I feel like I am kinda getting the hang of this whole living alone thing. It feels so liberating that I can do things without the help of others. I know that in reality whenever I have a problem the first thing that I do is call my mom and get her advice or the solution to the problem, but hey, its a first step right? I just feel like my these last few weeks, I have been doing things to feel like me. Ever since college basketball, I have felt very lazy. It's that kind of feeling that you really know you should be doing something, but since there is nobody telling you "to jump" you don't have to say "how high". It was a refreshing feeling at first, knowing that I didn't have any obligations to go to practice or stay in shape over the summer. Well, until just recently the feeling of "I don't have to" turned into "but I want to".
In the last week, I have joined a church softball league, a "tennis club" (if you will) and started working out with Candra Pennington and Celeste Edworthy. This is all very funny to me because first of all, I have played softball maybe 3 times in my life. Last week at batting practice I was almost completely convinced that it was going to be the most horrible thing that I could have imagined; but guess what, I wasn't half bad. I mean I could definitely use some work, but I hit all but two balls! Catching on the other hand, well we wont go into that. I will keep practicing and see if I end up a decent softball player. Our games will be on saturdays so I am pretty pumped!!
Ok, tennis. I am not really sure how it turned from going to play tennis one day to us starting a tennis club, but I am kind of glad it did. Who knew tennis was such a great sport. It is rough on the knees and I will have to be very careful of that, but all in all it is a good supplemental workout and fun to do with friends! We are getting shirts made and everything...yay! Im excited!
After our first tennis session, we went over to Melanie, Candra and Jessie's house because they were making some fried chicken. Yes, the did it the real way! They got a chicken, and took all the insides out, made some batter and fried it! It was very good I must admit! The also made mac and cheese, potatoes, rolls and some sweet tea! How about that for some country cooking! Anyway, back to the story.. Candra started talking about how she wanted to run a half marathon and that she started that day. She said that she ran 1/4 of a mile and then fell in to a pond type thing. (Let me just say that she claimed it did not look like it had ANY water in it...well, I saw it today, and lets just say that I don't know how she thought that it was dry). Anyway, I told her that I would run with her, and that I needed to get back in shape. I really do like running, but it is soo hard to run by yourself. So we decided that it was a good idea, and made a plan to meet Friday and run. She did awesome the first day!! She ran 3/4 of a mile!! I was soo proud because she wanted to stop but kept running!
This morning, I went to church and then the singles group went to Taco Bell to finish a conversation that we were talking about in Sunday School. Needless to say that didn't happen, but the food and company was very good. Celeste, Candra and I then went to see "The Last Song". I am not a huge Miley Cyrus fan but I really wanted to see this movie. It was good, very sad (I cried, no surprise there) but very good. Then we went for a little run. Celeste decided to join our training session, it was great, the more the merrier! We got to the park, walked a lap and then stretched, ran a mile and then walked 3 more laps. All and all 3 miles and Candra ran a mile!! We made a goal to run in the Strawberry Festivals 5k in 3 weeks. Hopefully we will be ready, but at the rate we are going, I am sure we will fine!
Tomorrow is the start of my FOURTH month on my internship! That means that I am already half way done!! It is crazy! I feel like I just got here and that I am just now starting to plug into things. Like I said earlier, I feel like me. I have always been better when I am busy...when I always have something going on and now that I do, I feel like I can and will function better. Well, I have to go write a book report now. It should be fun...ya know since I haven't written one since probably the 4th grade! Hope everyone has a great week!! Before I leave, I just want to mention on thing for y'all to think about. How loud is the volume in your life? Can you hear God through the noise that you are making on a day to day basis? I know I should work on this and focus on God more. Try to do that this week :)
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