It’s our final installment of Runfessions for the year! How’d that happen?? I know you’re all swamped with holiday prep so let’s get to it, shall we?
Us runners? We like our shoes. I’m not even going to show you but at this very moment, I have not one, not two, but….ok five pairs of running shoes laying at the back door…and cough two more pairs cough at the front door. I won’t even tell you how many are left in the closet. Shoe hog much?
I’ve got my holiday shopping done. But the amount of stuff I ordered for myself in the process? I need to hire this guy to help the delivery vehicles back up the driveway. Hanging head in shame.
You know I love me some Starbucks. I’ve confessed to being a proud gold-card carrying member. And that I love me some star dash action. Well for the holidays, Starbucks has had some good dashes, especially on Mondays. One recent Monday they offered 8 bonus stars for a $15 purchase. So in I went. I figured I’d treat myself to a bag of their special holiday blend coffee. But first I asked my beloved barista to load more $$ on my gold card. What he actually did was ring up the coffee on my CREDIT CARD before he loaded my gold card. So I did not get credit for the purchase. No 8 stars for me. I didn’t realize this until I got home and looked at the receipt. So the next day I went to a different Starbucks and returned said coffee. Seriously I have no shame.
About that jump? Many of you asked me how on earth I did this ugly-sweater jump as well as the one on Instagram. Um let me tell you, not easily. This is the girl who ruptured her hamstring doing a forward fold in yoga class. My 10-year old gets total photo cred for it, all 697,000 takes.
Here are a few of the not-ready-for-prime-time outtakes. This blog thing is hard work.
Because I’m hit or miss with Dropbox, I emailed the pics of that ugly sweater jump to myself. Except you know how auto-correct is on iPhones. Instead of filling in my email address which starts with teamarcia, it filled in teamhoyt. And yes, I sent a pic of me doing the ugly sweater jump to Rick and Dick Hoyt.
They responded the next day. I’m still blushing. I can’t even remember why I have them in my contact list. I suppose I fundraised for them or promoted their book or something. The fact that I don’t remember is another confession I guess. My bad.
With that I will open it up to you and your runfessions. I can’t be the only loon who does stuff like this, can I?
One more thing: If you don’t already follow me on Twitter, you may want to as I’ve got a sweet Twitter-only giveaway coming up next week that ends on Christmas day. I want you to win!
You are killing me smalls seriously with the sending the picture. Ha, I should not laugh it will probably happen to me tomorrow! Let’s hope not! I missed last months runfessions, so I was glad I could link back up this month and oh hey I wrote down the date change, how awesome is that??
Oh, we are runfession sole-mates! I know I have bought more things for myself than others. My excuse is that I don’t get out to shop much, so when I do … and LOL on the Starbucks stars! I wish you earned a star per item because when I buy a coffee and something to eat, I want to ask them to ring them separately ….
My phone is filled with embarassing outtakes from any time I try to take a selfie. I don’t think I could pull off this jump no matter how many times I tried! Too funny about emailing that pic to the wrong person. I really hate autocorrect sometimes.
I also wondered how you had gotten that unicorn jump in. now I know ! LOL. My daughter is often my photographer too…
Your post made me laugh, thank you.
Thanks for the link up !
Your outtakes are hilarious! I wonder if I should be embarrassed by the number of running/workout shoes I own? Nah!
I love your jump outtake pics! That pretty much is what happens to me every time I take a pic for my blog! I have to do it again. Thanks for hosting Runfesions! They are so fun. I will visit the other links later, but for now I must go do my first run since Sunday!
I’ve accidentally texted my running selfies to other people…so embarrassing!
I am laughing so hard about the outtakes of the ugly sweater jump and you sending the photo to the Hoyts. Thank you for the Friday morning giggles! And thanks for the reminder about Runfessions! I feel legit now that I’m actually running more than once in a blue moon 😉 although swimming and cycling also have their share of things to fess up about.
Love the outtakes and the teamhoyt confession! What did they say?! Thanks for keeping it real all year long 😉
Bahahahahahahahahahah “I think I might have peed a little” MAGICAL
Hahahaha love those photos- taking these pictures for blogging IS hard work. I think I took about a million or so the other day until I actually had one that would work!
