Lazy Days in Salt Lake

Days off are fantastic.

This semester I have class on two days.
Monday: 11:30-7pm
Wednesday: 11:30-2:45

The rest of the week, I have to do nothing since I'm not working right now. It is one of the most fantastic semesters I've ever had. I love it so much even if I'm not particularly fond of my classes. Oh well, I'm almost done and you can't always love everything that you're doing in school, right?

What did I choose to do with my day today? Well in all reality, very very little. The big thing I did was wake up and went for a run with Oakley. I did my usual loop that I've been doing for a while, although I haven't done it since it started snowing. This consists of from my house to 9800 south along 2200 west, then from 2200 to 2700 and then back to 10400 south and back home. All in all it's about 3 miles or so. Before today I've always been able to get roughly halfway before I felt like my lungs and legs were about to explode. Today I hit that halfway point and just kept going. I was expecting to hit my wall a little bit after but it never came. I completed this full loop without stopping or walking once! It was a huge accomplishment for me. Never did I think I'd be able to do this, let alone in the 40 minutes that I did do it.

My stamina is definitely increasing and it feels good. I need the snow to melt though so that I can get on my bike! I have to do the 26.2 mile bike tour at the Salt Lake City Marathon this year! It sounds like so much fun and I want to do it. I need to start getting bike legs. I really need to find a spinning class that I can attend regularly. I have a body built for biking, strong calves and thighs. I need to take advantage of it. Being in shape is one of the greatest feelings I've ever had and I never want to let it go.

Other than going for a run today I decided to start taking pictures again. I get discouraged since I think that pictures need to be of pretty things out in nature or somewhere exotic. I decided though to force myself to take 30 pictures in my own backyard. I did so with a lot of different settings and angles and then wanted to practice my Photoshop skills with my best pictures. Here are the 4 I chose:

Puppy

Winter

Warmth

Childhood

Love/Hate Relationship

I hate school and they love taking my money. That's the love/hate relationship that I'm currently in. Today was a long day. I left for Trax at 10am and didn't get home until 7:30pm and I got out of class early. On most Mondays I won't be getting home until at least 8pm. 10 hours is way too long! Oh well, it's worth it.

What is it people write about in their blogs in January? Generally the new year? I guess I'll do that. 2011, I guess a lot has changed. I'd say the biggest thing is that I'm 140 pounds lighter than I was in July of 2010. I feel good and it has been a long road that was well worth it. The other big thing in my life is that I have Emily in my life. Very lucky for that and very thankful.

My cooking, photography and other hobbies have kind of been put on the back burner lately. I need to get more into them and combine them! Take pictures of my food, yes please. I need to go on more photo adventures and would love company on these adventures.

I'm currently unemployed and getting a weekly paycheck from the government. Yes, that's right, I'm a burden on society and collecting unemployment checks each week. It feels good and I love feeling very democratic and liberal every time I file my weekly claim.

I so far like the new blog and the new blog content. I'm going to take it and run.

New blog

We're going to make this more adult and I'm going to actually start posting more.

Be ready my readers, I don't know if you'll be able to handle what is coming.