Help!!! Advice Needed!!

So I took the plunge, got some vibrams, and tried them out. They were great. In fact I couldn't believe how light they felt and how easy it was to run on the balls of my feet. Last Tuesday I ran and began to experience a painful twinge in my left foot/heel. By midmorning the pain was gone. Wednesday I went running again and the pain came back full force. I had to limp home and spent the day in pain.
Here it is Sunday night and my ankle is still swollen and throbbing with pain. What to do?? Do I baby it? Do I try to ignore it - no pain, no gain? Do I wait until the pain is completely gone before attempting to exercise again? The doctor would want it x-rayed and I'm not doing that. What is up with my foot and what should I do??

Which state are we in?

So tonight Clint took the older two boys to soccer practice... and I stayed with the other two. After awhile Rhys asked me "Did Riley and Sam and Dad take the Aspen". I just have to chuckle... thought I would share.

What happens when you read too much?

I think you all know that I am the master at avoiding reading. When I was in high school I never read any of the classics. In fact, when I got a D in junior AP English at Anadarko High, I switched the next semester to regular English and they covered the same thing as the first semester in AP so I remembered the answers and got an A. The teacher could not figure out how since he taught both classes.

In my other classes and in college I developed an ability to listen in class and know what was going to be asked on the tests so I seldom read even the text book assignments.

When we were asked to read the Book of Mormon, I figured out I could listen to the cds traveling to work and did not read then, or really ever from cover to cover. (revelation)

I am very good at not reading anything other than what I have too. I do remember reading a novel once that was written by a guy that had swindled several million dollars from the first bank I worked for. Then it had been about 25 years when I read the Davince Code and then Angles and Daemons over the course of about three years.

Comes the summer of 2010. Thinking I should do something good for me I pick up a book in the market in Bear Lake (The Templar's Throne), a so so book. Then figured I had to read a Glenn Beck book, and before I know it I was reading Born to Run. Seems like a lot of reading for a non-reader. So what is the result.

By the time I got to the third book in one summer my brain was overloaded. The last few morning I have woken up with sore muscles, like I had been running all night. During the day I find myself walking around trying to keep my heals off the ground. I have been obsessing about web sites that say run barefoot. I am craving bean burritos wrapped in corn tortillas. I am considering giving up diet Coke. I found a Cruse that includes a tour of the Cooper Canyons in Mexico. I found Barefoot Ted's web site and considered asking him to coach me (until I saw the price). I am convinced I need to loose weight to help my running. This morning when I woke up it seamed that I was laying on my side in a running position. I can tell you about every style of Vebrams and what they are intended for and what color they are. I can even tell you about the counterfeits. I have recommended Born to Run to friends and complete strangers. I am thinking that maybe I can run again and enjoy it before I started having knee problems. I was even disappointed to find out they did not have my size of Bikala at the running store and did not know when or if they would get them. I was considering getting two pair before I even tried one pair on.

Everything I need to know I thought I learned in Kindergarten, but it seems not. I have learned that good runners are basically good people. (Maybe a little crazy if they are ultra distance runners.) I now try to eat like I was poor (Sometimes). It is important to run for the joy of it and not for the end result (I used to do that and hope I can get back to that attitude). And most encouraging, at 65 I should be able to run as good as I did when I was 19 (dream on).

Well I have rambled on enough. Is it reading overload or longing for the past? Will I just keep reading or try to live the dream again? Only time will tell, but I am open again to book suggestions that will cause me to have good dreams.

What's a Crib?

So Kai has never really slept in a crib... before we left he was in a little infant portable thing and in Utah he was in a portable crib... so the first night we got back this is how he fell asleep... any who I think he likes it.