Getting Personal

It's Friday!!!!!
Hallelujah!
And in honor of my favorite day of the week, I'm stealing this idea from this girl and linking up with this girl.
Better late than never, right?

1. If you could do one thing differently in your life, what would it be? I would go back to my freshman year of college and NOT QUIT playing sports. You see, I went from being a big fish in a small pond to a small fish in a bigger pond and I couldn't handle it. I didn't want to sit on the bench in basketball, I didn't like it. I decided I would rather party. I went to school on tennis and volleyball scholarships and made the basketball team.....and I quit them all. Fail.

 

2. Where do you see yourself in 5 years? Still at my same job, just a little bit higher up. A mother to 3. And hopefully nice and thin. :)

 

3. Do you honestly want kids? well, obviously. I never dreamed of being a mom or anything, I was too busy dreaming about playing professional basketball. But I love being a mom when my kids aren't trying to kill each other.

 

4. What has been the best moment of your life so far? The moments spent at home with my family. I waited so long to have a husband that loved me to complete my little family. Now that I have that, I love every second of it.

 

5. What is your life theme song? Baby Got Back. Because no matter how hard I work out, I still got back.

 

6. What is one thing you have yet to accomplish that you want to do before you die? buy a boat, own a rental house, be a role model....oh wait, did you say just one thing? oops. I would have to say before I die, I want to see my kids as successful adults. Not very ambitious, I guess.

 

7. If you could choose one thing to be known for, what would it be? my humor. I love to make people laugh. When I met Holly she said something along the lines of "I never knew you were this funny." It kinda made my year. And it also made me realize that I obviously need to step up my blogging game so people know that I got jokes.

 

8. If you could do anything you wanted right in this very moment (no consequences, no fear, etc), what would it be? go on a 2 week vacation with my family and ALL of my friends. And by "no consequences" we mean that I wouldn't have to pay for it, right? If I had to pay for it then I would choose to run a full marathon. And then I would have no sore legs and no trouble breathing. There would also be no death involved after a couple of miles which is what would happen in reality.

 

9. What has been the most challenging moment in your life? Divorce. Single Motherhood. Knowing I wasn't good enough for someone even though now I know he just wasn't good enough for me.

 

FH does many amazing things for me. But the best thing he did was telling me "I know you can do it all by yourself, but I'm here to tell you that you don't have to anymore." {Yep, he's the best.}

 

10. Summarize yourself in one word. Content. 30 has been good to me. I may not be exactly where I want to be regarding physically, but mentally, emotionally, and every other -ally that you can think of, I'm on top of it. I'm exactly where I need to be right now.

 

 

Sorry for no pictures...I'm feeling lazy.

Hope everyone has an AWESOME weekend!

It's suppose to rain here all weekend so I plan to sleep for 2 days straight. :) Happy Friday!

 

 

 

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Runnin' Sisters

As most of you already know, K&A ran their first 5K on Saturday.
I'm pretty sure K is still recovering.

I had to walk.
Which is not fun.
And my kids beat me.
So needless to say I will be taking a running break for awhile.
I just can't handle being a super slow walker.
We had TONS of fun at the 5K.
My only regret is that I didn't get more pictures.

And then this happened so I had to document it:

And then these three kids forced me and Meredith to take them to lunch out in public....they weren't the least bit embarassed.

After the 5K, we did some shopping.

As in furniture shopping and bike shopping.

We got several pieces of new furniture which I am super excited about. and then FH surprised me and bought me this:

I'm pretty sure he is trying to tell me to quit running so my foot can rest. But either way, I've been wanting a bike so I'm super excited about it. It's so easy to quickly get in 3 or 4 miles on a bike. I know it doesn't burn quite as many calories, but it's just as refreshing as taking a run. Not to mention, my average pace is incredible compared to my running pace. :)

That's all I got for today. I gave up Dr Pepper and Sweet Tea yesterday so I'm shaking for a caffeine fix. and a nap at my desk.

Until next time.....

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Serious Sally

Nobody in the blogging world needs Serious Sally.
Or Positive Patty.
Or Pouting Lora.
So I haven't blogged much this week.
That and I have been swamped at work. Details, details.

So, if you have been following my blog a long time then you deserve a reward then you know that about one week out of every month, I go into non-blogger mode and pout a little. I quickly get over it, thank goodness. Also, if you have been following a long time, then you know why I get this way once every month.

