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I’m off to Canada tonight after an all day training session in consensus building. It was a good class!

We had to do a couple of projects one of which was The Marshmallow Challenge. How high can we build a structure of spaghetti, tape and string… With the mallow on top. We won, but barely!

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More importantly, we learned about consensus and rapid prototyping. Now I’m headed off to Canada for two days and we are just boarding (8:08) for our 7:30 flight. Oh well.

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And of course the pooch had this pitiful look of “Why are you leaving without me”. I think he now understands the luggage.

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Today was a nice little snow day… Which meant a restless pup, a lazy Mary, and me cooking lots of Pinterest recipes.

Diohgé and I went outside to play. He was very confused by my Darth Vader voice.

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Mary enjoyed her corner chaise reading some magazines while we watched season 2 of Homeland.

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And one of the dishes I made was a buffalo chicken empanada and then followed that up with a cinnamon fruit one. Yum. (I also made oatmeal pancakes and a healthy pasta.)

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Today was a big day!! It was the Twin Cities Valentine’s Day 5K… And my first 5K run! It was a blast. Here we are gearing up to run.

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At the finish line (not my photo obvi). 43:30 which is under a 15 min mile… It’s a start!

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Then we went to celebrate at Cooper’s Irish Pub where Finnegan’s was on special, of course.

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Then Marina and I went out to a movie. She found her alter-ego.

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Diohgé was very proud and gave me some kisses.

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