Happy 6th of July

Normally I do Wordless Wednesdays.
Today, I’m not because it is my 26th birthday.

Wow. That’s really hard to believe.
I’ve been wondering to myself lately, “When did this happen? When did I become a grown-up?”
I’ll be getting married next week, I picked up the license yesterday, we got the judge and picked the park.

I don’t think I should have any more birthdays. I think last years’ birthday was my last. Nothing exciting planned. Probably go to the gym and the man make me dinner.

I’ve been thinking a lot lately about my most memorable birthday. It was my 5th birthday. I woke up everyday for a week before and would tell myself “I’m 5 now. I won’t cry anymore.” Then something that day would make me cry and I would tell myself the same thing the next day. That birthday I got Hungry, Hungry Hippos and we went to St. Louis.

We get these ideas in our heads that we have to have accomplished something or be a certain way by a certain age. Like a professor I had once said “Normal should only be a setting on a dryer.”

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Guest Post

Hey y'all! I'm Hayley from Blue Eyed Blonde. I haven't blogged over there in a while, but I'm trying to get back into it. I was excited when I was asked to write this guest post.

I graduated from college last year with a Bachelors of Fine Arts Photography, and I'm in the process of setting up my own photography business in Northeast Florida. I have shot a few engagement sessions, and a few sessions of my nieces. If you gave me a choice of anything to photograph, I'd pick landscapes. They are so beautiful to me and I could spend the rest of my life photographing nature and landscapes. I also have an obsession with taking pictures of buildings, especially old ones (I get this from my dad).

Here's some of my work, and keep an eye out at www.hayleyzipperer.com. I'm working on getting it up and running! I hope you like them!

Engagement Shoot, Jacksonville, FL, 2011

Engagement Shoot, Orlando, FL, 2011

Burgess Falls, Tennessee, 2010

Big Talbot Island, Jacksonville, FL 2009

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Mark Allan
March 1977 – June 1999

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Today I am taking a class through New Horizons. Today's class, Adobe Acrobat 9. Tomorrow's class, Powerpoint 2010 Level 1. Exciting stuff. I love these classes. Though, I took all 3 levels of Word 2010, and went back to work to practice what I learned. I was making a form, and wanted to do other things that the class never taught, so I had to go out online and find out how to do it myself. Also, this is Adobe 9, I have Adobe X on my all my computers now, they are way behind

The first hour or so is always so boring. Every teacher goes through the same stuff about working with the Elluminate program. Also, a lot of what they teach, is pretty basic stuff. Every once in a while, I learn a new trick but yea.

At least I have lots of time for blogging today! Happy Wednesday Everyone! Half way through the week!

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Every day I drive by this Denny's sign after work. I think this is horrible advertising, every time I drive by, all I really see is "Haddock Smoothies". That sounds horrible!

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Running and Running

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Do I have never been a runner. I used to loathe running like no other. In elementary school, I used to wish I had asthma just so I wouldn’t have to run. Also, we had to run every a distance depending on your grade, 6th grade was a mile, that the teacher called the long run. We called it the long walk. In high school, I picked a PE class where there wouldn’t be a lot of running, Net Sports (which was volleyball, badminton, and tennis).

Before recently, I had only ever run a mile straight once. That was in college and only cause I had my friend next to me the entire time encouraging me. I’m not exactly sure when it happened, but at one point since graduating college, I have decided that I want to be able to run a 5k.

In 2009, I decided to do the couch to 5k program. I lasted a week and half. But I had a good reason. There was a creepy guy I talked to one day and so then after that I didn’t want to run into him again so I didn’t go to the gym.

A couple months ago while waiting for yoga class, I was on the treadmill and set it to –3 incline and was able to run a mile. I was so excited since I hadn’t been running or anything. So now I am working my way up to 0 incline and beyond. I was able to do a modified version of Iowa Girl Eats run. I used my negative incline, slowed it down, and did it half the time. But I was able to run 30 minutes straight, 2.5 miles. It was amazing