Source

In addition to the normal frustration, I have a hurt foot.
Nothing major, which is annoying because I feel like a crybaby.
But the doctor told me to rest it for a couple of weeks.
Me not working out = Grumpy Gale

Me not working out = today I have on pants that I put at the top of my closet a month or so ago because they were too big. And today they are not too big. {Shoot me now} Chubby Carla.

I'm working hard on getting back on track. Starving Suzy.

And I also know that all my "huge problems" in the big scheme of things are absolutely no big deal. But I watched Teen Mom 2 last night and my inner teenager is dying to complain. Janky Janelle.

In other news, I'm doing a 5K this weekend.
Yes, I understand that directly contradicts what I said earlier about resting my foot.
I'm pretty sure this is why I'm so bummed about my foot.
It's a small race in a little town next to where I live for a little girl who has cancer. TONS of people that I know are doing this 5K and this is my first year to participate. I was REALLY hoping to get a PR and rock it since I haven't done a 5K in a long time, but it looks like I will probably be walking. BUMMER.
K&A will be running it as their first 5K! I'm excited about that.
Running Rita. Walking Wynona.

Also, 3 girls I work with will be there, along with one of my best friends, and Laura, Meredith, Janessa, and Laura.
It should be a good time!
Social Sara.

You should all know that even if I sound like a Whining Willy, I'm actually smiling really big today. The weather is nice, summer is approaching, and I have lots of things to be happy about!! Even if I do have to be in a swimsuit in less than a month.

Hope everybody has a great Hump Day!!!
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Friday Randomness

I am on a Nyquil high.
So this post is going to be random.

I feel like death.

But I'm still at work.

At least it's Friday.

In the last week or so, I have gotten texts/emails about 3 friends that are knocked up. THREE. I am beyond excited for them...but I also feel like sitting with a pouty face in the corner of a room.

I took off work yesterday to go on a field trip. The girls were going to sing the National Anthem at a Redbirds game. And it rained, and rained and rained. I still went and stood in the rain. My sick self paid $10 to park, $16 for a ticket, and stood in the rain freezing. You can imagine how much fun I had.

I have at least 400 emails that I need to respond to....so if you have commented on a blog post, I do love you...I'm just behind. I might respond or I might just delete them all...it just depends on what Nyquil makes me do.

I'm currently breathing through my mouth. This is just so attractive. #mouthbreather

I have eaten everything in sight for the past week.

Which is no good seeing as how I have to be in a bathing suit in 42 days. 42 freaking days!!!

Okay, I guess that's all I got for today....I'm going back to sleep at my desk.

Happy Friday!!!!

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I Got 99 Problems...

These girls, right here:

are the Queens of One Liners.

Some of the things they say, I have no idea where they get them from.

Monday night was their first softball game in the big league.
And Alex was scared.

You see, Alex kinda like her Mom thinks/knows she is good at everything. So she expects everything to come natural to her.

Unfortunately, softball is Kate's jam.
Alex is good too, she's just not as into it as Kate.

Alex was NERVOUS about batting against a little girl pitching {as opposed to a coach pitching like she is use to}.
And I can't say that I blame her.
She didn't even get a chance to bat off one during practice.

She gets up to bat.
And swings at the first three pitches.
Out.
Fail.

Poor thing.
Her head dropped and she walked back to the dugout.
It didn't help any that her sister did really well.

But that's the way life goes sometimes.
She can't be good at everything the first time she tries.
I'm sad that she struck out, but I also appreciate the dose of reality that she got.
Now she knows she has to try harder next time.

She wouldn't talk at all after the game.
FH and I both tried to get her to smile and it wasn't happening.

Then we got into the car, and she randomly said from the backseat:
"I got 99 problems and softball is one of them."

I died.
And she finally laughed.

Life isn't all about hitting the ball, it's more about how you react when you don't. And if she can bust out a one liner like that after a strike out, I'm pretty proud.

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#louie

In case you have been living under a rock, I went to St Louis this past weekend to torture myself with 13 miles.

To sum up the weekend in one word: AMAZING.
To sum up the race in one word: TORTURE.

Friday night, I met up with Holly, Ashley, Mel, and Laura-who-doesn't-have-a-blog-YET.
I'm not gonna lie, I was nervous.
I felt like I was going on an online date.
Which I kind of was.
These girls were amazing.
I have no words.
Never did I think I could make such awesome friends via the interwebs, but it's true. I did.
We laughed and drank and talked and danced and took pictures.
Like bloggers do.

excuse my evil eyes.

