Wowza

Wowza.  I have a lot going on right now.  The end of the semester is quickly approaching, which means that assignments are quickly piling up.  I have set a self-inflicted dealine of Thursday to get 2 pretty major assignments done.  I would like to report that one (my Staffing Process Design) is complete and turned in!  Still working on the other (Supervision Style analysis)... Hopefully I can get most of it done tonight.  Luckily I have been doing a lot of reflecting this semester on my supervision style (thank you poorly performing employees!).

He isn't really open about it, but my dad just lost his job.  After all the scare this fall with my mom's job, this is truly devastating to our family.  It is such unfortunate timing with the wedding, Chase's graduation and leaving for college, and the car accident (see later in post).  It is never good to lose your job, but this really sucks.  He has some prospects, but we will see.  We are trying our best to make sure that this unfortunate turn of events does not affect the great time to be had by all (at the wedding and graduation), but it may affect some things like hosting a bar.  Unfortunately when life gives you lemons, you cannot make a bottle of wine or a keg of beer with it.

Bridal shower hosted by one of Josh's aunts is this weekend.  I will be heading down to Sioux Falls on Friday to do some girl-time bonding.  Exciting!  Which reminds me, my parents got in a car accident this weekend and are currently borrowing my car.  A motorcycle two cars in front of them blew their transmission and caused my parents to hit the car in front of them (the cars were attached).  No word yet on the status of the car or insurance claim.  It could be interesting. This is good practice for when Josh and I will be a one vehicle household!

On a personal note, I have decided to share something with you to help hold myself accountable.  I am running a 5k in June to raise money for the ALS Association.  This means that I am currently on a 5k training plan.  Simple, you say?  I HATE RUNNING!  But I am doing it.  Fighting ALS is a cause that is very close to my heart, Josh's grandma passed away from it a few years ago.  So I can run to support this cause.  Notice how much I have to tell myself I can do it... trying to psych myself up.

I am on week 2 of a 6 week program.  Ok, to be honest I'm technically on week 3 but I am reapeating week 2 because it was hard.  Going from no running to 5 minutes straight of running is no easy feat, but I am happy to report that round two of this week went much better than round one... so far.

I am also using My Fitness Pal.  You can use it online or as an app on your phone.  Basically it is free weight watchers.  It counts the number of calories you consume each day (accountability for tracking all the food you eat) and the number you burn from exercise.  You program in your statistics and goals and it calculates how many calories you should eat per day.  I have been doing it for a little over 2 weeks and combined with my 5k plan I have lost about 5 pounds already!  I highly recommend the app, if you add it you can add me as a friend (bnroulli) and I promise to be super encouraging.  It's fun to have friends.

Also last weekend I got a gel manicure and (regular) pedicure.  So far so good with the gel.  I am hoping it helps my nails grow stronger and longer.  Also, I forgot how nice it is to have pretty toes.  I might have to keep this up... at least until the wedding.

On a last and final note, it's ok to show a sign that you are reading this.  From the looks of it, no one does.  It still feels good to get it out, so it's ok, but I know that's not true because google gives me a page views report.  I know you're out there!!!!!!!!  You can't hide from google :)

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