Another Month!

Has gone by! Amazing how time just flies. Let's see if I can lay out the last month in an expeditious, non-blabbing fashion... although this is me we're talking about... Chatterbox isn't my middle name for nothing!

I went home on my mother's birthday to spend the weekend with her, dad, and cousin Meredith. Meredith, mom, Sharon, and I all went to the spa one day of the weekend - that will be my second luxury splurge when I get a second job - more massages! Otherwise, it was tons of fun to see my peeps and get to hang with them. Something new... was the Renaissance Fair! Granted, it has been around for years, but I've never been. I ended up going with Lynn, Shelly, and Nick and had a blast! Our feet were disgustingly dirty (that's what flip-flops in dirt will do for you), and we were beyond tired on the way home (Lynn and I slept - yes, there's incriminating evidence of this), but it was all insanely worth it.

I came back and had a 20 page paper due and my stats final. All of it went incredibly well, much better than I had anticipated. So school remains good and classes next semester look like they'll be fun.

Now I'm gearing up to FINALLY take and pass my NASM (personal training) exam. As I'm working a ton of shifts in the next few days, I have chosen to break up the studying into only a couple chapters a day and do it that way. Then job searching it is!

On the other search front, the apartment one, mom was here last week and we found one! Beautiful place in Arlington, Virginia that's bigger, cheaper, closer to the metro, and right by a mall. One problem. It's right by a mall... and I have a smaller closet. This could be potentially life-threatening.

More exciting news is that I'm a team leader for the upcoming Race for the Cure in Washington DC. I work at Curves and my boss and I thought it would be fun to actually have a team this year as she wasn't planning on it because of a whole assortment of issues, but since active little me is here, why not? I have to admit to being a wee bit disappointed though. We set the team goal at $1,500. In the whole scheme of things, not all that much. We get about 50 people a day in here, if all 50 gave a dollar a day, we'd come pretty darn close! Much less if some folks gave more. I'm not sure if it's because of the recession or because they have other charities they are giving to, but not very much has been raised and I just feel that, if we have even a few dollars to spare, give it to something that will last and that will help. The monies go to research and lobbying and all sorts of fun stuff. But, to me, the most important? Monies go to women who need treatment and cannot pay for it. I paid $45 to enter the race and walk 3 miles. I, admittedly, do not really have that kind of money to spare right now. I have June rent to pay and still need to pay my test fee. But, I have a job and I have my health and for this I'm lucky. So if you're feeling like you have even $5 to spare, please donate. http://globalrace.info-komen.org/site/TR/GlobalRaceForTheCure/GlobalRace?px=5289471&pg=personal&fr_id=1140

See you all soon!