First World Decisions

Hi Friends,

       I had to make a big decision over the weekend... I very adult decision if I might add! I have been in the dilemma that I want/need two things (well actually a million but this is what I narrowed it down to) a new phone or a new pair of running shoes. It has been two years and around 6 phones later... I hopped on the android bandwagon 2 years ago and regretted that decision after 2 months! I kept having to go through phones because the androids wouldn't last.. I am ashamed to share this on social media but I am actually using an Iphone 3G.. Yes you read correctly! Now you can see why I NEED a new phone!

        On to my shoe issue.. My mom bought me my first pair or real running shoes last Christmas. I always had Nike's or Addidas but never real running shoes. Well I wore them down pretty good! I wore them down so much that anytime I was wearing them recently I was getting blisters and my toes would be sore after a run. And as you know the shoes are the key ingredient to having a good run. As I have a half marathon coming up in February I knew it was important to get a new pair of shoes.

        I hate being an adult sometimes... In fact when people call me an adult I think to myself I am no where near an adult! Most days I still feel like that 16 year old girl that is in high school. But that is a different topic for a different day. Regardless I knew I wanted a phone...but knew shoes were more important right now. Anyone else have to make a first world decision recently? You can probably guess which one I picked...

As for my running... I broke in my new shoes with 9 miles on Monday. It came with a little bit of pain with my right foot... but you don't gain anything unless you go through the pain sometimes... I am 1 mile and 1 week closer to becoming a princess! 38 more days!! 

Running in the Cold

Hello again!

         I hope everyone is keeping warm! I just wanted to do a quick check in! It has been a busy few weeks! I can honestly say though, I am glad the holidays are over. The food was delicious and the company was fantastic! I loved cuddling up watching Christmas movies...But I am happy to be back on a schedule! Happy to feel motivated and get this new year started right! Last week I ran 8 miles... The most I have run so far! I am one mile closer to being a princess! This trip is approaching very quickly and I am SO excited! I was very nervous a couple of weeks ago.

        I am waiting for the temperatures to go back up a few degree's so I can knock out a 9 mile run... I'm sorry but I refuse to do anything but run to my car in this kind of weather! Not to mention it should be illegal in the south to make people work in these temperatures! I can't wait to be in sunny Florida in a month and a half! I have not decided how warm I hope the weather is... As I know the warmer the weather the slower the runner... Or at least in my case that is true!


        That is all for now, I shall write a longer post this week. Just wanted to write down the progress I am making running wise :)

Running Like a Princess

It has been a long time since I have written a post. I'm not sure if anyone ever even read the few posts that I had. I have been thinking a lot and think I am ready to give this thing another shot... This time I want to write about something a little different.

         I want to talk about how a goal I set for myself and how I took a few steps back. I started to run a lot in this past year. I mean the new trend going around is being "healthy and fit" right? So I thought I would jump on the bandwagon as well. It was just 3 short years ago I ran my first ever race, and it was a 10k at that. My family for the past 12 years has been running the Peachtree Road Race in Atlanta, I was usually on the sidelines eating Krispy Kreme while everyone was racing past me. Three years ago my mom asked me if I would run with the fam that year. With lots of convincing I said yes, so there I was running my first ever race. It was not easy and very discouraging. It wasn't until this year that I really found joy in running and exercising. If it wasn't for my mom I probably would still be living the unhealthy lifestyle I did just 2 years ago. I have gone through slumps and some bad months. I signed up for my first mud run at the beginning of the year. Something I thought I would never do, a few months later I did my second one. With two mud run's, three Peachtree Road Races, and multiple 5k's under my belt I felt like I was on top of my running game. My mom is a runner herself, a legit runner at that! So she has done a few marathons in Disney World (our favorite place on earth), so I decided I was ready to take on my first half marathon... What better way to do it then in Disney World dressing up as a princess? October 1st I started my training and I was doing great! running the 3 times a week I was suppose to, eating great, and better yet feeling great! I was so excited I was actually maybe going to be able to keep up with my mom. Well November 10th happened... I had an incident happened that put me in a depression for a month and a half. I stopped running and working out altogether, stopped worrying about what I was eating. Ultimately stopped caring about anything and everything and just watched the days go by until my half marathon. I would try to run a little and felt so defeated, I felt like a failure. I felt like giving up.. which I did.. Until yesterday.
        I started to realize that ready or not the race is on it's way. So I started googling blogs about the Princess Half Marathon so I could read up to get some motivation. I thought if I could get it in my head about how much fun I will have that maybe I can actually be somewhat ready by the time February 23 comes around. So I thought I would take this opportunity to share my training up until the race. I needed something to keep me motivated and if I am going to run this race Feb 2014. Even if one person reads this and get's something from this that is enough for me. I ran 7 miles this weekend... One mile closer to my 13.1. I'm still far away from my 13.1 but it's in reach now and it's time I stop feeling bad for myself and start putting positive thoughts in my head again.

