Running Shoes or Candy? You Decide!

This is what I feel like telling everyone I come in contact with on Valentine’s Day… you’re welcome for being THAT awesome.. now buy me candy!! (Any will do, but my favorite is Reeses Cups!)

 

 

Saw these fun valentines on the Runner’s World website…  How fun?!  If you came up with a fitness/running/yoga/(workout of your choice) valentine card what would it say? Mine would say
You’re the shoes to my running, the ice to my bath, and the compression to my legs… 
HAPPY VALENTINE’S DAY!

 

OK, which one would you choose? Candy OR Running Shoes??

 

 

My Valentine to you all is that I’ll eat all the above chocolate and think of you! ;) (no shame!)

 

Happy Valentine’s Day my Friends!! I hope you have a great day full of love and being spoiled!! (even if it is spoiling yourself!!) ;) I want to thank you all for being so awesome… seriously, you guys are the best!!! So I’m giving you, my valentines, a coupon code for $1 off of my Skinny Yoga Mat Straps!! That makes them $7 total which includes shipping to anywhere in the US (if you’re international please email me for shipping rates)!! I hope you enjoy your valentine’s day!! :)

 

 

And because I love you all so much… I think you should treat yourself to some Tommie Copper! ;)

 

 

OR perhaps a brand new Running Skirt?!

 

 

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!

 

What/who do you love?  
  - In all seriousness, I LOVE my family, you all, the ability to work out, and God and the life he’s blessed me with!

How are you spending your valentine’s day?  
  - Sick and on the couch… was gonna go to the gym, but my head feels like a balloon so you guys gotta share the gym love with me today! ;)

Do you use Valentine’s Day as an excuse to eat all things chocolate?
  - You betcha!! ;)  Who needs an excuse anyways?! ;)

What’s your idea of the BEST Valentine’s Day Gift ever?!

 

Fun Things Going on:
  

2014 Valentine’s Day Card Swap

WILL YOU BE MY VALENTINE?!

Welcome to the 3rdd Annual Valentine’s Day Card Swap!! :)  This will be setup like the Christmas Card Swap so, Depending on how many people sign up, I will divide you all into groups of about 5 or more people.  You will send a Valentine’s card to all the people in your group, and will be receiving cards from the people in your group.  Let’s say you are put in a group with X,Y,Z…  You will send cards to X, Y, and Z and will receive a card from X, Y, and Z.  Make sense?!

Your cards can be store bought or handmade and you can feel free to add a little something to the card like your favorite running quote, running advice, candy, a sticker, a note of encouragement, recipe, or a funny note, or you can just send the card… Whatever you want to do is PERFECT!  Just don’t be sending pairs of running shoes, an Ipad, or a free entry to Boston (unless you’re sending it to me)  ;)  We want to keep this cheap so everyone can join and doesn’t feel bad for just sending a card!   :)

After everyone is put into their groups I will be sending out an email including your group members ONLY with their blog links (so you can get to know them if you don’t already) and addresses so that there’s still a bit of privacy and everyone’s addresses aren’t out there floating around on the internet somewhere!  Safety people!!  :D   The groups will be picked by Random.org so we keep things mixed up!

I will be adding people to a list at the bottom of this page as they sign up…  So, if you sign up and for some reason, do not see your name on the list after a couple days… just shoot me an email and we’ll get it taken care of!

Let’s get this PARTY STARTED!!!  You are welcome to invite your friends!  All are welcome! :)  Feel free to put the logo on your blog and link it back to this page as an invite to other bloggers! AND YES, international bloggers are welcome to join as well as those without blogs… Dailymilers, Facebookers, Instagramers, or Twitterers can join too!!! ;)

How to sign up:

Send an email to runners.luck@hotmail.com with the subject “2014 Valentine’s Card Swap”.  Copy and paste the below form into the email and answer the questions before you hit ‘send’:

Name:
Mailing Address:
Email Address: (This makes it easier for me to contact you if I have a question :)
Blog Title and URL: (or link to your Instagram, twitter, dailymile, or facebook if you dont have a blog)
Introduce yourself in a couple sentences:  (so that others in your group can get to know you.. maybe what you do to stay active, a deep dark secret, or how you started your fitness journey.. whatever you want))
Additional Information:  (if you feel you can only send to 1, 2, or 3 people instead of 5 or let me know if you’re willing to send to more, its totally cool!! OR if you are willing to send a card internationally or not!  Just let me know!)

