houston (TWICE) and to Vegas.  Today there was a flight to Amsterdam for $217.  I almost booked it.   He has never been out of the county and I thought it would be great for me to see the city as a tourist instead of working there but we have far too much travel this fall/winter to even consider another trip.  I even went on line and looked at renting a houseboat for the week of Thanksgiving. Sigh... I suppose those cheap flights will come around again. 

After weeks of being wish washy about the marathon, I have committed myself to it.  It's wired the process my brain went through before commission to grips with the fact that I just have to get out there and take baby steps to get to 26.2.  At first I was dreading it and felt an incredible amount of guilt. Then I felt like it was a really unobtainable goal and "what was I thinking!".  Now I just think about running 4 miles today, and that is as far ahead as I think.  Additionally I revel in the fact that I fit into clothes that were waaaaaaaaay too tight 6 months ago.