beautiful days

this is the lake where i run all the time now. speaking of, lets talk about this for a second...i...run. yes, let it soak in. me, the girl who in college would work out like once a month. me, the girl, who when my roommates would always ask me if i wanted to go run or work out with them would consistently get the response of, 'um..nope.' eventually they knew better and stopped asking and then when i would actually want to join them they would look at me like i had gone off the deep end. yeah, so i actually work out on a normal basis and its not even bc i suddenly have a desire to be healthy or anything although that would be a good reason. its mostly out of boredom and having nothing better to do. and ive gotten in such a routine that now if i dont work out i kinda feel guilty. this is hugely due to the fact that the weather has been beautiful for the last month or so and if you live in texas you know you have to take advantage of the good days. ive always been that way...if its nice outside i want to be out in it and if i dont get to go outside then im truly bummed. so, all this to say...once it starts hitting the 90s and its so humid that you feel like youre suffocating once you walk outside...i might just lose my new found work out hobby. i guess we'll see my level of dedication once summer rolls around. or maybe then i could take up swimming bc thats a cooler (temperature wise) form of exercise...oh wait...i cant swim worth a flip. i mean, i can swim to save my life but if you told me to go swim a few laps id probably drown. someone once told me that asians have dense bones so its harder to float...and thus maybe harder to swim??? blame everything on being asian..its easier that way. so yeah..probably wont take up swimming unless someone once to give me lessons. never got formal lessons as a kid...most kids do the whole swim team thing and start swimming at age 4...i think my neighborhood wasnt safe enough to play outside at much less go to the neighborhood pool so i was deprived of the young aged swimming. my parents try to make up for it by giving me lessons at barbara dennys swim school..i think that was the name of it, im not sure..there was a picture of a dolphin on the door though - i do remember that for some strange reason. anyways...yeah back to the lessons...i remember all the kids in my class were like 5 and 6. i however was like TWELVE. in illustrative terms, they were like flipper and i was shamu. so that was...embarrassing, humbling, made me real angry at my parents to say the least. oh and even with all that...i didnt really learn how to swim well. probably bc i refused to go to classes halfway thru to save my pride. yeah...neat story huh? so what was i talking about? oh yeah...being freaking hot when summer comes. it doesnt help that im like the sweatiest girl ever and sweat profusely the second heat hits me - thats always been cool, i bet the boys love the sweaty girls. anyways...now im just rambling so im going to stop. but yeah, here's where i go running...its brushy creek lake and its beautiful and theres miles of running trails which is really great. and its like 2 minutes from my apt which aint bad either!