I can’t believe it but I ran today. I have been meaning to start like everyday for the past month but today was the day. Michael and I ran a little over 4 miles total, with some stairs mixed in. I am so out of shape I can’t believe I was able to do that much, I almost passed out going up the stairs to the apartment though. There is nothing like really feeling the workout!

The next marathon is in June and I really want to finish quick…no more almost 6 hour marathons for me. I would like to do it in 4 hours, I would be very happy with myself if I could do that. Then I would like to do the Portland marathon in 3.5 hours, that is in October.

It is super cold here in Seattle today but earlier the sky was blue and the sun was shining so that made me super happy. I only need three things to have an amazingly happy day, the people I love, running and bright weather.

I am taking a quick break from my learning at the moment…I am sitting by the heater and it is putting me to sleep. Nothing like a little blogging to wake me up!

I really love tackling things and this .Net seems like a pretty fun thing to tackle at the moment. I keep trying to think of it more as something I want to do than something I need to do. It’s hard though because I really want to learn CSS and PHP right now, not so much the .Net. I want to learn stuff I can use right now in my own projects and I can’t think of anything I would want to make myself using .Net.

Okay back to the books…

Michael and I drove up to Seattle last night after a quick pit stop at Target to buy Chess and Boggle. I pretty much suck at Chess which is why I wanted to get it. I want to rule Chess. Chess is a game I feel like I could become really passionate about.

Boggle on the other hand is just super fun. It was $14 which I thought was a little steep but it’s fun so what the heck. I love playing games.

We played Rook the other day and that game seems super confusing but I also see it becoming lots of fun once we learn how to play properly. Plus it has all these creepy sayings on the box and that makes me even more intrigued by it.

In other news, I am reading this article from the November Wired about Atheism and I’m thinking I will have some opinions about it once I finish it. Writers can paint a story anyway they want, they are writing it after all and I kinda think this story might be painted in the wrong light…we’ll see.

Michael and I are getting married this summer! It’s amazing and wonderful and so exciting and I will write something truly amazing about it later but I just want everyone to know that it happened, we got engaged, and we plan to be married on our ten year anniversary which is August 25th… yaay! We’re headed off to Seattle right now and I will write more real soon! Hope everyone had a wonderful and happy holiday! I know I did!

Michael’s parents gave us the ring…Herm bought it for Marlee when she was sixteen! So not only is it real pretty but with it comes all the good vibes from Herm and Marlee’s happy 41 years of marriage.

Lets start with something funny…
Scenario: Everyone tasting some fun-size snickers, the dark chocolate variety.
Me: chew, chew, chew, bleh! “These taste like ass!”
Michael’s sweet and proper never cursing Mom: laughing “How much ass have you tasted Laycie?”

The holidays are a special time of year, a time of giving and a time of being with people you love and having lots of fun. We always have lots of fun with Michael’s family and this year is no exception. Usually Michael and I pick up my family and go out to his parents but since Katie got her license she picked up my mom and Kendel instead.

They arrived first and thought they’d play a nice little joke on me. Last year my youngest sister Kendel didn’t come to Christmas and I was really mad, so this year when I walked in and didn’t see her I tried my best not to freak out. I quietly asked Katie where she was and accepted the fact she skipped out again.

I noticed this huge present by the tree and it made me very curious. Katie tells me it’s from her and that I should open it now. I told her that I wanted to wait ’till it was present time but she wasn’t having it so I pulled the paper off and my little Kendel jumped up to hug me. Now that is what Christmas is all about…playing emotional tricks on those you love. I told Katie that it was a total toss up after I asked her where Kendel was, I don’t know why I chose to pretend I was unaffected when I just as easily could have started screaming too. Oh such fun!

I have a new camera to play with now, Michael’s parents got me the wonderful Canon Digital Elph that I have been wanting…it’s so neat-o! I also got some new speakers for the Jeep thanks to my love and now I can listen to some cool tunes on my drive to Seattle on Wednesday morning, yaay! Not that having blown speakers stopped me from listening to music but now I can do the music justice.

I gave Michael a remote control Volkswagen Bus and watching him play with it was hilarious. You can plug your iPod into it too. It’s just too much. Oh the things you can find to blow money on, all for a laugh. Michael’s sister got a red Nano and now i want one too, but green of course, I mean of course!

After the Holidays comes the new year. When I think of this new year ahead I can’t help but reflect on the one that is almost over. This has been a crazy year for me…a big mistake, a death in the family, deciding to go back to school and to top it off Michael and I got engaged!

Yes more youtubing I have been doing…This time I am in love with Natalie Portman. She is so freakin’ cute and this skit made me laugh so freakin’ hard. I promise this is the last video I will post, haha.

I know I’m not the only youtuber over here…don’t even try to pretend you aren’t addicted too.

If you can’t see it click HERE. You have to watch this though, it’s awesome!!

Okay so I am totally in love with Justin Timberlake after seeing him play the piano and sing on SNL, but then i found this skit he did and I laughed my a$$ off. It just reminds me of the late 80’s/ early 90’s and I think its super funny.

Yeah you know what I’m doing to procrastinate…Can’t hide the truth, haha.

Nothing amazing to report today but that never stops me from writing. I’m going to help a friend get her iBook updated with all the goodies she needs to make her life wonderful. I had to really dig to find all the discs I needed because there is just way too much stuff in the dvd/cd box.

Things like that just stress me out, big piles of crap that need to be gone through…yuck. Anyways so that’ll be fun, I have never done this on my own since my boyfriend is a computer hog. He actually told me last night that I should just wait for him to come home and we could go do it together, haha. yeah right. I need to start doing everything myself now that I am officially a computer science student again. When I dropped out it was okay for me to just let him do everything but now it is just unacceptable.

Anyway, I kinda wish that I didn’t get so burnt out on all this programming stuff because now that I haven’t done it in so long I just feel like a big dummy. I looked at my transcript and I got A’s in these classes but I don’t even remember what I learned, I mean it comes back pretty quick but gee, I wish it was a little more burned into my brain.

Christmas is coming up so soon, it’s weird because I don’t even have a tree this year. I am normally the Queen of Christmas and this year I feel like the grinch sorta. I’m broke, have way too much crap to get done and I’m broke. Not the makings of an awesome holiday for me. It’s cool though, next Christmas will be amazing because if all goes right I will be done with school and hopefully have a job.

Speaking of jobs…I have been looking into the FBI again. I watched The X-Files and always wanted to be Agent Scully, not just because of Mulder either, but you have to work for 3 years professionally before you can apply. barf. I don’t know, sometimes I just feel like I want some exciting dramatic job since my life is so anti-drama. Special Agent Laycie Davis, yeah that sounds pretty cool. I am special too!

I would also love to be a Paramedic but seeing as I am going to fry my brain trying to finish this CS degree I should probably try to do something with it ;)