The 3-Day

                                  

This year I signed up for the Susan G. Komen 3-day for the Cure. 

I will walk 60 miles over the course of three days, I will sleep in a tent (me in a tent! outside!), I will have raised at least $2300 in donations.

This walk is something I have been anxious to participate in for years but life always got in the way. This year I stopped making excuses and signed up.

I haven't even started the walk and I can't even tell you how hard the journey to get there has been. I try to fit in all of my training, but I work, go to school, it's been 110 degrees allfreakingsummer and the last thing I want to do is go outside and walk 10 miles. I hate asking people for money and fundraisers are hard HARD work. 

I buy new shoes-socks-powders-creams-gels every week to try and get rid of the blisters that everyone looks at and tells me "those are horrible, I don't ever get blisters though so I don't know what you should do". I have 12 blisters on the bottom of my feet at this very moment, and I plan to walk 10 miles tonight, tomorrow I'll report back to the running store on how our new experiment is going. 

We are planning on hosting our fourth garage sale to raise money in a few short weeks, and then I am missing a weekend away trip to a football game that I really, really wanted to go to because we need to squeeze in one last fundraiser. 

All this to say it's not easy, I've already wanted to quit (and in theory I haven't even started) and I've cried and I've pouted, and I've neglected things that need to get done and feel guilty because everything can't have my attention and WALKING 17 miles for a training walk takes F O R E V E R! 

Through all of this (and the flat tire I got after a long walk on Saturday that had me sitting in a parking lot barely able to moving balling my eyes out waiting to be rescued) I have to remind myself why I signed up for this walk, why I am doing this. 

I am walking because the most significant risk factors for breast cancer are being female and getting older (two things that are pretty impossible to avoid).

I am walking because the first time I watched someone lose their mother to this disease we we were in fourth grade and saying "I'm so sorry" wasn't enough then or any other time since. 

I am walking because I want to see an end to cancer. I am walking because without a cure, one person will die of breast cancer every 13 minutes in the United States.

I am walking because I can. 

No matter how hard (and time consuming) I feel like this walk has been I know that my struggles cannot compare to someone who is battling cancer, or someone who is watching their loved one battle this disease. I will fight through blisters and exhaustion and I'll be thankful that is all I am fighting. 

October Goals

1. Blog Every Weekday - Next month is NaBloPoMo and I want to play! Weekends are harder to post/nobody reads on weekends any way so this weekday blogging will be a good start. I will not be afraid to schedule posts! This month is going to be crazy!

2. Walk 100 Miles. Plan is loooooong weekend walks, and as many during the week walks as I can manage.

3. Reach Team Donation Goal. We need $2240, and we have 30 days to make it...here's hoping a lot of people are feeling generous this month! (this deserves it's own post...coming tomorrow!)

4. Spend @ least 1 hr a day on school work. I hate being behind and trying to catch up so I really need to just stay ahead/caught up!

5. Keep Car Cleaned Out. My car is a disaster area, it is so bad I hate for people to have to get into it, I have no excuses any more I am not commuting any where. I should be able to keep my car presentable. Reward I get to have it detailed if I succeed!  

6. Organize Office. My office is the only room in the house that still has boxes in it from our move back in August...this needs to change!

7. Finish Gallery Wall. Good thing about my office is the Gallery Wall is hung, but I am kind of tired of looking at empty picture frames.

8. Comment More! I read a whole lot of blogs, but I don't follow many of them publicly and I hardly ever comment, I get so shy! 

9. Try 2 new recipes This actually isn't too much of a challenge for me on any normal month, but I've gotten a few less "this is the best thing I have ever eaten" lately and I am missing that reaction so I need to find some yummy things to make!

10.  Get a laundry schedule, and stick to it! Seriously we only have 2 people in our house and I always have a mountain of laundry, we obviously have to many clothes because I can go weeks without doing any. The plies are redic (what I'm cool?). Somethings got to give!

I'm pretty sure the theme of October is Time Management, like I better get a helluva lot better at it if I am going to make it out in one piece! 

Do you set monthly goals? What about weekly & monthly? I do I am all about breaking up my long term goals as small as I need to.Whatever it takes to get some instant gratification....

