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I'm gonna try to write in this more often, since it's really interesting to see what I was thinking about on some random day seven years ago. Like how I just read an entry from 2003 about how I wanted to learn how to roller skate. Well, it's 2011 and I still don't know how. And I still want to learn! What have I been doing in the last eight years that I haven't learned how yet? I should get on that!
Ok I started writing that last paragraph like an hour ago and then got totally distracted, let's see if I can actually write one entry before I go committing to lots of entries.
Whilst I was looking at past entries, I realized that one year ago was one of the absolute worst times in my life. Two years ago was one of the happiest. Now, I wouldn't describe right now as a particularly exciting, momentous time, but I am so thankful to not be where I was a year ago. I was trapped in a toxic environment surrounded by toxic people, I was totally depressed and needed to escape. Now I have a job with a bunch of wonderful people, I am more active and outdoorsy than I've ever been in my life (complete with the Lyme disease that goes with it, oops), and am in a stable and content place. Obviously I want more than this for the rest of my life, but for the moment it's working for me.
I've started running again, since I accidentally agreed to run a 10k in three weeks. I was going to run a 5k that day, but while talking to my manager about getting the day off, she said she was working a race that day that WFM is sponsoring, so I agreed to do that race instead, without asking what the length was haha. But my training has been going really well, despite a brief turn through low-carb land. LC-land was super easy to stick with, but I couldn't run AT ALL. So I gave that up after two weeks. And my running has become so much easier. I'm trying to train smart this year, rather than twice a week for three months then run a half marathon. I remember loving running last year and then it became a chore, which I realized coincided with increasing my long runs too quickly (as in, a mile every week). This year I'm going much more slowly, and it's so much better. Except I'm getting these pains in my left shoulder lately, but I'm trying to work through it, stretch it out, work on posture, etc etc
I'm also still crazyobsessed with geocaching. Like, I can't articulate how much I enjoy it. It's not even the cache so much as the incredible places it takes me that have been there all along and I never realized. Last week, I visited the site of the first railway in America thanks to an EarthCache. It's at the Quincy Quarries, aka the place I took my rock climbing classes last year. Did I ever realize I was .1 miles away from such a historic spot? Of course I didn't, but now I do. I love all the little parks and the history and the sunshine. Even if I do get Lyme disease and get in fights with the pup when she tries to eat the stuff in the cache.
Oh, I won a contest at Whole Foods! We were doing over a month of asking for donations, and most people stopped asking after two weeks. I would sporadically ask people, but eventually I was just scouring the ground for loose change and would donate that. I put out the intention and found a TON of coins all over the place (including two pennies while I was out running haha, why on earth would I notice them??) and one day even found a dollar bill. And I won, and so I get a $75 gift card and get to choose my schedule for a week (which is like the best prize ever, seriously.)
I auditioned for Chicago a couple weeks ago with Star Players, where I was a lead last year, remember? Well, this year I didn't even get cast in the ensemble! Theater is awesome haha. Actually, I'm totally cool with it, since I don't like the show that much anyway. I still need to find a show to do this summer. Right now the only one appealing to me is Into the Woods in Newton. Well, Urinetown is appealing to me (obv, I've already done the show twice!) but there's no way I'm commuting to Fall River to do it. I wanna find somewhere doing Beauty and the Beast to satiate some of the Disney craving, but I think every single community theater did it between 06 and 08, so there's no one left!
And how's this for a synchronicity: on my last run, the song "Belle" came on as I was running past Town Hall toward the center of town. Then the part where she's in the bookstore played while I was running past the library. In the eternal words of Hannah Montana, it was "pretty cool."
Ok I started writing that last paragraph like an hour ago and then got totally distracted, let's see if I can actually write one entry before I go committing to lots of entries.
Whilst I was looking at past entries, I realized that one year ago was one of the absolute worst times in my life. Two years ago was one of the happiest. Now, I wouldn't describe right now as a particularly exciting, momentous time, but I am so thankful to not be where I was a year ago. I was trapped in a toxic environment surrounded by toxic people, I was totally depressed and needed to escape. Now I have a job with a bunch of wonderful people, I am more active and outdoorsy than I've ever been in my life (complete with the Lyme disease that goes with it, oops), and am in a stable and content place. Obviously I want more than this for the rest of my life, but for the moment it's working for me.
I've started running again, since I accidentally agreed to run a 10k in three weeks. I was going to run a 5k that day, but while talking to my manager about getting the day off, she said she was working a race that day that WFM is sponsoring, so I agreed to do that race instead, without asking what the length was haha. But my training has been going really well, despite a brief turn through low-carb land. LC-land was super easy to stick with, but I couldn't run AT ALL. So I gave that up after two weeks. And my running has become so much easier. I'm trying to train smart this year, rather than twice a week for three months then run a half marathon. I remember loving running last year and then it became a chore, which I realized coincided with increasing my long runs too quickly (as in, a mile every week). This year I'm going much more slowly, and it's so much better. Except I'm getting these pains in my left shoulder lately, but I'm trying to work through it, stretch it out, work on posture, etc etc
I'm also still crazyobsessed with geocaching. Like, I can't articulate how much I enjoy it. It's not even the cache so much as the incredible places it takes me that have been there all along and I never realized. Last week, I visited the site of the first railway in America thanks to an EarthCache. It's at the Quincy Quarries, aka the place I took my rock climbing classes last year. Did I ever realize I was .1 miles away from such a historic spot? Of course I didn't, but now I do. I love all the little parks and the history and the sunshine. Even if I do get Lyme disease and get in fights with the pup when she tries to eat the stuff in the cache.
Oh, I won a contest at Whole Foods! We were doing over a month of asking for donations, and most people stopped asking after two weeks. I would sporadically ask people, but eventually I was just scouring the ground for loose change and would donate that. I put out the intention and found a TON of coins all over the place (including two pennies while I was out running haha, why on earth would I notice them??) and one day even found a dollar bill. And I won, and so I get a $75 gift card and get to choose my schedule for a week (which is like the best prize ever, seriously.)
I auditioned for Chicago a couple weeks ago with Star Players, where I was a lead last year, remember? Well, this year I didn't even get cast in the ensemble! Theater is awesome haha. Actually, I'm totally cool with it, since I don't like the show that much anyway. I still need to find a show to do this summer. Right now the only one appealing to me is Into the Woods in Newton. Well, Urinetown is appealing to me (obv, I've already done the show twice!) but there's no way I'm commuting to Fall River to do it. I wanna find somewhere doing Beauty and the Beast to satiate some of the Disney craving, but I think every single community theater did it between 06 and 08, so there's no one left!
And how's this for a synchronicity: on my last run, the song "Belle" came on as I was running past Town Hall toward the center of town. Then the part where she's in the bookstore played while I was running past the library. In the eternal words of Hannah Montana, it was "pretty cool."