Love the Life you Live, Live the Life you Love

I am by far the world's worst girlfriend...ever. I forgot to blog about this earlier because it happened last week. Anyway, last week while Chris and I were outdoor rock climbing in W. Mass...I dropped him! He was almost 9 feet up on this cliff and he slipped, and I didn't catch him. What kind of girlfriend am I? He literally slid down the side of the cliff, got caught about a foot above the ground, swung into a tree, hit the cliff again, and fell on the ground. All while I just watched. It didn't even OCCUR to me that it was my fault until he was laying on his back gasping, "oh god. Ow." and laughing. Yes, laughing. I just kept thinking, "IT'S NOT FUNNY! I COULD HAVE KILLED YOU!" Thankfully, he was perfectly fine except the wind got knocked out of him and he has a scratch on his back and was covered in dirt. He wasn't even the least bit upset- he felt bad that I felt bad. It ended up with him apologizing to me. What the hell. That doesn't ev...

I ran 8.5 miles last night! Whew! It's a long way away from the marathon, and I'm a bit behind my 2 best girls and my manager...but I'm cruising at my own pace and 8.5 miles was a stretch for me. I only went to the Longfellow bridge - a loop which is about 6 miles from my aparment - but then as I came around to the BU boathouse where I need to make a left back onto the bridge to get to Comm Ave, I found myself still energized and feeling better than I did the first 5 miles, so I passed it up and kept going and added two more bridges. I kind of regretted it running back up the Comm Ave hill home, but after I felt awesome. When I got to CitySports, less than a half mile from my apt, I walked and started talking to this guy walking next to me. He asked what I was training for and said I had that, "triathlon" looking body. He said I looked really good - and not in a creepy way - and told me to keep it up, "mind over matter." He wished me luck and went into t...