Saturday morning, FH woke up sick.

Which was no fun.

I felt really bad for him so I let him sleep while I went to the mall.

Did I mention that Laura picked a hotel that was within walking distance of the mall? Well played, Laura.

It felt so amazing outside that I even busted out a pair of shorts.

Then around lunchtime, Laura and Meredith got there.

I already knew both of these girls but I was excited to get to spend some more time with them.

We headed to meet everybody for lunch.
And then to pick up our race packets at the Expo.

At this point, I was still in denial that I was running 13 miles the next day.

We all went to Mel's house to hang out that night.

Can I just tell you that after going to Mel's house, I felt like I should go home and head straight to the nearest home interior person and have them come decorate my house for me?
Her house is amazing and her closet is the size of my bedroom.

It was so much fun to hang out with everybody, even though poor FH was still stuck in the hotel.

And now.....the race.

WARNING: This race recap might make me look like a wimp, there were emotions all over the place.

We had to be up super early for the race.

I was a wreck.

I quickly realized that I didn't have breakfast and the hotel breakfast wasn't open yet.

All of my race shirts made me look like a chubster, and notice the pic above, I was running with a bunch of hotties.

And I didn't know where to tell FH to go for the race or what time to be there.

I cried. Stupid girl tears.

I was just so stressed and scared and retarded.

FH-bless him.

He just hugged me when he probably should have laughed at me.

I kind of got it together and went to meet Laura and Meredith.

And we were off.

We all started the race together.

Holly and I planned on staying together since we figured we were around the same pace runners.

Wrong.

Don't listen to Holly when she talks about not being a runner, she left me in her dust.

I got shin splints on mile one. Mile freaking one, y'all.

I could feel tears building up because my legs hurt so badly and I had 12 more miles to go. Not to mention I did NOT want to slow Holly down.

Towards the end of mile 2, I finally realized that I needed to just let Holly go. {that sounds so dramatic}

But I knew what pace she wanted and I knew with those shin splints, I couldn't keep up.

I walked some, I ran some, and I walked some more.

Somewhere along mile 4 or so, my shinsplints went away.

There was a Taco Bell on mile 5 and you better believe I would have stopped if it would have been open.

It wasn't fun for me.

I felt horrible because I didn't train.

I know I am a better runner than that.

And the whole time I was thinking about how much better I could have ran if I was more prepared.

But I just kept going.

I got a drink at almost every single water station.

Miles 6-8 are famously known as the Holy Hill.

I'm gonna be honest, I was terrified of that hill.

But then, I quickly realized that the entire race was hills and nothing but hills. I'm not even playing. I have no idea how we never went downhill. The finish line must have been on top of a mountain.

I knew FH was going to be somewhere along the race, I just didn't know where. I did NOT want to miss him.

He was following me the entire time with the Find Friends App so I knew he would know exaclty where I was. I stayed right in the center the whole time because I wanted to be able to see both sides of the street so I didn't miss him.

I saw him on mile 7.

I cried again.
I told y'all this was a ridiculously emotional race for me. #loser

This made my entire day.
Seeing him with this sign put the biggest, stupidest grin on my face for about the next 3 miles.

Next time I run, I'm going to make sure he shows up at each mile marker with a different sign. It will help me A LOT.

I also saw these two cool kids.

Thank goodness I ran so fast by them that they couldn't get a picture of me......

And that sign, well in case you are wondering, #louie was the hashtag of the weekend.
Most of you know, I was hoping to make an out of town baby.
Mel told me if I did then I had to name him Louie.
And Holly told us that had to be the hashtag of the weekend, so now you know. #louie We laughed tons over this.

Mile 11, something popped in my foot.
I almost died.
I couldn't run at all after that.
I know the people behind me would have been laughing if they weren't dying themselves.
But I would try to run, get like 3 steps and stop.
I cried it hurt so badly.
I seriously considered stopping to talk to a medic when I saw one.
But I was scared that something was seriously wrong and I didn't want to not finish.

So I basically walked the last two miles.
Which was so dissappointing.
But I'm proud that I finished.
I saw FH again right before the finish line.
He's such a good husband, his phone went dead because he followed me the entire time.

