Snapshots of an Ordinary Woman: Thoughts on a Friday

Friday, November 7, 2008

Thoughts on a Friday

Hello dear readers...what a wonderful Friday it is. It's gorgeously sunny outside and freakishly warm. Hard to believe it's November 7th! I'm just waiting for next week though when the snow will probably hit!

1. I have had a wonderful week, mostly because of the weather and my running is going strong. I found out a few days ago from the coach that all my hard work has paid off. I may still be slightly slower than the rest of the team (but my goal isn't to be a champion, just to finish!) HOWEVER, I found out I'll be running in the first meet of the indoor season! Which means I made the roster and am officially part of the team. I am so excited, I never thought I could be a NCAA Division ! athlete and now the prospect of running a 1000 m race (what they are thinking of putting me in) gives me another level of motivation to focus on. I'm not running past things anymore, I'm running towards something... and it's wonderful.
2. I'm contemplating quitting one of my jobs. I have planned on doing so for next semester (granted I get the loan money I'm expecting) but I almost can't wait. I just want to walk out right now and not come back. There's too much drama and gossip here. I'm starting to really hate the attitudes, mainly because they put me is such a crappy mood. If only I could afford life... Keep persevering, isn't that what I always tell myself? Not much longer...

Well, that's about what is on my mind today... besides being extremely smiley, I'm just enjoying my days right now, one at a time.

Have a wonderful weekend!

1 comment:

Anonymous said...: So happy for you :o) I'm glad new things are happening for you and you deserve them...and most of all, you deserve to be HAPPY. Congrats...and King Leonidous is a STUD! :o) you go girl!; November 24, 2008 at 12:46 PM

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Defining Quotes

"My life can only ever be a lesson to me. The four key things that it has taught me thus far:
After night comes day.
After death comes life.
Even at your darkest time look around because you are never really alone.
You are loved."
-Pack up the Moon

"Forget what happened before, and DO NOT think about the past. Look at the new thing I am GOING to do. It is already happening. Don't you see it?"
-Isaiah 43:18

"I am your refuge and your strength. Even though the earth gives way and the mountains fall into the heart of the sea, do not fear. I am an ever present help in trouble."
Psalm 46:1-3

"But pain is hard to put into words and in life there is always pain. It's natural as birth or death. Pain makes us who we are, it teaches us and tames us, it can destroy us and it can save. We all have regrets--Some tragedies are of our doing and then sometimes things happen that are out of this world's control and when it happens, it can take our breath away.
Happiness is a gift. It washes its warmth over us and reminds us of beauty."
-Pack up the Moon

"I am dying from grief; my years are shortened by sadness. Misery has drained my strength; I am wasting away from within. But I am trusting you, O Lord, saying. 'You are my God!' My future is in your hands."
-Psalm 31:10, 14-15

"There's nothing better than adversity. Every defeat, every heartbreak, every loss contains its own seed, its own lesson on how to improve."
- Og Mandino

"I went into the woods because I wanted to live deliberately. I wanted to live deep and suck out all the marrow of life... to put to rout all that was not life; and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. "
-Henry David Thoreau

"Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this: The unfailing love of the Lord never ends!"
-Lamentations 3:21

A Runner

I am a passionate about running.
It is in my soul.

"The race is not always to the swift, but to those who keep on running."
-Nike running poster

"I ran to be free; I ran to avoid pain; I ran to feel pain; I ran our of love and hate and anger and joy."
-DAGNY SCOTT

"Happiness is different from pleasure. Happiness has something to do with struggling and enduring and accomplishing."
-GEORGE SHEENAN

"Learn to run when feeling the pain: then push harder."
-WILLIAM SIGEI

"Out on the roads there is fitness and self-discovery and the persons we were destined to be."
-DR. GEORGE SHEEHAN

"If you want to become the best runner you can be, start now. Don't spend the rest of your life wondering if you can do it."
-PRISCILLA WELCH

"Let me tell you something you already know. The world is a mean and nasty place and it will beat you to your knees and keep you there permanently if you let it. You, me, or nobody is gonna hit as hard as life. But it ain't how hard you hit; it's about how hard you can get hit and keep moving forward. How muc you can take and keep moving forward. That's how winning is done. Now, if yo uknow what you're worth then go out and get what you're worth. But you gotta be willing to take the hit and not pointing fingers saying you ain't wher eyo uare because of him, or her, or anybody."
-ROCKY BALBOA

"You were born to run. Maybe not that fast, maybe not that far, maybe not as efficiently as others. But to get up and move, to fire up that entire energy-producing, oxygen-delivering, bone-strengthening process we call running."
-FLORENCE GRIFFITH JOYNER and JON HANC

"Running is a thing worth doing not because of the future rewards it bestows, but because of how it feeds our bodies and minds and souls in the present."
-KEVIN NELSON

"Running is elementary. It is elegant in its simplicity."
-JOHN BINGHAM, The Courage To Start

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