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ladypylot's Activities | RunKeeper I wanted to mesh together my blog and my activities, otherwise known as running, so here is just one of those fun exciting outtings!!! Merry Christmas everyone!

Have we lost our touch with the oldies music?

Wednesday, December 15, 2010

1:22 PM

Until recently I had forgotten about all the oldies (insert 50s and 60s here) that I grew up listening to in the car whenever I would go on road trips with my siblings and parents.  I had forgotten how fun they were to sing to, how much my sisters and I would laugh when my dad would change the lyrics, and how annoyed I would get when I couldn’t listen to my “hip” new music.  The last part doesn’t even matter now because of how much I long for those days or even a local radio station that played those same songs to bring back the memories.

It has become clear how separated I have become from the oldies when Itunes recently released all of the Beatles music and my first officer had to buy every single one of them.  No I didn’t go out and drop $50 on their music, but I did realize how much we need to hear those songs.  Make us stop and laugh that our parents listened to such lighthearted music that applies to many things today.  Make the next generation form a greater appreciation for music and where a lot of the songs of today were derived from.  Having appreciation for that era, brings about greater respect for our parents who were raised during those times (coming off WWII and the Korean War, then going into Vietnam).  While we will never know how life was exactly like then living through September 11th, Afghanistan, and Iraq wars has given us our own share of crazy times.  

I decided I need to take the time to find some oldies, buy some and listen to them then let all those fond memories come rushing back.  Take sometime and tell your parents how much you love them, you won’t have them forever.

Wanna make some extra $$$?!?!? Not only no but H@#l no!

Over the past few weeks I have had a friend that I used to work with contact me with a “job opportunity.”  It has disturbed me because we are the type of friends who send random text messages about once a month to say “hello” and to see how each other are doing....so more than acquaintances, I would say good friends.  The voicemails and email he has left have been very salesmanish (i.e. cold) and carry a sense of pyramid scheme. Disturbing.  So like the good little person I am I buried my head in the sand and gave him the cold shoulder for a couple weeks until I realized he didn’t get the hint so I politely emailed him back saying “thanks, but no thanks.” So what do I get in return? A rude response saying how I apparently don’t want to make any extra money. Whatever!

While I am the sorta person who would love to make extra money on the side, since my job does allot for quite a bit of down time, I do not want to sell something I have absolutely no interest in nor do I want to make a percentage of whomever I recruits sales.  Does this make sense? I’m just not that type of person.  Look there is a reason I am in a career that has a limited amount of face time with the general public. While I enjoy talking to strangers and learning their idiosyncrasies I don’t want to sell you anything.  I did that in college and when I think it’s a ridiculous product I’m really not good at it.  

Where do people get off? I can say during the time I went to school I wanted to try and learn about every possible job an uneducated person could do, which is how I wound up in this meeting selling hair products and if I recruited 10 people a month plus sell this garbage then “all my dreams would come true.”  Needless to say I high-tailed it outta this meeting and am still poor today, but at least I have my sanity and am happy.  When money-making schemes seem to good to be true, they probably are. 

So thank you for the opportunity but I am politely declining and would prefer to just remain friends! Oh and have a wonderful day!!!

written on - Thursday, December 9, 2010 at 6:16 PM

Born to Run

I have been reading this awesome book by Christopher McDougall and it makes me want to run all the time.  I ran my first 8 mile run, in months, on Monday and when I started to get tired this voice rang in my head saying, “if the Tarahumara can run 100’s of miles so can you,” and then next thing I know I’m done with 8 and ready for more.  

Running has become my escape the from insanity in my head where emotions are stored and the yearning for more never cease to exist.  It puts my mind to rest and my body at ease, especially when I want to ‘house’ down some kind of chocolate goodness.  Somedays, like today, I get so fatigued that 20 mins on the elliptical is all I can put it and, as hard as I am on myself, it is perfectly fine.  I constantly have this feeling that I can look better, lose more weight, be prettier, etc. etc. but while running it all ceases to exist. 

In Born to Run I found I am not alone in the insanity and that runners truly are a unique breed.  They’re humans in the raw, without fancy name brands, that just run for shear enjoyment.  While I know running isn’t the end all to my issues it is a momentary escape that, sometimes even, puts me closer to heaven running alongside Jesus and all his cohorts.

written - Wednesday, December 8, 2010 at 10:14 PM


Update: I'm sure I will be posting more about this book later on but I wanted to share this youtube.com video from Dr. Lieberman on barefoot running. Enjoy! 


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7jrnj-7YKZE

An opening post

I've been meaning to do this for awhile but I decided today at 11:36 pm on a Monday was the moment in time.  Between running, working, and eating I have all these crazy thoughts and ideas that go through my head. I want to blog about those and share the even have sillier things that happen throughout my travels.

I hope some of it is interesting or at least a little entertaining.  Sometimes getting the "gobbly-gook" outta my head and onto a computer screen could help settle me in more ways than one.

Take care and happy blogging to me! ;-)