Is this for real?

This is the name on a professors office door, that I walk by all the time at school....




Poor baby...makes me laugh every time! Do you think he changed it?

I bet there's no excuses in his class "your dog ate your homework oh you poor baby"

Is it just me? Or does that crack you up too??


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Tuesday is the new Monday

As far as I can see there is only one bad thing about three day weekends...

It's even harder to get out of bed on a Tuesday morning that is the first day of the week!

I wasn't the only one who wanted to stay snuggled in bed...



We had a really good weekend our Sooners won and Garrett's Grandpa had his 90th Birthday party.
And best of all we only have to wake up two more times and then it will be Friday again!
Have a happy week friends!

Every few weeks for the last couple of months I've been pulling up this sad little blog of mine and looking at my last post with a cute little picture of the Kuddlebug and the date of April 5 and I think I should type something, but I don't.

Then I find myself saying if I blogged I would totally blog this, I even went as far as to download the BlogPress app on my phone.

but for whatever reason I can't seem to make my fingers type words in the blank white box.

I have all kinds of excuses I haven't taken any pictures, blogs without pictures are boring, I'm too busy, I have nothing to blog about, so on, so forth.

I'm not sure what the deal is and why I stopped but I think I'm going to start again, so the first step was opening blogger, and the second step was to take a picture of myself (so I didn't have the no pictures excuse)

Now that there are words and an instagram picture on the page I'm getting kind of excited about my re-entrance into the blogging world.

Even more exciting though is that college football has started and tomorrow I'll be sitting in my happiest place on earth watching SOONER football!

BOOMER!

Tail Wagging Tuesday!

Today I'm linking up with the first ever Tail Wagging Tuesday! Hosted by C Mae at Live What You Love!

I could not pass this Blog Hop up since Kuddles is my very favorite pup!

This week is link up your Most Favorite Picture of your Pet...

It was almost impossible to pick just one favorite picture of Kuddles, but this one pretty much sums her up the best!

We had been walking around campus and she was ready for a little rest, there was no way she was going to hang out on the ground like a dog, little Miss. Priss had to sit on the bench next to me. I love that her little ears are perked up and you can see her little Grinch toes (my favorite!)

Let me know if you link up, I'd love to come see your fur baby!!

Weekend

I had a perfect weekend.

Friday night was full of cleaning so that it wouldn’t have to be done during my precious weekend, followed by dinner at a new local favorite that is so scary and run down we would have never tried it if it hadn’t come highly recommended (I’m not kidding I was worried I’d get shot) but it’s so worth it for some biscuits and gravy!

Saturday was equal parts productive, relaxing, and fun. We had big plans to hit up the OU baseball game but Garrett’s parents returned from Colorado and we decided to hang out with them visiting, eating pizza, watching the Final Four and the baseball game on tv instead. After they went to bed Garrett and I headed to a movie.

I don’t even think we’ve been to a movie at the theater since tax season started. So not like us. We saw Source Code and it was really pretty good, if not a little bit predictable. Then since we were feeling crazy and spontaneous we decided to see Insidious. As it turns out I’m too old to pay for one movie and go to two, my conscious got the better of me and we bought a second round of ticket for the 12:30am showing of the movie, let me tell you if you go to the latest movie on a Saturday night there are only teenagers there (why there parents let them out that late I will never know). We were without a doubt the oldest people in the movie theater, I felt like I should be bossing children around. Insidious was scary, right up there with the Paranormal Activity movies. I really enjoyed it, it was worth getting home at 3:00am!

Sunday we spent the day catching up with other friends, lunch with Abbi and the afternoon with Brent.

And here we are back to Monday.

Poor Monday gets such a bad rap.

I mean don’t get me wrong I hate leaving behind the joys of the weekend to head back to work, and Monday’s are my longest day of the week (clocking in at right around 15 hours away from home). I think Monday can set the whole tone of the week, so I always try to have a happy one. Buy yourself a special Monday treat if you need to get rid of a case of the Mondays!

Have you seen any good movies? I still want to see The Lincoln Lawyer.

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Don’t forget to link up at Mingle Monday to make your Monday a little happier!