They'rrrrrrrrrre BAAACK!

GOOD GRAVY!!! I thought I was in the clear, but I guess not.... Guess who's back? My freakin bloody noses and shin splints... my shin splints came back last week because I had taken a few days off of running last week cause I was sick, so they'll go away and its nothing that some A535 can't take care of...so those I can just work/run thru, but DAAAAAANG it my bloody noses are back, it's been a good month and a half since my last nose bleed.. I started getting them Thursday night at the gym, then I got one at volleyball, and friday night while I was at a movie I got one too...hmmm and Saturday, then this morning while I was putting my charts for my tomorrows clinics together I got one....WHILE SITTING AT MY DESK! I got it allll over my desk, all over my chart/referral and it wasn't good, it just wouldn't stop bleeding! :( what is the dealio? Last time this happened I said that I would go to the Dr if it lasted a week longer than what it did, and I never did go check it out, and I guess if it doesn't stop in the next few days it might very well be a trip to the Dr, but I have a feeling maybe it's just the air it's been pretty dry lately, so I don't want to waste my time to go to the Dr just to find out its the air and I need to just keep my nose moist! (sounds sick huh) blah!


Training is going slowly but surely, I definately feel like crap lately, I've been doing alot more weight training the last little bit too, so I've been pretty sore but it's one of those "feel good" sores because I know that I'm actually doing something, and theres some progress being made! I need to freakin get my stinkin butt in gear... I feel like I'm slacking off alot more than I should be. I think I'm going to do the Okotoks Tri and the Magrath Tri's this summer....ANNNNND I'm doing the 8k ladies run in June too... should be a good time! I'm excited, I've really haven't been too pumped to run cause I kind of got out of the habit, and if I take more than two days off it takes me a couple days to get back into the groove of it, and this next week is going to hurt pretty bad in the running dept. :( oh well I guess thats what I get for slacking off....


Thats last weeks update! -- although you'll be proud that I was not a hermit this weekend...ha ha TWO WEEKENDS in a ROOOOW! I've been social I think thats like a record or something. I'm pretty beat right now, but it was a good weekend! I had fuuuuun!

INTIMIIDATING.....

me............. HAHAHAHAHA!!!

Yah thats right Wednesday night I was told that I am intimidating and I pretty much laughed in everyones face and today I am still laughing!! Who ever in the world thinks that I am intimidating is a huge pushover... WOW.... that kind of makes me feel powerful...but kind of makes me feel like a big fat jerk HOWEVER.... I must give some awknowledgement to the reasons they think I am intimidating....

1. I am loud (which yes, it's true I am....) <-- I guess thats something that people either hate about me or love which is fine because its the way I've always been. (always.... fhe, parties, whatever the case may be)

2. I ALWAYS without fail stick my foot in my mouth <--- this is more just funny and Kalia told me that she thinks I am intimidating for the simple fact that I can stick my foot in my mouth several times over AND I recover nicely... I think... I guess I just enjoy feet hmmmm.... (while conducting in relief society, giving a lesson, or any sort of public speaking, yet I still get up and do it over and over again)

3. I also like to be the center of attention <---- which shocks alot of people because when I first meet someone I'm pretty laid back and reserved but once I get to know them I looove being the center of attention....(hula dancing at the relief society enrichment activity while sister Swendsen set up for her lesson, the insane poems I make up about people at work.... ) the list can go on and on for all 3 of these reasons....


I'm not exactly sure if intimidating is such a bad thing, because these are 3 qualities I actually happen to love about myself.... the whole sticking my foot in my mouth thing is just something I've learned to deal with... and now it's to be expected so I just roll with it, because I'd spend the better half of my little life being embarassed if I didn't....

I think I have alot of friends despite some of my "handicaps".....



WEEEEELLLLLLLLLLLLLLL training is going well, I am loving it, and I always have I just start freakin the crap out of myself ALL the time, doubting myself, but I'm doing well, and I've got this, I will do this in under two hours, I will rock it.... I'll come home recover for a few days then do the 8 mile ladiesfest run down in lethbridge, and I will do the Okotoks Charity Tri in July and the Magrath Tri in August! I'm pretty stoked!


