cheerios

My haircut turned out well – it’s shorter than I wanted, but as usual she said that I need to cut of more than an inch to get my hair back to its healthy state. I don’t know how my hair gets split ends so quickly. I love the head massage with peppermint oil they give you at the Aveda salons… I wanted to fall asleep in the hair washing chair. When I first went in I wanted to get the hair that is parted to the side turned into shorter side bangs (not too short, just a bit shorter), but I chickened out and decided not to, the stylist said that if I regretted it I could come back and get her to do it for free because it would only take a second..

I just cant decide! Any suggestions? Does anyone have side bangs and love/hate them?

Yesterday evening I met up with a new running group because the road running club I joined is a bit too competitive for me. Example – Isaac’s dad and I met up with them to do a Thursday evening run of about 5 miles, we were running about 9 minute miles, and we were the last two runners. About 1 mile in we could no longer see the end of the pack. This just means that I can’t ever go running with them alone because they leave me in the dust and some of the areas wouldn’t be safe for a.) a woman to run alone and b.) me to run alone because I have no sense of direction and get lost a lot in Richmond in my car, and getting lost while on foot could easily turn my 5 mile run into a 10 mile run… not exactly my goal.

So point being I found another group to meet up with and went running yesterday. They are training for a marathon so wednesday was 1/2 the distance of their weekend long runs of 14 miles. Next week they are doing 10… I don’t know if I can cut out for this group either?? 7 miles is actually I furthest I have ever run so this was my second time running that distance. I kept up the whole time ( we did about a 9 minute mile for all 7) and not until the last mile did I seriously want to walk because it was up hill the entire way. But overall, it was a great run and I am not sore. They were all very surprised at how well I did considering I have only been training 2 weeks for my half marathon in November. It made me feel really good!

I came home, and then went with a friend who is a fashion major to hang out with her guy friends who watch Project Runway. We chatted, watched TV, and drank wine, then played that video game, Rock Band. I’m behind times and haven’t even played Guitar Hero before, but I sang and played guitar a couple times and it’s amazingly really fun! It kind of makes me want to have the game, but I guess that isn’t possible because we don’t have an updated game station and I should probably just practice my real guitar considering I have been slacking on that.

I woke up super hungry today and I had cheerios with blueberries and a leaning tower of bananas.

I’m off for more job hunting… story of my life. Also, I am running a 4 mile race this evening, wish me luck!

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Things were looking up – until this morning when Isaac went outside to go to work and noticed that the street was empty, aka we got towed, not just my car, not just his car, both of our cars! And the place to pick up the cars was conveniently located on the other side of town. Gotta love living in the city. One thing that really ticks me off is that the street isn’t that clean. I think I should call the city and complain, letting them know that the street cleaning wasn’t adequate enough to justify towing of cars. Incase you all were wondering, towing places don’t give household discounts.

Rewind to last night which was much better than this morning. Isaac and I went to dinner at this place a vegetarian and vegan restaurant I have been wanting to eat at. I got the Hummus Sandwich and Isaac got the Black Bean Burrito. We split each in half and shared. Both were really good and mine came with sweet potato fries and a side salad. I forgot my camera because we rode bikes there, but I wished I hadn’t because my sandwich bread was in the shape of a heart. Dang it, I really do wish I had a photo. Oh well, yesterday I ate multigrain Cheerios with 1/2 of a banana and strawberries on top and this salad for lunch.

This morning, while in the process of looking up directions to the towing place I had some banana oatmeal, with brown sugar, blueberries, and flax on top.

I ate some grapes and strawberries as a mid morning snack or a pre lunch snack rather, since it was right before I ate this: a plate of baked squash and a sweet potato that I cooked in the mircowave, cut, and then baked (served with ketchup of course)

I’m off to redeem my free haircut that I won through a raffle at the Watermelon Festival. (I have seriously been a pretty lucky girl, up until this mornings unfortunate events) It’s at CeCo Studio, which is an Aveda concept salon. I’m excited because I needed a hair cut but didn’t really have the extra money. But now I basically spent on towing what I would have spent on a haircut… .