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Rambling thoughts of a sick person

I get sick... A LOT. I use to just power through it at work and be okay... now I opt to stay home... I think that says something about my job satisfaction, but there you go. Anyway, when I am sick I have a lot of random thoughts to share so here they are:

Running: I signed up to do another 5k. This is a scary thing for me because I'm a sprinter. Run .25 miles in 1:25.. no problem, run 3.2 miles in general? Scary. Did I mention I have environmental asthma? SO if we run by a car I will lose like 75% of my lung capacity? blah. Anyway I was going to run every day this week so I could do the 3.2 miles, but I got sick. Awesome. But the nice thing is I'll have a friend running with me! And we get metals. That should keep me running :) 

My Job: When the only thing that keeps me wanting to stay at my job is a plastic rectangle that gets me into Disneyland for free I think it's time I start thinking about a new job eh? I mean it's nice and fun, but at the end of the day I dis-like a lot of the people I work with... that takes a toll on my spirit and in turn my satisfaction on the job. That could be why I don't tough through the sick anymore...

That being said I'm very excited for my next 2 trips to Disneyland. the 17th with Chad and his sister and her husband and the 26th with Chad, Brittany and Brad. 

Groupon: Well if you don't know what that is then you need to do yourself a favor and sign up.... or don't actually. I'm a groupon fiend. I have SO many sitting in my email waiting to be used. I had to email Chad all of what we have so that we use them, here's the list:


$20 to  Nothing Bundt Cakes- expires 28 Apr 11 (I'm thinking this can be used post 5k)
Bikram Yoga- 10 classes expires 17 Aug 11 (We're gonna start using once I'm not sick)
2 tickets to a Flamenco Show and 4 course dinner on a Thursday expires 28 aug 11 (needs to be used before classes at MPCC end)
$60 of jewelry from here (I just wanted more grown up jewelry)
Ventura Comedy Club- we have either 8 tickets for a Wed, Thurs or Sunday show or 2 tickets for a Fri/Sat show- expires 13 Dec 11
2  tickets to a movie that offers Fandago buy online ticketing. Can’t find expiration date :(

and maybe one or two more... I have a problem...

Podcast: I listened to this podcast the other day and I LOVED it. It starts out talking about what it's like to work at The Onion, which to me seems like the coolest job I can never hope to obtain. Then a girl reading tarot cards on a train... just a cool story in general. THEN they talk to some missionaries from my church that are serving in NYC... it was nice hearing them painted in a favorable light on a pretty liberal show. And the final story was about people who cry on airplanes. It made me laugh and then realize that I do cry on airplanes over silly things more than I do on land. I just feel sad on airplanes because I'm always leaving something when I get on them. It's like something or a chapter of my life just ended as I step aboard. That's emotional. So when a movie as silly as Sweet Home Alabama makes some random guy cry I realize it's just the emotions of everything spilling out when they're in that seat. 

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