Take Three

Yup, I'm back. Over a year and almost a half since my last post. I'm newly 24. My little tiny kitten is now a year and a half, but still acts like a little baby. I am no longer serving but went back to school- for Massage Therapy (this experience will be saved for a later post). I moved back home to save money while at school and am currently awaiting for my license to become active so I can begin working full time. In the last 4 weeks, I've been rewatching Friends, training at my new job, helping my mom out with her blog, 365 Days of Baking and More, and probably most importantly marathon training.

Tyler texted me over Christmas and said she was moving back in with her parents and was planning on training for a marathon. Coincidentally, my parents moved to a house a street away from hers. It was perfect timing because I'd be able to start training while still in school and then have 8 weeks after I graduated to continue training. Right now, tomorrow marks a month out from that first 26.2 for the both of us. I'd say training has gone pretty well for us considering we both started with little training base and had never run over 13 miles before. Our farthest is 18 after the planned 19 this past weekend didn't happen because we got lost on a trail but the views were great.

From now until the marathon I'll write some updates but being an amateur marathoner, I won't be offering any advice. I've also committed to the Tone It Up Bikini Series. This will be the third time I've attempted it and the first time I plan on completing it. I've even made an Instagram account for this new endeavor (runfitlex) to which I've also decided to rename this blog to. I loved the ring that "For the Love of Running" had, but had found out the name had already been taken. I always come back to running and love following the journey of other women in the sport. I'm excited to be back to spending my free time with this new hobby. I must have really liked it before if I came back to it. So here we go, for a third time! 

#igotitfrommymama

So as some of you may already know, I am the daughter of a food blogger who has had some recent success. 365 Days of Baking is a blog my mom started back in 2010 when I was a little freshman in college, four years ago. She started it as a hobby while she was still a stay-at-home mom. Mom wanted to challenge herself to bake for 365 consecutive days. And that she did, with only a few minor setbacks. But with myself almost a sophomore, and my sister not soon from college herself, my mom took up a job as the office manager at a local vet clinic.The blog was put on hold for a little while until the family moved to New Hampshire on a whim. Mom became more interested in the idea that this could create a real income for the family. So she dove right in last year and has made steps to create a profitable website where people can see just how easy baking can be. Recently, every call home to New Hampshire from Arizona (I recently moved back to AZ after living in New Hampshire for a year and 11 years in Arizona before that) I hear something about how well my parents are doing because of the blog. It's awesome and I couldn't be happier for my mom because she's found her passion and is able to make money while doing it. 

So with this and a little tangent, a friend and former teammate from high school has mentioned to me a few times that I should get back into photography. For those of you who didn't know high school me, I was really into photography. Like really into it. I had undertaken a project, much like my moms, where I was going to take a picture of myself or something everyday for a year. I was obsessed with Flickr and Tumblr and had made some friends through it who I still talk to to this day. My teenageness showed in every self-portrait but people loved my pictures and I loved expressing my artistic side that my parents said I inherited from both of my grandmothers. To only fuel my obsession, I wanted to study the medium into college. I did that but found that I didn't like being told what to take pictures of. So with some changes in majors, the start of a new obsession (triathlon), a year long adventure in New England, and trying to figure out what I want to be when I am an adult, I've decided to give blogging a shot. Maybe a photoblog with some other snippets in life will take me somewhere I haven't even explored yet. You can make it online nowadays, I've seen it. Waiting tables pays well for a twenty-something who's trying to figure things out but it's never been a dream of mine to bring people their food. Here I go, following my mom's blogging footsteps and posting my thoughts onto the internet for the world to see. 

This blog won't be focused on anything for awhile. My brain tends to change a lot so, there will be some triathlon things (actually a lot), some photography things, some #twentysomethingproblems, and who knows what else. And there's this quote by my favorite long distance runner Kara Goucher, "dream big and dream often" and I think it explains me in a nutshell. So here it goes, I am now a blogger.