You will be hearing from me soon!

Love the One You're With

I just finished reading Love the One You're With by Emily Giffin...for the second time. It's funny how your views change when times passes. Maybe my thoughts and opinions changed because i'm getting older, or maybe it's life experiences. In a very short summery, the book is about a woman that has to pick between an old love and her husband. Both men make her feel two different ways, like two different people. She loves both, deeply loves both, but the question is, what life does she love more? So my question for all of you is this, do you think you can be in love with two different people at the very same moment? Has it ever happened to you? Her first love abandoned her, left her heartbroken. When you are left heartbroken you feel like you are left with nothing. It has happened to the best of us. But just say you get the chance to "rekindle" things with the former love of your life..would you? Or, would you already know you were better off with that person that loves you enough to stay with you, not only through the relationships hard times, but your personal hard times. If your spouse went to go see their former love of their life would that be the last straw for you? When I read the book the first time a few years ago I totally agreed with Ellen, go after what the heart wants. Go after that past love of your life. The heart wants want the heart wants. But reading it this time around I have a totally different mindset. The heart may want what the heart wants. You may need closure that you never got. Or maybe your wondering if the life you chose is actually the life for you. So this time around I was wanting her to be 100% loyal to her husband. He was a good man and never did her wrong. BUT maybe if I was in that situation I wouldn't be able to deny seeing the "one that got away". Maybe I would do the same thing. Give the heart what it has been asking for. Maybe, it can make the relationship more strong then it was before. Maybe you just need to figure out for yourself that your life is great. Your relationship is everything you could ever want. Let's get back to reality though, if you flew to go see your ex lover I don't think your current relationship could be fixed with just a kiss and an "i'm sorry". So how about we leave the past in the past and the present where it is. If they will leave you once chances are they will leave you again. And, if they just figured out you are the "one", they truly love you then, well, they don't deserve you anyways. So let's keep our ex lovers in the past where they belong. Always look ahead and cherish the wonderful times you had with that person. But look forward to the times you will be having with that one person that deserves the greatness in you. I know i'm still waiting for that person to sweep me off my feet the way my first love did. Until then I will look forward to the future, and think fondly about the past that I wish to keep in the past.

P.S. If your a lady I totally recommend this book! Actually I recommend all of Emily Giffins books!

P.S.S. If anyone is reading my blog, I would love for you to share your experience if you can relate to this topic!

Eye to Eye

As a single girl I know we are pretty much always aware of when there is a cute boy with in a half mile radius. Or maybe it's just the girls that are boy crazy like me. The longer you are single the higher the radius gets. Sometimes it feels like we will be single forever. And I mean forever.  Then there are some days we lose hope in ever finding a boy again. There is that moment when you are out in a random place and you make that special eye contact with that especially cute boy. It could just be eye contact for those few second. Or you could be in the same place with that person for an hour and constantly be making eye contact with that person. Well what happens when you start thinking ok, I know he is looking at me because he feels the attraction too. But then you start over thinking it (and as a girl I know we do this too). What if we start thinking wait, what if he just keeps looking at me because he knows I keep looking at him and he is weird'ed out by it. And you want so badly for him to come up to you and just hi. I'm not sure if this is a girl thing or a southern thing. But it is not acceptable for the girl to go up to the guy. That is a guys job to peruse the girl. Growing up my mom would not even let me call a boy in the off chance they gave me their number. The boy had to call me. So that same rule of my moms began to be my new rule. I will not call a guy first. So the same rule applies in real life. I will not go up to a guy. I know people say times have changed and it's ok. But to me it's not ok. So then you just have to wait until they come up to you. But what happens when they don't come up to you. You are sitting there waiting for him to come up to you because you know he felt that same attraction that you felt during those 2 seconds you shared together. Then he just walks right out the door and now you will never know what could of been. That random boy sitting there drinking his coffee could have been the love of your life, or someone you have a great relationship with, or maybe it would of never gone past that first date. But you will still wonder what could of been. Now that boy will forever be a stranger and you can wonder if those 2 seconds were anything. Then you start thinking I should of just said something to him. But that is the boys job. But some people think if it was meant to be it will happen. So we just sit here and wait for someone else to walk into our lives. Or maybe they are already in our lives. Regardless that cute boy you saw you will never know his story, and he will never know yours. Sometimes I just wish if a boy feels that same connection he would just come up to me. Because you will never know what could of been until you just go up and try. So needless to say i'm still waiting on my Prince Charming. Or my version on Prince Charming anyways.

