Scary: Karrie, Niko, Cindy and I headed out for our usual 5am Sunday morning long run – which, by the way, was only long by 5 miles. It was bitterly cold, and as usual, I underdressed my bottom half. This isn’t out of any great desire to show off my bootylicious self – it’s just sheer stupidity. My legs were numb in the stinging wind, and I made my hands into fists inside my gloves to try to stay warm, which worked until they froze that way. And the only thing worse than having to pee while you are running is having to pee while running in the freezing cold.
Scarier: Aside from my issues with the weather, the run was uneventful until around mile 3 when we were nearly run off the road by someone who was apparently suffering a serious drug overdose, or had recently escaped from the local funny farm. And if running us off the road wasn’t enough, he felt it necessary to screech his breaks, slam the car into reverse, and chase us for half a mile. And while I admired his reverse driving skills, it takes a real ass to chase 3 females down a residential neighborhood at 5:30 in the morning. A few clicks of the phone later and Karrie had 2 police cars at our meeting point. While they weren’t able to locate crazy driver man, they said they’d police the area.
Scariest: And now, brace yourselves. I appear to have entered the world of baking. Kenza was thrilled by my sudden desire to make cookies since it’s not something I do often. Or ever. I don’t even own a cookie sheet, and was bemused by the amount of things required to make a simple cookie. And then there’s the butter – lots and lots and lots of butter. You might as well chunk it on the floor, dive into it, roll around and call me Paula Dean, because that’s how much butter is now in my body.
SuperPsychoScary: While the cookies were in the oven, we spent some time holiday decorating. In my house, this leads to all kinds of crazy things, like the creation of Paper Girl – who will defend the planet with snowflakes against the evil duo Scissor Boy and Fire Donkey while Runner Susan Girl slowly dies of butter poisoning in the corner.
That’s why they maked that pre-packaged cookie dough, so we can just smile, nod our heads, and lie, lie, lie 🙂
I feel your pain with the cookies. Cute picture.
I have to agree with Wes…why make real homeade cookies when you can buy the dough ready to be thrown into the oven? I feel less guilty when I don’t know what’s in them.
BTW, holy sh*t on the dumbass that attempted to run ya’ll down! And in reverse!?!? Crazy!
More people are arrested for drunken driving between 5 and 8 a.m. than any other time of the day. I’m glad you didn’t pee on your freezing self while being chased by crazed drivers. That deserves a whole batch of cookies just for yourself.
Scary driver! And definitely sounds like he was drunk. Good thing you have quick reflexes.
Homemade cookies are best.
Kenza is adorable.
Drivers shouldn’t chase runners.
What a picture. She IS adorable!!
I want a cookie; especially a warm fat buttery one from your oven.
Can you run one over, in reverse and wash your hands after using the facilities?
I hope Kenza poses willingly. It looks as if you probably do not have to do much convincing.
Could you send Snowflake girl to my place? I’m sure there is something around here that needs defending and she is beyond adorable.
That drunk driver thing is frightening. I hope he got a DUI somewhere down the road.
You’d butter watch out on your next long run Susan. Take Scissor Boy with you for protection.
now that you have all the tools (cookie sheet, etc) and ingredients for baking, can we expect cookies in the near future for your running buddies?
kenza is too cute!
butter poisoning…hee.
who’s paula dean?
wouldn’t fire-donkey just set paper-girl on fire?
We have our fair share of bubba’s driving around here in rural NC that love to scare the dickens out of runners. I can’t wait to finally catch one one day!
disappointed.
i would have expected action Runner Susan to slam onto the hood and be grabbin’ the wiper blades till the heat arrived…
or, you could have let Karrie just make a call and let him get away, no worries, whatever…
Love the photo. Thank heaven you guys are ok from the driver-that was scary.
AWESOME photo, Susan!
I’m impressed that you still get out at 5AM in this weather! I can’t wait for the sun to come up and heat things up a bit.