You'll be missed, Miss California

If you haven't noticed by the explosion of cap and gown pictures on Instagram and Twitter and Facebook this week, it's graduation season! So here's a little #tbt for you along with a big CONGRATULATIONS to all the new alums. I promise you'll sing Rocky Top with a new found gusto at all wedding receptions and tailgates to come! 

GO VOLS! 

I know you'll kill it

Last week ended with me taking lunch, sitting in the Walgreens parking lot, and venting to mom.

My life is entering another transitional phase; transitioning out of friendships, letting relationships go, baby showers instead of wedding showers, and not going to Steeplechase and being okay with it. 

This isn't a bad thing. I'm not upset about it. But change is always hard.

There's a song I like to put in the middle of my runs that I feel like was written exactly for this kind of thing. Bastille hit the 20-something problem nail on the head when they penned Weight of Living.

All that you desired, when you were a child

Was to be old, was to be old

Now that you are here, suddenly you fear

You've lost control (You've lost control)

Do you like the person you've become? Oh

Under the weight of living

You're under the weight of living

Under the weight of living

You are under the weight of living

The weight of living, the weight of living

Do you like the person you've become?

I think I'm just getting to know her actually. 

But, she's pretty awesome [if I do say so myself.]

Friday 5/2

Push it? I pushed it REAL good

Back in January, which feels like years ago, I blogged about my resolution to run the CMM half marathon in 2 hours or less and my wonderful discovery of the Nike+ Running app to help me get there. 

Well I survived training and race day and am back to report.

This app is BOMB!

If you do not have it downloaded you need to get it ASAP, like this afternoon.

Everyday I would get a notification of what distance run I had the next day.

A nice lady [well, some days a mean lady] talks to you every mile, half way, and once you're finished to let you know your pace and overall time. And your home screen shows you your overall average pace. This comes in super handy when you're setting your distance for your run, the app will give you an estimate finish time based on your average pace. I played with this after every run in the weeks leading up to 13.1.

Race day the app didn't freeze or cut out based on my signal strength.

And I'm not one to accuse anyone of lying but according to Nike+ I actually ran 13.THREE last Saturday. 

So it looks like I really did hit my goal of running 13.1 in 2 hours, right? 

You can train for a 5K, 10K, half marathon, or full marathon with Nike +. 

It really is the best running app out there! Our CFO, who ran the half this past weekend as well, downloaded it Friday afternoon when he found out there wouldn't be clocks on the course this year; and I didn't hear any complaints Monday morning! 

So whether you're ready to get some medals on your wall or just getting ready for a bikini on the lake, 

Nike + Running is your girl/guy/nice lady! 

It's gonna be...MAY

If you use that thing called the internet I'm sure you've seen this floating around the past couple days.

Stemming of course from the iconic N'SYNC music video It's Gonna Be Me

We decided to have some office fun this May Day and decorated desks with JT's oh so 90's Ramen noodle hair. I got to the office around 8am and in no time had everyone's computer adorned with our little prank.

I would say it was a hit!