Signs Signs, Everywhere a Sign

During the summer everyone wants to be single. And during the winter everyone wants to have somebody. It's a lonely exhausting cycle. Relationships are exhausting and being single is exhausting. When you are in a relationship you are always worrying about things about your relationship..the struggles..the problems. When you are single you are worrying about dating. Is he thinking about you? Is he wanting to text you? Does he actually like you or are you the girl on the "B" list when he is actually thinking about the girl on his "A" list. When you see an EX is it a sign? Even if you see them more then once in a day in two random places? Are they thinking about you while your thinking about them for those few moments you are in the same establishment? Are the signs in your head? Do people actually believe in "signs"? I'm not even sure if I believe in signs anymore. I know I use to...But the older I get the more I think maybe the signs are in my head. When couples get together during the Fall/Winter is it because they truly feel a connection to one another or because they are both lonely enough to make up a connection. While all your friends are in relationships it seems like a lot of pressure to find someone because were getting to the age that we need to be settling down. We always had a timeline in our heads..and well reality is, is that the timeline is not matching up to the reality. So maybe we can make our own timelines. We should all be strong enough to hold out for that one person that brings the best out of you. The one that gives you butterflies. Sometimes it's hard to not look at the past because chances are those people that use to give you butterflies still do. But just because they give you butterflies does not mean you should go back to those butterflies. Just because you see someone twice in one day does not mean you should go back to that person. It is not a sign to fall back in old habits. Maybe even bad habits. Just because your "timeline" is running out does not mean you need resort to someone you use to be with. This post was just a big fat mess. I have many thoughts going through my head that would be too many thoughts to put all in one post. So let me just leave you with one thing. Although this is the relationship season, don't just go back to someone because you want someone. Wait for that special someone! Things don't have to be as complicated as we make them...But that's part of us humans. We make things complicated when in fact they are very simple. If your getting lonely go out with your girls and get a drink. Or even get a pint of Ben & Jerry's and rent Magic Mike and remember your waiting for someone as hot as Channing Tatum.

New York State of Mind

I have always wanted to go visit New York, then I have always wanted to have a real, big girl job in New York. I have always wanted to live like Carrie Bradshaw. Have friends like Carrie be single in the city, and sip on cosmopolitans as well. I wanted to look fabulous and be fabulous in the city! Some of my favorite TV shows and movies have been set in New York City. Sex in the City, Gossip Girl, Friends, Serendipity, Something Borrowed, and many more! So my expectations are pretty high, as most the people in these shows and what not are financially well off, and only do fabulous things! Reality is, I would probably be that fabulous girl living in Queens and making my own kind of "fabulous Life". I have a trip coming up to New York on Thursday. My expectations are already different then my reality. If you live in America, then you should probably already know about hurricane Sandy. As of right now 1.5 million Americans don't have power, and i'm complaining about my soon to be vacation. Here is a little list of thing I hope to see if my trip actually happens!

Go visit the Empire hotel
Go to Central Perk
Empire State building
Eat a hot dog
Slice of Pizza
Go to Central Park
Brooklyn Bridge
See the street Sex and the City was filmed on
Go into Barney's
China Town, Little Italy

The list goes on but those are just a few of the things I would like to see! I will let you know when I get back what I actually got to see! Thanks for stopping by! Everyone on the east cost are in my thoughts and prayers!