Rewind

Morning!


Just popping in to share with you a few couple photos from the last few days. 


Saturday morning I got the privilege of tackling 15 miles. 
It was the perfect weather and I felt awesome throughout the whole 2 hours and 20 some minutes -could probably be attributed to the alcohol I didn't drink the night before... damn it :) haha
I came home to a "pancake muffin" made and specially set aside for me by my roommate, which naturally was enjoyed with a strawberry-peanut butter smoothie with cereal on top:

special note: these muffins were made with leftover pancake batter from my roommate and her boyfriend's breakfast dinner last night... I passed on the breakfast but enjoyed an obligatory chocolate chip pancake while watching scrubs for the first time with the two crazies.


Speaking of crazies... here is 1/2 of the above mentioned duo:

(this picture was not taken by me nor was it known to me that it was on my camera...but it sure as hell is making the blog!) hehe


Off to the tennis tournament all day!


Have a good start to the week!

Past, Present and Future

Hi Guys!
This morning, for your reading pleasure, I provide you with a look into the things I'm loving of the past, present and the future...

The Past:
I found these gems last Saturday at a vintage store in the Short North (Flower Child):

They were a little expensive for my liking ($18.00) but not only did I fall instantly in love with them, but they also fit my feet perfectly - match made in heaven if you ask me :)

The Present:

Check out this weather I had this morning on my 6 mile run:

Man, was it perfect! I've had sort of a blah week and this run totally turned everything around. I love how running can do that. My marathon training called for a tempo run and usually these are hard for me to actually complete.... but my pace was actually faster than my past runs!

And... to make my morning even that much better.... BREAKFAST!

Oats in a Jar! LOVE! I've really been straying away from oatmeal breakfasts lately because of the relentless heat and humidity, but with a cool run and an almost-gone pb jar... it seemed like the right choice :)

And on top of a perfect run and a perfect breakfast... I got to look at these flowers from our back patio:

And what could be better then realizing I have a full day at work wearing leggings:

Yes, I complain about my job... but I can't complain that I can wear basically whatever I want :)

The Future:

Remember in my recent post that I said I played tennis in college? Well, I also LOVE to watch tennis... and I get to do just that next week with my only favorite sister. Besides the Cone, the only good thing about living in West Chester (the suburbia of Cincinnati) is getting the privelage of having a world class tennis tournament in your backyard, well, ok... 15 minutes away from your backyard...

Needless to say, I am very excited to hang out with my sister (and probably mom - she always seems to sneak free tickets to this thing), watch tennis, and drool over shirtless tennis players....aaaand I suppose it will be nice to see the other part of the fam... dad and brother... we'll see if they even know I'm there :)

It's almost Friday!

Just Because I'm Bored...

Bonjour Mes Amis!
(it's been super long since I've taken French, but I think I got point across of saying hello to my friends - please, don't correct me if I'm wrong)   :)

I've been ridiculuosly bad at taking pictures of my lame dinners, or my glitter magnent crafts or my sweaty face after marathon training runs or the bruises that keep popping up on my legs from Sunday's tubing adventure....SO, just because I am beyond bored at work right now AND because I'm sure you all want to know so much more about me....

here is a lovely little blog post of things you probably do not know about me... ...............or want to know for that matter    :)

1. Seinfeld is, by far, my favorite TV show. My day just doesn't seem complete without watching at least 1 episode.
2. My tolerance for spicey food is basically non exsistant. I once got dared to eat a jalapeno and wasn't even able to swallow it.... my lips and throat were num for a good 23 minutes after the dare was attempted.
3. I once joined match.com and POF, and subsequently have been on multiple "blind dates"...after reading the same chapter over and over in "He's Just Not That Into You" I've finally realized that they were all, you know... just not that into me.
4. I ran cross country my freshman year in high school and hated it. I peed my pants during every 3 mile race. 8 years later I ran 26 miles with no accidents.
5. My favorite color is purple and my favorite food is pizza.
6. I started playing basketball when I was 3 years old. I stopped playing when I was 16. I then started playing tennis and continued to play 4 years in college.
7. Primates are the scariest things in the world. Ever. Well, according to me :)
8. I hate ketchup.
9. Country music is life.
10. The only thing keeping me from being completely independent from my parents is my cell phone bill. You bet your bottom that I'm holding on to my flip phone until it dies.

Well, that is it... for now at least :) Hopefully I will have some really, fun and amateur photos to share with ya'll in my next post.

Until then.... what is something that no one would ever know about you unless you told them?!

