I'm leeeaving.....

After work today.... at 4:30 I'm driving down to my parents house to eat a delish dinner of ham,potatoes and corn before I head down to Utah tomorrow..... WOOHOOO... I'm going alone, but don't fret I am full prepared with seasons of OTH, Twilight and Step Up 1/2 that should keep me busy.... I always listen to tv shows while I'm getting ready, and so I figure why not listen to them while I drive.. .I can get thru one whole season of OTH on a trip there and back..... so that should keep me company! I'm excited to see my friends, to sock wrestle, and to play in Provo/Salt Lake... I miss living down there!!


Well I'll update when I get home, and maybe somehow put some pictures up..if I ever figure out how to do that!

WTF

.....10 weeks away...... where has the time gone... the last 14 weeks have just flown by and I don't feel any differently... I can swim faster, run faster and bike longer..... but I still don't feel any different! HMMMM so this is my FIRST full official week of my last 10 weeks?? Does that make any sense what so ever?? ok well... I have a 10 week training that I am following to lead up to the day of my triathlon.... so everyday I will run 5 miles, and then whatever my training is for that day, so it might be an extra 20 minutes of running, or swimming 300m or biking 10 miles... I will DOOOOOOOOO IT.... so far its been fun, and like I said I've seen so many changes in the last 2 months or so, and I'm excited to see what the next two and a half months bring. I hope that this is something that I stick with, cause it would be fun, although I think I might need to find another job to pay for all of this... the bike I was looking at was 3000 bucks!!! holy cow... it better fly me to those triathlons. Good GRAVY! I actually have been thinking about getting a second part time job a couple nights a week..... I really should see if the gym I go to is hiring, I already spend all my time there anyways they might as well pay me to do some work. But maybe once my triathlon is done, or in the fall I will get a part time job serving or something like that up by the hospital a couple nights aweek, and the other nights I will work out and stuff.... I don't need the extra $$ for anything dire.... just for my $3000 triathlon bike.... dang I really need to check into those because I don't think that a bike should be that expensive, they've got cool handle bars tho(that actually would be the reason I bought something... I do that.... LOTS)


This morning I had a seminar and it was a C.A.R.E(Connect,Appreciate,Respond,Empower) seminar that my work offers to help us with patient commuincation and all of that. One of the presenters said the following about our patients, and I can't stop thinking about it.... "Patients are People....not tasks" how true is this statement.... I was thinking about so many times I go thru the challenges of prepping everything and I check everything off prior to the patients arrival and when they get there as if my job isn't done until everything is checked off, and I don't really realize that this is someones mother, father, sister,brother,etc I just treat it like another name. It's not until the name is someone I recognize. This past week I've had a few familiar faces/names come across my desk and its been a humbling experience to say the least, that I know these people personally.... friends parents..... realitives... I can't really go into to much detail about any of the patients or how I know them due to confidentiality reasons, but I found myself spending extra time to get the little things that normally I don't have to get, and that are out of my "tasks" to complete because I know them. I have some emotions invested into this patient, and it also, got me thinking. Tuesday night after the gym Jayci and I did drive by's to try and clean up our RS lists and weed out those that aren't in our ward anymore, and I went thru the act of seeing the names not knowing who any of these girls were just trying to find out if they're in our ward or not, until we came across a name that I knew, a girl I grew up with that had moved into my ward 3 months ago and hadn't been to church or contacted in such a long time..... I had a vested interest... we thought that the address was incomplete but there were a couple buildings we could go try and normally I'd say lets just move on, but I had a emotional connection and I wanted to make contact with this person, and today I got the feeling "these less active sisters are my daughters, not tasks" how humbling was that experience? I have the chance to be the Lords Representitive here on earth to try and help bring those back to full activity, and its not just a task, these sisters are Daughters Of God, just like me. Thats what I learned today from a seminar at work.... ha ha!

<3!