The good news is, no matter how slow you are, you still get a medal.
And a 13.1 sticker will still go on my car.
I finished in 2 hours and 58 minutes, which I think is horrible.
But I'm proud that I made it in under 3 hours.
I had a tough time mentally and physically, so just finishing was an accomplishment.

After I had a tiny rest, we went to meet the gang for lunch.

Can I just tell y'all that after walking before the race and after the race, I swear I deserve a 26.2 sticker. We walked TONS.

I'm still recovering from the race.
My foot is not great, but I don't think it is bad enough to go the doctor but I can't be sure.

All-in-all, that was a super fun trip!
But I must tell the StL girls that next time, I'll be the one holding the sign and not running. :)

I couldn't have asked for a better weekend!

But I was glad to get home to these little (big) girls finally.

If you made it to the end of this post, thanks for the dedication. I know it was a long one. And if you no longer want to follow me because I was an emotional wreck because of a few miles, no hard feelings.

Happy Tuesday Everybody!!!

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Roadtrippin'

The time is finally here.
St Louis Roadtrip!

The top 5 reasons that I'm super excited:

1. FH time. I love my husband but I hardly get to see him enough. See also: there will never be enough. So I'm ridiculously excited about our 4 hour car ride together.

2. Blates! I'm meeting several new bloggers this weekend and hanging with some I already know. I'm beyond excited about this.

3. I'm gonna run a little race....this is not as exciting as #1 and #2.

4. I will finally have a 13.1 sticker for my car. This was a goal of mine for 2013....and since I haven't been doing great on some other goals (get skinny, get knocked up) I am happy to finally mark one off my list.

5. Out of town romance could equal bun in oven? Maybe. Cross your fingers cause nothing says romance like a hotel room.

Top 5 things that are stressing me out:

1. FH is sick-ish. Hopefully he will shake it off soon.

2. I have to work today, an entire day without leaving early. This is difficult for me on any given Friday, but really really difficult for me when a roadtrip is waiting.

3. I packed everything I own but I'm still afraid I forgot something. If I accidentally on purpose forget my tennis shoes do I get out of the race?

4. The race is super early. Which means that we have to be up super early which means we can't stay up late Saturday night. Vacations should not have bedtimes. Period.

5. I'm not going to want to leave on Sunday....there may or may not be a person sitting at my desk come Monday morning.

I'm still in denial that I'm actually running 13 miles on Sunday.
No big deal.

When I signed up for the half, I calculated my time and realized that I had to run a 14 minute mile in order to finish before the time limit of 3 hours. {I'm not sure if there is a time limit on this race, but I know some of them have it and I would DIE of embarassment if I finished after the time was up.}

I remember texting my BFF and telling her that I just have to average 14 minutes, I think I can do that.
This shows you how long I have been running.
Not. Very. Long.
Well, I've been running forever. But not consistently. And not long distances. And obvs not very fast.

Since then, I have gotten to about an average of a 10-ish minute mile.
I know this isn't super fast for many of you, but I'm okay with it.
My goal is to finish, and not die.
Honestly, I would like to finish in about 2 & 1/2 hours.
But seeing as how I haven't ran in like 3 or 4 weeks, I have no clue how I will do.
I'm also super competitive so I might just kill myself trying to finish.
I can run another half one day and then I will worry about time.
But for this one, I just want to be able to say I finished.

Make sure you follow me on Instagram (@MrsLoYoung) to get a ridiculous amount of updates. Twitter is not normally my jam, but you can follow me there too since most of my IG stuff goes on there. Same username.

I will probably be taking a nap around about mile 6 so I will have a few minutes to update my social media. And then, if my time is crappy, I can blame it on my nap and my social media addiction. I might even throw in a bathroom break just so I have plenty of excuses.

If anyone lives in or near StL and knows a shortcut for the race, please let me know. Holly and I will be looking to jump a fence or two. And because of that, I will leave you with this comment that Holly left me regarding the race....it has given me nightmares ever since.

 ........And not to scare you before Sunday, but there is a three mile HILL.

Who's excited?!

Happy Fun Friday!!!!

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For some reason, everytime I have beef with someone, I picture myself the hot chick on Step Up saying "Let's take it to the streets!"

Can't we just do a dance off to figure out our problems?
Yes please, Channing Tatum, we can.

Yesterday I.....

