not with my daughter, you don't

well, i guess i should recap the last couple of days. on tuesday, darrin and i did another 3 miles. nothing special. on wednesday, we played indoor soccer in an adult league for 1 1/2 hours. i know most of the guys, and we don't get too serious. darrin has never really played soccer before, but he figured that he'd get a decent workout, and came along. he did fine. scored two goals in his first game! maybe they were just taking it easy on him... anyway, last nite we did another 3 miles, and man was it cold. we did a little out and back, and on the way out it felt pretty good. then we turned around and realized that we'd been running with the wind. brr. i was wearing a wool hat, and when i took it off, there was ice all around the sides where i had been sweating! have i mentioned my dislike for the cold??
the reason why i've been only running 3 miles each time is because darrin is in training for the indianapolis mini marathon with a local group called wabash valley road runners. they have a schedule that he follows. well, since i haven't decided on which races i'm doing yet, i figured i'd just follow his schedule. he does the long saturday runs with them, and i do the long run on my own. i'm sure our mileage will be going up in the coming weeks. i think the long run this weekend is five miles. not really a long run, but better than nothing.
oh.. i almost forgot...
something really scary happened on tuesday. my kids and i went out to eat at a local chinese place while my wife went to class (she is studying to get her RN). there were two women ordering at the counter when we got there (it's not a buffet). one of the women was VERY large. i wasn't really paying any attention to what they were saying, since i had to figure out what my kids wanted. the big woman had apparently finished ordering and the chinese girl behind the counter told the woman her total, which was $27.58. she then turned around, passed the ticket to the kitchen workers, and said "we have beeg order!" i just figured this woman ordered take-out for her family (naturally, i was wrong about this - apparently, she had already eaten her family.) i did find it strange, though that the woman with her simply ordered a single meal. anyway, they sat down to wait and we ordered. 4 entrees and 5 drinks for $32. we went and sat down, and i really didn't think about it anymore until they brought out the big woman's food on trays! that's right, this beast of a woman was going to eat $27 worth of food herself! she had to put a couple of the entrees on another table because her friend's food wouldn't fit!! i didn't know whether to laugh or be disgusted. either way, it was impressive to see her inhale all of that in less than 15 minutes. i mean, that food was disappearing faster than billy joel's hair (have you seen that guy lately??). i was a little concerned, though. my daughter is only 5, and i feared that she could have been easily mistaken for an egg roll by that behemoth. i'm happy to say that we all escaped unscathed.
oh yeah, i weighed in today... no change. hmmm. i thought i would have dropped a pound or two. must've been those damn cookies from earlier this week....