I almost got hit by lightning...

sweet. As I am typing this, I am sitting here drenched from the run I just took. My friend Eric and I just went running. As we started running, it started raining. We were cool with that. It's fun to run in the rain sometimes. We made it about a mile from my house and lightning struck. It felt so close that both of us stopped. We decided it would be best to get to an area with some shelter. By the time we made it to College, it had pretty much blown over. We cut our 5 mile run to 3 miles. That's cool. It was fun...

So I got my hair cut today...I like it. It's all summery and fun. Maybe I'll take a picture sometime. Or...better yet...look at the picture at the top of the page. That's basically what it looks like now. Same hair cut as last summer. Sorry to the people that like it better longer. I like it both ways. This is easier.

4th of July. What are your plans? I'm not completly sure what I am doing. I know I do plan on catching a Fireworks show...maybe do some mullet hunting...

I wish I had something thought provoking to say. I really don't. If I could come up with something comment worthy...I'd be all over it. Hold up...let me check the news...

How about this. I wonder if it would work? I think it's catchy.

Oh wait...I just found something. Back in April, I went to Cincy, I wrote a little about it in this post.

Basically, what's important is this part:

So do you know what is creepy? A group of 50 Abraham Lincoln look-a-likes. Now you may be saying..."Rose, how would you know if that is creepy or not? It's not often that many look-a-likes are in one area. Well they were. I have a picture with proof. Unfortunately, it's in my digital camera. I'm at school, I don't have my camera with me. Yeah, so just believe me. I was in Cincy on Saturday and I was at the Freedom Center. There were Abes everywhere! I was getting sort of freaked out. Some of them were short and fat, some of them were tall and skinny. They came in all sorts of shapes and sizes. I just didn't know what to do. I wanted to get my picture with a group of them, but I didn't. So sad.

So yeah, dang it all to heck. Look at this article. I guess I do have some good ideas in me... Too bad I didn't take a great picture...and then publish it...


I could be rich or something like that...well probably not...

Now that's what I'm talking about...

What a weekend. Good times. I did a 5k on Saturday up in Fishers. It was fun. It was the first race I did since the mini. Jessie came up and did it too. She's getting the running bug...sweet.

So yeah, this run...it had no mile markers at all. I didn't know what was going on or how far I had to go...The last 5k I did was Best Buddies Dash for Friendship. In that race, I ran a 24:42. I was pretty excited about that. It was the first 5k race I ran that I broke 8 minute pace. PLUS I got third place in my age group (20-29) and 6th place for the women. (20th overall) Of course, this race was REALLY slim pickings...only 137 people did it and of those 137, only 42 even broke 30 minutes.

Ok, back to this past weekend's race...My goal was to break 24. I figured I have been training for about 2 weeks, I had that in the bag :). I did a 23:27! That's exciting to me...so my pace was 7:32!
Sweet. In this race, I ended up getting second in my age group...again, this age group was 20-29. So, I got second in a group of 45. PLUS I ended up 13th out of 317 females. This time, there were about 300 people that broke 30 minutes...a little better than Best Buddies. Still yet, it wasn't like the super fast runners of the world were running it, I got a second place silver medal. That's enough to keep my motivation up and going! So check it out... Go Here and change it to show the top 15 finishers...you see me! My name is spelled wrong, but there I am! It's enough to make me feel cool.

It's a long way from were I was a year and a half ago when I ran my first 5k race. I ran the Jingle Bell Run in December of 2004 in 31:10... YIKES! That shows you that almost anybody has hope :). Jessie, you beat that time...so you'll be kicking my butt soon :).

So enough about running, this run was part of the Fishers Freedom Festival, so after the run, we got to partake in some festival activities...there were water balloons, there was singing, there was everything...most importantly, there was a TENT FULL OF PEOPLE GIVING AWAY FREE STUFF! Now that's what I'm talking about. Of course, none of it is stuff you need...it's just the pure excitement that comes from getting all the stuff. It most definitely was random. Very random. We laughed very hard. It was just like a south side festival, just minus the mullets...

k. I think that's all I'm going to say for now.

The day is on it's way to being over.

I remember Friday's when I was little. The biggest thing I looked forward to was watching the shows on TGIF on ABC. I still remember the song...It's Friday night and the moon is bright, gonna have some fun, show you how it's done...TGIF. Yeah. I think in my way younger years I would sing along. Then, the first show would come on and it would be Full House. That was my favorite...there was Family Matters, Step by Step, Boy Meets World, and a whole bunch of other ones that made their way through the rotation. Now, those were good times. Why can't life be simple like that again?

So it's been a busy week. Well, sort of a busy week. It's been good fun. I have ran a lot. That's good for me! I'm keeping some sort of motivation up. I run a little 5k tomorrow. I haven't done a race since the mini, so I'm itching to go get some race excitement in me.

The other day, I went to the climbing gym with Brian Math. He's a climbing fool. I had fun. I left feeling a bit defeated. I 'm weak. I need to work on my muscles. :). I think I am going to go again sometime. I like it.

So yeah, life is crazy in a good way. I'm happy it's summer. I'm happy with the sunshine, I'm happy with the thunderstorms. I'm happy with the people I'm around, I'm happy with myself. I'm just a happy little camper. That's why I smile.

Speaking of camping. I would like to go camping soon. Anybody wanna go with me????

Today, I climb a wall.

I'm going to a climbing gym today. This should be crazy interesting. Hey! At least I'm getting some good cross training in. It's going to kick my bootie. I'm going to be so sore. I'm excited though. I haven't done anything like this in a while.

So running. I really feel like I am getting better/faster. I like it. I guess this is what happens when you run consistently. Usually, I want to just will it so that I will be able to get faster. For that reason, I'll go weeks a time without running and sill expect to have a perfect race. Silly me. Well, from the short amount of time that I have actually been making some better effort, I feel the improvement. I mean, I can even see the improvement. My muscles are looking nice. :). So yeah, hopefully I can keep this motivation up.

So let's see...the weekend was pretty good. It was busy. I did all kinds of stuff. Saturday night, Jessie came up to Broadripple. We went out with my friend Aryn. We played lots o darts. It was good times. Friday, I went and saw a comedian (on the freaking south side). He was ok. Nothing crazy spectacular. Still, good times.

I guess that's a really brief synopsis.

In other news: The T key on my keyboard is not working all that great. I keep having to hit it extra hard. It's sort of driving me nuts.

Well I'm off for now...wish me luck with the wall...

what's better than going on a bike ride?

So yesterday, I got to have some nice quality time with the South Side Lynsey (and the North Side one too).

The plan was to go on a bike ride. Well, Southside and I were. I had already ran quite a few miles. I smelled. I smelled BAD. You can ask Southside about that...she'll agree. Don't worry. I did shower. Anyway, Southside and I decided not to bike ride. Instead, we decided it would be nice to eat junk food and watch a movie. That's what we did.

We went to the store and bought two bags of chips and some ranch dip. We had called on someone else to bring dessert stuff over. So, we went home, and while we were waiting, we tore into the chips. It's sort of scary how many chips we ate. We were HUNGRY. Once the other food got there, we had some Zebra Cakes, some wine, some twizzler's pull and peel, and some ice cream. WEll, we never actually made it to the ice cream. Maybe some other time.

So then, we watched Pride and Prejudice. It was good. It was a nice little girly movie night.

One other thing, OUR COUCH IS AWESOME. We had four people sitting on the couch and there still was room to be sort of spread out. At one point in the night, six people were over. I am sure we all could have sat on there.

Wow. I am sure that you are very excited about our couch now. Maybe I am a bit too excited.