. . . so says fellow bloggers Melissa and Lindsey!

Thanks ladies for the award. To accept the award, I need to share 7 random facts about myself and then give the award to 7 other bloggers.

My facts:

1. I am a spelling bee champion. In 8th grade, I won my school spelling bee. Then I went to the District championship and I won that too. Then I went to the New York City championship and there were so many people I didn’t even bother trying to win. I snagged myself a very cool bright shiny blue jacket with gold trim that says “Daily News Spelling Bee Champion,” and a plaque. I use this as a fact in every “fact list”, but it is my only claim to fame.
2. I am the laziest person ever. I have no problem staying in pajamas, unshowered, for days at a time. I only consider a weekend good if I had at least one day of “doing nothing” — literally, sitting at home all day. I neglected the blog because I was too into relaxing after my busy schedule. My dream in life would be to do nothing all day, every day. The boy says I am the only person he has ever met lazier than he is.
3. I can’t remember what it was like to eat food and feel normal after. When I eat a meal now, my stomach bloats and my clothes don’t fit. That’s just how it is. I sometimes try to think really hard about the days a few years ago where I put on jeans, ate three meals, and still felt fine. I can’t comprehend that ever being possible for me. It was, but it is so far out of what I can understand. I also can’t imagine ever feeling that way again. I miss salad so much it hurts.
4. I have never taken a full week off work. Even though I work full time, I am considered a “consultant” and get no benefits or vacation days. I am in desperate need of a whole week on a Caribbean island. I’ve been working full time for 4 years with no vacation.
5. I used to have a 10 Facts “About Me” list that I loved. I searched everywhere for it so I can borrow some for this list here — my computer, my gmail archives, my external hard drive, two flash drives and the boy’s computer. I can’t find it anywhere.
6. I would never have considered taking up running if it wasn’t for reading blogs. Never. Running was not something I ever though twice about, not something I ever cared to do. When I worked on a teen tour in 2005, the people I worked with discussed going on morning runs together and I just said “count me out.” Thanks to reading blogs where many of the bloggers are runners, I decided to try it out myself — and ended up falling in love. No other exercise can ever compare for me.
7. I want a puppy. Really, really badly.

I’m supposed to nominate 7 other bloggers for this award but I think by now everyone has been nominated. If you haven’t, consider yourself nominated by me and knock yourself out.

I almost added something about food and changes to the way I’ve been eating to the list, but I realized it is very blogworthy and needs an entire post on its own. I’ll try to get to that this week!

GIVEAWAY & CHALLENGE

The Core Fusion DVD giveaway ends TOMORROW. Click here to enter! And I really hope you all decide to jump on this challenge with me.

I am so excited to start my Core Fusion challenge. It will be so tough but I really do believe it will be rewarding. If I get into the NYC Half Marathon (I want to get in so badly, you have no idea) the month will get even tougher since I will have to train! If I don’t get into the NYC Half I will probably look into another half to do in March. If I have the surgery, I don’t know if I will be able to run long distances after and I really want to achieve this half marathon goal before I go through with it.

BLOG UPDATES

And I’ve been working on the pages on my blog! Check out my Running Songs page which lists all my favorite running/workout songs by categories I made up, and look through my other pages as well. I still have more to do but I feel great that I finally have made some progress. December was a tough month for me and I just had no energy or motivation to blog. January will be better!