Bummer

I just started applying for a federal loan consolidation online.  Today was not a good idea to do it.  Why?

Because I have questions.  Actually, I have one specific question that I need answered.  All the people that I would call to have this question answered are not at work today because it's Memorial Day.  I can't move on with the application until I get this question answered.

Sadly, I work tomorrow from 9-5.  Everyone that I need to talk to will be at work at the exact same time.  Fabulous.

So, it looks like I will be working on this on Wednesday.  I'm not going to do well with that because that means postponing something super important for 2 more days.  But, I will work on letting it go... It may mean that we have to pay 5 different loan companies this next month, but I'm letting it go...

Ah.... much better.

Preliminary = Complete

It's totally official! (Can you tell I like official things?)  We have now completed our preliminary training program, which means that we have been training for 22 weeks so far.  I now feel pretty good running for 30 minutes straight.  Today I also was reminded how much I sweat when it's hot outside.  It's pretty gross.  I think I need to buy more running shorts.

On Monday of next week we officially start running for mileage instead of time.  We start by running 3 miles, then 4, then 3, and then 5 on Saturday.  Phew.  I've only run 5 miles once in my life.  One week from today that will change to twice.  Hurray!  I'm not too concerned about 3 or 4 miles since I run somewhere in between there for my 30 minute runs.  But 5...  I'm nervous and excited at the same time.

I just heard that the Phillies were apparently in a really long scoreless drought.  They went 31 innings without scoring.  That's embarrassing.   Seriously.

I just realized that I wanted to be showered and ready to go right now.  Maybe the internet is a bit more of a distraction than I thought.

Life with internet

Ok, I just decided that I'm going to start a list of the things that I have done since getting internet.

1. Read my email MUCH more thoroughly than I usually do.
2. Responded to emails in a much more laid back fashion than my normal "sorry-I'm-so-to-the-point-right-now-but-I-only-have-about-30-more-seconds-on-the-internet" fashion.
3. Checked our finances.  So far we're doing ok this month.  Congrats to us.
4. Spent time on facebook.  Oh facebook, it's been so long.
5. Found out that the Cardinals are no longer leading the NL Central division.  Totally been out of the loop on that.  Also found out that the Rockies are only 1.5 games back from first in their division.  Very cool.
6. Speaking of the Rockies, I also found out that Troy Tulowizki, an outfielder for the Rockies, is going to be growing a mullet as long as fans keep donating money to the Children's Hospital and Colorado Special Olympics.  I think I would pay for him NOT to do that.
7. Caught up on reading people's blogs.  I have some great blogging buddies.
8. Watched 2 episodes of Glee.  We're now only 1 episode behind.
9. Ate Pizza Hut Pizza.  (That was what we did to celebrate.  I know, I'm allergic to milk.  But I've been craving it for EVER and it seemed like a good time to splurge.  Too bad that I ate the amount of calories for dinner that I probably should have only eaten in one day.  Oh well!  I'm also going to continue to regret it for the next 2 weeks while my body recovers, but it was well worth it.)  (That was kind of an impressively long paragraph inside the parenthesis.)
10. I have been really thirsty, so I just went to get a glass of water.  I finished drinking it before I even set it down back by my computer.  That wasn't so much related to the internet as it was interesting to me.  Now I need more water, so I conclude my post.

Fascinating

Fascinating.  I have internet in my apartment.  FAST internet.  Fabulous.

So now I have time to write, but I'm not really sure what to write.  I'm so used to being as quick as possible with the necessary things on the internet that I have to teach myself again what it's like to just lounge around on the internet.   I even enjoy the fact that as I type, the text actually stays up with me because it's not lagging behind due to a slow connection.  I keep trying to type faster to see if it can handle it, but it has no trouble whatsoever.  Incredible.

I had my interview yesterday.  It went really well.  I'm just confused now because it's actually a full-time job when it was posted as a part-time job.  That poses a problem for me because I have a part-time contract job that's just getting going.  I don't know whether I'll get offered the job or not, but I've been praying about it quite a bit.  We'll see what happens.

Interview

I have an interview on Wednesday morning.  I'm kind of excited and hopeful for it because as much as I love retail, I'd really like to be done and have two counseling jobs instead.

Ok, that's all I have time for now.  But on Thursday night, you better believe I'm going to be on my computer as much as possible because by 5pm on Thursday, we will have INTERNET IN OUR APARTMENT!

Yahoo.

29 hours of goodness.

Here's an outline of the super duper short trip my family made to come out for my graduation.  Most of it involved food.  Fabulous food.