Onnnne week until I head south... man I sure hope its nice down there cause I'm packin for summa!! I'm really excited to get to go running and play with all of my best friends... I'm sooo sooo sad that they're down there and I'm up here.... but they are...and I am. Rianne is looking for "jobs" for me down there... ha ha she thinks shes sooo smart but I've tried all of this already... she's just going to end up as depressed as I am... one day tho.. ONE DAY!... I was looking at UVU's nutrition program... holy cow is it ever good. When I go back to school I will go there, for that! I'll probably be way old by the time that happens tho!

So I took a few days off of running, and I'm not going to lie I'm pretty nervous for tonight... so please please pray for me :) Last night I took the night off because I got my hair FIXED and I just need to say its a HUGE change, and its what I wanted in the first place, but It's suuuuper short. I haven't had hair this short since I was really little, I really like it, it just needs some getting use to thats for sure! my pony tail is such a dink..... soooo small but its cute! Well, tonight I'm hitting the gym hard core, and every single day until I head down to utah.... then when I get back the plan is to run every night and alternate my run and my swims so I'm doing each 3 days a week...... last time I biked I had 51 minutes, and last time I swam it was like 20 minutes...... as of right now my time is 103 minutes..... so I have 27 minutes transition/tired time..... I think I might actually do this under two hours... WAHHHHHOOOOO but guess what?!?! ERIC hasn't even signed up for it yet. I thought he had, cause he told me he had, but last night Rianne was ragging on him for being super weak sauce.... he's going to regret it....... I have sooo much to do before my tri, I need to get a new bike.... I'm not getting a Tri bike because they're like 3000 bucks and I'm not sure I'm going to stick with it, and I really need to test out my wetsuit to make sure its not too thick for me to swim! I sure hope not.... and I get to buy a new workout/tri outfit...wahoo that will be closer to TRI-TIME! but I get it none the less..... I'm debating weather or not I want to do the YUBA tri or if I want to do the Halloween run....?!?! hmmmmmmm I can only do one not both, because I'm going down in October for conference too...... soooo many decsions...ha ha.... <3 it!

I'm at a loss....

I have no Idea what to title my entries ever... so I make up stupid things that usually have nooooooo connection to the blog... so seriously they're just going to start getting even more random!! So I was reading over my yesterdays blog, and I realized part of it got cut off.... sooooo let me just paraphrase what I said yesterday about RUNNING..... I love running, I never really use to, I'd run during basketball season and thats about it.... and now I'm actually finding joy in running and lately it seems to clear my head and lets me think about things normally I don't have time to think about(even tho a few posts ago I said it usually gives me time to dwell.....) it doesn't anymore, it gives me time to reminsice(sp)..... It's been good.... I've been focusing alot on running lately, and now its time that I need to start dividing my time up between running/biking/swimming again.... This is usually around the time I start giving up and quit...but not this time. I have tooo much riding on this, and tooo many people to be accountable too....

Tomorrow night is the DAY..... I'm getting really excited and tonight we're finishing up the last of what needs to be done, anything that doesn't get done tonight, is just not getting done and I'm going to be ok with it!!

So the main reason for this post was because I had another funny convo with "donna" when I got into work today.... and it's been a while since her and I have had a {funny} as I like to call our convos... and we had one this morning....


**this took place when I was filling up my water bottle at the water thing**

Donna: Lachele You're not wearing green....
Me: Nope, why would I....
Donna: because it's St. Patricks day....
Me: oh.... hmm... I totally forgot...
Donna: Yah well you know what happens to people who don't wear green on St. Pats day right?
Me: No, what
Donna: You get pinched....
Me: You pinch me...... and I'll punch you....
Donna: You can't just punch people at work Lachele
Me: Well, you can't just pinch people at work either....

** Finished filling up my bottle walking**

haha.... ahh she's a funny lady.... but if she pinches me... I will punch her! ha ha(and no thats not a "threat")

Addict......

......ok so I'm addicted to a few things.... and I wish I could do the cute little picture thing.... maybe one day when I actually have time, I'll be able to do something cute with my blog, put up pretty pictures, get some cute lay outs.... but for now... its just writing on my lunch breaks at work...ha ha.... anyways......

