If you know me, then you have just fallen off your chair reading that title, but it is true. I am not sure what changed inside my head that openly voiced how I "hated" animals for the last 25 years of my life (I put hated in quotes because it wasn't that I hated animals, I mean I could care less that they existed on the same planet I did, I just didn't want one to ever touch me, lick me or shed near me), but pretty much I blame it on turning 26... and my mother.
As a child you look up at and admire your parents (if they're worth admiring, and luckily mine were) and I wanted to do everything they did at exactly the same time they did. This meant I was supposed to be married at 24 and having my first child days after my 26th birthday. Well here we are, weeks after my 26th birthday and I am unmarried and as far as I know, not pregnant, so there goes that childhood "dream" of being exactly like my mom. Thus, buying a dog. So now, I have a child per say, and I am getting married in June, so by the time I am done being 26, I will be in exactly the same place as my mother. Woah, woah, woah don't think for one second I am only getting married for the sake of being married at 26, it's just perfect coincidence (or destiny). So maybe God was on my side all this time trying to make this happen. He did introduce my fiance to me months and months in advance of when I decided to give him a chance. So maybe it's my fault? We meet 10 months sooner, we get married 10 months sooner... I could be having real babies instead of buying baby-replacements. Really kicking myself now! Or not, because I am still in the "too selfish to spend my money on someone else" phase of my life.
But the point of this blog is not to argue with myself (unless it's over health & fitness) so I will stop ranting and explain why this dog/child of mine has allowed me to be more active in the last three weeks of my life than I've been in a while. I mean this dog has energy. We run, we jump, we climb stairs (that's new as of yesterday) and he is freaking fast. I full out sprint when we run down the street together... and he only chooses to sprint when I'm wearing inappropriate shoes like high heels or uggs. If I wear sneakers to walk him, we sniff at some leaves and sit down and not want to walk more than two houses. Moral of the story, my 10-week old dog is smarter than me. Hopefully he gets me to run some serious mileage before wedding day!!!
XOXO
Thursday, December 13, 2012
Tuesday, November 6, 2012
Fun.
Can I include the Fun. concert as exercise? Or picking the reception menu for my wedding next summer?
No?
Okay then. I haven't exercised in a week.
Serious couch potato, minus the couch. I've been a social butterfly, just not in areas that involve sweating. I'll try and work on that tonight.
XOXO
No?
Okay then. I haven't exercised in a week.
Serious couch potato, minus the couch. I've been a social butterfly, just not in areas that involve sweating. I'll try and work on that tonight.
XOXO
Friday, November 2, 2012
The Boss
So my "first" exercise-related post since coming back to my blog, might be a stretch, but since the only other related activity this week includes walking to and from the bar last night we're going to go for it...
Dancing my little booty off at Bruce Springsteen on Halloween!
There's not much to describe here besides my bad white-girl dance moves and hours of laughing at middle-aged folk thinking they were in high-school again. Pretty much what all good Bruce shows are made of.
And - they even showed footage of the show on Good Morning America this morning as the "Play of the Day." Clearly it was not for my dancing, but because there was a nice little tribute to New Jersey. Still pretty sweet that Rochester made national news, doesn't happen very often ha. I tried to find the video, but am having no luck, so you'll have to YouTube it. Sorry kids.
That's all for now!
XOXO
Dancing my little booty off at Bruce Springsteen on Halloween!
There's not much to describe here besides my bad white-girl dance moves and hours of laughing at middle-aged folk thinking they were in high-school again. Pretty much what all good Bruce shows are made of.
And - they even showed footage of the show on Good Morning America this morning as the "Play of the Day." Clearly it was not for my dancing, but because there was a nice little tribute to New Jersey. Still pretty sweet that Rochester made national news, doesn't happen very often ha. I tried to find the video, but am having no luck, so you'll have to YouTube it. Sorry kids.
That's all for now!
XOXO
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Look Who's Back
Yikes... who knew I could go from being such a great blogger, to the the WORST?!? So here we are over a year since my last post. No update on the Philadelphia Half or of the money I raised. Pretty pathetic if you ask me.
