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**Side note, I had a huge post written and some lady just turned off my harddrive thinking she was rebooting hers(I'm in the library at the hospital) stupid woman!

AANNNYWAYS, so to update you on my birthday, it was really actually amazing. I woke up yesterday morning to a note by my toothbrush leading me on a hunt for my presents, and I got some awesome brownies, and some presents, I went to work and was showered with attention(which I looooove) and food...ugh! I never want to look at crap again! haha. After work I went to the mall...one of my fave places and treated myself to a new sweater and a new hoodie, which I am super happy to report is a whole size smaller than the other ones that I have. WOOHOOO. I was actually super surprised because I thought I was going to be atleast 200lbs with all that I've been eating lately haha.... but I guess not! While I was shopping Eric called me and sang his little heart out to me(bless his heart.... he wasn't very good, but it was the thought that counts right?) haha I'm sooo excited to see him in a few weeks, even tho I think he'll be stuck babysitting most of the weekend(haha inside joke), after that I went home to get ready for my date with Saren and I came home to more presents from my roomies.... how sweet! I got ready and SAREN was late she was supose to be at my house at 6:30 and she wasn't so after all my birthday nightmares I thought she forgot all about me...but she didn't my phone was just super slow all day because of all the messages I got...haha and so we went to the Olive Garden and SURPRISE! Tim, Pat and Adam were coming with us... it was such a fun night! Our waiter Mark was insane actually....literally...he was funny at first then he just got way overbearing and annoying, by the end of the night Adam was fighting with him, and Pat was ready to punch him out, and I was a little sick of him calling me babe,dear,hun and all the above...blah! I didn't want cake because I had eat soooo stinkin much of it over the last few days, so he brought me a bowl full of their chocolates(which I LOVE) by the way, and he stuck candles to the wrappers, It was absolutely amazing!! ha ha.... I am soo happy that Adam, Tim and Pat came to have dinner with me, they're such stellar boys!! haha! Tomorrow I am off to the Temple, then to Lethbridge to contiune in the birthday celebrations with my family! WOOHOO!! fave dinner again! I'm actually pretty excited!

So, I thought that I was going to be gaining massive amounts of weight and inches over the last week because I've seriously been eating everything in sight, today Sharon the sweet receptionist at work brought in cupcakes for my birthday... and so I had to eat one, and they were sure delish! but I am really actually excited to stop eating crappy... and start eating well again! I think its the reason I've been feeling so tired lately! My gym time has definately been lagging just a little bit too, but starting monday I'll be back at it again fullllllll force! I'm going for a run tonight. Eric has been running alot lately, and I think hes getting faster than I am, which definately is not a good thing! So I need to keep up to him :)


So random convo again..... this is how it goes...

Donna: Happy Birthday Lachele
Me: thanks donna...
Donna: Now you must be the oldest living single mormon girl I know...
Me: Donna am I still the only Mormon girl you know?
Donna: well yah!

:)

this time in two weeks I will be chillin in Utah with Mal and Ri..... and maybe Eric if he gets done babysitting at an early hour!! wooooohoooo I am excited for snowboarding, and playing with my friends!

Birthday Nightmares

Ok, so for the last 3 nights in a row I've had nightmares about my birthday... for those of you who knows really know me you might think.... People either hanging out with me "on my birthday" and either ditching out on me while they're with me with lame excuses, or just not even showing up at all....I think my subconscious is trying to tell me something, you're probably wondering why is she having nightmares about her birthday... let me tell you... for the past 4-5 years or so I've had nothing but crappy birthdays! Let me recap....please do not laugh.....
18th- went to a friends funeral, she died in a car accident 5 days before my birthday, then right after the funeral I had to go to basketball practice where I barfed my guts out.
19th- I was in Utah and was missing all of my friends
20th- I was in Utah, I forget but I bet something bad happened this year too
21st- In alot of pain from being smashed up in a car accident 2 months prior
22nd-Coldest day of the YEAR(not even kidding -58) My car wouldn't start and none of my roomates even remembered my birthday.....I remember being on the phone with my mom just bawling because no one remembered, and I was alone at home because my jeep wouldn't start. Tomorrow is supose to be +6, and so far most of my friends have remembered.......
23rd-........ I can only imagine what is going to happen tomorrow....My dad told me that 23 is closer to 25 than it is to 20, and 25 is halfway to 30 which is almost 50..... no beuno papa!! Last night patrick and I went to dinner at the Olive Garden because we couldn't go snowboarding, because the hill closed from High winds.... BAHHH only in Alberta, so we're just going to rain check our lift tickets for next tuesday night!

Although I must admit I've had week long birthday festivities thus far, today at work my co-workers had a potluck for me, and Susan made me the BEEEEEST homemade black forest cake I've ever eaten in my life. I swear she loves me more than my own parents cause it was DELISH! ha ha..... I feel really sick from the last 3 days of just eating nothing but yummy, unhealthy food... my body definately will not like me come monday when its back to training hardcore, and cold turkey off sweets again! I don't have any plans for tomorrow night so far, go to the gym, play some volleyball.. you know...the usual thursday night activities.... Saturday I'm going down to the Temple to do baptisms with Saren, and then I'm going to do an Endowment session with some other members of my ward, then Saren and I are detouring to Lethbridge to have a birthday dinner with my family. I'm really excited to see them, I don't really get alot of excuses to see them all that much, even tho I live super close. I should really go home more often! Or maybe my family should just come to Calgary more often too.... I talk to my mom everyday and my dad like 3-4 times a week, so it feels like I see them. When I do see them its like no time has passed at all...

