Please Wish me Luck!

Remember my post about Endorphins? Well, I put that to practice this morning and did a 2 mile run and a modified cardio version of Level 1 Shred. I decided instead of throwing a pity party for myself and my ankle, I would make do with what I'm able to do and not worry about it.


So, with all my wonderful endorphins flowing threw my body.... I'm icing my ankle like a good little runner and eating the best bowl of overnight oats I've had in awhile.

Oh, and pounding water like it's my job.... I'm going to OU today to visit my sister. All I can say is wish me luck..... I'm preparing for a 2-3 day hangover. 


Recap to come tomorrow about my stint at college part two.... if I make it alive. 


Enjoy the weekend!

Friday.

This is my Friday night:

Yep. I'm feeling sorry for myself.

So here are some pluses about my life: 

• I get to see my sister tomorrow
• I facebook chatted (please don't judge!) with my best friend tonight... I really wish she lived by me....life would be so much easier if she lived in Columbus... but moving on..
• I get to run 2 miles in the morning
• I ate dinner without buying anything
• I got paid today?

Be positive,

Five Things on a Tuesday

By now, after reading several of my blog posts,  I'm sure you all have a pretty good insight into my life... and by insight, I mean that it is  b o r i n g...

So instead of toruting you through an hour by hour, minute by minute recap of my Monday, you guys get the pleasure of reading.....

5 Rando Things About Me

(which may or may not have been discovered on Monday).

1. I went to my sports chiropractor Monday morning. Good news is I have great insurance. Bad news is I can only run 5 miles a week...total.
2. I grew up swimming everyday for fun. I have never used swimming as a workout. However, this week I am purchasing Wal-Mart one peice bathing-suits for my roommate, Annie, and I, and we are going to do Zumba Swimming on Thursday evenings. (I'm using the random fact as more of a statement and a goal that will be achieved. And yes, I support any kind of harassament on Annie's blog about chickening out on this adventure).
3. Since moving in with a photo nerd, I realized that taking pictures of bright food in sunlight is fun.... even if they are horrible quality.

4. I'm openly obbsessed with Vampire Diaries, and even more obbsessed with Damon.
5. I LOVE breakfast. It's my favorite. I also get really angry and annoyed when people don't eat it because they are trying to lose weight..... no wonder there is such an obesity problem in this country.

Grab a granola bar, a banana, heck even a piece of pizza.... and eat if for breakfast!!!!

Lack of Brain Power, Laziness and a Satisfactory 5 Days

I've been MIA in the blog world for a little bit... well, by blog world I mean me, myself, and I actually creating real posts with my nonsense babble. I'm very much in the blog world everyday when it comes to reading other blogs and stalking stranger's lives.... 


But anyway, the past 5 days have been interesting, but not the exciting interesting you get when things just happen to fall in place and you are on an amazing high from loving your life - no, my interesting was the result of just not using my brain. 
Take for example my Wednesday evening... after work I thought it'd be perfect to stop at Target to make some returns.... turns out it was even more perfect because I walked out without making any purchases (which is typically NOT heard of... for any 20-something girl). So I get home, park my car, grab all my stuff from a day at work, close my car door and panic- 

"where are my keys?" 

"they aren't in my hands... oh shit!...."

 "they're in my car... and the doors are locked!"

"and oh no.... my apartment key is in my car, and my apartment is locked.."

"and my roommate isn't coming home tonight!!!!" 

Yep. Awesome right? NOT!!! Haha, the evening turned into lots of phone calls, some tears and an hour and a half wait in the January May weather for the Pop-a-Lock man to come and unlock my car... which took about, oh, 2 minutes - maaybe 3?


My interesting evening continued with burning popcorn and discovering my hair straightener that had been on ALL day - I think my title should be NO Brain Power instead of LACK of brain power. 

This is where the picture of my car keys laying on my front seat would go. I guess it turns out that an hour and a half of sitting on my front porch wasn't enough time to snap a photo. 

But now that I have completely taken up way too much blog space on the topic of my natural stupidity... I'll keep the end of this novel short, sweet and to the point. 


My Friday was filled with work and a night before meal of pizza: (homemade)

After a surpsrisingly good night of sleep, I woke up with oats in a jar for a little pre-race meal action:

My race was satisfactory. I hadn't run any distance over 7 miles in the past few weeks and my ankle and foot were still bothering me. I finished the half marathon in 1:56, which really is a good time, but since I finished with a time of 1:54 6 months ago, I know I have the ability to do better than what I did... BUT every race can't be a PR, right?!


