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Yup… Posting this from my iPad… Because I’m a loser… But I KNOW you’re jealous!!!!

Current Mood: Love & Tired

Yup, there’s been a lot going on in the past few weeks and I am SOOOO tired.

I moved in with Brandon this weekend. Spent all last week packing up my apartment after work. Brandon would come over and grab a few boxes each night and move them over. Then Saturday we had movers come to get the large things. I have many large items it seems… Is this more than most?:

• sectional couch
• futon
• queen size bed
• 2 book shelves
• 3 dressers
• glass entertainment center
• computer desk

It never seems like that much but it took them 2 hours to get it all down to the truck and another hour to unload it all. Whatever tho, it was worth the money and also worth us not breaking our own backs! We still need to unpack and such.

The garage is currently packed with stuff so neither of us can park in it. Brandon did get these awesome surfboard racks tho that hang the boards on the wall to clear up some space. Those look really awesome mounted! So we’ll slowly unpack over the next week or so. I still need to clean the old place but I’m hoping to get the majority of that done tonight. I need to turn the keys in by Wednesday anyways.

Now, hopefully Brandon won’t get transferred anywhere immediately.

Running still sucks. I hate it. I dread attempting it today as I’m still tired and sore but I only ran once last week. Cycling however is going swimmingly! I get faster each time and this coming Saturday I’ll try one of the longer rides with one of the local cycling clubs. I’m excited for that, those are pretty enjoyable.

Then in 2 weeks I go home and visit my parents for roughly 10 days! I’m stoked for that as I haven’t been home in a LONG time.

And when I get back… I want to BAKE! I’ve not done that in forever since it’s generally a weekend thing and I was rarely hanging out at my place on the weekends. Cakes incoming!

Current Mood: Playful

Current Mood: Athletic & Happy

Ya, I had one and it was gud.

It’s been slightly hectic since my last post. Work has picked up some, I’m running still, I bought a bike, and I’m moving in with Brandon next month if nothing catastrophic happens with his job.

Running

It’s been going pretty good. It will always be hard for me and I’ve come to accept that. Monday I had the fastest run yet for my 4.15 mile lunch route. Wednesday I accomplished my fastest mile pace but turned around after 1.5 miles and walked back because my legs were sore and I was mentally having a rough day from the start. I blame the sore legs on the new bike, which I’ll talk about next. I also purchased a new pair of running shoes so they might have been causing some aches. RoadRunner sent me a mailing saying Nike was discontinuing the shoe that I’ve been buying so I went and got another pair before they’re gone. The inserts I get tho have already been moved to a new model and are slightly uncomfortable. I’m giving them some time to see if I get used to them or not. But for today I brought in my old shoes because I know nothing hurts with them on.

Biking

Check it out!

It’s awesome. Did I spend more than I wanted? Hell yes… Am I currently regretting it?… Newp. God, these things are expensive. I had no idea. When I bought my mountain bike I got it for $700. It’s decent enough, I saw them go all the way up to like $4000. Road bikes go up to like $8000, that’s like a third of the price of my Jeep!

Everyone I chatted with who bikes said shell out a bit more now and I’ll be happy with it for much longer. So it’s a carbon frame which is so light compared to my mountain bike. I can easily lift the entire bike into the back of my Jeep. I made sure to get the 105 components. There were a few other component names mentioned that were better but then the bikes started to get into the $3500 range. So I got the bottom end of the good bikes from what I understand.

I rode it 6 miles on Tuesday during lunch. My butt still hurts… as well as my legs are very achy in various places which is why I think I failed on my Wednesday run. I got 10 miles out of it yesterday in the same amount of time since I’m starting to get more comfortable with it. It’s way different than my Huffy from when I was a kid!

There are some bike groups that ride on the weekends that I’m going to start going with. That has always looked fun to me and they are free and have a wide range of experience. Unfortunately, the weather has been pissing on San Diego on the weekends. I believe this Saturday is no different looking at the forecast. There is a Sunday group but I think they may be slightly too advanced for me so I may just wait until next weekend to try the group stuff.

The lunch path I’ve been doing is pretty neat and off any areas with motor vehicles. I’m too scared to go on the street until I manage a few rides with those groups. The lunch path tho is long with some hills that make me put forth effort. They even pass some wildlife! I’ve seen a snake, a rabbit (not the fluffy bunny kind), and a chipmunk! I’ve also slaughtered many caterpillars. I apologize every time I notice if I hit one. Not that it cares at that point but still… trying to keep the karma good.

Moving

Looking forward to moving. Hopefully everything goes according to the plan I don’t have. Brandon is kinda in flux at the moment at work. I’ve already given my notice to my apartment tho and I have to be out by the 31st. Stuff like this is why I apologize to the flattened caterpillars. See? Karma. I should be on the good karma list right now and hence I know this is going to work out well and I will have a place to live come April 1st…

Oh and then this is what happens when boys bake.

Giant jars of marshmallow fluff gravitate towards their mouths.

And when they can’t reach the bottom?

But real work was done too! See!?

Ya, he’s pretty cool still.

Current Mood: Happy

I love long weekends. We don’t get enough of them in the year. This long weekend also happened to be over Valentin’s Day.

Friday night was pretty chill. Brandon’s roommate made enchiladas so we ate, drank, watched movies, then crashed.

Saturday Brandon went surfing and I took some pretty lousy pictures. I think I was messing with some HDR stuff earlier and I think I messed up my white balance. That’s totally fixable in post but the shots themselves weren’t anything worth mentioning unfortunately anyways. Later we went and saw The Wolfman. I personally didn’t care for it but Brandon liked it. I prefer more stylized werewolfs like in Underworld or Twilight: New Moon. We’ve been having bad luck seeing good movies lately!

Sunday we decided to head up to Santa Barbara on a whim. We drove up the coast and stopped a few times along the way to check out waves and such.

In front of a biker type hangout. LOUD!!!

You know, I got that awesome Samsung camera that has a display on the front so you can take pictures of yourself easier. It proved difficult tho when you bf towers over you. I wouldn’t change that for the world tho.

I like this picture a lot. Except for the bird shit all over the rock!

It was an awesome but long drive. We left about 11am and got there around 7pm. Unfortunately there was some sort of convention there and that topped with it being Valentine’s Day made it impossible to find a room there. So we ended up grabbing a nice dinner and head back south a bit so find a place to stay.

Sunday we headed back and decided to take the freeway for a shorter trip. So much driving is TIRING and our butts were numb from sitting! We took a small detour though and drove around Hollywood and Beverly Hills. Definitely glad I don’t live there. It looks miserable and not worth the money.

San Diego is the best!

Surprisingly I didn’t completely blow it in the food department. It wasn’t the healthiest by any means but when I tallied up the numbers this morning I stopped feeling so guilty. So the weekly health and fitness recap looks like:

I didn’t get as much workout in as I would have liked but between feeling like shit Thursday and a long weekend where we were out of town for two days I’m happy.

No workout Monday either obviously so I’ll try and make that up the rest of the week and I’m sure this weekend we’ll so something active. I bought a Camelbak and I’m really excited to use it! I got it for $40 at Sport Chalet since it was the 2009 model. Can’t beat that!

Awesomest Valentine’s Day weekend ever.

Time to work I guess.