Day 2 - "Against her ankles as she trod, the lucky buttercups did nod." - Jean Ingelow

Ok! One mile down, 364 more to go.

I feel good, but of course in true Amy fashion, I twisted my ankle a quarter of a mile in. I stepped in a hole and just sat down. Chloe was awesome though. She jogged back (yeah I said back...she was consistently ahead of me), sat down beside me and waited calmly for me to get back up.

I got up, tested my ankle and decided a little pain was NOT going to stop me today!

Day 1 - "From that day on, if I was going somewhere, I was running!" - Forrest Gump

Man has it been a long time since I posted on here!

This year has been off to a great start. In an attempt to continue this roll for the rest of 2012, I am going to let you guys in on my resolutions for the new year. But first, let's talk about last year. Last year I decided to go low/no carbs or sugars. This not a fad diet for me since I have PCOS. I managed to go nine months without cheating and lost 5o pounds! For the last three months, I maintained that weight while managing to enjoy eating and drinking around the holidays.

This year, in addition to this diet, my resolution is to run 365 miles. One mile for each day, but not necessarily one mile every day. I plan on starting with 1-mile runs three or four times a week and increasing that as my body allows. I am really excited about getting back into working out. The initial pounds I lost has kept my joints from screaming in pain when I move, so it's time.

Hopefully blogging will hold me accountable for my workouts and also be source of information for those of you that have asked about my low carb recipes, etc.

For day 1, I made pot roast and cauliflower mash. They were both delicious. I am attaching a picture and the links to the recipes from the Food Network.

The MASH:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/patrick-and-gina-neely/mashed-cauliflower-and-cheese-recipe/index.html

The Pot Roast:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/giada-de-laurentiis/stracotto-pot-roast-with-porcini-mushrooms-recipe/index.html

Wish me luck!!!

"It's like a soggy dream come true!" -- Airheads

Two things are happening simultaneously in Austin this weekend....

1) The Austin Reggae Festival

2) a flash flood watch

The mixture taught me something....the only thing that smells worse than wet dog....wet hippie....

"INCONCEIVABLE! - You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means." - The Princess Bride

Evidently Vizzini and I have something in common....because that word must not mean what I thought it meant either...

"And it's not really scary, except it is when you think back on it." -- Ordinary People

I just sat down with my Medical Terminology book, Google Images and Michael Jackson's autopsy report.

I'm so gonna have nightmares....

"Once they begin to move, no more news comes out of that area." - War of the Worlds

....which pretty much covers my status until after October 4th...when I will be moved into my new house and will have time to converse again with the Internet....

"OOPS? No, Ed. Oops is falling down an elevator shaft. Oops is skinny dipping in a school of pirrahna. This was no OOPS. This was AAGGHH!"

First let me explain my morning....wait...let's start last night...hell...let's get a good look at this week....

Monday was a holiday....I worked....then stayed up LATE working on my physics homework.

Tuesday was spent sitting crouched over that same physics HW...then class...then work...then at work till 12:30pm finishing that HW with one of my bosses (I LOVE YOU SCOTT :)).

Wednesday was class/HW from 8 am until 8 pm....then home to read up on lab work for today.

This morning (Thursday) I woke up @ 6 (yes dang it, that is early) because I have Geology lab @ 8 am...which really is a crime in itself...but I woke up, let Chloe outside, and went into the bathroom to shower, make-up, hair....etc. Let me just say...at this point I knew I was tired and this week was taking its toll, but I was wholly unaware that I was in a bad mood.

Sometime in the middle of this ritual, I hear my roommate come out of his room and walk to the bathroom. He stops when he sees me in there, and I just turned and said, "Sucks to be you huh?"

WHAT?! He hadn't done ANYTHING wrong except walk in on me and my bad mood! I mumbled my apologies to his dropped jaw and shut the door for his protection.

When I was ready to head out, I went downstairs and saw that my other roommate had cleaned the living room and dining room while I slept (THANKS B)...normally a real mood lifter...but evidently not.

I got to school, got my soy Chai latte and went to lab...at which point I walked in right as he was beginning lecture and spilled my latte all over the table.

(aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaggggggggghhhh......normally that would be in caps, but I lack the energy...)

So I ran to the bathroom to get towels, cleaned it up and proceeded to test a bunch of rocks...

When it was over, I thought "Finally, a BREAK!" I had every intention of curling up in chair for half an hour (before starting my microbiology lab report) and reading something educationally worthless! Like a smut novel, or Harry Potter....

So on my way to my favorite cushy chair on campus, I stopped for another latte since I got 2 sips from the first one....and I saw this girl....

Let me first say that this girl was LARGE...I know large....she was MUCH larger than that... and she had one of those walking cast/boot things and one crutch (both of which I am also intimately acquainted)....all of these factors meant she was going SLOW....but come on, poor thing was probably in a worse mood than me!

So as I waited for her to pass so I could get to my cushy chair, these two guys in the frat boy uniform (polo shirt in some neon color, khaki shorts, and deck shoes) come up behind her and start loudly going "Damn! That girl is BIG."

And that's when it happened...I accidentally (on purpose) lost my second (HOT) latte of the day all down the front of their uniforms....

I really am not fit to be around people today....