It began on Friday night when my family arrived and we hopped right into the car to drive to dinner with my wonderful friend, Lisa, and her family.  It was Friday night traffic in the Denver Tech Center, which, if you don't know, is pretty awful.  It took a while to get places.  Anyway, this first picture is with Lisa and her brother Ben, who I was really excited to finally meet.  We ate at Claim Jumper and it was REAL yummy!  I pretended that I wasn't allergic to milk and ate whatever the heck I wanted.  I LOVED the cheesebread.  Yum.

After dinner we headed back to the apartment and played mariokart on the wii for a while.  Clay kicked my butt, as expected.  On Saturday, I had graduation ceremony in the morning.  They gave me a "diploma," which as you will see doesn't have a name on it or anything.  I had to give it back anyway because I technically already received a diploma in December.  It was also kind of a bummer that the only thing I got to keep, my tassel, says "2010" on it, when I graduated in 2009.  

And here's me with my favorite brother in the whole world.  I wish he could've stayed with us for a few days extra.  He's a funny guy.

Pastor Steve, his wife Darlene, and their grandson found me after the ceremony.  It was super sweet because Pastor Steve just finished a 30-day silent retreat by himself, and it was nice that he still knew how to talk.  He is technically on sabbatical for the next few months and he and Darlene were heading off to Israel that evening.

And here's me with one of my most favorite women in the world: Sharon!  She's the administrative coordinator in the counseling department (used to be my boss), an amazing woman and amazing friend.  She told me after she got a picture with me that she came to graduation just for me, which still brings a huge smile to my face.  What a lovely lady and a blessing to me!

After all the festivities, we headed to hotel to pick up cars and ended up with a picture of me by a tree.  Whoot.  It turned out to be a nice day weather-wise!

We took a family picture as we got back to my apartment.  I know at least I was starving because we were ready to head to my favorite Chinese restaurant.  I wish I had pictures to share from that experience, but my stomach was very thankful.  I'm pretty sure I mostly ate eggrolls and saved my meal for later. :)

After lunch, my family headed back to the hotel for a siesta while Jake and I went to a graduation party for a friend.  After the party: ROCKIES GAME!  We were so thankful that the weather cooperated and we got to go.  My dad was real smart and nice and got us seats that sat right under an overhang so that we'd be ok if it rained.  Smart cookie is what my dad is.  Mmmm....cookies.... I want one.  Oh!  And we also went to our favorite vendor just outside the stadium.  You can get 2 hot dogs, chips, and a 24 oz drink for $5 and can bring it into the stadium.  Fabulous.

So that was the real short weekend, but it was oober fun.  As my friend Lisa has said, "I'm so sad it's over."  (She was referring to her Krispy Creme donut, however.)  Now I need to drive home from church so that I can eat lunch.  I'm starving.  All this talk of good food.... LEFTOVERS!!!  Yum.

Two

As of Saturday, I had never dropped an egg on the floor...

(I bet you can see where this is going...)

Since then, I've dropped two.

TWO eggs.

On two separate occasions.

I just need to say that cleaning raw egg off the floor has got to be one of the most disgusting things ever.

I'm not really sure what my problem is, but I sure hope that 2 is my maximum.

Ugh.

Just a side-note though... it really does sound pretty cool when it hits the ground and cracks.

"Let's make like a bread truck and haul buns."

Another weight loss update... I have lost 31 pounds in the past 15 weeks!  Hoo-rah.  I'm getting much closer to my goal weight now which is super nice- except I don't exactly know what my goal weight is so we'll just see how much more my body decides it wants to lose.  I'm really having a problem now though because I don't have many pairs of pants that fit.  My khakis that I wear to work are super too big (for real) and I have to wear a walkie on them which pulls them down that much more.  Thank goodness for belts!  If anyone has any ideas of places I could buy some cheap khakis though, that would be nice.  I'm in between sizes right now so I know they won't last much longer before I need new ones again, but the ones I'm wearing now really look bad.  I've already looked at Kohls, Target, WalMart, Levi outlet, and I will be looking at Marshalls this afternoon.  Any other ideas?

Random comment: the person who we thought moved apparently decided to come back, because the internet is back.  It's bought us some time, but we'll still need to purchase internet soon.  I'm just thankful for the days we do get our flightly internet.

I'm really pumped that Joel, Pam, and her parents were able to finish the marathon this past weekend!  I'm really excited for them and their "cheesy" medals (marathon was in Wisconsin), and I hope that Jake and I get medals in about 4.5 months.  After we complete next week, we will be halfway through marathon training.  Whoot!

I'm watching A League of Their Own on tv right now (my favorite movie ever), which is where my blog title came from.  This movie seriously gets even more fabulous every time I watch it.