**Come back to this page and just post a quick comment stating that you’re in so that I can cross reference and double check entrants. That’s it…  So easy a caveman could do it!   ;)

SIGN UPS WILL CLOSE ON FEBRUARY 5TH @ 11:59PM 
(Basically if you sign up before I wake up February 6th , you’re golden!)

 

Sign ups OPEN January 18th – February 5th
Sign ups Close  February 5th @ 11:59 pm
Partners Emailed  February 5th – February 8th
Cards need to be sent by February 10th

 

People who are IN LIKE FLYNN!

Zaneta from Runner’s Luck
Hannah from Cupcake Mumma
Jess from Run With Jess
Bobbie from Journey in Running
Lori from Weights and Feats
Elizabeth from Instagram
Jessica from Instagram
Sandra from Facebook
Ruby from I’m a Runner’s Mom

2012 Valentine’s Day Card Swap

WILL YOU BE MY VALENTINE?!

The Christmas Card Swap went so well and I had a few people email me that they were sorry they had missed it, so I decided “why not do a Valentines swap?”  This will be the inaugural Valentine’s Card Swap!!  This will be setup like the Christmas Card Swap so, Depending on how many people sign up, I will divide you all into groups of about 5 or more people.  You will send a Valentine’s card to all the people in your group, and will be receiving cards from the people in your group.  Let’s say you are put in a group with X,Y,Z…  You will send cards to X, Y, and Z and will receive a card from X, Y, and Z.  Make sense?!

Your cards can be store bought or handmade and you can feel free to add a little something to the card like your favorite running quote, running advice, candy, a sticker, a note of encouragement or a funny note, or you can just send the card… Whatever you want to do is PERFECT!  Just don’t be sending pairs of running shoes, an Ipod, or a free entry to Boston (unless you’re sending it to me)  We want to keep this cheap so everyone can join and doesn’t feel bad for just sending a card!   :)

After everyone is put into their groups I will be sending out an email including your group members ONLY with their blog links (so you can get to know them if you don’t already) and addresses so that there’s still a bit of privacy and everyone’s addresses aren’t out there floating around on the internet somewhere!  Safety people!!  :D   The groups will be picked by Random.org so we keep things mixed up!

I will be adding people to a list at the bottom of this page as they sign up…  So, if you sign up and for some reason, do not see your name on the list after a couple days… just shoot me an email and we’ll get it taken care of!

If you can think of anything that I may have left out, let me know!  Let’s get this PARTY STARTED!!!  You are welcome to invite your friends!  All are welcome! :)  Feel free to put the logo on your blog and link it back to this page as an invite to other bloggers! AND YES, international bloggers are welcome to join as well as those without blogs… Dailymilers or Twitterers can join too!!! ;)

How to sign up:

Send an email to runners.luck@hotmail.com with the subject “2011 Valentine’s Card Swap”.  Copy and paste the below form into the email and answer the questions before you hit ‘send’:

Name:
Mailing Address:
Blog Title and URL: (or link to your twitter, dailymile, or facebook if you dont have a blog)
Introduce yourself in a couple sentences:  (so that others in your group can get to know you)
Additional Information:  (if you feel you can only send to 1, 2, or 3 people instead of 5 or more, its totally cool!! OR if you are willing to send a card internationally or not!  Just let me know!)