I'm addicted tooooooo.....
**Bacon Chicken Ranch wraps from Subway.......

**Ruunnning.. I think I found a new love for it, and its awesome.....I can finally see some light at the end of the tunnel... I all of a sudden just cut a good 7 minutes off my run and feel fantastic, so bloody fantastic that I plan on running 6 miles before work in the mornings, and another 6 after work.... ahhh.... I doubt it will last long but I just want to be able to say I run 12 miles everyday!

**Ice Hot rub..... for after my runs....ha ha I still get some pretty insane shin splints and I slather that stuff on before and after my runs.......woohoo for smelling like my grandpa!(love you grandpa) ha ha!!!

**CUTTING MY HAIR!!!! Saturday I cut off 6.5 inches and its still tooooo long, so sometime within the next week or so I'm getting another 2-3 inches cut off.... and a cute little color... something fun and new for spring....

**Relief Society- mainly Enrichment.... cause its the bain of my freakin exsistance lately... I will be soooo happy at about 8:30 wed night... because that means my Enrichment is finished... I have been soooo stressed out about this freakin activity.... I delegated for the first time in my life, and not knowing what is going on with every aspect makes me anxious.... I'm constantly calling and bugging my girls to see what they've done... and I get the same response EVERYTIME....... "Lachele, Chill out I've got EVERYTHING under control" ahhhh music to my ears... I am sooo lucky to have such good girls to work with in this ward..... they've helped me out alot.... tonight and tomorrow night we put the finishing touches on the night.... and its DONE.... its out of my hands... and if something gets done... I'm not going to freak out, and if its not perfect..... then It's O.K.......... phewf!

** Gatorade- this has been a constant staple in my diet lately....that and kitkats(ugh I know....ha ha) that whole no junkfood for lent thing went out the window a loooooooong time ago! ha ha...

**Bubble tea..... In the last two weeks.... Saren and I have gone to bubble tea 6 or 7 times... we're now regulars in there.... they know exactly what we get.... and how we like it... the only thing we don't do is take a deck of cards like everyone else there....... I have a feeling thats coming soon...ha ha I still need to find a bubble tea place in Utah to take my peeps to when we're down there... or they just really need to wait until they come up here to experience the amazingness of bubble tea!

Theres just a few of my fave things lately.... sooo addicted..... I'm also really addicted to shopping, and sprucing up my wardrobe..... I'm slowly growing up...its about damn time if you ask me.... woooohoooo!!!


So about this hair cut that I got saturday.... I went to someone new for the first time and I was freakin scared out of my bloody mind.... normally I go to Alida... I forget why I didn't... so I called monday to make an appt for SATURDAY because this is tough business for me.... I have this crazy attachement to my hair, and I only trust certain people with it, So all week I did research and found a few hair cuts that I wanted.... and so saturday I was prepped and ready to go, when Rosalie took me to her chair I told her EXACTLY what I wanted.... I think she was impressed.... I didn't like it at first, and I wanted more cut off... but she didn't think that was a good idea cause she said I 'looked' like the type that would cry if I got too much cut off at once....... and yah..... I would... and I have... and I probably will in the future and I'm NOOOT ashamed to say it! It's not as short as I would like, and its not as shapely as I'd like it, I'm making an appt to get it colored from Alida, so I will just have her take off a couple inches and shape it up a little bit for me!

Running... I freakin <3 color="#cc0000">EVERYDAY.... I'll have to run every morning.... then run/bike one night then run/swim the next..... wooohoooo!!

TWWWWWOOOOOO weeks and I will be in Utah with the loves of my life... Mallorie and Rianne.... ;) ha ha!!!

Posting.....

