What's happened in a month?

I know I go on random dry spells and I always promise to do better but this time wasn't even a dry spell. I have SOOO much to tell you!

At the beginning of September I quit my job. Yeap. It was the job I offered my senior year of college and it was working at the same office as my hubby. It was also somewhat in my field and the pay was amazing to me. A little over 4 years later and I wasn't too far from where I'd started but considering it was a pretty small company it's not like I expected to go anywhere or even really learn amazing things. There were lots of positive things gained and of course it was all a lesson in something. Hubby will still be working for them so it's not like I won't see them anymore.

I'm closer to home now and while I miss my books on tape, I am amazed at how much more I'm getting done spending about 3.5 hours less in the car everyday. My new job is, I think, my new job for life, my career. Its a lot more hands on and there are a lot more opportunities.

I'm watching SNL while writing this because my bestie won tickets and finally made it up. She had plans earlier in the year but then there were terrible storms that canceled her trip. I keep trying to catch glimpse of her in the audience.

One final thing, as you know I joined a gym, I've been doing pretty well I think. I did go on my bi-annual Scraptrip and that usually is when I fall off track. One of our Squirrel's has moved and wasn't able to make this trip but we skyped (yes, i do like that it's become a verb like google) and whoa! I knew she was working on herself but she's lost 60 lbs on medfast in about 6 months!! She's been a great cheerleader to me and since she's done so well I've really been kicked into gear coming back from the trip that I'm determined to meet if not exceed her loss by our next retreat in Feb. (hear that Mel? I am taking on the challenge!) I was amazed to find I'd done a great job at self control this retreat and lost 4 lbs which also finally put me past a bump I'd been stuck on for the past 3 weeks. In total these past 2 weeks I'm down 6 lbs but still 10 from where I was at my last low point.

I've been continuing on my c25k runs and today I pumped it up to week 5. Week 5 is actually 3 different runs. Day 1 is 5 min walk, 5 run 3 walk repeat 3 times. I knew I'd be ok doing it since at my last week 4 run I actually did just keep running and did 7 minutes. I wanted to keep going but I'm trying to train correctly so I don't burn out since that's obviously easy for me to do. I'm actually ready to do Day 2 next which is 2 8 min runs with 5 min walks between. Day 3 is a 20 min straight run.

It's 8 weeks til Thanksgiving. Technically that's about as long as c25k altogether so a beginner could start today and be doing a 5k by then. So what excuse do I have that I've only got 3 more weeks left to do? NONE? Sooooo I'm signing up for a Turkey Trot 5k!! Not sure which one yet but I'm ready (or at least I know I will be.)

Oh there is another thing. I got new glasses today! Actually 2! It was buy one, get one free so I picked out 2 pairs and since my prescription didn't change too much, I'm keeping my old pair too to work out in. If I get a nice pic I'll try to show you.

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