Needless to say, from all the eating that I've been doing in the last few days I'm not feeling the best. Junk food GALORE and I'm definately not feeling the greatest! :( NOOOOOOOO MORE...it seems like everytime I take a step in the right direction something knocks me two steps back! I don't even like the taste of junk food anymore, it really upsets my stomach and makes me feel crappppy!!! In moderation I guess eh?!?!

Sooooo I just finished my "rough" draft of my lesson for sunday... I think its going to be a gooder, but I always give lessons on the mushy, self worth stuff. I think I really need it most of the time, so really the lessons are more for myself than they are for the other 65 girls in the room! I'm going to think about it for the next few days, and reflect on any changes then go to the Temple saturday. I think that the Temple is such a good place for reflection, and its always nice to go there right before I teach, plus it will be a good experience I'm going to do baptisms with Saren, and this is the first time that shes been to the Temple since she was like 14... so I am wicked stoked!!! wooohooo!!!

I had something else I wanted to blog about but I forget what it was, so If I remember I'll just post again, if not... then I'll just post again once I start getting my lazy butt outta bed earlier and heading swimming.... I'm a little disappointed I'm not swimming as much as I should be... but what can ya do.... only try and do better next time!

Adventures of Patrick and Wayne!

Let me just tell you about these patrick and wayne characters..... they're pretty much the funniest people I've ever met..... oh WAIT they're me and Trish! Ok, so let me just tell you a little about patrick and wayne... Trish is from Nelson BC(where my dad is from, and where I use to spend a good chunk of my summers when I was little) and we were in school together, and when we met we put two and two together, and my dad started telling me stories about her parents when they were our age, and in return her dad started telling her stories about MY dad... haha "Wicked Wickens"... ahh good times.. My dad is pretty much the best ever! He's sooo funny! ANYWAYS, so we had this connection and in our class we always hung out and stuck together, well apparently the semseter before there was this huge BLACK man that use to sit where I sat and my teach had the hardest time calling me Lachele, she would call me WAYNE!.... and it sort of just stuck.... and natrually if I had a man name, so did trish... so hers is PATRICK... anyways... we finished up with school, and I got a job at the Tom Baker Cancer Centre, and I hooked her up with a job, so for the past 10 months or so her and I have been working together, I don't think I've ever heard her call me Lachele, and I can't call her Trish.... its always patrick and wayne, and it started to rub off on other co-workers so now they call us patrick and wayne... it's pretty funny... anyways so we decided we're going to go snowboarding together, and I haven't been since before my car accident, and she just started so we thought it would be fun to take lessons, so we're just going up to COP for the next 3 tuesday nights and we're taking lessons.... One of us is going to end up in Emerg I just have a feeling, it seems like whenever patrick and I get together its nothing but a good time, and we usually pee our pants!(no for real) ha!! So I know that this experience will be nothing short of a good time, and if I can ever learn how to put pictures up I will post our experiences, but until then you'll just have to live with my amazing visuals! hahahahaha I just want this day to be over with so we can go RIGHT NOW! but its not, and I'm absolutely exausted... I'm sure not as "young" as I use to be, I use to be able to stay up all night and then go to school and study and then play hard all night again and be fine, but I am definately feeling it, I have to honestly get 8 hours of sleep or else I'm a grandma! wtf :( So I will update you on our experiences tomorrow...assuming I'm not in surgery for a shattered femur....

So I think I must be above the law or something, because I think that since its my birthday week I can break all the rules I've set for myself, that for the past 3 weeks I've kept down to a T.... People are still bringing in food that they don't want at their houses left over from the holiday and I apparently think its ok to eat it.... its not all bad food, but its not food that I packed for myself, I find myself eating or grazing as we like to call it at work.... on other peoples food and then I dont want my own, and then I take it home, it doesn't get eaten and then my money goes in the GARBAGE! I am now learning the value of a buck.... I feel bad for all the food I wasted growing up at my parents house! Anyways.... Mal, Ri and I decided that we'd only eat "junk" on special occasions(birthday, easter,thanksgiving and a couple days at christmas) well... apparently my birthday is a week long festivity that requires me to just eat and eat and eat..... I think I've probably gained back all the weight that I've lost since the beginning of the year, which I was losing from all the crap I ate over the holidays so I'm just back to where I started.... shame on me! I use to think I was scared of what Ri and Mal would do to me if they found out I cheated....but I'm more worried about what will happen to me while I train! I read somewhere(don't quote me on figures...but along these lines) that working out is only 30% on getting in shape and losing weight, and the other 70% is eating a balanced healthy diet..... so really I suck...haha I don't do it often but when I do eat stuff I shouldn't I feel gross, and it really just doesn't even taste all that good anymore... I just eat it cause I don't even know why.... haha SOOOO there is my little rant lately.... I just need more willpower..... last night while I was at the gym I ran for a whole hour and now I am really sore, I really need to start stretching before and after, I have a feeling with how sore I am today combined with snowboarding tonight I might actually die tomorrow.... Oh well.... what can ya do?? I'll just have to press on and keep up the "good work"...... I haven't gone swimming yet this week and I don't think I'll make it there this week at all... I really need to focus more on my events I'm not as strong at, and swimming is definately one of them.... I wanted to do my tri in under 2 hours... which gave me 40 minutes an event..... and I already know my bike is going to be about 47 so thats 7 minutes I need to cut off my swim and or my run, and right now my run is about 33ish(probably will be longer because its my last event and I'll be exausted) and I really honestly don't have atime on my swim yet, so maybe my new goal s hould be 3 hours??? or just to cross the finish line? Saturday Eric told me that hes running about 8 mile minute... so we're on the same page or pretty close on the run, and he says he sucks at swimming(I'm one step above sucking....) so I've got 1 on him there too... it all comes down to who can bike faster! ha ha...... I won't get cocky, I'll just keep on working hard, and somedays just work a little harder! I really need to learn more about nutrition and eating while training, I'm pretty sure a banana split isn't a "wise" choice, but one of my friends gave it to me last night because she won't see me on my birthday.... oyi! JUST SAY NO... .how come its so easy for me to say no to smoking and drugs but not to bad food....haha!!!

