Love This Photo

I absolutely enjoy this photo. Every time I look at it, I smile. I took it back in April of 2009, on the day before Good Friday, to be exact. I was in Washington D.C., with C's mother. We we were walking around the White House block, and came across pots of tulips. My smaller digital camera has a setting where I can accent colors, devoiding the picture of other colors. That's what I did with these tulips. That is the exact color of them. I someday want to get a larger size of this printed to hang in my house.

I remember that trip like it was yesterday. We drove down to Washington D.C. first, spent a night there before driving down to where C was at, at the time. It's where he's headed back to in just a few short months. I do look forward to going back to Washington D.C., as I love it out there. I love where he's headed, too. What's funny about that trip is that the day we drove down to meet him on Good Friday, it was so warm and nice out. And then the next 3 days it was so cold! It was like we had never left this state during that time.

Pictures like this, though, are what remind me that I need to continue taking photographs, continue editing them. It is something that I enjoy doing- capturing moments in time, and then playing around with Photoshop.

C25K!

(Couch to 5K)

It's a program that I heard about a few months ago, but really didn't pay much attention to it until January. I purchased an App for it on my iTouch, but then didn't use it. Until tonight. It's set up so that my music playlits will play as I run. And speaking of running, I start out at a brisk walk for a 5-minute warm-up, and then I run for 60 seconds, walk for 90, and repeat that for 20 minutes. Then I have another 5-minute cool down, and I am finished. As I progress through the 9 week program, it will gradually intensify.

I honestly enjoyed it tonight. I have a few goals of where I want to be in just a few months time, including running a 5k. After I have mastered that, then I want to run a 10k, then a mini, and eventually a marathon. Running a marathon has been something I have told myself every year, "I am going to do that this year!" Now, I actually will. After running, I came home and did some strength training on the Wii.

I aced my two quizzes tonight for one of my two online classes. I had a rough week last week where I didn't do as stellar as every other chapter quiz I have taken. I was disappointed in myself, beating myself up over it. I usually take the quiz right after I finish reading the chapter, but this time I waited a few days, and by then I didn't remember the material completely. So it is my own fault, but I was still frustrated with myself.

I'm going to end this post here, considering I want to do a photo post in a second. I didn't want to include it in this post. Lame ending, I know. :)

This Is It

I've decided to share a blog with anyone who would like to keep in touch. My original thought process was to give up Facebook for Lent (still doing that, by the way), give up sweets, and read the Bible more. I don't think giving up Facebook will be hard. Sweets, on the other hand could very well be hard, considering I do enjoy baking. I do think that giving up the Internet in general would be a great idea, but unfortunately, I am taking two online classes that require a lot of things done online (research, quizzes, "meetings").

Plus, I want to continue with this after Lent ends.

I think this blog will be a rambling at times, it will be filled with the things that I bake, the pictures that I take, the projects that I make.

Okay, the first two I didn't intend to rhyme. The last one was intended after seeing the first two. :)

I always take pride in what I bake-unless it's a disaster and then I'm wondering what went wrong. I hesitate sometimes to show the world the projects that I make, but I know that I should not be ashamed of the things I create.

Just Go With It

I finally ordered a new phone.  WOOT!

Well, it's newer to me anyways. Here is a backstory on my phone. I've had it two years this coming May. I really liked it when I first got it, but over the course of the last year (it was last February that I first noticed something was wrong), it has gone down hill rapidly. To begin with, it will randomly shut itself off every so often if I text someone. I don't understand it. The major problem though is something internal. I noticed last February that my battery life was dwindling. What used to take me a day or two to run out of battery without being on the charger now was lasting a day. Or less. So I went to a Verizon store and got a new battery (free of charge). All I had to do was replace the battery with the bad one and mail it back. I did that, and it still did not get any better.

So, I began really noticing that if I even took it off the charger just for a couple of hours, it would be dying soon. I timed it once where I managed to last 50 minutes with it before it needed to be charged. Then I went to see my boyfriend (C) in December, and when I got back in January, it was dying within a few minutes.I rarely go anywhere WITH my phone anymore. I couldn't find a car charger for it, so I decided to wait it out.

However, I am so frustrated with it. You know, we once went without cell phones. And for the most part, I do alright without it. It just worries me that if I go someplace long distance that something might happen. I don't need anything like a data plan or apps on my phone, because I have my iTouch, and it seriously has everything on it that I need. So I ordered just a phone, and yes it's about a year older. Like I just mentioned, I really don't need a lot for a phone. I used to have Internet on the phone that I do now, and I think I've used it maybe 3-4 times. If that. Plus, it was hard to read, everything was so small. I couldn't touch the zoom button without touching another button on the screen.

I did trade one piece of technology for the other. I'm not on my iTouch all the time, either.  So I'll be fine.