Life is good right now! No complaints here(other than the snow, but don't get me started)


<3 ME!

hahaha funny convo

Sooooo I haven't posted any funny convos lately, mainly because Donna has been a little bit dry but I've found a new fish to make fun of.... her name is...... we'll say Sarah...she probably won't read this but still.... I don't post donnas real name so I won't post sarahs....

Heres a little back ground info on 'Sarah' shes this little asian that I work with(and I love asians I am not racist) but this girl is a whole nother spiecies ha ha all she does is talk about diets, fake boobs, tanning, hair extensions and online shopping...ha ha.... anyways she found out I was mormon and ever since its been attack of the insanely crazy asian girl at work, she asks me all these questions(which normally I'd be stoked to answer) but she uses them to make fun and pretend she is interested so she can corrupt missionaries and stuff.... its not even funny, but I laugh it off because well..... I could get mad and egg her on... anyways she just came back to my office to use my fax machine and she said she was looking on my facebook at my pictures and she noticed I wasn't " as frumpy" as I am at work...(she always insults people...its common around here ha ha we love her anyways) anyways....so the convo goes as follows.....

Sarah: Lachele, I was just looking at your facebook, I saw your pictures, you're actually a pretty girl...not as frumpy as I would have thought"
Me: oh,.....thank....you..
Her: well ya, like you actually wear make up, you brush your hair... you know stuff that I do
Me: yup sometimes I decide to get ready....
Her: well why don't you get ready for work...
Me: because I don't want to wake up at 5:30 like you do every morning to get ready....
Her: ok, well you should try it, but you mormons are like hip people, you know those utah girls have big hair, lots of make up trendy clothes.....
Me: yah, some of them do why?
Her: well you lived there right so is that where you learned to do your hair and make up from?
Me: yes I lived there, but I did my hair like that before....
Her: oh, so you think I would fit in down there.....
Me: if you didn't open your mouth yes.....
Her: WONDERFUL, I will be booking my flight to Utah to corrupt those little mormon boys pronto!

HAAAAAAAAAA what else can you do other than laugh at that......I guess tomorrow I will be waking up at 5:30 to shower, blow dry, straighten, poof and slather my face with make up....haha!!! Oh Sarah is sooooo funny! I guess I should take a hint and brush my hair in the mornings and wear a little bit of make up.... usually this time of year I start tanning(which I've started) and I don't wear too much make up in the summer time, so I might have to wait til fall for that!! ha ha!


Other than that.. .not much is new with me.... I'll be training pretty hard core for the next little while then its off to the state of big hair and lotsa make up for my tri! WOOOHOOOOOOO

back to work....

Tonight I am back at the gym for a good portion of the night. I really wish my gym was open later its sooo inconvient, but since I only pay 2.10 a month( admin fee, I've been there a long time and go special 6 months free memberships to start using) I think I have like 2 years worth of them racked up, so I can't REALLY complain all that much now can I?? Anyways so my whole night will be spent in the gym 5:30-9.. it's not really that hard I promise! It's a little bit of running, a little bit of biking with some cool down on the eliptical and some weights X2.... I'm a big girl and I can handle it ha ha! My leg is feeling a whole wack better, last night at fhe everyone was asking me why I wasn't at the gym, and I had to explain to them that I hurt my leg, but I was walking fine, I think they just thought I was a big fat liar! Which I'm not! booooy o boooooy! So tonight is my 5 mile run and a little 10 mile bike...no big deal and some weights then its home to watch the biggest loser!! wooohooo!!! I love that show! If only I was American and about a good 150lbs heavier ha ha!

I was talking to a random in my ward... and by random I mean someone I don't normally talk to let alot pour out my heart about this triathlon business to... anyways she was asking me about my times and what I was hoping to get for my first and I pretty much told her I'd be enthralled if I crossed the finish line with no tears and no broken bones! Which is pretty much how I'm feeling right now, but she said something incrediably bold that I would never think to say to my best friend let alone a stranger I've known for .5 seconds.. but she told me I was copping out and I was being a wuss and I was trying to hide behind some insecurity that I have with this, and that I'm not setting any goals or reasonable goals(cause I guess finishing isa goal but its not really reasonable because of course I will finish.) I need to set a goal that I can work towards..... to improve my time because I could stop training now and not got back to the gym until the day before I compete.... soooooooo for this silly woman who told me I'm a wuss I will officially claim my time that I am aiming for as 2 hours! I've danced around that number since I started but I've never really committed to it because if I come in 2.00.59 I'll have felt like I failed! I think thats the reason that I haven't put any limits on myself, and I also feel like that is the reason I haven't been to concerned with training, I know I say I spend a buttload of time in the gym, and I really do but I just feel like I'm going no where with this, is because I'm not trying to get better! SOOOOOOOOOOOOO for all those of you that were thinking the same thing this special spirit was.... my goal is TWO HOURS and I haven't decided if this includes transition times or not, cause I have no way to really practice transitions everyone tells me that you just have to get the hang of what works for you in the transition areas! So, I guess I'm going with the flow on that one! Theres my little update, and now if I can only stop getting injured then I will be good to go, and I'm getting super stoked!