-wrote a blog post when I was really mad. And then I deleted it. Sorry if you missed it. It was good stuff. Truth be told, I make this blog into a book each year, for my kids to have for when they're older. And yes, I want them to see different sides of their mom, but they do not need to see unnecessary things. So it was deleted.

-was accused of lying on my blog. First off, if you don't like my blog, you shouldn't read it. Second off, get real. I didn't lie. In case you MISREAD what I wrote yesterday about the Easter bunny and then went and ran and blabbed it to my ex, you should know that he did in fact get them something for Easter. I NEVER SAID HE DIDN'T. In fact, I think he is an awesome Dad, truth be told. Not a great human, but a great dad. I was simply telling y'all exactly what happened: Kate called me and said that the Easter bunny didn't come, and that her Dad told her that he might have gone to my house. End of story.

-talked myself out of working out. It's sad y'all. I have this retarded fear that I am going to hurt myself before Sunday and not be able to run in my half. This isn't exactly that crazy, because I have old lady bones and if I run too much my legs start to die, which I don't want to happen. But there's a difference between "too much running" and "none at all".

-I taught my Mom how to block someone from showing up in her news feed on fb. (Well, actually this was today, not yesterday, but same diff.) It was very useful knowledge that I was happy to share with my mom. And now her news feed is happy.

-I went to softball practice last night with my body guard (FH) so that if the ex was still hatin' on me, I had protection. But then again, I should have realized that he would NEVER say that junk to my face, he just likes to put in on FB for the world to see.

-I dressed up for work. Like in an actual dress. It was strange. And now it won't happen again for at least another month or two.

-I reserved our cabin for Spring River. You can read about our trip last year here. We go every year and we LOVE it! It is so much fun and I am so excited to go back soon. As much as I am DYING to get a bun in my oven, I'm pretty sure my BFF LA is okay with me not getting one in my oven until after this trip. Nobody needs a pregnant lady on a raft.

-I also had one of those moments (cue the song:"You find out who your Friends are"). There are people in life who are reliable...and then there are people in life that you can never count on to do what they say they will do. Because nothing makes me crazier than having someone say they will do something and then back out. EVERY. SINGLE. TIME. It just gets old.

Despite not having a spectacular day yesterday, I'm actually in a great mood! It might just have something to do with the fact that my man and I are going on a roadtrip this weekend....and who doesn't love a good road trip?? Who lives close to StL and wants to come cheer us across the finish line?? FH might need help carrying me back to the car.....

Happy Tuesday y'all! May the odds be ever in your favor. :) Pin It Now!

Easter Weekend

Any holiday that we have without kids is just not as entertaining.
It's true.

The girls were with their dad all weekend but FH and I managed to have a good time enjoying each other.

Sunday morning, I got a call from Kate. She asked if the Easter bunny came to my house. She said  "Daddy said that since he didn't come to his house, he probably came to yours."

Thanks for that, Baby Daddy. Thanks a lot.

So off we went to Walmart after church. Nothing like the last minute.

The girls actually ended up coming home early so they could do some family stuff with us for Easter. I was really excited about that.

As soon as they ran in the door, Alex stopped BEFORE seeing her Easter swag to say "Man, you look handsome!" to FH.

And then she decided to change clothes so she could match him.
I swear, that girl really does think that she is his wife and not me.

And good ole Kate is just like her Momma.
As soon as we get done with church, we throw off the dress and get into something comfy.

Please note ugly HORRIBLE heely shoes that I wish would get lost somewhere.

We ate tons of food. TONS.
I have no idea why I have kids that don't like candy that much, but it really affects me since I LOVE candy. They always hand it over almost immediately.

What they were most excited about was the GIANT $10 freaking bag of beef jerky that they got from the Easter bunny. They looooove beef jerky.

Once we got home, FH and I hid eggs for them to hunt for.
I would say 50% of the eggs had money in them so they were stoked.

And we thought about making them hide them so we could find them, but it was getting late so we were running out of time.

Can you see the excitement?
This is because they could see eggs but I told them not to touch any until I took a pic.

A great weekend with family....and now I'm looking forward to the next weekend because we are going to St Louis.

Remember that time I ran a half without training for it?
Oh yeah, that's less than a week away.
I sure do hope I survive long enough to put my 13.1 sticker on my car!

Hope everybody had a great weekend!!!
Happy Monday!
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