Allergic

For the past month, every time Josh and I sit down in Sacrament Meeting I start to breakout in a rash on my left arm, it gets a little more irritating as the meeting goes on, then the minute I get home it vanishes. Today I discovered the cause...I'm allergic to church.

Stripping

Really, i just thought that would be a funny post title. I've been sanding down the cherry wood bed frame we have that was painted over in white paint. It has taken forever to sand the flat parts and not I'm left with the intricately carved posts. I tried using paint stripper (hence the title) but it has not been very effective. On a side note, try asking a poor high school boy who works in the paint department at the hardware store for help finding a good stripper for your bed poles. Yes that sentence came out of my mouth before I realized it and it was really awkward from then on. So anyways...I discovered the paint kind of peels of in the heat, so at the moment I am using a blowdryer to heat the paint and tediously peeling it off while trying not the burn my hands under the powerful force of heat. If anyone knows of a better way, I would definitely be interested in giving it a try. Also I will need help deciding how to refinish the bed. My current debate is paint vs stain. Again..any opinion is welcomed.

Josh and I were so exhausted from this week that we decided to eat out tonight. We were so tired and hungry we just kind of ate and stared and kept repeating, "I'm so tired." Neither one of us finished our meals and the waiter boxed and bagged them separate and was making a big ordeal about making sure we each got the right food. I let him know it didn't really matter because we were going to the same place. The waiter looked at us like REALLY?! I laughed so hard. Apparently this date didn't look like it was going very well. I told Josh we better step up our game next time. Really though, it was the perfect night. And a very early one because I'm going to bed. (After watching a few episodes of season 3 big bang theory that is).

Day 4

I'm only posting this to serve as motivation. I am now on day 4 of p90x. I had school, work, blood drawn (6 viles..YUCK!), tutoring, school, school yesterday andd missed a work out, so I'm very proud to say I woke up extra early this morning to do yesterday's work out and this afternoon I WILL do today's! I am also very proud of Josh! We have been walking 2 miles every day, and when I couldn't go yesterday because of my project meeting, he went the whole way without me! Anyways, I'm really just reporting to myself. Those little workout posters that came with the dvds where you check of the box wasn't serving as enough motivation, because I wasn't doing it! I am determined to make it through the entire series this time.

Running

I just got back from an awesome trip to Midway, UT. One the things on my list to do while there, was to go walking every day. That seems simple enough until You see the route. It's 2 miles each way of the steepest "hills" I've ever seen. The cabin is at the very tip top, so the way down is a piece of cake (in the summer with no ice) and the way up is treacherous. I was so proud I stuck to my plan and did the 4 miles everyday there. The first day I had a sudden impulse to sprint the last two switchbacks. I was quite impressed I didn't die before I reached the top. While walking the second day, I decided to try running all the "flat-ter" parts in both directions. By the last day there, my legs got all gittery and I just couldn't resist running the entire way down, and parts of the way up. It felt so good to run, tune my mind out, and just let my legs go for it. I love the way my abs burn when I run and the way my lungs feel heavy when I stop. I 've missed that feeling and it feels good to have it back. Hopefully I'll be back to my old running schedule soon!