Totally LOL at the Starbucks and the pictures. I’ve totally sent things to wrong people. I’m also administrator of a ton of work Facebook pages – I’m always worried I’m going to post a beer picture on the wrong page.
No runfessions for me today – I’m too tired to remember any of the stupid things I’ve done lately.
My husband keeps asking me why I need so many pairs of sneakers around the house! I mean seriously what kind of question is that?!
Love the jumps! I have mistakenly emailed people, damn autocorrect. Now I triple check before sending anything!
OMG, I love that you sent that jump picture to DH – I bet he smiled 🙂
I just ordered another pair of shoes, it is an addiction lol I am not sure what to do with my old ones…I have a few i need to send to shoe graveyard.
I’m good during the holidays and don’t buy anything for myself because my birthday’s a month after Christmas. But once that’s over, I end up splurging because I held off for 3 months.
You make me laugh out loud! I know how you feel, I did Christmas shopping and it was like 2 to 1, 2 for me , 1 for someone else! Your Starbucks stories are hilarious, you may need a support group! HA! You have us! TGIF my friend!
Oh my, I love the photo outtakes! I dragged my youngest out to the middle of the street recently to get a photo of me on the bike. The eye rolling was extreme! My Santa Claus haul is being deliver to my office, for obvious snooping teens and other family members. I’m embarrassed at the pile I’ve accumulated. It’s obscene! Thanks for the link.
I am certifiably awful at Selfies. Even in regular group photos I feel awkward. I miss when not everyone had a camera on them all of the time!
LOL I always love reading your runfessions!! Your picture outtakes of the ugly sweater jump are awesome! And sending it to the Hoyt’s, funny! I always try to double check my messages before sending anything out. 🙂
Oh my god, I burst out laughing at “might have peed a little” photo. Hilarious. 🙂 Happy Friday!
Awesome jump! You got some serious air dude! 🙂
That pic of you leaping is great…and that you sent it to Team Hoyt #priceless (That seriously is something I would do…if I had them in my contact list). It’s shameful how many attempts it takes to get that (almost) perfect pic…and for some reason I have a hard time deleting the failed attempts (I’ve convinced myself that I will use them for a bad meme someday)
Hahaha – you’re pure evil with a little dash of incontinence.
Well look at you!!!! Isn’t that cute. My hubby bought our ugly sweaters and I am jumping for joy to wear it – NOT!!!! Cute runfessions.
No one tells a story like you do! I look forward to these Runfession posts cause I know that you are gonna make me laugh!
I did not realize that was you in the picture, I actually thought that was your daughter. You look great, even in the ugly sweater and all. Keep up the good work. I always enjoy reading your posts.
OMG. I LOOOOOVE your outtakes! Mine are quite silly too haha
That is too funny that you emailed your photo to the Hoyts AND they responded: they’ll certainly remember you!
Oh yeah, not having kids, I take advantage of holiday sales for myself! I’ll bet most people do & just don’t want to admit it..
Happy Holidays!
This post cracks me up! I’m sorry you didn’t get your Starbucks star!
All of your shopping done! You go girl!
Feel free to send that delivery truck to my house with a few gifts 😉 lol!
Too funny you sending that pic to the wrong address- silly auto correct.
Those jump pics are so hard! I was taught to video tape the jump and then screen shot the pic you. Want from there. I haven’t tried it yet though.
Happy Holidays!
Tom and I have a rule that we’re not allowed to buy anything in the weeks leading up to our birthdays or Christmas, so I’ve been really good about not buying myself things. It’s really hard!
Let’s not even talk about how many running shoes I own…
You truly made me laugh out loud with sending the pic to Team Hoyt! I’m still impressed you pulled off that jump pic 😉
The fact that you sent it to Team Hoyt is awesome! I’m catching up on my blogs but have a great New Year Marcia!
omg dying at the peed a little and the fact you emailed the hoyts! what did they say?? And i would’ve done the same thing about the starbucks. bummer on those 8 stars.