Half Marathon!!!

This past Saturday I ran in the Salt Lake City half-marathon! Yes, I finished, and no, I'm not sore. :) It was pretty interesting, actually. I felt really good, despite forgetting to bring my energy gel with me. It was really fun to see random people sitting out on their porch cheering us on. There were something like 10,000 participants, so it was pretty much a mad rush (ha, no pun intended). I didn't push myself super hard, I just wanted to run continuously and finish. I didn't stop the whole time and my pace race was 10:23, which is pretty slow, but I'm proud of myself! I finished in 2 hours and 16 minutes, so it was a pretty good run. It was a gorgeous day and half the time I was looking at the scenery and not even realizing what I was doing! It was an accomplishment for sure.

Kamakazi Bird!

The funniest thing ever happened to my dad this last saturday. If you remember, it was a super windy day. My dad came inside and his ear was all bloody. It's a really random place to be bloody, so we asked him what happened. He was getting out of the car and this huge gust of wind came. It blew a bird right into the side of my dads head! I guess its beak cut him up pretty good, he was bleeding for a good while. But seriously, that was so random!! It gave us all a really good laugh.

Worse than nails on a chalk board...

I live right across the street from DT (Deseret Towers), which, as many of you know, they are tearing down. Since people like me live so close they are taking it down by ramming a huge cement ball from a machine to break it down piecemeal. Besides being painstakingly slow and causing earthquake-like shakings of my floor, the noise is unbearable. I cringe when I hear nails on a chalkboard, but hearing massive steel beams scrape mercilessly up against glass and wires is something close to Chinese torture. I hope my sanity hangs on just a few more days until I'm done with school.

Almost.. there...

I feel like I'm crawling in a miserable desert and I'm dying of thirst. The glass of water is so close... it s like the end of school. It just never comes!!! I'm so close to being done and I sometimes just want to roll over and quit, but I can't! I think, honestly the worst part of finals is eating. By the time I eat lunch, get satisfied, pack up my stuff, walk to the library, settle in and start studying... I'm hungry in a half hour! Honestly, eating is so annoying sometimes. Does anyone ever feel the same way?

April Fools!

I quite enjoyed the email I was sent the day after April Fools Day titled "Snoop Dogg Converts to Mormonism." Haha, it was a good joke, but apparently my roommates didn't think so. I was asking them if they had heard about it and they were like, yeah! That just goes to show you that people can change!" Are you serious??? It just made me think of how gullible some people are. I'm not doubting that people can change, but . . . . eh, not really Snoop Dogg. :) What are the best April Fools Day jokes you have done/heard of?

Injustices, anyone?

I know, I sound like a bit of a baby, but sometimes you just have to vent! I know life isn't supposed to be fair and all that, but seriously? I just have a few frustrations that just feel good to vent to anyone. . . and I honestly am not as weighed down by these things as it may seem, so chill out. (Yeah, who am I talking to?)

-I study for a week and a half, 10 hours over a weekend (yes, between Friday and Saturday), and cram for an hour and a half right before a test... I get a 48%. (I secretly think God played an April Fools Day joke on me and messed with my memory)
-My little sister was, in one school year, homecoming queen runner up last october and nominated for prom queen last month (I had no such luck...)
-The same little sister got nominated today for 'keys to success' and could possibly win a free car
-It snowed yesterday and its freaking April!!!

I know I can't be the only one who has the unvoiced desire to mumble a complaint or two under my breath... what are things that really get under your skin????? (I hate when people add more than one question mark at the end of sentences as well.)

Comparing myself to a Disney Character...

This weeks 'challenge' was to compare yourself to a disney character. I'm more of a mutt in the sense than a pure bred "Snow White" or "Mufasa" (eh, hopefully not Mufasa...) I feel like Cinderella since I have come to college because it seems like all I do is work... not to mention the stupid bell tower here at BYU wakes me up just like it does in Cinderella.

I also feel like Mulan... only because they (the curfew nazis they call "R.As" have knocked on my apartment door twice after curfew and asked if there was a boy in there. It was really just me talking (pretending to be a boy, of course, I'm not that manly.) Mulan knows my pain there.

Lastly, I feel like sleeping beauty, in more particular the 'sleeping part'. You see, the wicked witch (homework) is constantly trying to persuade me to go off the path and catch up on my sleep. Hence everytime homework comes sneaking up on me I'm persuaded just to drop off into never never land (wrong disney story, my bad) and not wake up until finals are over!