My Mission Plan

One of the 'perks' of being in the relief society presidency is that I have the chance some Sunday mornings to go to a Ward Leadership council, and yesterday we had a meeting to plan/revise our old Ward Mission Plan, and it got me thinking that I myself need my own Lachele Mission Plan. I am sooooo involved in the Church, and its a huge part of who I am, why don't I share it more with the people around me. Training for my triathlon is a huge part of who I am right now, and it seems like thats all I talk about with people! So why am I so scared to talk to the people around me about something that I love so much, and something that gives me so much comfort in times of trial and despair! So this week in our respective presidencies we have to come up with a "auxillary" mission plan that will help us make a ward mission plan. So I'm going to make up my own mission plan in hopes of sparking other peoples interest in doing more missionary work.

So Lacheles Mission Plan is:
1. To lead by example
2. Support the missionary minded activities(FHE, Volleyball, dinner with the Elders)
3. To go out on splits with the Sister Missionaries, and to go with the Elders when they're teaching sisters.
4. Have the Missionaries in my home atleast once a month for a meal with a non member friend(I don't have many non member friends, so I'm going to find some)
5. Talk to atleast 2 people a week about the Gospel and bear my testimony to them.
6. Give more service!

So thats my mission plan for now. I need to work my way up to the comfort level. I also want to start going out and teaching new member discussions with a sister, or with a ward missionary. I want to re-vamp my mission plan in a few months, and check up on it to see how I am doing, and to step out of my comfort zone again!

Also, this Sunday I am teaching the Presidency message, and I have nooo idea what I'm going to teach on so any input/suggestions would be great! I'm normally not nervous to give lessons, or speak in church but for some reason I'm a little nervous already, I think because this ward is sooo much bigger.... oooooh!!!

I'm soooooo tired right now... I made the biggest mistake of my life yesterday, and I'm sure paying for it right this very second... I didn't get much sleep this weekend and I didn't get to sleep til about 3 saturday night, and I had to be up early for meetings, and then I came home and by 5 I was passed out dead.... I woke up on the couch at 10:30.... so I was up a good chunk of the night, I talked to Mal and Ri...they called me.... they're always a good time. I can't wait to see those two..... they're pretty much the funniest girls ever!

Well I'm going to try and salvage whats left of my lunch break and I'm going to take a nap....

Peace out homies.... I'll update ya'll on my tri-training later tonight!

Random Blog Worthy Convo

.... So needless to say I dragged my lazy bones outta bed this morning, and it was probably the most comical thing that has happened to me today.... I woke up this morning in such a bad mood that my alarm was going off before I was ready to get up that I started yelling in my sleep having a conversation with myself... on reasons why I should and shouldn't get up..... but I did.... and swimming in the mornings was waaay better... and I'm so glad to have half my workout over and done with before I even get to work!! woooohooo

So, I get to the pool and I'm swimming away...and I really don't think I give myself enough credit, but I'm a pretty good swimmer... I've always been comfortable in water, my mom use to take us kids swimming in the summers, and I've been a scuba diver for the last 11 years! I just need to build endurance which will take more than a week..... anyways so I get out of the pool.... I was a little late getting there this morning due to fighting with myself for like 15 minutes, but I got there and I swam 500m and then it was like 6:50 so I thought I should get out, cause I didn't know how long it would take me to get ready, and how the roads would be taking a different way to work... so I get out of the shower get all changed then I go to the mirror and by this time all the other people are getting out and starting to get showered to go to work too...so I picked the perfect time to get out.... this little old lady with an english accent comes beside me, and another little old lady with a scottish accent goes beside her. I'm minding my own business.... and all of a sudden....

English lady: What is your name little girl(me)
Me: Lachele
English lady: Well Lachele its nice to meet you, my name is Agnus I'm from England and this is Audrey shes from Scottland...are you new here?
Me: Well I thought I'd try swimming in the mornings before work instead of at night...
English lady: yah, while we were sitting in the hot tub we noticed a "newcomer" We like you little one
Me:(akward laugh) ha ha thank you.....
English lady: If this scot or anyone else give you trouble in the lanes you come tell me, and I'll take care of it....
Me: thank you.... have a nice day

HAHAHA!!! no way.... is this just my week for nothing but random convos.. I really actually decided I love random convos...they put a smile on my face... she was sooo funny... freak I could probably bust both those ladies with one hand, and they say if IIIII have a problem in the lanes that they'll take care of me..... that freakin rocks!!! That is someones grandma, and that someone is pretty lucky!! I honestly still laugh when I think about it....