**Come back to this page and just post a quick comment stating that you’re in so that I can cross reference and double check entrants. That’s it…  So easy a caveman could do it!   ;)

SIGN UPS WILL CLOSE ON JANUARY 30TH @ 11:59PM
(Basically if you sign up before I wake up January 31st , you’re golden!)

 

Sign ups OPEN January 15-30th
Sign ups Close January 30th @ 11:59 pm
Partners Emailed January 31st – February 2nd
Cards need to be sent by February 7th

 

People who are IN LIKE FLYNN!

Zaneta from Runner’s Luck
Julie from ROJ Running
Courtney from Third Time’s a Charm Runner
Christina from Lazy Bones Running
Amanda from Fat Wuz Here
Paulette from Just Keep Running
Erica from I Run Because… I Can
Jennifer from Mom’s Running It
Suzanne from Cows and Lazers and Everything in Between
Whitney from Running With Whit
Hannah from HANNAHVIOLIN
Kristin from Sassphalt Runner
Ruby from My World in Pictures

4 MONTHS & 120 DAYS

Exactly 4 months from today, or 120 days, I will be a married woman!! YAY!!!  I’M SO EXCITED!!!  In fact, you know those Disney commercials?!  I feel like the little girl at the end of the commercial! Here’s the video incase you don’t have any idea what I'm talking about… like usual ;)

Ok… and yes, I’m a little jealous of all you gals (guys too?) who get to run in the Disney princess race this weekend!!   Maybe one day ;)  Good luck everyone!! :)

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Remember how I didn’t exactly finish Josh’s valentine’s gift cuz I was a tad sick? Well, I worked on it this evening and it went from this:

To eating DQ ice cream cake and watching CSI:

To this cute little guy!! (Which Alisha guessed!!)

It’s a minion from the movie “Despicable Me” (cute movie… one of my faves!  And yes, I’m 23 lol)  The pattern is one of Wolf Dreamer’s patterns.  My fiancé is going to LOVE the finished product!  He loved it when it was in pieces! haha!  Well, I’m gonna head to bed because I’m meeting a friend to go running tomorrow morning!  I hope everyone does well in their races this weekend!! :D  Can’t wait to read all about them!

 

4 Months; 120 Days Left!

Postponement on my Training

Well… back in November I registered for the Capital City Half Marathon and I have kept pushing off training for some reason… maybe because it’s been cold, I’ve been planning a wedding, or I just am plain lazy… who knows! 

But, I was seriously going to start out training today with a 4 mile tempo run but that isn’t going to happen because I’m sick … It feels much like strep throat which would make sense because the young people I work with come to work and inform me that they have strep throat but not to worry because they aren’t contagious anymore but then cough in my face… I’m hoping to feel better so I can start training tomorrow… it’s supposed to be nearly 60 degrees!! YAY!!  Just a week ago the high was 7 lol…silly Ohio weather!

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Last night was mine and Josh’s Valentine’s Day since we didn’t get to see each other on Monday.  He came over and brought me beautiful pink roses, reeses cups, and a card.  I gave him a card and a project of mine in pieces lol… I didn’t get to finish it since I was also sick yesterday and slept most of the day. (more on the project later) Then we made dinner together of sausage and cheese bagels and scrambled eggs… yummy!  We finished out our date with watching one of my favorite shows, NCIS, and then he had to go home early because he had an important test this morning!  It was a wonderful date!  I love him so much and cannot wait to marry him! :) 

 My beautiful flowers

 His unfinished project that I promised would be finished by the weekend lol

Now I’m going to take a nap even though it’s only 11:45 AM lol hopefully I can
kick this before I have to go to work tonight!  I hope everyone has a great day
today!!  You’re week is half way done!! :)

129 Days Left!

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY!!

Happy Valentines Day to all of my lovely blog friends!!  You guys are amazing!  I’ve learned so much, have laughed at many jokes, and have been inspired by all of you!

I hope you have a GREAT VALENTINES DAY!! :D