run on sentences

Today I ran at noon.  I am usually a morning runner but I barely passed the coffee test this morning (coffee test  = waking up feeling like crap + drinking coffee and feeling better = passed).  Sore throat, runny nose, ear stuffed with stuffing because last week I had the drum repaired for the third time - and I am not supposed to blow my nose or cough or sneeze.  Anyway I felt better after coffee and sudafed.  I knew I would feel better if I ran.  I put my running clothes on which caused the dogs to be excited cause they might get to go for a walk.  I walked them, thinking that this was better than doing nothing - 2.5 miles.  I felt a little better after that but I knew I would. After doing my stay at home mom stuff including washing bedding, hanging it on clothesline and vacuuming it was getting close to 11am.  Strangely I could not bring myself to take a shower which to me was a sign that I still had to make myself run.  Strangely...

I have weird dreams.  Some of them are so bad that I don't share them with others, and they cause me to question my sanity or lack thereof.  Like the one where my calf muscles really weren't muscles but Orio cookies nicely stashed inside the back of my leg. My most recent weird dream involved my grandpa Ojanen - my dad's dad.  He died when he was 94 and was a strong Finnish man of few words - but a wise man who worked hard his entire life after leaving Finland when he was 18 as a result of a fight with his drunk father.  He swore he would never return to Finland and never did, leaving behind a twin brother and other siblings we never met.  Instead he settled in Greenland, MI and later in Mudd Creek, after building a home and a farm there and raising a family - the youngest who became my dad.  I was closer to grandpa (despite that he would not let me drive a tractor because I was "just a girl") than my grandma Ojanen, who was not very affectionate and seem...