nothing interesting.

i've got nothing interesting to write currently. except maybe that, as you could probably guess from my lack of posting, i am back in school for the semester. back to the same old same old: study, stress, test, and repeat. except we've started clinical rotations this semester. one day a week i'm at a nursing home/rehab facility in the pt department.

anyway. so i wanted to quickly give an update on how my goal setting and accomplishing went for the month of january. so here we go.

personal.
-get off my butt and start running again! i'm going to aim for at least two runs per week.
well, i started off great. and even ran more than two times per week. but then, i stopped. so i'm going to say i half accomplished this. just because i don't really want to write that i failed.

-keep up with creating our family yearbook, month by month.
done. but mainly because we didn't do anything in january to photograph. so, sure.

-make one {and only one!} crafty thing, perhaps something i find on pinterest?
yeah notsomuch. i attempted one crafty thing, but it didn't turn out. as in, started step one and instantly scrapped the whole idea. meh. but to be fair, there's some crazy things happening around our house right now, so it's probably better that i didn't try to make something for the house {hopefully more on this craziness later}.

home.
-put laundry away as soon as it's folded. it's really not that hard. i just hate doing it.
heck yeah i did. and i even got austin to do the same.

-stick to our newly created budget. eek.
a little pass. a little fail. we did really well with our weekly grocery budget, only went a little over on our "out to eat" budget, but keeping up with the entire budget was a little screwy, so i can't say we got it all right. again, some craziness happening.

-try at least two new recipes for dinner.
i already shared that we made {and i couldn't stop eating} baklava earlier this month. but that's not really "dinner." at least it shouldn't be. but we also made some broccoli and ricotta cannelloni. so i'm going to count that as two. i'm thinking we made something else new, but i honestly can't remember what it was. so just take my word for it.

so there you have it. nothing interesting, but information about my goals. if i get real inspired today or tomorrow i will come up with some february goals. no guarantees, though. so don't hold your breath.

hold me accountable?

ok. so. for the past few years my "new year's resolution" has been to run a half marathon, or perhaps even a marathon {dream big, right?}.

it's ok to laugh. really.

i really almost did it last year. no, really! i was working in downtown roanoke and i went to the gym every day after work to run. i was really getting up there in distance and was feeling great. and then, i went to register for the blue ridge marathon and i realized it was over $100 to run their really hard course. needless to say, i was not paying $100 dollars {that i didn't even have} to kill myself in the mountains.

so i continued to run and work out, just with no marathon to work for. then i moved to chattanooga and took a little break from running... planning our wedding kind of took over my life. then i started running again, around the neighborhood some and at the gym with sarah. then i got a job which ruined our workout schedule so i put a pause on gym time. then, when i lost that job, to be honest i had a pity party for myself and didn't feel like doing anything.

and now, i just really miss running, because, unlike most people, i love to run. to just get out there and see how far i can go {which sometimes is not far at all}.

so here's what i need from you: hold me accountable for this. i want to run the run at the mill half marathon in april. i'm not going to shoot for a full marathon, because i think the half will be tough enough. and i don't care about a time, i just want to do it. that's it. do it.

my good friend katie has run a half marathon before in nashville and it looks like she's planning to do it yet again. so, katie, i'll most likely be looking to you for encouragement/motivation when i try to give up on this goal again. :)

i guess it's time to bust out these bad boys, yet again.

hello, old friends...