Time for a few Thursday Things. A few noteworthy items of the week are:
1. I was hit by a parked car while I was running just a few days after we got home from Aruba.
Allow me to explain how this (painful) fluke happened.
I was nearing the end of my run, I was in The Zone, I was tired, I was running fast, I was going down a hill, and was on the sidewalk and I was not thinking about much of anything other than I was almost home and I was going to get dinner started, and then it happened.
Bam.
A person inside a parked car that I was running by opened his car door to get out at the exact moment as I was running past it. I didn’t see him sitting in his dark parked car just waiting to exit his vehicle at the moment I was running, but I don’t make a habit of gazing into parked cars that I am running past because I run past hundreds which line the city streets on any given run, either.
I took the impact of his car door on the underside of my forearm on the ulna bone because my arms were pumping up and down. The skin broke and it was bleeding and I had a golf-ball sized welt and although the swelling has slowly been going down, it throbs when I move my arm.
And the other place of impact was the top of my thigh. Black and blue and welted with a bruise the size of an egg. Not pretty.
2. I made these to console myself.
Pretzel Peanut Caramel Peanut Butter Cookie Dough Truffles
3. Chocolate heals all wounds. Or that’s what I’ve been telling myself.
4. Can you believe Valentine’s Day is only 5 weeks away?
That’s exciting to me because I plan to bake with lots of pink sprinkles. I already have a few tricks up my sleeve.
5. A Whoopie Pie Pan
I’ve seen lots of people baking cookies in them with fabulous results. Like a deep dish cookie of sorts and with different enough results than just using a muffin pan.
I’ve tried that and those are fun, too.
6. I love my donut pans…
…Maybe I need a whoopie pie pan, too, and can show that some love with some new creations.
$12 bucks at BB & B with a coupon. Cheap thrills baby.
I had one in my hand the last time I was at BB & B and then set it down thinking I could live without it. How foolish I was.
7. NuNaturals Stevia Giveaway is open one more day
8. I am really looking forward to the weekend.
9. The weather has been in the 80s here in January, which is very unseasonably warm, even for San Diego.
But it’s been fabulous and I think people have spring fever. The parks are crowded, people are out in full force running, walking, and seem to be just be outside soaking up the great weather.
I know I have been.
10. These Fiesta Pie Plates
Don’t they just make you wanna bake? They do for me. Cute dishes are my weakness.
Questions:
Have you ever experienced any injuries or accidents?
I took a terrible fall last spring. Hopefully these flukey running calamities all behind me and so 2011.
How’s the weather been in your neck of the woods?
Have you seen any things lately that have you excited? What are your things?
The weekend is close. TGIF a day early!
AH! Sorry to hear about that Averie! Sometimes I get so zoned out on my runs that I completely ignore everything around me and that’s when I am milliseconds away from getting hit by a car. Not good.
After biking across the country twice and all the running you’ve done in your life…it’s me, who runs like 3-4 miles at a time in a really unlikely setting who gets smacked! Not you on the open road in like Montana. Lol. Happy weekend xoxo
The weather has been bizarre here. It was freezing, then perfect for a few weeks, got kind of warm and now were back to freezing.
As a veteran urban bike rider, I know all about avoiding those car doors. Staying away from them while walking on the sidewalk side is no problem, however, since all of our sidewalks around here have strips of grass or trees as a buffer zone.
What, no photo of the arm? Don’t be shy!
I figure since people come to a food blog to be inspired and drool, I didn’t want to repulse anyone :)
oh my gosh, I am so sorry to hear about the accident! at least nothing is broken, right?
stay safe!
No, thank goodness!
What a horrible accident, I hope the bruises fade quickly!
So sorry to hear about that incident, Averie. What terrible timing! I have heard of that happening before, especially in NYC (bikers). Very dangerous. People need to check those rear-view mirrors before opening the doors. Anyway, loving the sunny pics as usual (Aruba looked fantastic) — if you recall, I’m the one who finally trekked out to SD this summer after wanting to forever and loved it! Now, I’m spending a few months there to be near my friends. Although it has been a very mild winter in the tri-state area so far (zero snow in December), it’s exciting to escape the rest of the winter and what’s inevitably coming! :) Happy Friday!
Sounds like you loved SD…pretty hard not to though, right? :)
I bought some Biscoff to offset the lack of cookie butter from TJ’s.
I want a donut pan and that will totally happen with a coupon! :)
And the weather here has been gorgeous then dips kind of low unfortunately. I always forget a jacket because I forget it gets so cold later on!
It hasn’t even really felt like winter, and I’m kind of loving it. (Except for the fact that this means we’ll probably be in a major drought this summer…) And what a crazy accident! It’s so crazy that he opened his door at that exact moment. You would think that he would have looked first. Crazy!
oh my gosh!! im glad you are okay! i have never been hit by a car…but the other day I acutally saw a car hit a biker it was scary!! people certainly need to be more aware!
Ooooh, ouch!!! I hope the person was nice, apologized, etc.. That sucks, and would be very unexpected.
I am so sorry to hear that … hope you are on the mend …
Yikes! I’m always worried about that happening when I’m riding my bike. I guess I should worry about it while running too! Hope that chocolate helped!
eeeeik~ hope you’re ok averie!! i finally broke in my donut pan today with your chocolate pb donuts! so good!!! i thought i didn’t have confectioners sugar for the glaze, so i made caramel glaze instead… so good still! then turns out my aunt (i’m staying with her) does have confectioner’s sugar! ha. next time! thanks for the recipe!
argh! so sorry about the accident.
OUCH! damn that must have hurt.
but you know you did the right thing–go home and eat comfort foods.
I am so very jealous of the great cali weather. all my cali friends keep texting me temp updates.
aren’t they sweet? while I sit here in 30 degree weather and NO SUN.
I am a lurker but I just have to share today… I saw a holiday card from you and your family at my yoga studio today. You mentioned in your posts that you lived in a coastal town in NC but I didn’t know it’s where I live! :) what a small world!
Hi! I am guessing at Kristin’s or Ashley’s studio? Wow!! I used to live on Wrightsville Beach and still send holiday cards to my yoga friends from…a decade ago. Gulp. Time flies. Thanks for delurking!
It’s kristin’s studio and I live on WB too.:)
Oh, the memories. We lived there in 2000-2002 and she had just opened the studio and we’d do beach yoga in front of our place on the beach. I will always have fond memories of running up and down Lumina Ave, Robert’s Grocery, Bluewater, The Oceanic, the Harris Teeter right across the bridge; getting caught by that stinkin’ bridge…oh…it was a fabulous time in our lives. Scott and I had just met and moved there together. Thank you for reading my blog and saying hi! Please keep in touch!