They've gone about as fur as they can go... Hey guys, time for another update on my life, although the people who are most verbal about their disappointment in my lack of consistency in writing (family) are the ones who won't find much new in this post!
Why? Because I got to spend the weekend with my family in Kansas City! It was great fun driving up there and getting to hang out with my mom's side of the family for a day or so. It was my aunt's birthday and my uncle wanted to surprise her with a party, gathering as many family and friends as possible. Aside from my aunt, the rest of my mom's family lives in Northwest Arkansas (kind of funny, because the siblings all grew up in the Chicago area. They've just transplanted over the years), so at least 2 representatives from each sibling's family came to celebrate my aunt's birthday with her. Her husband (my uncle, the party planner) also got all of his siblings to show up, as well as neighbors and friends from church.
It was great fun, and I got to enjoy one of life's little pleasures - staying in a hotel. I'm not quite sure why I enjoy staying in a hotel so much, but I really do! I like the free breakfasts and the people that get paid to be nice to you when you walk in and the fact that I never have to clean my room or make my bed. Plus, there's usually a pool, hot tub, and fitness center of some sort. And hotels are usually right in the middle of a whole bunch of other fun things to do, like restaurants, shopping centers, movie theaters, whatever. So I had a great time this weekend enjoying the little pleasure of staying in a hotel. Honestly, even the drive wasn't that bad. I was worried that a 5-hour drive would be really hard to handle on my own (I've driven longer distances by myself, but it's been awhile). But it was pretty easy, and I only had to stop once to fill up and empty out.
Of course seeing the kiddos was super fun too. Their enthusiasm always inspires me to be a better person, one who's more optimistic about life and not just savors the little pleasures but genuinely relishes them. When was the last time you got so excited about something that you jumped up and down in circles for minutes on end? These kids did it several times a day. It was awesome.
I was a bit worried that being away from home all weekend and not being able to be as choosy as I'd like to be with my food would result in a weight gain this week. I even accepted it as a reality and bought myself a Grilled Stuffed Burrito from Taco Bell Sunday night, something I only do when accepting defeat for the week :) ... not that they're bad. No, on the contrary, those unnatural concoctions of chemicals and non-food products are one of the tastiest things available to someone who doesn't want to leave their car that I can think to put in my mouth. But seriously, there's no way on earth that I can chow down on those on a consistent basis and expect to not weigh 500 pounds (please don't bring up the Taco Bell diet. Just because you put salsa on a taco doesn't make it healthy, and I'm still convinced that the girl who lost so much weight by only eating Taco Bell must have lost it all to explosive bowels or something. That is NOT healthy, I don't care what you say). Anyway, all that to say that I didn't gain, I lost another pound this week! Yay me! That puts me at 3 pounds away from my goal. I'm so close!!!
Also, I'm still getting ready for the 5k, which is coming up in about a week and a half (June 12). I've been telling a few people about it, and my family was so proud of me they were all thinking about coming down to watch me! At first, that really scared me. I'm not sure how well I'll do at this. I've never been in a race, I've never actually run 5 kilometers outside, either. So I was scared that they would come all the way out to see me and then I'd embarrass myself by not doing as well as I want to and thus failing in front of my family or making it not worth their while to come see me. But now I think I want them to come, because it will inspire me to work harder, and will be one more encouragement for me to not quit. Right now, my goal is just to not walk at all. I realize that I could probably finish faster if I did a run/walk combo, but I'm not so much concerned about the time as I am the ability to push myself to keep running or jogging, even when I don't want to.
On the same note of running, I made a relatively dumb impulse buy the other day. I got a Garmin GPS/heart rate monitor watch that helps me know my pace when I'm running, how far I've run, and even allows me to break up my run into sections to see how fast I've run each section (like I can break up each mile or half mile to see how my times change throughout my run). I was just browsing for them on eBay and found one for a good price. I bid on it, got outbid, and then my competitive nature kicked in and I had to win it! So I did, and whether I want it or not, I'm now the proud owner of a high-tech piece of running equipment. Super useful if I ever decide to venture outside of the gym to run (which I have a couple of times).
Well, my iCal seems to indicate that I'll have plenty of work to do this week, and that's good. I don't like being bored. My job is kinda feast or famine. Sometimes I'm bored to tears with nothing to do, and sometimes I'm crazy busy from 9 to 5. Man, can you believe it's June already? Oklahoma apparently doesn't really have a spring season. You wouldn't think that it would be too different from Arkansas, but it sure seems that way to me. We kinda just jumped from winter to summer, with a few rainy days in between. Bummer, I like spring. Nothing thought-provoking, just me today. Maybe something more interesting in the next couple of days when I have a chance to process it. Until then, be nice, keep the peace, and get really really excited about something!
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