Actually... another random convo I had today when I got to work with Donna... this lady is nothing short of nuts, but she cracks me up most of the time....

Donna: Lachele look at my resort in mexico(shes leaving tuesday for a week to mexico)
Me: wow that looks nice....
Donna: NIIIIIICE ..... look closer....(as she points to the trees around her amazing resort)
Me: ya trees.... they're pretty nice, the water looks blue and amazing, and your resort looks wicked
Donna: ok, Lachele I didn't know I was going to be in the jungle
Me: what makes you think you're going to be in the jungle?
Donna:.....do you not see the trees?
Me:Yes, and I think you're going to need the shade cause I bet its really hott there....
Donna: I'm emailing the resort to tell them I'd like a 3rd floor room right now...
Me: why are you doing that.....
Donna: so the spiders as big as dinner plates don't bite me in my sleep
Me: have you ever seen a spider as big as a dinner plate? Its not like their going to be just chillin with you on your bed....
Donna: I read on the internet about this guy who was driving in a car on highway 7 and saw a spiders as big as a dinner plate!
Me: he was driving, how does he know how big it was
Donna: Its just what I read ok..... ha ha

** about 45 minutes later she comes to my desk with an inter office envelope with all this printed off stuff on jungles in mexico..... HAHA** fetch.... I'm kind of going to miss her when shes gone, but I'm also pretty excited shes leaving.... sometimes I'm not in the mood for her...haha!

So those are a few of the random convos that I've had with myself... I think I'm going to go take a quick power nap before I head back to work, then its off to the gym right after work... Last night I went to bed at 8:50 so I could get up(I'm trying to train myself) and I'm dead asleep at 9:30 when my EQ president calls to see if I've had home teachers lately...haha I had no idea what was going on when he called me, sometimes I wake up and I'm just on the phone, I don't know how I get on the phone, I just get there... its soooo werid!! ha ha I've been told convos with me while I'm sleeping are nothing short of a good time....I bet half the stuff isn't even true, but Idon't remember anything, so I really have no idea!

When you're finished working hard...you need to work a little harder!

I absolutely love that.... "When you're finished working hard, sometimes you need to work a little harder" and this is something that I need to do! I really could be doing a heck of alot more than what I am doing... for example I had a goal to wake up early EVERY morning to go swimming before work, and that hasn't really happened the way I wanted it to happen! Which is all about to change....because I need to start pulling my end of the weight around this place. I really need to start going to the gym alot more than I have been... I've been slacking only going for like 90 minutes, and sometimes skipping my swim(like right now) I'm never going to be ready in time for my triathlon if I keep this up... yesterday I did my bike and weights and by the end of that I was finished, I came home after that and had every intention of going swimming, but then I got side tracked watching the biggest loser! WTF.... I am such a pile sometimes.... I really need to get my priorities straight...mallorie is going to laugh me back to this side of the border when we train in a few weeks if I can't start pulling myself together! I need to write myself a contract it seems like and STARE at it every single day... because nothing else seems to be working. I've been getting after Sarah lately for the excuses she makes and she has two little boys she has to watch all day everyday, and I have no one but myself.... what is my problem?? I started off 2009 with a bang I was working out every single day and I was eating SOOOOO healthy too.... oyi! Today I think I slipped up a little bit, but I'm getting on the band wagon, tomorrow I have a date with the gym, and then I have institute with my lovely girl Abby... shes sooo stinkin cute... I just love her, I haven't seen her in forever so we're going to go together!! I'm actually pretty excited to see her!! then its home to bed, so I can wake up and go swimming friday morning so I don't have to go friday night I can just go to the gym and be doooone with it! That way maybe I can have my nights to do anything I want... I have so many people to answer too.... and every single person scares the crap out of me....Rianne is going to slaughter me, and then theres sarah who will call me a hypocrite, and then the worst person is MYSELF! I always get mad at myself.... so I need to go to bed soon so I can wake up at 5:30 to go swimming... ha ha!!! I better go pack now so I have no excuses....SWIMMING tomorrow morning at 5:30 then straight to the gym right after work, then home to shower so I can go to institute then home to bed so I can wake up and do it all over again.......

On another note, so that isn't just all about complaining.... I've had a "revelation" haha..... or so to speak.. I've wanted to go back to school for a while now, and I think that I now know what I am interested in.... Nutritional Science. I've been noticing that I've been playing touch and go with my nutrition since I've started training, I don't think I'm doing it right, I'm just trying to eat a whole heck of alot healthier and eat more than I exercise so I can keep my energy levels up, and make sure to eat a carb after my work outs.... I really don't think I'm doing it right... and I could do so much with a nutrition degree... my stake presidents wife has a degree in that, and shes such a wonderful woman, who does seminars, and who gives lessons on it, and who taught her own family good eating habits. So I'm going to look into it, I could probably do a couple semseters online so I can still work, then transfer to a school like BYU for the last of it.....

