Alias

I have been watching the first season of Alias on dvd. (i love netflix!) I haven't been so into Alias though. i kind of felt like all the episodes were the same, and i was pretty confused at the beginning. there is also a cliffhanger at the end of every episode. it is so annoying. but i committed to some friends that i would watch the first season because they love it so much. so i am trucking along....and i get to the last episode, and BAM! i am hooked. it took 25 episodes to hook me, but i am in. i watched the trailer for the whole next season and i am soooo excited! i am not just excited to see what happens to resolve the cliffhanger at the end of the season, i am just excited to see season 2 play out. i am crazy!

Muse

i had an interesting weekend last weekend. i went to this new club called Muse. Sarah Forbes talked me into going. i was pretty reluctant to go, but she told me i was "young and who cares if it was already late." Sarah knows just how to get me. sometimes i feel like i am so old, so when she throws out the word "young" it is almost like i have to prove that that is in fact true. so we went, and i rode with Sarah, but i forgot my ID. it didn't really occur to me that it was a real club where you need things like IDs. also given the fact that i don't drink and i have been over 21 for a long time, i just didn't think about it. so we get up to the door and i realize now naive i really am. oops! to make a long story short (although the long story is pretty funny), i had go undercover as my alias "flirty Al" to get through the door. i was successful (to my utter shock)! then, the evening got more interesting once i realized that i had been a little too successful under my alias when the bouncer continually flirted back with me all evening. haha. things like this never happen to me, which is why i thought a little flirtiness couldn't hurt...oops! also to my surprise i had a lot of fun. we tore up the dance floor for 2 hours. i met some new people and Sarah now has reason to make fun of me, telling me i have a bouncer for a boyfriend. lol.

hate/hate relationship

The treadmill and i are not friends. Running is getting harder and harder. I have been told it will be that way until i can push through that wall of pain and death. Then it will be easier. it seriously kills me everytime i start running. i wish i could be a runner. It would be great to be able to go out and run for awhile a few days a week and feel like i got a good workout and not be sore for 2 days afterwards! hopefully i will get there. i am not giving up yet.

Running

On day 4 of my training for the 5k I was ready to throw in the towel. it was killing me. the pain in my shins was probably the worst pain i have ever felt. that is pretty bad. but, i pushed on and sought a little advice for shin splints. after a new pair of shoes, gel inserts, ice, and a looooot of stretching i can run with only mild discomfort. that is a pretty vast improvement. Today is day 7 and i am pretty excited to push myself a little bit each day to be able to run the whole thing (hopefully!!!). The adventure continues...This is a pic of my new kicks that saved my life! you may be asking yourself what is on my legs. well...i was icing my shins but the ice wouldn't stay balanced on my shins in the right spot, so i tied down the bags of ice with some scarves. lol

5K

i have decided i need some goals in my life. "an unaimed arrow never misses" right? but it has never gotten me anywhere either. so i have a goal to run a 5K. i want to actually run the whole thing. i may not seem like that big of a deal to a lot of people, but i pretty much haven't run a day in my life, so it is a huge deal to me. when i told Amy about it she was instantly up for running it with me. we decided to do it on May 9th in West Lafayette. that is 9 weeks from today. my training supposedly has me running 30+ solid minutes in 8 weeks. i am so pumped. yesterday i completed the first day of that training and it was rough. sad that is was hard for me when it is only the first day, but i am hoping that this is one of those things that gets easier as you go (please! oh please let it get easier!!!) i think Sarah F is going to run it with us too. she is training for a mini-marathon in april (so scary). we set the date so i would have new found motivation to eat better and work out 6 days a week. it worked. i am motivated. i have to keep myself that way though. i would rather not embarrass myself in front of my friends when i tell them to keep going without me and i will catch up later. that is no good. i will keep you updated on my progress...

Texas

I am going to Texas!!! i have never been to Texas. i am so excited. my cousin is getting married over Memorial Day weekend, and my mom and i wanted to go. my dad is using his frequently flier miles to cover our plane tickets, which is pretty awesome. after the wedding i am taking my mom back to the airport and i am going up to Dallas/Fort Worth (from Houston) to visit Jason. he has been bugging me to come visit him for a long time, so here i come. then i am going to drive down to Fort Hood (i think that is the base) to visit Reina. It is near Austin. i am excited to have a little road trip all over Texas. I am going to rent a car. i will be 25 then. (wow!) i have looked at different vehicles to rent for a week with unlimited miles. the cheapest one that i found (last time i looked) was a F-150. how cool would i be tooling around Texas in a truck?! i mean everyone probably drives a truck, but it would be awesome! get ready Texas, here i come!

Reina

I know some of you know who Reina is. For those of you who don't, she was a co-worker of mine at the bank about 2 years ago. Not only did she work with me, but she lived down the road from me at that time. She was my sanity at times when life got a little crazy. During summer months, i spent about 14 hours a day with her. it was fabulous! she moved to Hawaii where her husband was stationed in the army. they didn't love Hawaii so much so they put in for a move to Texas where some of her family lives. In between her move from Hawaii to Texas they came back to Indiana to visit her husband's family in Frankfort. i went to visit her there. i can honestly say that i laughed harder in those 3-4 hours that i was with her than i have in a long long time. she is an amazing person! we reminisced about good times we had back in the day,and after eating more Chinese food than i thought imaginable, i proceeded to tell her one of the funny things she used to say to me. we were out in the parking lot. she was laughing so hard that she peed her pants a little, and threw up some of the Chinese food she had just eaten. so, maybe that was a little too much information, but it was the funniest thing ever!

FINALLY I am back

I am back. i took a long break from blogging. i needed it. i wasn't really in a good mood for about 6 weeks. long time, huh? i went through this bitter and angry stage for those 6 long weeks and i wasn't really keen on telling the whole world about it in my blog. i was throwing a massive pity party for myself and i didn't want anyone to bring me back to reality. you know how sometimes you just want to feel sorry for yourself and you don't want anyone to make you feel like you are overreacting, even though you know you are? well, maybe it is just me, but i was there and for a good long time. i am out of that stage now. i got a serious reality check, which was good for my sanity, although a little disheartining. i knew i couldn't go on like i was, but i would like to thank Lindsey and Sarah for being my social interaction and agreeing with me that life sometimes just stinks! i am moving on, getting a grip, and looking forward to some fun things coming up...

Internet

My blog has unfortunately not been updated for a long time. I don't have internet at home and Purdue has recently cut me off from using the computer lab. I guess that is what happens when you stop giving them all of your money. I haven't made it to the library yet so I am using the internet at work (which I am not really supposed to do). Someday I will really update my blog. I feel like I have a lot of things to say. So get excited!