2013 Christmas Card Swap Groups

**UPDATE** I have just sent out the last email!! Please check your inboxes and let me know if for some reason you didn’t get your group info and I can resend it! :)

 

YAY!!! Finally!! The day you all have been waiting for!! Thank you so much for being so patient with me during our move and me being sick! I apologize for the delay but here are your groups!!! You will be getting an email with your group’s information (address and introductions) at some point tonight!  I used random.org to put you in groups and made sure that if you said “less than 5”, “max 5”, “more than 5/up to 10”, or “no mailing abroad” that I put you in the correct group.  If for some reason you signed up but can’t find your name in a group, LET ME KNOW AS SOON AS POSSIBLE!!  Also, once you get an email with your group, if there are any problems please let me know as soon as you can and I will switch the groups around!! Thanks for joining in on the fun everyone!!!  Since I am a week late in getting the groups out I’ll be super lenient about the send out date! Please just try to get them out as soon as possible seeing as Christmas is 10 days away! I know it’s impossible to expect you all to have them in tomorrow’s mail! lol! Please comment on this post or send me an email letting me know that you sent your cards! :D

Group Reindeer

Erica from Life as a Running Mom
Suzanne from Cows and Lasers and Everything In Between
Elizabeth from Instagram
Lisa from Chasin’ Bunnies
Jessica from Instagram

Group Snowflake

Darlene from My First 5k and More
Ruby from I'm a Runners Mom
Sandra from Facebook
Julie from ROJ Running
Bobbie from Journey in Running

Group Mistletoe

Kim from Barking Mad About Running
Charlotta from Instagram
Zaneta from Runner’s Luck
Kiley from DVF Fitness
Kristy from Runaway Bridal Planner

Group Cookie

Johanna from The Woolen Runner
Andrea from Age Group Rocks
Whitney from Running With Whit
Danielle from Ooh Breathe, Just Breathe
Brianne from Instagram

Group Joy

Sherri from Instagram
Debe from Facebook
Tiina from One Crazy Penguin
Robin from Twitter
Karen from Facebook

Christmas Card Swap Update

Hey guys! I’m writing this from my phone… I haven’t gotten on my computer since about mid-November…

Seeing how this happened…

it’s sucked out all of my time and energy!! (while working 3 jobs!)

SO… I’m a little behind on the Christmas Card Swap Updates!  I’m hoping to have you in groups and email out by Wednesday/Thursday night! Sorry for the delay but life is happening at “Full Speed Ahead” right now!! lol… Thanks for understanding!  I promise you that the Valentine Day Card Swap will be more organized!

Stay tuned for the whole moving story this weekend!!

Boston Tragedy

I know I already posted once but my mind is reeling…There are just no words to express how I’m feeling tonight as I head to bed…

My heart is heavy, my eyes are filled with tears, and I just can’t understand why someone would want to do something so senseless and harm so many people today.

Over 100 hurt

2 killed… including an 8-year-old boy

Some runners, some volunteers, many spectators

A day that was for many the chance of a life time; they had managed to qualify to run the Boston Marathon and this was it… it was race day… their hearts were full of joy…

Amid all of the celebration, smiles, accomplishments… there was someone who’s heart was full of evil… I cannot even comprehend why they felt the need to create shock, chaos, and overwhelming sadness…

I will never understand why things like this happen, but I am sure glad for those heroes, the first responders, the runners who continued until they reached the hospital to donate blood, the police who will not be getting any sleep tonight as they continue the investigation…

I feel helpless and like there is nothing I can do to help… but even those of us who did not run Boston, have never qualified, or will never qualify, have felt the devastation because runners are a community… a family… and right now we are all coming together to do what we can wherever we may be…

Tomorrow wear a race shirt or wear blue and yellow

Run tonight or tomorrow to honor those devastated by today’s events

Post a picture #prayforBoston

That is what I did… I gathered my running shoes and created a picture because that is all I felt like I could do … I will be praying for Boston, for everyone who had to go through this awful ordeal today, and for the family and friends of those affected by the horrific bombs that went off today during the Boston Marathon… #runnersunite!

Goodbye 2012 and Welcoming in 2013!

For me, 2012 wasn’t really the year that I had planned in my head when January 1st came around last year.  But, it’s life and you’ve got to learn at some point that things don’t always go the way you planned.  But I do believe that everything happens for a reason!! :)  2012 for me, was a stressful, chaotic year.  School and internships, on top of work and family and more schoolwork.  It all led to getting sick numerous times and not having much time or energy to do much else but eat and sleep when I got home.  2012 was a year of the motto “exercise as little as possible” lol… 

January 12.6 miles                                                       2011 329.45 miles
February 16.02 miles                                                    2012 178.67 miles
March 42.19 miles
April 25.7 miles
May 19.41 miles
June 12.15 miles
July 11.68 miles
August 22.55 miles
September  0 miles
October 0 miles
November 3 miles
December 13.37 miles
 

In good fashion, I ended up ushering out 2012 by getting sick Christmas night and taking flu medicine and going to bed early on New Year’s Eve! ha!

Now that it’s the first day of 2013, I am starting to feel better, still weak and tired, but getting there!  I do have a few goals for this bright new clean slate of a year! :)  As you can see from my monthly running log of 2012, there were a couple months where I ran ZERO miles… that’s going to change….  AND like everyone’s always telling you, goals need to be realistic and attainable…. so with that, my goals for 2013:

Goal #1:  Run at least 1 mile every month!
Goal #2:  Graduate in May and land at least a part time interpreting job by mid-June!
Goal #3:  Finish all the WIPs (works in progress) I have on my knitting needles and make something for myself this year! :)  (currently sitting at 5 WIPs)

 

What are some of your 2013 Goals?

HAPPY NEW YEAR EVERYONE!!