life is good

indeed, life is good, as it is a gift from God!

i just got back from working out and i feel like this is just the perfect time to blog. my body feels good and my mind feels even better, like i'm just full of this happy energy that you can really only get after running for a couple of miles and torturing your back muscles by trying to utilize them after very long periods of nonusage. oh, good stuff. should do it more often... gosh... i miss the old cross country days where it was 5-7 miles a day and i went home every day thinking "MAN that rocked!" (yeah, but sometimes i went home thinking "oh my gosh i can't believe i'm still alive"... but that was energizing too, no doubt.) i'd like to be a cross country coach some day. i don't think i've mentioned that on my blog before, but it's true. i had a really great cross country coach in high school whom i felt very encouraged by. not to mention the sport itself just rocks. it's an individual thing, yet teammates are always pushing and encouraging and supporting and pushing some more. the season-- fall-- is the greatest time to be running cross country, b/c you hit extremely hot weather at the end of the summer, then perfect fall weather, then really cold weather as the season ends up. sort of takes your body on a trip, lol. races are great, although i'm sooooooo not competitive. trails are a blast to run on. working toward nothing but finishing and sometimes toward gaining a new p.r. oh man... why am i not running cross country here at bv? well, i started out that way. lol i ran a whole race and then decided it wasn't for me. actually, i'd decided before then, but the coach still needed me to complete the women's team for that race. i really would love to be back on a running team. some day, some day! i'm gonna run a marathon someday... just have to get in shape first. at least i think i should. i don't know, what do you think? ;-)

wow, my fingers are just typing away.

i have a biology test tomorrow morning. it's the last classtime of the semester and the last grade available in the class. i sort of feel the pressure b/c i need to do pretty well to keep my grade. yikes. i'm just not a science person.

tonight during my night class i did some googling online and came up with arizonaeducationjobs.com. yeah, definitely a sweet site. found at least 10 different job possibilities/opening in the field of spanish/esl for this year, all in the phoenix az area. makes me think i'll have some pretty sweet chances of making it after college if i ever move down there. gosh how i'd love to. i can never shake the awesome feeling i had when i was running through the neighborhoods of tempe last spring-- there's just nothing like arizona, nothing. the midwest is great. i love kansas city and wouldn't mind living there for the rest of my life. my family is there and i LOVE my family, so there'd be the greatest struggle for me, but... well... God will take care of it. i will go wherever God intends for me to go. who knows? that might even be out of the country. i'm leaving that up to God.

gosh i feel like i have a million things to say. i may just have to spread it all out though. *sigh* today was a beautiful day-- i wore flip flops-- but definitely shouldn't have. my feet said, "brrr." on that note, it's time to go study.