what's your song: version 1.3...

I originally wanted to do these every month, but have been a total slacker. However, since I finally whipped my iPod out again (first time since the marathon) to use during some speed work on Sunday, it inspired me to list the last 10 songs I had on my marathon playlist.

Feel free to comment with your favorite songs, especially good summer running songs, since it's time to gear up my iPod for some sunny summer runnin', I'm always looking for new amazing tunes!

The last 10 songs on my marathon playlist, enjoy:

1. Grace Like Rain - Todd Agnew
2. Quiet Dog - Mos Def
3. Numb/Encore - Linkin Park & Jay-Z
4. Let It Fade - Jeremy Camp
5. The Final Countdown - Europe (oh heck yeah, no shame my friends)
6. Stronger - Kanye
7. Boom Boom Pow - Black Eyed Peas
8. Supermassive Black Hole - Muse
9. Let it Rock - Kevin Rudolf & Lil Wayne
10. I Will Rise - Chris Tomlin

And yes, I still promise picture palooza is coming. Along with posts about how I'm working on speed this summer, specifically for 10Ks. It's something I'm working on with Runners Lounge. I know, I know, you think these are empty promises, however, I will deliver... and once I do... well it's always worth it! Usually. Well at least half the time. Okay most always a quarter of the time.

best part of my day...

Reading the killer blog comments that just keep rolling into my inbox from yesterdays post. Thank you interwebs, so far your comments have made me laugh out loud, laugh so hard I got tears, spit water out of my mouth and choke.

I absolutely needed every single one of those... You have no idea, this past week has gone to a poop party on a scab bus. I had given up.

Interweb followers/commenter's.... you kick the sniz!

And an update.... oh the rights are being fought for my friends. May still be moving, but dammit if I don't get in there first and take the good desk next to the window, I may be small, but I am wiry, and run marathons. So take that future smoker office mate, you will run out of breath before you can even move a notepad off my desk. I will beat you down... I just put my big girl panties on. OH IT IS ON!

i think i'm milton...

So almost everyone in our generation can appreciate the movie Office Space. Right? It probably sums up how most of us feel going into work every day... walking into that endless farm of cubes, the memos, the bosses, the misery of it all. And in this economy, yes I know we should all just be grateful to have a job.

However, just because I'm thankful for my job, doesn't mean that there aren't times I don't want to make an attempt to jump out of my window... which really wouldn't work since I work in a one story, free standing building and my window is floor to ceiling and looks out onto a field of grass. And sometimes ducks. I think the only way I could actually do harm to myself is if I made it out the window and the ducks happened to be rabid, quite feasible really.

On to my point. Thanks to recent occurrences at my company, I am now Milton. I even have the red Swingline stapler (it was a "yay you got your first professional job" present from ed right after i graduated from grad school) it rocks my world. Everyone envies it.

I think I'm Milton, not because of the stapler, or because ironically I happen to be wearing my glasses today, but because I am moving offices, yet again. Pretty sure my desk will now face a mindless taupe wall in a corner. I'm also getting a new office mate, someone I know well, and I'm not sure how I feel about this. Contrary to how I am about most things, I'm actually pretty laid back and even keel at work. I roll with the punches... the person I will share with... yeahhhh, not so much. I like a drama free work environment. You see I am the head of my department, only because I am the only one in my department. I just do my thing, mind my business and try and stay out of the way. It's how I roll as a professional.

I have two bosses, which amazingly have stayed the same my entire stint here. My bosses are the second in command over everything here and the sales manager. However, with this move, I'm not sure everyone will share this opinion... coughahem... if you're smellin' what I'm steppin' in (okay to be more obvious, new office mate might come under the impression they are in charge of me.)

Despite my rolling with the punch-iness..... Interwebs, I think it's time to fight for my rights. Otherwise I'm going to end up being bossed around and officing on the loading dock surrounded by creepy old billboard cutouts and posters the size of a semi-truck... with no electricity, or heat, or air, or humans, just rats and a little lightbulb hanging from the ceiling. Just like Milton.

I'm going to need lots of pencils, seeing how they are really useful for shoving into my eyeballs when miserable at work. Apparently, starting tomorrow, I say goodbye to drama free, bring on the pencils... Sigh. As if it weren't getting depressing enough around here.

I was told I could listen at a reasonable volume. My stapler. I said no salt. I will burn this place down.

best part(s) of my day...

First things first, I have the announcement you have all been waiting for! A lot of you have asked, and I have ignored because I was contemplating and figuring and analyzing and planning like the nerd I am.

But after a lot of thought:
I have decided to run the Indianapolis Monumental Marathon on November 7... with my cousin Rachel.

The Kansas thunderstorms. I heart them.

The decision to simplify my life.

I shall now descend upon Chipotle and proceed to order like this:
Chipotle guy: What can I get you today
Me: YES.
Chipotle guy: What do you mean? What do you want to eat, and what's up with the fluff ball? Is that your hair?
Me: 1) I mean I want everything on the menu; B) Yes and I apologize

So Interwebs, yeah I've been distant. And really, I don't apologize. I've spent the past three days doing things that desperately take precedence over photoshopping, organizing pictures and playing with my blog. Like cleaning up my back yard, organizing closets, cleaning my house, planting flowers, weeding, organizing the breakfast nook and mud room, oh and the minor detail of actually dropping all said activities when Ed doesn't have to work or train, so I can get my needed attention for the day.

However, I SWEAR to you, Picture-Palooza is coming soon.... I just can't make any promises on when. Ohhhhhhh I see your giddiness from here.