Dear Diary,
Little blue this morning.
Not excited about the rain and 50 degree weather…especially when I was going to run a 10K today. I was so excited! No carbonation for FOUR DAYS, ate a bunch of food last night in preparation (hindsight: didn’t really need to for only 6 miles), was excited to see if I actually COULD.
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| So much fun at my first run |
That’s right, didn’t do it. I told a bajillion people I was running a 10K race today and I did not. Did I let you down? Do you even care? I feel like I lied to everyone when I didn’t even run! Many many excuses…do you want to hear some of them? Maybe not, but it will make me feel better that everyone know I didn’t just wimp out.
- My Dad and BF were gonna go but then my dad couldn’t and then BF got sick.
- Was going to have someone take pics of me and hold my purse, phone, etc. but no one would be there to do that.
- It was SO. COLD. outside when I worked the Farmer’s Market the day before and it wore me out! I was outside from 7:00am till about 1pm in windy, rainy, 50 degree weather. Bleh.
- Babysitting went a little later than expected so I would have only had 6 hours of sleep.
- I had gone about 5 days with 6 or less hours of sleep so so so tired!
- It was all rainy and cold this morning too!!
The bottom line is that it wasn’t worth it to go all by myself and be thrown into a big crowd of people (so out of my comfort zone already!!) with no one even there to watch me and risk getting sick or falling on this rainy, gloomy, no-good-very-bad day.
Whenever I get down on myself about something, I try really hard to find the positive in the situation. Even though I’ve been feeling gloomy all day, I’ve been working on my negativity and trying to turn it around.
I have come to the conclusion that it is okay I did not meet this goal today. It will happen. What do we do when we set goals and fail? Try and try again. Re-set the goal. It is okay. (Repeat: It is okay.)
Sure I have had a busy week with little sleep, but it has been a great week and I don’t regret the busy-ness.
- I went to church and bible study and got filled up and inspired for the week. We live in a country where we are free to worship whomever and wherever we please and sometimes we forget how blessed we are!!
- I went to school where I was able to better myself and work towards my degree of Nutrition, Exercise Science. So excited to get this quarter done and transfer to the university!
- I was able to work for money this week at three different “jobs” while some folks out there don’t even have one job. So blessed!
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| Got to make myself an Amanda pumpkin pie latte at my barista job: 1/2 pumpkin pie syrup, 1/2 SF French Vanilla, espresso, mostly hot water with a little steamed milk on top. Bliss. |
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| Working at the Farmer’s Market at my barista job you can people-watch, and apparently car-watch… |
- I got to hang out with my little sis and go on a “field trip” with her to Target and start baking cupcakes for my friend Shlee’s bday.
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| The frosting is actually purple but you can’t really tell… |
AND I got to work with her so bonus! Money and friends! (Not to mention brown-nosing all of my co-workers by bringing cupcakes to work. 😉 )
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| Same pretty lady who’s wedding I was in! |
I got to babysit for a new family and had a great time. I got to admire the awesome home and the talented woman’s decorating skills as well as play with their little ones for a couple of hours. I even got paid to study for a couple of hours as well. Another Bonus to my week!!
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| It’s not weird to take pictures of things at other’s homes when they aren’t there…is it? The cross above is also theirs… |
- I got to hang out with the BF every day this past week even though there were days when it seemed impossible with our schedules.
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| This guy |
This same guy bought me yummy lunch today after church. Hit the spot.
- I even got to work on my current
obsessionhobby: my blog!
Posted three times:
Wedding Fun + Fancy Wedding Food
Wednesday Weight Loss: “Preparing for Battle” by Mama Sue
Inside-Out Pizza + Using the Leftovers
And made a new header:
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| What do you think? I did it myself! |
I googled “free headers” and found (after a lot of weeding) a gal who made her own header for free and showed me how to use my own pictures to make this pretty thing. How to Make a Blog Header for Free. Check this out because she is great at explaining the how-to’s. It was so fun to do too because it reminded me of scrapbooking (a past obsession hobby).
Moral of the story: Turn that Frown Upside-Down!
Although we may want to be all mopey dopey woe-is-me…there is always a silver lining. I’m not perfect at finding one, but I’m working on it!
Well, now that I feel a little better, I should sign off and get to some homework. And pray for sun!!
How was your week?
Any downers that you needed to get over? How did you do so? I want to know!
~Amanda aka Semi-Health Nut~
