My Creatively Random Life

The Express Yourself Weekly Meme is hosted  Bouquet Of Books  and  Entertaining Interests .  This week's topic is: We are 1/3 of the way through the year. Name something you have achieved thus far. My biggest achievement this year is deciding to do a 5k run, which was totally insane. I looked over some of the 5k training apps and decided that I liked  Zombies, Run! 5k .  I figured the most likely cause of me running in real life is going to be a Zombie apocalypse so why not train that way? All joking aside, I really do love this app, the workouts start off nice and easy and it works with the music on my phone.  It even shows me which songs increase my productivity and which ones decrease it when I log in online. This is a blog hop, go on and check out what everyone else is up to, and join in if you want:

So, one of my favorite ways to hurry Ace up when he is walking like a snail is to chase after (it really is more like amble) muttering "Braaains!" in my best zombie voice.  This elicits peals of giggles from his sister as he runs away from me screaming "Snap out of it!"  After I finally relented this morning we had a conversation that went like this: Me: "I want new children, you guys are no fun." Ace: (panting like he has been running from real zombies)  "You could always eat your own brain." Me: "Cannibalism?  That's no fun either." Ace: "Zombies do it all the time.  I've seen it." Me: "Eh...."  Zombie baby chewing on his own foot.   Ace: "I invented a game at school called Zombie tag." Me: "Do you chase each other for brains?" Ace: "NO!  Zombies shuffle Mom!" (I was almost proud of the exasperated tone in his voice because he is right, they don...