Stuff I Love!

As a follow-up to my incredibly negative post from this weekend (LOL!), here is a lovely list of little things I couldn't possibly live without!!

(1) Bolthouse Farms Mocha Cappuccino with Whey Protein, YUM-O!!

(2) Zebra Print

(3) The color PINK

(4) All things Pug

(5) Lists

(6) The beach - which I will be

lying on this time next week, ahhh!

(7) H&M - What I wouldn't give for one of these a little closer to home!!

(8) My cute new pink shuffle

(9) Ice Cream

(10) Fashion Magazines, Scrapbooking Magazines, Running

Magazines, and Catalogs - I think perhaps I have a paper fetish!

I'm such an oddball....

I just realized when posting my weekly column over at SSSB that I'm a complete oddball. Or maybe I'm just getting too old to be trendy anymore, LOL (Lord I hope that's not the case, I'm not even 26 yet!!!). Let me explain....

(1) The bird trend. OMG, the bird trend. Please God let this come to an end soon. I do not and will never understand the recent obsession with all things feather, flappy, and just darn disgusting. Yes, I realize that my deep-seeded fear of all things with feathers and beaks makes me a bit biased on this subject, but when I can't even walk around my LSS without practically going into a panic attack, what has this world come to?!?!

(2) Skulls?? Really, Skulls?? I can't imagine anything more disgusting and non-feminine. Yes that's right, I'm a girly-girl and proud of it. I want nothing to do with the dern things. (Ok confession - I've done one skull LO but it was for a friend!!). I know this skull obession seems to have stemmed from the sucess of all the Pirates of the Carribean movies so perhaps if I hadn't fallen asleep in the 1st one and never watched the 2nd and 3rd I could understand this a little bit better. Que sera sera - I just hope this trend ends soon!!

I could go on, but all this negative energy has tired me out!! I need to go run it off, then I'll feel better!!

Back in the swing of things...

Well I am finally back into my running routine as of today. It has been a long road to recovery as far as my feet go. They are finally all healed up, but I still need to go buy a new pair of shoes. I can't decide if I want to get the Mizuno again or try something new. Oh well, it just feel good to be back out on the road.

In other news, I have had the busiest week! I traveled to our nation's capital for a conference on Statistics and Modeling for Direct Marketers. Very interesting stuff!! I discovered that one statistical model can bring in up to $30K!! I really need to go into consulting. That is definitely something to keep in mind for the future once I have some good experience under my belt. But for now, I couldn't be happier where I am. Ok I could be a little happier if I had more flexible hours. Or if I could work from home. But on the whole, I am very lucky to be doing something that I enjoy so much and getting paid for it.

Hope you all have a excellent holiday weekend and get some nice summertime runs in!

Officially Recovered!

One week post race and I have to say I'm feeling pretty good! We got our pics back from the pro photographers selling race pics. Some of them turned out ok so that's good! They are so expensive but it's one of those things that you know you are going to buy at least one of. I'm still waiting for Dad to send me the pics my step mom took. Hopefully I'll get those soon. Not much going on other than that in the world of running. I am going to try to start back again this week if my feet hold up. I'm still waiting for some of the blisters to heal (uhhggg!!) .

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