Well, let's try and change that.
It seems that most people become motivated at the beginning of the year, you know with all their resolutions and such, but for me, I always get motivated at the end. Not sure what it is about Fall, but it just lights a fire under my butt.
Before starting with what is new, let's discuss what is old and should have been written about months ago...
The Philadelphia Half-Marathon was a success!!! Well in terms of raising money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (thank you for those who donated), not so much on the race. You see, I probably did not blog about my training because there wasn't much training being done. I was a slacker to say the least, and I paid for it after the run. I was so sore for days, I couldn't even run the Turkey Trot four days later. Luckily I promised my dad ahead of time I would walk it with him since it was his first time. After that, I still didn't run much, but I did join a gym in March... not that that means I became a gym rat or anything, but at least it is something right?
Then in May my roommates and I participate in the Buffalo Marathon again. I say "marathon" because in January when I registered, I signed up for the marathon thinking I would spend the time to train for it... I was wrong. So really we participated in the Buffalo Half-Marathon, which we walked and when you do it in a group you really don't notice how long it's taking you. The positives are that (1) we finished (2) we were not sore the next day (3) I looked like I had a sweet marathon time, until they updated the results and said I only completed the half.
Other than that I have mainly used kickball as my excuse for a workout. Though I did play on two softball teams this summer as well as my kickball team and as summer started winding down I promised my girlfriend from college I would run a half with her in October so that I would get moving again... and then three days later, I sprained my ankle BIG TIME. I was on crutches, had to get x-rays, couldn't run for almost eight weeks. We're talking bad sprain. So needless to say, you can't train for a half-marathon in two weeks (at least not when you have sat on your butt for the eight weeks leading up to it), so I could not participate.
And now here we are. I'm sure there were things I missed in there, namely episodes at the gym with embarrassing exercises, but we'll save those for another day.
Hopefully my readers are still out there after this hiatus, but in case you're not, I'll make sure to post the link all over the place so that you're forced back :)
Well, let's try and change that.
It seems that most people become motivated at the beginning of the year, you know with all their resolutions and such, but for me, I always get motivated at the end. Not sure what it is about Fall, but it just lights a fire under my butt.
Before starting with what is new, let's discuss what is old and should have been written about months ago...
The Philadelphia Half-Marathon was a success!!! Well in terms of raising money for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (thank you for those who donated), not so much on the race. You see, I probably did not blog about my training because there wasn't much training being done. I was a slacker to say the least, and I paid for it after the run. I was so sore for days, I couldn't even run the Turkey Trot four days later. Luckily I promised my dad ahead of time I would walk it with him since it was his first time. After that, I still didn't run much, but I did join a gym in March... not that that means I became a gym rat or anything, but at least it is something right?
Then in May my roommates and I participate in the Buffalo Marathon again. I say "marathon" because in January when I registered, I signed up for the marathon thinking I would spend the time to train for it... I was wrong. So really we participated in the Buffalo Half-Marathon, which we walked and when you do it in a group you really don't notice how long it's taking you. The positives are that (1) we finished (2) we were not sore the next day (3) I looked like I had a sweet marathon time, until they updated the results and said I only completed the half.
Other than that I have mainly used kickball as my excuse for a workout. Though I did play on two softball teams this summer as well as my kickball team and as summer started winding down I promised my girlfriend from college I would run a half with her in October so that I would get moving again... and then three days later, I sprained my ankle BIG TIME. I was on crutches, had to get x-rays, couldn't run for almost eight weeks. We're talking bad sprain. So needless to say, you can't train for a half-marathon in two weeks (at least not when you have sat on your butt for the eight weeks leading up to it), so I could not participate.
And now here we are. I'm sure there were things I missed in there, namely episodes at the gym with embarrassing exercises, but we'll save those for another day.
Hopefully my readers are still out there after this hiatus, but in case you're not, I'll make sure to post the link all over the place so that you're forced back :)
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