Terrible Tuesday

  • I’m in a dark, twisty place. I’m feeling very sorry for myself and very irritable. I blame hormones.
  • I got home and ran my 4 miles on the treadmill tonight. It was a good run. My roomie ran after I did. Soon she came upstairs to tell me that the treadmill was making funny sounds and slipping.
  • I look at it and the belt is slipping (again) and tearing a bit. (this has all happened before. I used an allen wrench and tightened it up and that fixed it for over a year. 
  • Not this time. I tried for over an hour to make it work, and was able to move the belt back over and tighten it up, but its still slipping and being stupid.
  • I gave up. Threw in the towel. Or the wrench.

  • Then, I googled problems with this nordic track treadmill. It may need a new belt. I don’t know. I’m calling Sears tomorrow. I just want someone to come fix it. I love my treadmill. I don’t like going to the gym and running on their treadmills. I feel very self conscious. Also, if I want to run long on the treadmill I feel like I can’t there, ya know?
  • I have a raging headache.
  • I’m tired of the the cold. I just want to go somewhere warm. I want to lay on the beach. Turn off my phone and relax. Is that so much to ask?
  • Wednesday, you need to be better. Not that you have much to live up to.

A Tale of One Weekend (Part Two)

If Friday was an episode of “This is your Life, Melissa.” Then Saturday and Sunday fully made up for it!

Saturday, I went to see “Monuments Men” with my parents. Great movie. I enjoyed it. Then my friend Keith and I went to a surprise birthday party for our friend who we do video editing work for. He’s the same guy I do the voice-over work for. It was fun and nice to surprise him.

While we were chatting, his father came up and said the sweetest thing to me. His dad would be in his mid 60’s I’d say. And he gave me the up and down look, and wanted to hug me, but my friend told him no, and to behave!

He then said, “Melissa, you are so lovely. You are a natural beauty. Just like my wife. She’s a natural beauty too, and we’ve been married for 40 plus years and she still takes my breath away.”

I was so flattered! I told him he was so sweet and that he made my day! Seriously though, how kind! He then told me that I should always smile, and that with my smile, I could have whatever I wanted! He then jabbed my friend Keith and said, “right?” Keith agreed.

ACK! I loved it! 

But the nicest thing? When my friend introduced me to his father, he told him that I was one of the nicest, most kind, and good Christian person that he knows. THAT means more to me than anything else.

Sunday was a good day, I stepped out of my comfort zone and went to a small gathering of young people from Church. It was fun and I’ve made some new friends. I talked to them about work, and about my weight loss. They are all so kind and nice. I really like them.

All in all, a solid weekend.

Happy Monday friends!

angeldrinkstea said: Um…he blends ALL his foods together? That is just plain weird.

snapthistiger said: blending all the food up is seriously weird..

Becky-balances said: you just made me smile on this dreary Monday 🙂

He’s a vegetarian and when he eats at home, he just puts all his food (spinach, fruit, etc) in a blender and drinks it. I think I asked him if he had soft teeth! But no, he said it is just easier. He does eat real food at restaurants though. At least he did on our date.

Sigh. I find all the weirdos. 

A Tale of One Weekend (In 2 Parts) Pt. 1

I had another: “This could only happen to Melissa” Moment Friday night:

I got into work at Corky and my coworker told me she had a story for me, that was ABOUT me! My stomach dropped and I said, “what?” warily. 

She proceeded to tell me that a woman who is a regular at Corky popped in about a half hour earlier to buy a bottle of booze she likes off of us. She then told my coworker that she was on a date but that her date wouldn’t come into the studio because “he had gone out on a date with Melissa before.”

…

Yup. If you’re new here, that makes 2 guys in 3 weeks that I have gone out on dates with in the past that have stopped in or have come to class at the studio.

My coworker asked what his name was, and she told her. She tried to think of his nickname, but couldn’t. The woman said that we had gone out a few months ago. My coworker said that I had been dating someone the past few months (ex man friend) and so it had to be before that. And the woman said that we had gone out once. This is all true. Expect that this guy (whom I called Blender B, cuz he blends all his food together when he eats at home) gave me the creep out vibe. I went out with him once in July and I stress-sweated the entire 2 days before the date, and during the whole date. Ugh. 

Blender B. came in for a minute and my coworker was not impressed. She told them we had a few open spots if they wanted to paint that night. He did not want to, and they left. She laughed and told me the story when I arrived 20 minutes later.

I seriously think it’s time I contemplated moving out of the state. It is clearly not safe for me here any longer. In the past 2 months I have run into 3 guys I have dated, 1 of them while I was hanging out with ex man friend! 2 in Lincoln and 1 in Omaha. I’m done. 