Stay away from ketchup and primates,

Pribs and the Girls Do the Lake

Hi Friends!

This past weekend was pretty low key... well low key in terms of alcohol consumption and partying until 3am - which, BTW, I am so thankful for.... I realized during my 14 miler Saturday that I should probably limit my alcohol intake from now until the marathon in October... should being the operative word... it's pretty much impossible for me to turn down half price beers on a Friday evening, after a 40 hour work week for that matter...

But anyway.... back to my weekend, or more specifically... Sunday.

Sunday.

My roommate's boyfriend has a boat, again... to be more specific... a middle class boat -which basically means that it's pretty darn old, he got if for really cheap, it's not the prettiest, but it sure as hell works :)

So Sunday morning me and my roommate Annie loaded up the car and headed to her boyfriend's... where we then began to load up the truck. (lots of loading and unloading was involved) We were more than ready for a day of boating:

Once we got to the lake we met up with Nick's brother and his girlfriend... and if I had the sense to take a group picture it would look fantastic.... but all I got was a view of the lake:

Let me just quickly add that I got the privelage of being the 3rd wheel all weekend. And I say privelage because I've come to realize over the past month that I love it. I never turn down any chance I get to hang out with the lovebirds... Annie is one of my best friends and Nick is like a brother to me... I never get bored and never, ever feel left out... except during the wild make out sessions they frequently display in public places. It happens, right? :)
Ok, getting back on task....
The rest of the afternoon was spend tooling around the lake, anchoring the boat and swimming, eating delicious subs and way to spicey Sun Chips and tubing:

Lots of tubing!

Oh hello there mates, care to help me on board?

James and Christina



Leave your eye make up at home you bunch of girls!

Captain Nick

After about 3 hours on the water, we decided to bring her on in... which was a good choice because we were sunburnt, exhausted and we were about 20 minutes from getting stormed on.

I'd be completely lying if I said this didn't rank in my top 5 favorite days ever. So many times I think how awful my life is with work and other things, but when I have a day like this, it really brings me back to reality and reminds me of how lucky I am to have adopted a second family here in Columbus.

Despite a few tumbles while tubing, and the fact that my entire left leg body is a giant bruise - I'm already thinking of sneaky ways to bribe Nick into boating again... ohh, say this weekend?!

I'll keep you updated :)

Happy Tuesday,

A Surprise.

I have a really fun post coming your guys' way, but until then.... here's a little something to hold you over:

Long story short... today was as typical as Mondays come...nothing bad happened but nothing good happened either. 

But when I got home from work I got a nice little surprise from my best friend:

Anna and the French Kiss!

My best friend from up in Minnesota has been talking about this book for awhile and she sent it to me! It also came with the perfect card. 

Isn't is crazy how things work out like this? I was having a semi-bad day and she came through to cheer me up in the best way possible... I just hope I can return the favor one day :)

I love you Jamie Woods,

Things I'm Loving at the Moment

Have a good night guys!

Normal Life

So, in midsts of all these bachelorette parties, birthday celebrations and weddings that have been taking over my life - believe it or not, I am still somewhat on schedule with my marathon training.
While I've quite throughly enjoyed my time closing bars down, dancing, eating birthday cake and playing beer pong and doing celebratory 21st birthday shots at midnight - I'm somewhat glad that life can calm down and I can focus more on my running and eating healthy treating my body well on most occasions - lets be real here, frozen yogurt and beer are 2 things I just can NOT do without :)

But since life is calming down - this means that my blog post content has also calmed down. I've somewhat been in a blog-cation... aka not feeling motivated to blog about another breakfast or another typical training run, but since eating and running are apart of my everyday life.... here it goes:


I ran 6 miles this morning with 4 x 3 minute fartleks. I decided to spare ya'll with my beat red face and gross you out with my after run t-shirt:

There is Ohio for ya in the summertime.... full force humidity and heat at 6:00am.

(Who-Dey!.... we can talk about the whole Chad Ochocinco trade at another time.....)

Oh, and I'm back to having dark chocolate stashed away in the freezer:

My whole strategy of eating only 1 after dinner to satisfy my sweet tooth has immensely failed. I don't think anyone took into account that there are people out there with sweet teeth, and not just one tooth :)

And I'm pretty sure I've eaten 1 every morning on my way to work..... oops!

Well, that is it for now.... I know I said in a previous post that I will share with you all about blind dating and that sort of thing.... I think I'm at a point where I can share my take on relationships to my small little blog family I have...

until then... eat lots of chocolate :)