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 :)

Long Time Coming

Since a lot of you only know that I like to run and eat and occasionally indulge in tasty amber beverages, here is a quick rundown of my Ohio residency saga:

• West Chester, OH : ages 10-18
• Columbus, OH: ages 18-22 (minus a summer break spend in West Chester)
• West Chester, OH: ages 22-24
• Columbus, OH: ages 24-now

So the above time period obviously recaps where my physical location has been over the years.

BUT, my heart has been in Columbus ever since I moved here for college, so it was beyond thrilling for me to place the infamous "25" sticker on my license plate:

Hello Franklin County, I'm here to stay!


Please don't get me wrong - I will always be a Bengals fan, I will always be a Reds fan, I will never cry over the Buckeyes losing a football game and I will always return to my family... when they feel like dealing me of course :)


Columbus Love,

 

Recap Time

This weekend flew by, very quickly - too quickly. 

Probably because...

• My sister turned 21
• I experienced a form of better than sex cake
• I spend 2/3 of the entire weekend with one of my best friends
• I got a free cookie for looking cute
• I celebrated my roommate's sister's wedding
• I witnessed my roommate's boyfriend getting iced... and loved it.
• I reverted back 4 years and played college again
• yes beer pong was played
• yes I went to bed very intoxicated
• yes I went to bed very intoxicated after eating my body weight in pizza at 2:00am
• it was great.

the last drink recorded in this book was at 12:66. 

Best Friends for Life for the Night

my sister and me :)

keepin' it classy

It was a fun weekend, but I'm more than ready to eat some vegetables and sweat from physical activity. It's all about moderation, right?!

Happy Monday?

Random, Random, Random

Hi old friends! It's been awhile, but I'm back, however, I'm back with zero pictures.
I apologize. I know how you all look forward to my perfect, artistic and professional photos.

Anyway, this weekend was a bust, well.... sort of..... here is a quick rundown:

• Friday - worked day job 9-2:30, worked new night job 3:30 - 8:30
• Saturday - ran 12 miles with running group, worked new night job 3:30 - 10:00
• Sunday - 4 mile recovery run, pool with friend (k.Haar)

Conclusion - running is the best, working a second job is not.
So, after lots of justification and help forced out of the roommate, I decided that 2 jobs is a no-go. I tried it, I made probably like 60 bucks over the weekend and now I'm done...time to get serious about where I'm going with my life, or about the overflowing laundry basket I have in my closet....

Other then that life has been pretty static.
I still am loving my job at abercrombie... ha
I'm still training for the full with a semi-sore ankle.
and I'm going on 7 days straight of wearing the same jean shorts to work... body spray really can do wonders :)

But despite all the ho-hum junk above... I've got a pretty exciting weekend to look forward to:

• my little sister turns 21 at midnight Saturday
• my roommate's sister is getting married on Saturday
• I get to harass my roommate because of her twitching eye all week.
• oh, and I get to squeeze in a 13 mile run in between a 21st birthday and a wedding, ha!

Sorry for the lame recap post... exciting posts to come. I promise. Even one about blind dates...!

Happy Tuesday!

Speed Work and Heat

I heard on the Today Show this morning that over half of the country is in this "heat dome" and subsequently are in heat warnings and heat advisories... so, since probably half of my 12 followers are experiencing these awful temperatures and humidity, I'll just assume you all know what I'm talking about when I say, it is hot.

Since my marathon training schedule doesn't know when to schedule runs around the heat, I was due for 5 miles with 8 x 1 minute fartleks with 1 minute rest in between. After leaning from Tuesday's run... I made it a goal to get up before the sun and do my run before the heat got too bad:


Yes, this is me standing on the toliet in the downstairs bathroom. I was too lazy to walk the 20 seconds upstairs to a full length mirror, but anyway, here is me all cool and fresh!

And here is me after my run, all hot and sweaty!

It was hot! I was already dripping sweat into my mile warm up and I actually followed through with the speedwork - which is surprising because I haaate strongly dislike speedwork.

After cooling off with a cold shower and throwing my hair up in what I like to consider a pony tail, (lets be real, it is way too humid to even attempt to straighten hair, let alone  actually keep it straight!) I made a delicious, easy breakfast of plain yogurt, banana, blueberries, kashi, and great grains cereal:

And I managed to snap a picture of my new friend: Mr. Roly Poly.

He was a little camera shy.

Stay Hydrated!