This would happen to me!

To be continued….

Scenes from a fantastic run:

8 miles. ON THE TREADMILL!!! It was a freakin’ fantastic run. Last week’s 7 mile run was pretty rough. I didn’t feel like doing it. But today? I was in the zone. Happy to run, wanted to do it, and felt awesome. I had endorphin’s pulsing through my body and I felt wonderful.

It was a centering and calming run. This is the kind of run that made me remember why I love to run.

Fun Melissa fact: when I run, I do math problems in my head. It occupies my brain and before I know it, a lot of time and distance have passed.  

The above pictures are of the treadmill, then me, post run. There is a lot of back sweat happening there. Lovely. 

Now I’m chilling on the couch and relaxing after my shower. I’m spent!

Happy Sunday Runday friends!

Friday Five

  1. I’m wearing my red today. But didn’t feel like taking a selfie to prove it. You’ll just have to take my word for it, mmmm ‘k? Great. Thanks. I am also someone who is living with a heart issue: I have bicuspid aortic valve. Someday I’ll have to have heart surgery to replace the valve.
  2. I’m working at Corky tonight. Then I have the weekend off: I’m so excited to have 2 whole days off from both jobs!!!!! Next weekend I’m working both Friday (Valentine’s day) and Saturday nights. And I work a double on Saturday. Why yes, yes I will make money off of your love. Don’t mind if I do!
  3. I’m going to go see “The Monuments Men” tomorrow with the ‘rents. I haven’t spent any QT with them for awhile. Should be nice.
  4. I have to run 3 miles tomorrow and 8 on Sunday. Week 5 of my training schedule is going well.
  5. I’m so over winter. I’m seriously contemplating a move to a tropical climate. For Realz. This bone-chilling cold is stupid. Waves white flag in surrender. You win winter, you win.

I’m A Single Female Looking For Her Perfect Match. This Is My Declaration On Dating.

heyjesscole:

I need to make more of a public announcement so that it is extremely clear where I am coming from, and what I am looking for, so that this world can get it right.

Universe, this is me, sending you positive optimism.

me too. Sending out good thoughts and vibes. 

I’m A Single Female Looking For Her Perfect Match. This Is My Declaration On Dating.

Thursday thoughts

Do you guys ever bargain with yourself before or during a run? You know what I mean: do you say, “I’m supposed to run 4 miles today, but I can run 3 instead and then make it up Saturday.” Or “I’m going to run x amount of miles today” but then when it comes time to actually doing it, you bargain yourself down in mileage…just to get it done?

I do it all the time! I actually did my 4 miles today, but I kept telling myself that 3 miles was ok too. 

Um, no it wasn’t Melissa. Just do the miles and get it done. So I did. But I like to make deals with myself. Sigh. It’s a process.

In other news, a friend posted this on her facebook page today and it really resonated with me:

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Whoa dude. There is so much truth in that statement. I have some pretty major issues from being so overweight for a good portion of my life. I started gaining weight in 5th grade and didn’t lose all the weight until I was 29 years old. But I think I will have lasting inner turmoil from that forever. Maybe I need therapy. Who knows. But I do know that as much as it sometimes sucks to run and lift and workout, it sucked a lot more to be 150 pounds heavier.

This morning, in pictures:

  • My car, which I have named Shaniqua, turned over 205,000 miles this morning. Right as I pulled into the parking lot at work. It was pretty cool. 
  • I got to work at 6:30 this morning. That is my first and only cup of Chai Tea Latte. I’ve been working on the Associated Press Awards for our station. They have to be uploaded to youtube and it takes forever to do that during the day when everyone is on the internet. The bandwidth shrinks. When I tried to upload a 2 minute video during the afternoon yesterday it took 1.5 hours. The same video this morning? 5 minutes. No one was on the web at 6:30am!
  • So I didn’t shower this morning. I threw on a hoodie and jeans and rolled out of bed to make it in that early. I feel pretty! (haha!) The hoodie is covering the non-washed hair.
  • I’m leaving around 3pm. <—–That’s AWESOME.
  • I’m going to hit the treadmill for 4 miles and then lift weights.
  • I’ll probably go to bed SUPER early tonight. No regrets.
  • Funny thing? I wake up at 6 every morning in the summer to run. Today? It was so hard! I need sunlight to help wake me up.
  • I discovered voice messages on WhatsApp last night with Brooke. This has totally changed my entire way of communicating with her! I miss talking to her, and this helps. Also, I get to hear my favorite Canadian say “Sorry”. Adorable. And she gets to hear my boy drama, instead of reading it. So much better that way! 
  • Have a great Thursday, or as Tori says, Happy Friday Eve! 🙂