Happy Humpday, ya'll.

I'm so sleepy today! Lifting wears me out, but running leaves me with a lot less energy spent and I have trouble sleeping the night of a run. I ended up waking up at 2 AM and baking muffins!

Yesterday's run was good. I was a little shocked, but I am definitely happy. I've never been a good runner, so these are major strides for me. Today is a lifting day and I have plans to torture my workout partner with some Crossfit.com stuff.

In other news, someone proposed to me at the post office. I'd never seen this man a day in my life, but he swore to me that we'd be getting married. Ha!

Crexion - Welcome back! That's quite the small graduating class. It seems to me that it would be more fun since you'd really know everyone.

Heather - Good luck on the tri! Is it a full or a sprint?

Hey all. I haven't been able to get into the forums much this week. Any free minutes I've had have been spent waiting for the page to load! Today seems to be working a little better ... or maybe I'm just luckier today.

Anyhow, big news in my world is that I've actually been able to run a little. I tested my knee with a two mile run on Saturday and felt fine during a three mile run on Monday. I'm going to stick with an every-other-day thing for at least two weeks, so hopefully my knee will continue to hang in there okay!

Otherwise, I've just been up to the usual stuff. Irish Paul is back from Ireland, so we met up Friday night. I was out with some of my friends, and he was out with some of his friends, so we all met up which was unexpected, but good, because now Paul's met just about all of my city friends. At any rate, I think we're going to try to grab a drink or something this evening.

And in a half hour, we have Make Your Own Ice Cream Sundaes at work. It's like Random Collegiality Week here. Last night we had a big work happy hour (or, more accurately, four hours). Not sure what's going on, but I ain't complaining!

crexion: I'm happy to hear that you had a nice vacation and that the reunion was such a nice time! I totally agree with you about the city vs. suburbs/rural thing when it comes to babies. Literally, every single person I know who still lives in my hometown (even people I only know tangentially) has at least one kid. Meanwhile, only one person in my extended group of friends has a child. Just think everything kind of gets bumped back a couple years in the city!

Any my that's a small school you went to!!! And a small town you grew up in!!! We had two times as many kids in my high school as you had in your whole town. Crazy! One of my best friends went to a very small high school, and it sounded really nice in a lot of ways. Everyone was super close, and she and her sister are actually the only girls I know who are still close friends with people from high school. (Maybe it's just my experience, but it seems like guys tend more often to stay friends with their high school friends, while girls tend to be closer to the friends they make in college and just after college.) Anyhow, good stuff! I'm glad that you had a nice time!

heatherrick: People are funny about houses, aren't they? My roommate is moving to South Carolina, and I guess her family is being somewhat over-the-top aggressive about her buying something rather than renting something. She's been to Charleston literally twice in her entire life. She knows next to nothing about the city -- whether some areas are better than others, whether she'll like it at all down there, etc. She's got some minor savings, but she's going down there without a job, so who knows what kind of income she'll have. It's just kind of not the right time for her to buy something, and I don't really understand why her family is being so psychotic about it. Odd!

At any rate, you know what's right for you! And I'm happy to hear that the apartment is even better than you'd hoped it would be! I'm sure you're dying to get home to see the place!

bcg: Random proposals are humorous! My favorite random proposal was the guy sitting outside the grocery store in my neighborhood who asked me, "Will you marry me? I've got food stamps!"

Okay, almost time to make sundaes! Gotta run!

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Today is a busy day, so I'm going to make a quick post on my lunch break. I went out for my 5k run as planned last night. I went out nearly 20 minutes later than I usually do, and it was about 8 or 9 degrees hotter than it has been the last several weeks. Granted, CA doesn't have the humidity that a lot of you are dealing with, but the heat was really wearing on me.

All in all I did okay - 33 minutes with a couple walk breaks and a couple stoplights, which isn't much worse than what I've been doing in cooler weather), but I felt like death when I got home. I guess that means I could be going faster on the cooler days, right?

Luckily the BF had started dinner while I was gone and all I had to do was wring out my gear and take a cool shower. My legs are really feeling the harder run today, too.

I'm going to do a bike ride tonight. I don't mind the bike nearly as much in the heat because you get so much more wind in your face ... although I'm not skilled enough to drink while riding just yet, so I have to stop for water

Bal, I know guys are sensitive about such things, but that is only 9 years. My BF and I are eight years apart... but I guess we were 21 and 29 when we got together, which sounds like a lot less than 19 and 28. Ah, well, morals get in the way of a lot of fun stuff, don't they? Good job on the long runs, btw - glad Boston isn't getting to hot right now.

Confetti: I know you live in NYC, but still. You meet the oddest people. I have never been proposed to by a random person!

Crex: Happy Birthday! I agree, your town is crazy small. I grew up in a town of 30k and I consider that to be tiny! (Of course, Portland feels small to me, too)

heathherrick: Had you not seen the apartment you're moving into? I'm kind of confused. I'm glad it's better than you expected, though - that's always a good thing. Oh, and I hear you on the house thing. If I ever get rich I'm all about buying a house, but homes are SO expensive here that even if I found one I could afford, it would totally run down and probably in a really bad neighbourhood. Really, where I want to live I can get a reasonably cheap apartment or a ridiculously expensive house ... no real competition there.

I have my annual evaluation at work today - woohoo. Of course, I talked to my boss about it last week and she told me how great I was and then said "I think you know how you did this year" ... so hopefully that's a good thing I guess I'll report back later (unless I get chastised for too much fun on the internet...

-Maggie

Hey Maggie, I missed you earlier. So we saw the model of the same apartment, but not the inside of this exact apartment, that's pretty standard around here. So DH called all happy earlier because we have a veiw of a fountain on the property that we didn't really think about when we decided on the apartment, and the patio is bigger than he remembered. Oh and it was all finished and looked great when he walked in to make sure everything was good.

Far cry from the apartment we're moving out of where they had just started installing the carpet when we were supposed to be moving in, and a few other things that I won't get into, we were Not happy.

Good luck on the eval, although it sounds like you don't even need it!