Once the race was over, I basically literally did nothing. Yes. Nothing. Except for Sunday when I did manage to get out on Sunday for a little grocery shopping and sun bathing in the back patio... which probably wasn't the best idea, since it looks like my fat ass broke one of the  patio furniture chairs... well, maybe not broke, but it sure as hell is sagging! 

Welp, thanks for reading my nonsense and I promise I'll blog more this week... with less words and more pictures... and hopefully about something uplifting, like I randomly won a million dollars for doing nothing and I don't have to work anymore....


Here's hopin',

What I Learned at the Chiropractor

Monday I went to the Chiropractor for my ankle. Yes, I said Chiropractor for my ankle.

To keep a long-winded story short, (and to keep you guys from jumping to the conclusion that I'm completely crazy) the Chiropractor I saw is in my running group and treats a lot of sports injuries, and being the innocent, gullible, little 25 year old that I am, it took about 30 seconds of convincing from my running buddies, and the added bonus of a free consultation, to make an appointment.

So anyway, moving on.... you know, to the actual topic of my post....

What I Learned at the Chiropractor:

1. I drink too much caffeine in the morning.
2. I need to take a multi-vitamin.
3. The proper way to sleep at night is on your side, pillow inbetween your legs and holding on to something.
4. My incredibly thrilling past - and current - desk jobs have wrecked havoc on my posture and my back, oh, and my neck.
5. From all my running, my calcaneous has been jammed into my tibia and fibula joint.
6. My entire body is as tight as he's ever seen.
7. Having your neck cracked is absolutely terrifying
8. Having your neck cracked doesn't hurt.... nor does the rest of your body
9. I can run in the half marathon Saturday!!!!

So again, my attempt at a long story short...this time about the ankle... sometime in the past couple months/weeks/who knows, I did something to sprain my ankle .... I continued to run on it, which then caused a muscle strain in my foot - hence the sprain-strain injury. His good news was that I'm able to run on Saturday, but the bad new is I won't be 100% for the race. But since I run for fun and not to win... everything is A-OK in my book..... well except for cutting back on running after the race.... we'll see how well I listen....

Toodles!

@#$&%

All I want is some sunshine. Please send me some if you have it.

Have an absolutely wonderful Tuesday,

Luck of the Draw

Hola Amigos! 
I hope the sun has been shining where you are, cause it sure as hell hasn't been here! But 
But ok, ok, moving on. I didn't sit down to blog about the weather (that's what facebook is for, right?) so lets fast forward to my Friday night....


After another thrilling 8 hours of tedious data entry, I got the pleasure of stopping for gas before driving 20 miles to my apartment.

Yep. That is no photo editing my friends.  Now I do realize that I have a fairly large gas tank, and granted,  I basically was running on fumes.... but still, holy cow! I paid 62 dollars for gasoline, which is even taking into count my 10 cent fuel reward discount. BOGUS. 
Anyway, after my crying was done, I came home and made a delicious little pita pizza with mushrooms and spinach:

Which might not have been the best of ideas, since 2 hours later I found myself at Plank's Pizza in German Village with my favorite woo girls ever (my roommate,  Jackie, Lydia and Kathleen) where we ate pizza and drank beer. I didn't get a chance to snap a photo because it was devoured so quickly by some hungry girls... and yes, I did have a second dinner of more pizza! 
While eating (and drinking) we were debating on where to go out later on that night... after lots of typical undecision making, Annie got the idea to write down every bar in downtown Columbus, specifically arena district, and put them in an empty popcorn basket. 

If you're wondering if we each picked out a piece of paper with a bar name on it, you are correct. 

And if you're also wondering if we went to all 5 bars that were picked, you are, again, correct. 

And furthermore, if any of you are from the Columbus area, you can probably stop wondering now, and just go ahead and assume that we had to force ourselves into half 3/5 of the bar lineup, and ignore the lingering smell of dollar cherry bombs as we passed the bouncer. 


So to recap the night, we drank lots of beer, we did crazy handshakes, we did crazy handshakes with strangers, we got free drinks, we danced, we came home and watched the royal wedding, again. Oh, and we ate pizza. Again. 


Minus the fact that I got 4 hours of sleep and missed my running group Saturday morning, it was the best night I've had in awhile. 
It's a great feeling knowing you finally have a good group of girlfriends to count on and to act crazy with. I'm one happy chica. 


Grab an ice cold bud light,

Why does it seem so much easier to take picture of food?!?! I promise, there will be picture of live human beings..... in the future.... hopefully.....fingers crossed!