• Pushing myself & doing something outside of my comfort zone by joining the Learn To Run Faster group instead of the Learn To Run group in the SunRun inTraining. This means nonstop running instead of running + walking in my training. Today = 44 minutes nonstop. Insanity!
• Back to back labs. Feels good to get them over with.
• Having a near meltdown over approaching exams (and not having enough time to be prepared for them), and responding by clearing my head, approaching the calendar once again to calculate that I’ll actually have just enough time. Thank you God!
• Having friends that share my school panic and actually care enough to converse for over an hour about our respective directions in university study (or lack thereof).
• The walk of shame to buy a chocolate bar after a run. I literally went out of my way to avoid running into another member of my run group on my way home with my stash. It’s like I’m a relapsing drug addict or something! hehe

Wage a battle against embitterment and take part in Grace In Small Things.

It’s finally here.

In 2003, Vancouver won the bid to host the XXI Winter Olympics. I didn’t really care. I had never really followed the olympics before so it didn’t really excite me. I also didn’t realize the magnitude of this event. In fact, nothing Olympics had really phased me until I went downtown for opening day of the games and realized two things:

(1) HOLY COW WE’RE HOSTING THE WORLD.
(2) HOLY COW THOSE SEVEN YEARS WENT FAST.

So it begins. I have no tickets for any of the olympic games that are happening MINUTES AWAY FROM MY HOUSE because I had pretty much forgotten this would happen until up until maybe, two weeks ago? when they started closing off roads. I also thought I didn’t care about sports, especially winter ones since I pretty much detest snow, but apparently, Canadian pride changes your taste in things.

Internet, I can’t believe I’m about to type this, but… I AM SO STOKED FOR THE HOCKEY GAMES. (And P.S., Canada? YOU BETTER NOT LOSE. I don’t even know the first thing about hockey, but I do know that I want you to kick the world’s ass. No pressure or anything.)

Continue Reading →

• Getting stuff done I’ve been putting off since forever.
• Watching a video of my recent dance competition. I didn’t cringe to death, but I did realize that my legs are NEVER. STRAIGHT. at any given point in our cha cha routine, which is like the #2 biggest mistake. But at least I can see it now!
• Dancing barefoot. (Granted, the circumstances – having a blister develop on my upper heel mid practice – were not something to celebrate, but it gave me an excuse to dance barefoot regardless!)
• The dying sting of a wound to my pride every time I see you. Somehow, it makes me chuckle.
• That amazing feeling of crawling into bed after feeling absolutely dead on your feet.

Wage a battle against embitterment and take part in Grace In Small Things.