Happy birthday, Shawna!

Today Shawna turns 25, isn't that lovely?

I have only known my fellow blogger and good pal Shawna for 5 of those 25 years, but they've been quality years spent together causing trouble.

Have a lovely 25th, friend!

I fail at blogging lately.

I started my new job yesterday, and I think I am going to like it even though it's entirely different from what I used to do. We'll see. I'm also not homeless anymore cause I'm renting a room from some married friends who feed me lasagna and cupcakes.

That is all.

Bittersweet beginnings...

Remember that job I interviewed for yesterday? Totally got it! I start Monday morning at 8 a.m.

On one hand, I'm super excited cause I'll be moving back to Central Oregon... and I'll be in the same town as Shawna! WOO! I love Central Oregon, and this is a new career for me so who knows what it might lead to. Also, it's a position that utilizes the fact that I am bilingual and I've always wanted to put my Spanish skills to good use.

On the other hand, I'm sad. I just let myself get happy about living closer to friends I've been away from for too long, and now I'm leaving them again. It's making my heart break a tiny bit to think about that. Also, I've worked for over five years to progress in the same career and now I'm switching and I feel like I'm giving up and losing all that I've worked for.

Also, I think I have to skip my half marathon. Sad story. Things happen, I suppose. I'm totally going to run 13.1 miles that day on my own, because that's enough for me.

So yeah... we'll see where this leads!

Frontier women

Today we churned butter and made cupcakes and washed our hair with beer. Oh, how glorious for the Pink Spandex authors to be reunited. For instance the following are only snippets of conversation:

Leslie: "Booze and coffee! Those are my two favorite things!"

Shawna: "I want to squeeze the butter!!!"

Shawna's mom: "No one's going to be pregnant at this party?"
Shawna: "Not after this, they won't."

We had planned on only making Kahlua cupcakes this evening, but soon our adventures spread to frontier girl chores like making butter from scratch and baking bread to go with it. We are awesome. Look at these pictures!

Never mind...

It's snowing harder now. Looks like an elliptical day for me! I'm okay with that, I'm probably going to injure myself if I run too much--but the weather has been so nice lately that I kept wanting to get out there!

Also, I'm trying to think of new things to take an interest in, and I've decided yoga is one of those things. And I just discovered you can find yoga classes on youtube! Let's try that, shall we?

Now I just have to find a way to do yoga with three dogs around me... Hilarity will probably ensue.

Oh come on, weather...

It is snowing right now. I briefly considered saran-wrapping my ipod and going for a run anyway, but I've decided to wait and see if the weather improves by this afternoon at some point. Is it just me, or is it almost the end of March? Yeah, that's what I thought.

Completely random blog about nothing.

I'm really excited to go back to Central Oregon this weekend to hang out with Shawna for her birthday. It has been far too long since we've caused trouble. Also, I fully intend to wing-woman-up and find her some birthday lovin. I'm a very efficient wing woman, so clearly this will happen.

I started out my day with a run this morning, and it put me in a good mood for the rest of the day. Basically, I think I should seriously become a morning runner, cause it works for me.

I also bought myself Carrie Underwood's new song on itunes for 99 cents. I'm so nice.

Does anyone know of a good armband to use with an ipod/nike+ that will make it waterproof? I'm afraid of my sweat frying it and don't know what to do about this.

I applied for a job today that I fully intend to get. I've just decided that it's my future career.

I read an article in Fitness magazine about how happiness is contagious and if you're happy, all your friends will be happy. As such, I've decided to be happy all the time because I'd like for my friends to be happy all the time. I'm happy right now, does that mean all of our readers are happy? All five of you?

That is all.

Ouch.

During March three (or four? Now I don't even know) of my closest friends are turning 25. This means mucho celebration and lots of alcohol-fueled evenings.

Last night involved a flashback to our college drinking days with cans of PBR.

So yeah... go me. I followed up an 11-mile run with some unhealthy craziness. But it was a damn good time!

I know the truth.

I went for a long run this morning while in Boise to visit friends... they have this really cool path by the river that has mile markers and such, and I love it so.

Three miles into my run my ipod/Nike+ froze beyond repair and I couldn't get it to do anything. I considered turning around, and actually did at one point, but luckily I turned back around cause I knew I'd just be mad at myself if I didn't do the 11 miles I was planning. The thought of running 8 more miles without music or a running buddy was not pleasant, but I actually ended up enjoying myself cause there were so many people on the path and all kinds of nature to listen to.

So yeah... Mini Leslie would have been up to 80 miles with that 11 mile run today, and Lance Armstrong totally would have talked to me at the end, but instead it says I only ran 3 miles. Lies, Nike+, all lies...

Luckily my friend's boyfriend is a technological wizard and totally fixed it for me. Apparently all you have to do when it freezes is hold down two certain buttons to reset it. This is why people read manuals, I'm guessing. Oh well--at least I know I ran 11 miles today! Thank you, mile markers on the Boise Greenbelt...

Spring has sprung

There's nothing I like more than starting out my day by going for a run next to a river rushing full of melted snow, with sunlight making sparkly pin pricks through the treetops above me.

Well, almost nothing more. Maybe I like chocolate more, it's kind of hard to say.