NOOOOOOW, since I feel like all I do is blog about training/working out I need a little help... I thought I was doing pretty good on the budgeting thing and saving money but as I look back at the last few months I've realized I SUCK! ha ha how did I ever think I was doing ok, and you know what it's because of my credit card. It was paid off for a super long time and things were good but then I just started using it every now and again on little purchases and WAM BAM its maxed again... ha ha how did this happen?!?! Seriously! Well, Once my credit card is paid off once and for all this time I will not be using it for all of my road trips and what not, I will be saving up for those on the side and if I can't afford it I will be not be going (after my trip to Utah for my tri) I'm not scrimping and trying to come up with a few bucks for dinner and gas, I've got food, and I've got gas for my jeep and a little for entertainment but as far as a savings is concerned I've got not much in the way of that! And considering I'm really looking at going back to school I need to keep my options open and I need to get saving... I really don't want to move to Edmonton for Nutritional Science but I really don't want to be paying $18,000 a year to go to school at USU or UVU or BYU....when I could just pay the $37,000 to finish the year and a half left I'd have of nursing down there! Nursing you say, you think I should totally finish that right? Well I was totally gung ho on that BUUUUUT it seems like Alberta has changed it regulations on nurses since the last time I checked into it, so I can't even be sure I can practice up here, and there is a slight possibility that I can stay down there and practice cause the states is looking for alot of health care professionals and so there is that possiblity but if not...then what? then I can't even work as a nurse getting paid big bucks up here and I'll have a huge student loan debt AGAIN that I'll have to pay off(ha ha this stresses me out just thinking about it) and if I took it up here I'd have to start a full 4 year program all over again... So really I'm kind of back at square one again...what do I want to do? where do I want to go? and is this really what I want to do right now? ha ha!! I thought I only had to make these choices when I was 18...no one said 5 years later I'd be in the same boat I was in when I was 18! booooooooooo

I'm sooo exausted from thinking to me, and not sleeping enough lately..but theres my rants for the day!

Little set back! :(

Well it's 6 weeks til D-Day....haha I speak of this day as the worst day of my life but really its going to be super fun.... and the whole day wont suck...just like two hours of it..haha!!! Anyways friday night I was at the gym and I was going pretty hard I felt great, I went home to shower and make it to the YSA Oscar awards for the year end closing social.... I was told I was nominated for an award and that I had to be there.. I had no idea what the award was for and I didn't think I'd win....but I d did BAHA!! and it was for the Wackiest YSA in Calgary.... I'm wacky one night and brother mandin gets a picture of it, then all of a sudden I'm super wacky and everyone is expecting a show at the dance...ha ha! RIIIIIGHT... the only show they got was the ones of me falling UP the stairs to accept my award! haaaa thats the 3rd time in my life I've fallen in a public setting like that in a big crowd! well my friend Clark was up from Rexburg so I hung out with him we went and got bubble tea and it was a good night!

By the end of the night I was super sore and feeling wicked stiff from the gym... and I woke up saturday morning in sooooo much pain, so much so that I couldn't even get outta bed, I had to roll out of bed.... I went and ran some errands, then I had crepes with Allison Punching Turkey and had a fun girl talk, I went home and guess what I did.... I WENT TO THE GYM....stupid me, I walk into the gym like a grandma and everyone was looking at me funny.... I spent a couple hours on the bike just to say I went to the gym, and today at church I was definately walkin like a gimp.... I pulled my quad( I forgot to mention that ha ha) and its pretty sore, I feel alot better now, but we'll see how I feel tomorrow... I'll probably make an appearance at the gym haha....

