& that's the way life goes

I need to get back into shape.  After going to the doctor’s last week I realized I hadn’t gained as much weight over the winter as I thought.  Woohoo!  So I set a goal for myself, I’m running 5 miles a week people,  5 miles.  It’s doable and relatively easy.  It doesn’t matter how I run them, as long as I get in a total of 5 miles from Monday-Sunday.  Stella is a great partner, though I’ve left her home a couple times this week because I think it’s too hot for her.  My neighborhood routes are between 1.3-1.6 miles.  I have others that are longer but for now these are the ones I’ve been running.  I did run a 2 mile route on Wednesday at lunch and it wasn’t so bad.  It was the last time I’ll be running at lunchtime.  *sad face*

I was chatting with Mandy and I asked her if taking the dogs for a walk counted and she said it would be cheating.  I have to agree I was thinking the same thing.  So in my words, not hers, “Get running Chubby!”.

Guess what!  The very awesome Michelle from Desultory Diversions gave me the sunshine award!  Sunshine is probably my most favorite thing.  Thanks so much!

here are the rules:
1. thank the person who gave you the award and link back to them
2. tell us something about yourself
3. nominate 10 other bloggers and
4. let them know that you awarded them!

I almost always wear the same pair of earrings + I like patterned socks better than plain white + I <3 that my bloggy friends call me Ri or Ria

Passing the sunshine onto:

Pretty Little Reckless

Claire Suzanne

Alexis Explains it All

Rebecca – Thru Thin and thick

Insert my blog name

E B Inspired

From a Whisper to a Scream

Miss Smidge

Down the Rabbit Hole

Katie Blogs

I’m not usually big on award shows and I hardly ever recap them but I thought there were some pretty awesome performances last night.  I don’t think people care much about the winners as much as they do about acts.

My favorites of the night.

*click out of your reader to see the performances*

Eminem/Rihanna/Dr Dre – Obviously!

Bruno Mars

Cee Lo Green & Gwyneth Paltrow

Mumford and Sons

Did you watch? If no, why not? If you did, what were your favorites?

Miss Smidge has passed this award my way!   Thanks lady!

The rules are to tell you 10 honest things about myself and then pass this beauty along. Since I’m pretty open here (well about things I put up here haha) everything is honest. So here goes!

1. I think my biggest pet peeve is people who are narrow minded and only have an opinion about something because someone else does.  I hate ignorance.   If you don’t have information to back up your opinion you should keep your mouth shut.
2. I think if someone does something nice for you you should acknowledge the act. No one likes being taken advantage of.
3. Recently I’ve realized the importance of saying Thank You and I Love You and meaning it.
4. I think I would die without chocolate and cheese, though preferably not together.
5. I’m pretty sure that the person I think of myself as is not the person everyone else sees.
6. I need help putting together a resume to apply for freelance writing.  I know some of you already do this.  Can I pick your brains? Please?
7. I’m ok with not knowing where I will be in the next 5 years, or year for that matter.  Life is about evolving and I learned I don’t always need to know the answers.  It’s a journey, right?
8. I dress my dogs up, mostly Liko.  He loves and hates it at the same time.  I also do it in secret because I laugh when I see dogs dressed up in public.
9. I believe in gay marriage, the right to adopt, freedom of speech and religion (which sometimes I don’t believe we honestly have) and sometimes I’m a conspiracy theorist.  Though talking with me you may not know that because even though I believe in those things I’m not going to argue with you about it unless you try to pressure me into thinking your way.
10. I love blogging more than chocolate and cheese.  Well…maybe they are tied.  I love you guys

I’d love to hear 10 honest things about you, consider yourself tagged!  Sometimes I hate when bloggers do that because sometimes I feel weird taking stuff off their page, but I’m really giving it to you! LOL

If you do it please let me know!

Happy Hump Day!

I got this award from If Music Be, Than I am, go say hi I’ll wait…

The Honest Scrap award comes with a caveat or 2. Firstly you have to tell your readers 10 things about you they may not know, but that are true. Secondly you have to tag 10 people with the award.

Hmmm 10 things…ok here we go:

• I’m not cute in the morning, my hair is everywhere.  Seriously, I’m not cute in the morning EVER.
• I make the weirdest faces in pictures.  My mouth is usually open or my eyes are too intense.  You know what I mean?  I look creepy.  If I’m taking a picture I have to think of something funny or happy or my eyes look “hard”.
• I think my left leg is tid bit longer than my right leg.  I lean on it more.  I’ve noticed because it’s my left ankle that I hurt and I have to remind myself not to lean on it.
• When I was 10 I took hula lessons, I wanted to be a professional hula dancer.  I still secretly do.
• I have a weird love for penguins.  I have since I was little, they were my favorite animal.  I still don’t know why.
• My favorite color has always been blue but green is close behind.
• I’ve noticed I only wear red when I feel really confident.  Otherwise it seems to bright.
• I don’t think I’m as fun as I used to be.
• I want another tattoo.  I don’t know of what or where (I have an idea) but I will get one.
• I have this desperate desire to be kissed in the rain.

The 10 people I’m tagging are: *

Liley

Wordperv

Irish Cailin

Kat

Emma

DMB does not stand for Dave Matthews Band

Thereafterish

The Melodramatic

Down the rabbit hole

Supergirl

*If you don’t want to do it I totally understand

Wow this weekend went  by fast and I’m so tired.  Here are some things that I’ve wanted to post but haven’t yet.

I got my scarf on Saturday from Vanessa at Creative Adventures!!  I had actually forgot about it so I was super excited to see thebox on my doorstep!  It’s so awesome and she made it!  It’s comfy and warm and little did she know, but the colors she used matches my jacket!  Thanks Vanessa!

Kat from Tough Girl 101 gave me an award awhile back!  I seriously <3 her and her blog.  And really have you checked her blog out yet?  If not I can wait.

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*Update* I also got this award from the lovely Melissa at About this and that.  She is totally awesome too so I’ll wait again while you go visit her.

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I’m going to pass this along to:

My Dogumentary

ramblings of an (un)satisfied 20something

The Melodramatic

little miss firefly

I also finished New Moon this weekend.  Eh.  It was alright definitely not as good as Twilight but I do see the importance it has to the series.  I don’t know.  It was a little predictable but hey that should be expected right?

And to wrap this up here are some pics of my kiddies doggies.

Scooby's thrilled to be wearing moose antlers...really

Liko pimping the elf jacket I got at Target for $2.50

I just want to say we don’t dress our dogs.  Liko likes coats  because he gets cold.  I can’t help it if this one is Elf-like

C sporting the antlers with the cuddle pup around his next. What a dork

He thinks he's handsome

Scooby being pathetic and cuddling with C

And one of Nani, though she doesn’t like her picture taken as much as the other two

Sitting with C

*Note* Please don’t mind our ugly couches. We just bought a new one that won’t be delivered til the first of the year. I hate these but after Scooby chewed the other ones these were the hand me downs we were given. kthxbai