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Though I grew up here in Memphis and had lots of friends, I only had a few close friends, and now, only one of them resides here in Memphis. I have a few other close girls in town that I've befriended since moving back from school, and I always seem to run into old classmates, but I feel I'm lacking in the friends dept. - lol, that sounds so lame. So many of my friends live in different cities and states, and I'm so terrible at keeping in contact with them that I fear I may lose them - oh the drama. But there have been some moments here lately -especially with the upcoming wedding- that I've realized that they'll always be there.

 

Makes ya feel all mushy inside, huh? No? Just me? Ok then.

 

-A

Pumped.

This week I'm setting a simple running goal of running 35 miles by Sunday. While the miles aren't difficult, I'm having a tough time making time for my miles and I feel like it's a big fat excuse. These next couple of months will be very stressful and running is my stress reliever sooo, must work to make time. Plus, I'm training for a marathon in December, so no more slacking off!

Last week I had two awesome runs following a crazy, not normal run. Wednesday, last week, I went running with the pup, and Jason tagged along on the bike. Well, the entire time the dog was pulling me to keep up with Jason on the bike. We were hauling. I'm talking sub-8s. I tried to keep up but we only managed 4 miles. I was afraid for my dog's life.

Amazingly, I ran 8:30s on Thursday's 5 miler and Saturday's 6 miler and it felt so good. I'm pumped for tonight's run with the group. I may even run home after. 

In other news, I'm up to my ears in wedding planning. I'm super pumped about some fun projects that I'm conjuring up.

Oh and I'm pumped for this...

WHOOP!!

-A

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That's all.

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Weekend Update.

Good news. I accomplished my weekend DYI project! Though I had to follow some unconvential crafting techniques due to the lack of some supplies i.e. tacks, I am happy with the result. I ultimately just wanted to get rid of the 8-year old, nasty, plastic storage containers that were essentially holding my collection of expired drugs and spare buttons.

Don't ask.

So after pumping myself up with some episodes of Hoarders, I told Jason to throw them away. He responded by telling me that he could use the 8-year old, nasty, plastic storage containers to sort some of his Army paper work. Ugh. Really? He then followed up saying he would put the container in the closet out of my sight.

Fine.

Ok. I got off track. In order to get rid of the dust collecting storage containers, I had to re-locate my knot of jewels that was residing on top of them. So wa-lah. Insert DYI project. It's a fabric wrapped canvas with a floating shelf that may or may not be level. Please enjoy the poor quality iPhone photo below.

As for the rest of the weekend? It went well.

Friday, I biked home and Jason prepared a yummy dinner for us of grilled bacon-wrapped pork tenderloin, green beans, cucumber salad, and vino. We ended up going out later and coming home even later and sleeping most of Saturday away. I watched some kids on Saturday night and on Sunday morning, I managed to go to the wrong location for the RRS 5-miler - PS this is the 3rd RRS I've participated in. Sheesh. We went to church, hit up the doggie park and ended the day with my sister and her family for hamburgers.

*side note: I haven't run in almost 10 days. I'm ending that tonight. No worries.

-A

Rut.

I really need a fresh start. A change. I've been consistantly searching for a new place to live ever since Jason came home. A new job would be nice, but it's just not feasible right now. A new city would be a definate overhaul. I feel like I'm in a deep rut. Not a bad rut, per se, but one that just doesn't excite me any more.

Since I can't easily change the above, maybe I need to just change my perception. i.e. I have a bad habit of going home after work/workouts and being terribly unproductive. This unproductivity tends to spill over into the weekend, and then, Monday starts the whole cycle over of feeling unfulfilled over again. I'm not saying that my life is terrible, but I just need to change somethings up!

This weekend I have set a home improvement/ DYI goal. Hopefully, I'll complete it and hopefully, I'll blog about it - because I want to become a better blogger (how many times have I said this??). I have faith that my mission will be accomplished because 1. I was productive last night 2. I've voiced my goal to my roommate/ better half.

Weekend project inspiration.

Source: younghouselove.com via Andy on Pinterest

'til Monday.

-A