I've been posting everyday it seems like....for the last 3 days ha ha.... thats a good sign.... ALSO, another good sign is that I'm day two free from shin splints AND nose bleeds... I think the worst might actually be behind me.... Now, I can stop making up excuses and just goooooooo from here on out..... Looks like things are finally starting to look up.... wahoooo!!! I knocked 15 seconds off my run last night.... but I really need to learn how to pace myself.... I've been jogging at about a 5rpm for a .5mile then I'll run at a 7.5-8 for the other half of the .5 mile... and thats how I've been doing it lately.... but I really think I need to try and pace myself, and not try and kill myself.... :) I'm really sore right now my kidneys hurt, my low back hurts, my left hip hurts..... but my shins DO NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT hurrrrrt... oh glorious.....day!!!!(singing like a crazy gospel choir in the deep south) Alas tho..... I feel freaking amazing, and as long as I have something to show for this training I will be sore from now until the end of time!! I feel sooooo good right now... Tonight I've got my 4 mile run, and my 14 mile bike.....then it's off to play some volleyball..... tonight is a bitter sweet night.... Hawaii(aka Elder Toilolo) is going home next week, this is the last thursday night volleyball I have to play against him, It gets pretty heated and intense..... I'm a pretty mean person at volleyball.... just because I am really competitive, Spud(Elder Mortensen from Idaho) and I are always on the same team cause we loooove beating Ham/Hawaii) because its soooo fun to watch him get pissed.....


Last night after the gym I had to make invitations for the Relief Society birthday bash, and I'm really stoked for it.... Saren, Cora and I had such a good time making them.... It was fun getting to know them better... Saren and I have been best friends for a while and there are still things I don't know about her. I love meeting new people and getting to know them..... I've just been a goober lately, and super anti social

My Twiiiiiiiin

Is laura from the biggest loser, and let me tell you this isn't a good thing, and it was hard for me to swallow the fact that she reminds me of myself.... Last night, while I was watching it I was getting sooooooo annoyed with her because shes just a whiny baby who thinks everyone owes her something(see why its not good that I remind myself of her). She makes up stupid excuses as to why she can't push herself and I do the same thing.... I could be so much farther ahead than I am right now if I would just push myself. I pushed myself yesterday and I felt sooooo good after it. I am going to make a conscious effort to push myself more, and surpass my limits. It's the only way I will get faster... and right now I need to get faster! Tonight is my bike/run night....

Happy To Repooooort........

No nose bleeds, and no shin splints tonight.... WAHOOOOOOOOOOOO.... I am pretty stoked actually... last night while I was putting on my icy cold I wiped my hands on my towel, and used the same towel tonight, and I got some in my eyes...so I was off to a slow start(ugh if its not one thing with me its another) hahaha I'm such a goober.... I also shaved 4 minutes off my run tonight...

I made the mistake of taking my phone with me for some stupid reason, and it just caused more problems while I was resting than I should have let it... :( Most people run to clear their heads, and I can't seem to do that.... While I'm working out is pretty much the only time when my mind isn't racing so it lets me dwell on things that I should e any tips to help I'm working out.... anyone have any tips to help me not do this, that'd be great!!!

Updating.....again!! wooohooo

Heres my update.... they're few and far between but I'm getting better.... so last week I got pretty sick and could barely breath so I took a few days off running, and just slept alot.... and then I went down to Taber this past weekend, so I didn't get any training in at all, all weekend. Last night I went for a run....or a walk.....probably is a better way of putting it. If I stop running for more than 2 or 3 days its hard for me to get back into the groove of things... and well... yesterday was pretty hard. I am still getting these bloody noses, and its getting to be pretty stupid, and its pissing me off royally.... and my Tibalis anteriors are just freakin killing me, so I'm constantly apply A5-35 on my legs to help with the pain, its not so bad when I run at a 6-7 but when I'm just jogging at a 5 I can feel it and it hurts like a mother let me tell you! So I really need to figure out a way to work around this, other than push thru it and be a MAN... which I'm totally not.....


If anyone has any suggestions then I'd really appreciate it.... Tonight is my run and my bike... or my run and my swim..... so maybe I'll soak in the hot tub for a while! Other than that things are going well..... Sunday night I officially registered for the Triathlon, so I'm in it for the long haul now, cause it freakin costed my 50 bucks haha!