On another good note(I'm hoping two goods cancel out my first ranting post) I was leaving work today, and I saw Lisa Bennett, Thom Evanson and CHRISSSSSSS.... he's looking amazing they were out for a walk and I got to run into them... He's doing amazing...

Well I'm off to work a little bit harder.....(or in my case go to bed so I can wake up tomorrow to go swimming.....) I

Tricks....

My poor little tired mind plays tricks on me at 5:30 am..... yup thats right, thats what time I set my alarm for... and I woke up...looked at the time and thought... oh silly me I'm not supose to get up til 6:30 then I re-set my alarm... for 6:30... Today I was going to go swimming before work... and I thought I set my alarm clock wrong, I've actually been pretty upset all morning because of this stupid mistake.... I even went to bed at 9:30 so I could wake up on time.... Maybe tomorrow.... DEFINATELY tomorrow!!

Training has been going really well so far so good. I got in a really good work out saturday. I absolutely just love the gym... I just love it, it's sooo great and I always feel better after I know I've worked pretty hard... I wish I was seeing results more quickly, but I think I've hit a plateau... I'm really trying to work on endurance right now... and so I'm spending about a week on each interval.... I don't actually know if I'm doing this right... I'm just sort of guessing... I'm really excited cause while I'm in rexburg my friend mallorie from Provo is coming up and shes one of the girls I'm doing the triathlon with....we're going to get to train together... so it will be nice! I can't believe that one month is almost gone... only 4 more to go! I don't really feel like I've accomplished all that much this month... I'm a slacker.. I need to pick up that slack asap!!! WOOHOOO/AHHHH haha thats sort of how I'm feeling right now! Tonight I'll get my run in and then I have fhe and a presidency meeting...then its off to swimming... I don't doo too much to make my schedule busy... but it seems like I'm really busy lately! I've also decided I'm going to take an institute class this semseter too... So between fhe and an institute classs I'm taking I don't really have time for many more distractions right now!

WOOOOHOOOOOOOOOO

I just got the sweetest freakin pair of running shoes... they're wicked! I'm not going to lie I absolutely love them. Last night I was playing volleyball... and I was freakin killin' it man... let me tell you I think its the shoes...I'm 'dec' but last night I was havin some good games! They're white meshieness....with lime green...and blue. I was trying to find ones that weren't nasty pink, so I got lime green. I'm excited to hit the gym tonight for my first training sesh with them! ( I know..its friday night...why am I planning on spending my night at the gym, and in the pool??) well its cause I have no life... its really the truth... I have noooo plans at all this weekend, I think I'm ok with that....

Training has been interesting... I've been learning alot about myself the past few weeks... I've learned that I get really frusterated when I'm not good at something from the get go... I've been a diver for the past 10-11 years and so I'm pretty comfortable in the water, but theres a huge difference between swimming 60 feet under the water, and swimming on top of the water.... its alot harder than it seems... I'm doing ok, I just need to work on my edurance right now, and then work on my speed... I keep reminding myself that I have time... I have 5 months!!! CALM down! Mallorie called me a drama queen the other night because I was taking this pretty hard haha... It will come, and I know it will... tonight I'm going for a run after work, then I'm going to do some toning... I really need to do that... then if I don't do anything tonight I'll go for a quick swim at 9 then hit the hot tub for a while! and its the exact same thing tomorrow too... swimming and the gym! I feel soooo good after a good solid work out.. I really shouldn't be complaining cause I love the gym, and the days I don't go, are usually the days when I feel the lowest... I really believe that the gym is an antidepressant... atleast it is for me.....

So last night while I was on my way home from work, my phone rang and when I saw the name on my phone I'm not going to lie I was a little shocked, it was my highschool best friend Lauren Valgardson McCance... I haven't talked to her in like a year... she's been married for almost 2 years and lets be honest newly married people just really don't care about hanging out with single people anymore...they're "too cool" for that..haha but it was really fun to talk to her, and catch up...even tho I don't think she really cared too much about the dates I've been on lately, and the fact that I'm no where near close to getting married(even tho shes pushing it on me)... it was sweet... I haven't seen her or her husband Chris since my other best friend from highschools wedding LLASSSST november... and I haven't seen Amber since then either... those married people... geez... just forgetting about us singles as soon as they say "I do" nahh it's cool Amber is awesome and I really miss her too, but I forgot how random and funny lauren was... she always made me laugh in highschool and she still makes me laugh now. She's awesome. We're going to hang out soon... which will be really fun! It's been so hard to keep in touch with all of my married friends... I really need to do a better job of that I think... Maybe when I get married we can all hang out again ha ha... I really envy those close knit groups of friends that stay close all their lives. My mom has girlfriends shes still close with after being graduated highschool for 25+ years and I can't even handle 5.... oyi oyi.... But it was good to talk to lauren and I can't wait to hang out with her.... I love her husband too, Chris is such a good guy!! I miss those two! ahhh


