Last week I was home all week for thanksgiving break and it was amazing! I loved being home, but it was hard to come back to finals...
Over thanksgiving break I hung out with some awesome friends, ate lots of amazing food, and spent time with the family!
On Wednesday I was able to catch up with old friends from high school! Me jessica, anne, and kat went to qdoba (which i hadnt had since our last off campus together) Then Wednesday night Chris came home!
Then on Thursday I was up bright and early to run the turkey trot! Chris drove me down there and there were tons of people with dogs, kids, etc. Two people even got married right before they ran the race (that is way too much of a love of running!) There were 40,000 people there so my start was slow. Overall though I ran 8 miles in about 57:00 minutes and averaged about 7:12 miles for each mile! It was preety good I just wanted to make it a good hard long run, but not over extend myself, I was pretty happy with my time. Then it was TURKEY TIME! I picked up three of my teammates from Norway and off we went to my house for Thanksgiving. Monika, Siljie, and Kristine came over for thanksgiving and it was lovely to hear about their lifestyle in Norway! Monika told me the next day that her stomach hurt from laughing so hard at thanksgiving! Im so happy I have a family that I can bring friends over to and have them be entertained, it makes me happy!
BLACK FRIDAY: So the family woke up and all went to do their workouts for the day. Dad and Chris went to the gym, mom did her knee exercises and tredmill, and I did my abs and bike! I feel like we are becoming such an athletic family! Just wait, by next summer I see the whole family doing a 5k together!
Looking like this im sure...just kidding :)Then after that me and mom went SHOPPING! We went to target first and I found two pairs of jeans that actually fit me! Shocking I know! We also went shopping at grapevine mills mall on tuesday and we both found stuff there. Then we went to DSW and mom found these boots she has been looking forever for! Later that night we went to the mall and shopped also. We didnt get too much but we did get some good essentials. Next shopping extravaganza will be for christmas presents and then after that we have to shop for RUSH in January :)
Saturday we watched the Arkansas game and had people over for chili and ham and beans (AKA one of my favorite meals) It was fun to catch up with people! Sunday we went to church and then I studied for the rest of the day then went back to school! We also took Christmas card pictures!
Monday: Track practice started this morning, it didnt feel much different than cross country practice though, not yet at least.
Tuesday: Track practice was 2 sets of 12 minute hard runs. Since I am doing the 5k and 10k in track this season, I better get used to LONGGG intervals! Then tuesday afternoon we had weights! I like doing weights now because I can actually see a difference in how I look now! I actually have muscle its not just skin and bones anymore! yay! I even do extra weights at practice now, more than coach tells us to do! That must mean I like it! Tuesday night was our small groups Christmas party!
Wednesday: school, sleep, homework - typical day. Wednesday night though we had a rush meeting and found out everything we needed to know about rush week including what to wear and times and what to expect! Unfortunatly though I found out me and three other girls will miss the first indoor track meet because of rush...it could hurt our chances of qualifying for other meets. If we run in more meets the better chance we have to get a time that will allow us to qualify so missing the first meet (its two meets in two days actually) could hurt possible qualifying times. Coach casey seemed understanding, but the head coach, Coach Wellman was not happy! We just have to prove to him our priorities are track, not sorority! But that can and will be done!
Thursday: wow what a day! I went to track practice, which was a 55 minute run with sprints every 5 minutes. On our way back from the run, in the van, my ears started to itch. I just thought, I guess I havnt cleaned them out in a while. Then my arms started to itch really bad! I then thought I must have washed it in different detergent that i am allergic to. Then my arms started to break out into hives, which quickly spread to the rest of my body! By the time we got back to campus my body was covered head to toe in hives! I went straight to the trainer and he immediately gave me a bennedryl and sent me to the health center. By this point my coach said my face started to swell especially my eyes! I was kinda scared at this point because I hadn't eaten or ran somewhere different than I usually do! I went to the health center and the nurse had to watch me to make sure my throat didnt close up. They tried to determine what caused it, but we couldn't figure it out! Then I got a steroid shot in the butt and after an hour I was all better! Praise the Lord! Because that was painful, I had never been so uncomfortable in my life! But im all better now! I had a test today and had my last tuesday/ thursday classes of the semester. For the next week (until next thursday) my life will be consumed with studying, running, libraries, coffee, writing papers, and all the other fun stuff that comes before finals...yay! I dont know when I will update next definantly after next Thursday though because that is when 2 of my three finals will be done and all my papers will be turned in!
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