Birthdays! Birthdays! Birthdays!

No...no...it's not my birthday, but when you are a teacher it feels like it is somebodies birthday every day. At my school, I feel like there are constantly cupcakes, or cookies, or brownies (okay, so I don't like brownies so those don't matter) in the work room leftover from someone's birthday or class event. Today, the day I decided to dive head first into my training and new goals, was no exception. Cupcakes....of all things...mini cupcakes. You know how those mini cupcakes are. They're so tiny and they make you think, "well they're not as big as a regular cupcake so one won't hurt". Of course after you have one, or at least after I have one, I think "well that was delicious, they're still so small and two is still probably less than one normal cupcake, right?....okay...yeah...I'll have two". So, long story short....I had two mini cupcakes.

two mini cupcakes...totally smaller than a regular cupcake....I think
I'm pretending that they're vanilla and I would actually eat them.
(I know call me crazy for not liking chocolate...everybody does)

Not the best start to my day, but I did actually go for a run after school today. Along with being super productive around the apartment instead of sitting on Pinterest. Speaking of Pinterest, I found a 1/2 marathon training program that I liked, but decided I needed to tweak it since it was only a 12 week program. Hello....not a runner here...definitely need more than 12 weeks to find a way to make my body run 13.1 miles without dying. Completely understanding that I have no idea what I am doing, decided to create my own year long training program, allowing some wiggle room for my 10 day vacation to Ireland this summer (YAY! YAY! YAY! YAY! YAY! Can you tell I'm excited???). 

Today I started out by finding my sneakers buried in my car, no really they've been there for a few weeks. Once I found those I head to the gym with T (the boyfriend). I do much better when he is there because I can't just skip out after 5 minutes, which is what I wish I could do almost every time. I used to hate and refuse to do anything on the treadmill except for walk, but I'm starting to do better with it now. Plus the ones at our gym have the TV attached so I can watch HGTV or TLC. I did 2 miles today on the treadmill with 3:00 minutes of running and 1:00 of walking. It took me a little less than 30 minutes. Not my best time, but I haven't run in about 2 weeks and I am always slower on the treadmill, but it was toooooo cold. I hate the cold, I hate being in the cold, so obviously I am not about to go for a run in the cold by choice. 

It's not the best start, but it's a start. A start is better than nothing, right? Here's to continuing that start.

Side note...I hope everyone is watching the Bachelor tonight. I'm not a huge fan of any of his last three choices, but am anxiously awaiting his decision for his final two. I know, it is trashy TV and even though the relationships NEVER work, I love it.