So this next part is kind of serious....which I hardly ever am... so thats why this is going to be hard for me to write, and I don't know if its going to make sense, but its just all the gumbled thoughts in my head. I was having a convo with a good friend of mine last night, and we were both just talking about regrets, and talking about the things in life that we think we've missed out on... and I'll be honest.... I've got alot of those....I'm not really going to bring them up because some of them are definately sensitive spots for me right now, but I really need to start doing things for myself, and stop thinking negatively... last night I was seriously wondering HOW on earth I have any friends, because I'm like the weridest person ever... lately my moods have been from one extreme to the other.... last week I was the most outgoing, always playing with new people mood, and this week I haven't seen one person... I go in and out of hermittness.... and I think I've found where all this is stemming from... and it comes from all my insecurities... and so as I work on them this year(within the next few months) I hope to have my extreme moods be not so extreme.... :) I've been thinking alot about my life lately, and what I've done with it.... and I've come to the conclusion that I've been thru alot the last 5 years... a little too much, and I think thats why I am the way I am... I really envy my friends who can just pick up and travel.... I wish I could just do that, and I hope that I will be able to.... the biggest thing I feel like I need to work on right now is balance! I need to balance my work,social and my training life so I can do a little bit of everything. Lately I've been running two a days... and so I go to bed at like 9:30-10 every night so I can get up at 5:50 to swim before work... I know physically it will pay off... and once I feel better physically I will be more outgoing(its just this long equations... IF I do this...THEN... I will have this) so I really need to just find balance... and take a few institute classes this semseter so I get some sort of social life throughout the week..... so my conclusion is that my hermittness now...will pay off this spring/summer when I go on all my trips.... I think I feel better about being a hermit, and I really need to try and find balance in my life...... I also need to stop pretending everything is ok when its not.... Pretending to be something I'm not is hard work....nuff said!

On a lighter note... I had another funny convo with "donna" today....

Donna: hey lachele when is your birthday?
Me: Jan 29th...why?
Donna: How old will you be?
Me 23.....why?
Donna:.... don't you mormons get married when you're like 15.... You must be like the oldest single mormon girl I know....
Me: Donna..... how many mormon girls do you know??
Donna:......well just you....

HAHAHA oh man.... this stuff really shouldn't get to me anymore, and I'm really working on that!!

Random Convos.....

Ok, so in the past two days I've had nothing but the most randomest conversations on the face of the earth... last night I'm grocery shopping at safeway and theres this little kid whos screaming bloody murder in the cheese section, and I'm politely walking and this old man(bless old people, they're the only ones who can speak their minds and get away with it)

Old man: Man that mom should really tame that tiger down....
Me: definately.......(starting at one end of the isle, walking away)
Old man: You know what girl, My christmas SUCKED... my sister didn't even call me, and I haven't spoke to my brother since my moms funeral.... and to top it all off.... my BIRD flew away...
Me: really... thats insane, I'm sorry...*slowly inching my cart down the isle, old man following me*
Old man: Did you know that governement cheated me outta my pension... It was supose to be here by october...they tell me there was a "mistake" on my application... I won't get it until April.... I'm poor... my bird is gone and my mom is dead......
Me: Thats aweful sir, I've very sorry to hear about that. Your luck will change soon...*inching farther down the isle...by now people are starting to stare at me...because the man is yelling and spitting everywhere*
Old man: you really should inquire of your friends and see if thats happened to them before... I bet it has.. if it happens to me it will happen to you...
Me: I will ask around to all of my 65 year old friends.....
Old man: soooo do you think you want to grab some coffee sometime?? You're really cute....
Me: yah that'd be nice, maybe next time I see you in here we can, I've got to go.. but next time...* as my at the end of the isle..*

Then the old man pleasantly walked away.... talking to himself... haha!! ahhh old people. I'm glad I could make his day by talking to him.... poor man lost his bird and his mom at the sametime!


annnnnnnnnd TODAY! omg.... So here is a preface to the story.. I work with this woman named *Donna*(name changed cause I think she might check my blog) and this woman is the craziest woman and not in a good way... shes sooo loopy.. I love her but shes nuts! so a couple weeks ago we bought her this notepad that had a "checklist" of things to do at work, and it describes Donna down to a T..... let me give you an example.... the checklist had :check your email,pay bills,gossip about co workers, get coffee, take a walk, make some personal phone calls,day dream.... ok sooo heres how THHHHHIS convo went this morning in the back with all of the other girls around me.... it was pretty comical...

Me: Hey Donna did you ever find out who gave you that note pad with the checklist....
Donna: no, I didn't I assumed it was Klodi's cause she was at my desk(she leans in and whispers) cause you know she does ALL of those things on there....
Me: oh really... do you know where it is now? I just want to take a look at it...
Donna: oh no I took it home, she didn't claim it and so now its up on my fridge....
Me: oh really*trying sooo hard not to laugh*
Donna: you know someone should really talk to her about doing personal business on work time(as her bank account info is up, her cell phone ringing and a starbucks coffee in her hand)
Me: you're right.... you should probably talk to her...
Donna: you're right... its really sad when people pay their bills,check email and take personal phone calls at work*as her direct line rings, she picks up and says " hey babe...<-- her fiancee*
Me: trying ever so hard not to pee my pants while everyone else is laughing so hard to themselves they're shaking....
Donna: Sorry that was Todd.... oh wait... guys, I am paying my bills online.... I just emailed Stacey R, I'm drinking a coffee and I've already gone on a walk... I probably shouldn't be the one to talk to Klodi... I'm not a hypocrite!

Me: walking back to my desk peeeeeeeing my pants laughing....
Other girls: joining me in a competely different room to laugh our heads off.....

Normally this person is pretty annoying but today she made me day....today she blamed her "head in the clouds" on all her meds cause shes sick....but We think shes crazy!!!