Well I took at 4 hours nap today after church, I swear sundays are my busiest days ever.... I came home made some dinner and crashed on the couch for 4 hours! loved every minute of it, but I'm going to be hating it tomorrow...boooo!!! I guess I should try and get some sleep.... g'night!

Updating all around

I realized that I never got a chance to blog about my trip to Utah for conference... it was pretty fun, I got to see some way good friends, eat tons of good food, and slack off big time with my training... ha ha all in all it was a pretty sucessful weekend!

Wednesday morning I was driving in Montana minding my own business when suddenly I saw a little red car with an Alberta licence plate and being the nosey person that I am I had to check it out and see if I knew them....haha I totally did.... it was Kinsey Torrie(soon to be Holt) shes soooo cute so we pretty much stayed close to each other the whole way to Idaho Falls then in Idaho Falls we got talking and catching up and I totally forgot to fill up on gas(I have an issue with gas while I'm travelling... I always forget to get it... by this time it was 4ish in the afternoon and I had already had a previous issue with getting gas earlier that morning) It was sooo fun to catch up with her tho, she's soooo freakin cute and I can't wait for her wedding. The rest of the weekend was pretty decent I hung out with some of my fave people in the world, I baked Canadian cookies with Rylynn and Rinnlie and wrote love notes to their parents it was pretty fun... I did a bit of shopping, had bubble tea( I apologize for the yucky bubble tea) but I am sooo excited for them to have it this summer when they come up to Canada!!!! I went to dinner with some friends, soaked up the spirit and rain on Temple Square... had tons of fun and didn't get much sleep! I went running once with the girls in the stroller then we played at the park for a bit, it was pretty sweet!! ahhhh I love Utah!

Since I've been home I've trained a little bit, but I haven't really done what I should be doing at this point in the game....why you ask?? cause I'm lazy and I'm just glutton for punishment.. I think I like to freak out about every little thing come crunch time. I know I will be able to pull it off in under 2 hours, but now my time has gone from 2 hours to 90 mins... oh boy... I often ask myself what the heck I've gotten myself into... and I still haven't figured that out...but when I do I'll let the rest of you knowwhat the heck is going on in the noggin of mine....


I know I said no more trips until my tri buuuuuuuuuuuuuut things have changed I'm only going home a couple weekends tho for Kinseys bridal shower and for her wedding, but I will make those day trips so that I can focus... FOCUS LACHELE!!!

.......new epiphany.....

ok, so in the last hour I've been talking to alot of nurses that I work with, and they highly suggest I get/finish nursing as fast as I can... I can take an accelerated program, and then I can work for a year or two then apply for grad school(persay) and take my anestitist program...which is 2-3 years depending on how fast I can get it down.... and then I will be certified to administer anestisia( I think I need to first learn how to spell it haha.....) then we'll talk about me taking the program! buuuuuuuuuuuuut they make 140,000 a year! isn't that wicked.... I definately have thought about doing my nursing, and following in my grandma's foot steps..... I know my mom is going to be really happy with this..but hey mom.... just remember $140,000 a year.... I will finally pay you and dad back.... ANNNNND maybe just maybe you'll be able to get rid of me...because I'm sure some guy will totally try and snatch me up once he finds out how much I will be making haha..... but before I do I will have sell my soul(everything I own) to go back to school..... so I've looked and pretty much no where in Canada has the accelerated nursing program...they're all 4 years and thats just junk... if I can do it in 2... I will take that... YES PLEASE! Any Ameritech in the States has a two year program, and I could possibly find one close to home... maybe montana....idaho.... I always was thinking Utah...but now I'm looking more along the lines of CALIFORNIA..... or NEVADA!!....who freakin wicked would that be??? Anyways.... as you can see my mind changes all the time..... its just an idea I've been playing with.... and so I'm sure it will probably change 4 or 5 more times.... thats the way it goes with me....


40 more training sessions until the Big Salem Spring Tri..... can you say WHERE THE FREAK DID THE TIME GO?!?!?! oh boy! wish me luck with my training....


p.s.....no more trips until after my tri.... I need to stay focused... I always lose it and its hard to get motivated as soon as I get back... tonight is going to suck!