I am.................

FRUSTEEEEEEEEEEEEERATED!!!

that is all..... I guess you can tell how my workout went tonight..... :(

What doesn't kill me.....

Maaakes me stronger!!! holy cow... ok so my training has been really scattered, I've been sick lately and so its been hard, but tonight was my first swim workout and let me tell you I'm exausted. I was very surprised with my times(good)...but I still have a long way to go. I'm hopeful... I was a little discouraged but I think that if I stop trying to be Lachele the Great all the time, and work my way up to where I want to be I could get alot more accomplished. I always try to be the best at the beginning and I end up getting frusterated...Soooo I'm retirering that tactic...and I'm just going to try my hardest...why get good right now...I'll be bored for the next 5 months... so this is going to teach me patience.....oh boy will this ever! FRRRRICK I hate not getting what I want when I want it.. So my run and my bike are coming along quite nicely... I actually am not to worried at all about my bike...my run could use a little bit of work...but my swim...wow....I guess its to be expected...all I have to say is that I'm going to be freakin buff come april/may.... WOOOHOOO!!!! I think I finally bite off more than I could chew. I swam 800m tonight and my legs were dead by the end of the night.... so I've got alot of stamina to build... I'm really excited right now tho about this. Last night at FHE I saw some people that I Haven't seen in a while and they said that I looked like I was losing alot of weight, and that I was looking really good... do you know how awesome that feels to hear... I've lost quite a bit of weight in the last 6 months or soooooooo so it's pretty exciting, and now I'm hoping to tone alot...:) I "signed" a contract with mallorie and rianne not to eat sugar except on special occasions and last night I kind of forgot about it and had a banana split at fhe last night and can I just tell you it was the most disgusting thing ever.... I'm starting to come around to the taste of healthy food, and I'm finding different ways to cook things, and its glorious! I'm finding myself not even craving crap food which is amazing...GOOO LACHELE!!! :) So I swam 400m in less than a half hour today.... so I think I'll be fine just brushing up on my swimming, and my run is coming its at about 32-35 minutes I'd like to see it under 30 and my bike is wicked... about 33 minutes for my 13 miles... I think I'm doing well... I really just need to work on my edurance!!

So before I went swimming tonight I went to do my visiting teaching... I use to hate visiting teaching, just because... but now I love it... it's hard to actually get out and do it, but once I'm out doing it I'm absolutely loooooving it! I visit two super cute girls Megan and Anne.. my companion is Sister Terner my bishops wife, and she is just such a sweet lady! I love her. I had the chance to plan the lesson and this month the visiting teaching lesson was on Faith. I love faith and I realize that I need more of it. I have faith when things are going well, but when life sucks I don't do so hott.... I really need to rely on the things that I know in the times that I need it most, it's easy to have faith when things are going my way, but when they aren't..... its really hard and Satan just loves creepin in there and making me feel like crap and doubt. But alas, I will work on that this year...


So I decided that I need to go on a trip! I miss my friends down in the states and I really need to get out of Calgary so I am going on a trip to REEEEEEEEXBURG... and I know that doesn't sound like all that much fun, but I miss the people I'm going to visit sooo much. My lova Mallorie is coming up from Provo that weekend just to see me, and I get to see Kathryn and Brinn, and I'm not going to lie, but I'm most excited to see Chase(mainly because it's been the longest since I've seen him) I just love my bestest friend!! Funny story about him... He served his mission up here about a year ago, and when he was inmy ward I hate his guts sooooooo much!!! the first time I met him he threw a bucket of water on my face and then a sock full of flour....pretty much I had dough in my eyes... so needless to say he wasn't high on my friends list...then he started teaching my friend and I got to know him, and finally accepted his apologies for being a meanie to me.... and we've been friends ever since...he went home in January and I talked to him alot, then he came back up in March for the sealing of one of his converts and I got to spend a day with him at the Temple, then in May I went to Rexburg to see a bunch of my friends and he was high on my priority list.... and on my way home from Utah in August I got to have lunch with him...and can I just tell you that I absolutely LOVE that kid, he cracks me up, and he makes me feel sooo much better about myself(in his werid ways) He's the only person I can take any sort of critizism from cause I know he just loves me, and we're best friends! I talk to him all of the time and when I see him its like no time has past, its like we live down the street from each other! It's just how we are, and I'm sooo excited to see him.. One more month!!! YAY!!! I just hope the roads are good enough that I can drive thru the mountians because I want nothing to stop me from seeing him(and mal, and brinn, and katt) AND DANIELLE!!!! Then in April I'm going to conference so I'll get to see Chase then, aaaand in May on my way down to my Triathlon.... so I'll get to see him lots! Anyways I'm exausted and I'm just watching the last of the biggest loser... sometimes I wish I was fat enough to be on that show, but I'm really happy I'm no where near that heavy..... I've just got to do it myself.... I can do it... and as Ri says.... nothing tastes as good as thin feels... soooooooo I will always and forever love my brocolli and asparagus.... mmmmmm

Goals??

So its a week into 2009 and I have no goals yet.... which means I'm a week behind...not exactly the way I wanted to start off 2009... BUT alas, I think I have them... most of them are pretty fun I have to admit, I think I will have no problem accomplishing them

9 Goals for 2009

1.Train/compete in my first triathlon(May30/09 Salem Utah...in Under 2 hours!)
2. Ride 200 miles with Rianne and Mallorie for Cancer(the link for our team will be up soon, so if any of you are feeling generous to donate, we'd appreciate it)
3.To go to the Temple atleast once a month(visit Temples I've never been to..I've been to Cardston,Rexburg,Bountiful,Salt Lake, Provo and Idaho falls) ,make sure to read my scriptures/ensign/church books regularily, give service, fulfill my calling to the best of my ablility and serve others, to make sure I pray aloud atleast twice I day.
4.To find things that define me, things that I love again. My one love in highschool was basketball, so I want to find something I'm inlove with again(I think my list has started Triathlons, snowboarding, photography(this is a new one), I want to start painting again, I want to start diving more)
5.To become a homemaker in every sense of the word! My goal is to learn how to cook, and cook well... and nutritious food....homemade bread, my own soups, I want to learn about home decorations
6.Possibly to fall in love... this one I'm still nervous about.... so I'm going to put an * on it and this one might be substituted for something else at any given point in time.
7.To buy a new bike, camera, snowboard
8.To actually save money(which might omit #7) ha ha!
9.Be happy with who I am, the way God made me, and if theres something I don't like, don't let it get me down just change it!

So thats them.... They might sound a little lame, but I think right now I'm trying to reshape who I am, and who I've been for the last 4 years, and now I'm finally getting the courage to take new challenges. I'm the type of person who will not do something for fear of failing.... take snowboarding for example... I haven't gone in two years because I'm nervous that I'm going to suck again. I finally got a good friend of mine to offer to take snowboarding lessons with me(even tho shes a good snowboarder) The lessons we're signed up for are intermediate boarders so towards the end he'll be trying to teach us some tricks....another example is my Triathlon... I'm soooo nervous to just up and SUCK that I'm training 5 months ahead...when really 11 weeks is more than plenty.... My goal is to do the whole thing in under two hours.... which for a first timer.. I should just be happy to cross the finish line, but I definately don't want to laugh myself out of Utah county..... and I'm pretty competitive and Eric talks alotta smack....so natrually I'm ready to run him into the ground, in a humble way of course! So yeah, those are just a few of my fears, and I'm going to get rid of those asap..... I really want to start doing alot more diving with my dad. I've been certified since I was 12 years old and my dad and I use to go so much when I was younger but haven't gone out a whole lot the last few years, but I'm really hoping this summer we'll be able to go alot more. Anyways... feel free to check up on me at any point....I'll need it!

My training has been going well....I need new shoes before I'm outta pain, the last few days I've just been trying to work thru the pain and keep going, but I'm definately feeling the repercussions the next day.... only 21 weeks left until the BIG day :)

New shoes...or New Legs

I totally think I need new shoes...or new legs because if I don't get new ones soon I think I might actually die... I swear... I am in soooo much pain today.. yesterday was my first run of the official training that I'm doing, and after the first few minutes I was pretty impressed with myself. I hadn't lost my touch at all... I was going at a decent pace, and I was coming up on hitting my 1 mile mark in 8.5 minutes which is pretty good cause I only have to run 3.5 or something like that for the tri.....and I want to try and do my run portion in about 25 minutes... so I only need to try and shave like 2 minutes off.... woohoooooo but at 1.1miles I got the most awful pains in my tibialis anteriors(the muscle on the front of your lower leg) on both sides.... I pushed thru it, stopping a little bit more than normal to stretch them out.... and nothing worked, and now today I'm definately paying for it... :( So I've come to the conclusion that I either need a leg transplant(which might be pretty dang expensive and might not work so well....) or I need new running shoes... and I think I might try the latter of my conclusions. Sooooooo I'm sooo excited to say that saturday I'm going to the running store(theres an actual running store) and I'm going to look into some new shoes, and I knew I needed to get some new ones soon, but I don't really think I can run that much on these ones anymore... its time for my shoes to retire...they look like they've had a good long life so I don't feel bad about it! I'm actually pretty stoked to get some new ones! I'm going to get someone to examine my feet, and we'll see if we can get ones to fit the arches of my feet... I have pretty high arches... and it sucks.... So tonight I have a 5 mile bike and my weights, so I should be done at the gym in about an hour, last night it felt so werid to be leaving the gym an hour after I got there... I use to spend my whole nights there....monday-thursday and all day saturdays.. I need to find something else to fill my time with......Ohh... do you want to know whats amazing... I only pay $2.10 a month for my gym membership cause after my 2 year contract was up I got a year free for refering two of my friends and I just have to pay the admin fee... WOOOOOHOOOOO!!! amazing... looks like I'm cheap and easy!

Well its a good thing that this weeks training is pretty light and I can have the rest of my nights to do whatever, because its WELCOME week for institute and tonight is the BBQ up at the north inst. building, so that should be fun, sunday I saw alot of new faces... my ward always gets a new shipment of girls, and never any boys, but I saw afew new ones... they're pretty cute..haha! ahhhh the life of a girl in the Singles Ward... I love it... I didn't however get sustained into the new presidency as of yet.... They're doing it this sunday, so I'm really excited... the RS is huge now, and its going to be so much fun, and I actually think we might get some pretty good turn outs to enrichment.... Any ideas for enrichment activities would be great! I've got some good ones, and I'm going to need help coming up with some!