Spring Sickness

I cannot recall a season where I have experienced so much sickness.

First, I had the allergy cold from the lake. Now, I have a stomach flu, which I actually think is giardiasis from the lake.

I guess the moral of the story is to stay out of the lake! But Mama, I want to swim!

What I Would Have Posted: June 19th Edition

What is going on in the world?!?! This ain't right!



I am not scared of snakes, but this is wrong! Just wrong!

What I Did When I Wasn't on It: June 4th Edition

I did a brief lake swim this morning. I am still dealing with this cold so I was not able to swim far...

What I Did When I Wasn't on It: June 1st & 2nd Edition

I have never had such a great weekend, while being sick!

On Saturday, I had my first tri of the season! It went okay: HORRIBLE swim, good bike, great run, smooth/fast transitions. I PR-ed on the bike and run. I was very queasy during the swim. My body was rocking one way, my stomach was rocking another way and the lake was rocking a third way! I wanted to quit but decided to suck it up and do it.

After the race, I got to see one of my exes! We are good friends and it was nice catching up with her. I even got some dating advice!

Saturday was my best friend's birthday. I hung out with her on Sunday. We went to see After Earth (she LOVES Will Smith), people watched and had dinner. The movie wasn't as bad as the reviews have been but the accents were HILARIOUS!

Hopefully, the sickness will go away soon. I've had a sore throat since Thursday. Yesterday, the other symptoms appeared: headache, runny nose, sneezing and my favorite...losing of the voice!

What I Would Have Posted: May 28th Edition

This evening, I rode my bike twice around Stone Mountain Park's inner loop (9.73 miles in 47:03). I hit my fastest average speed for that route (12.4 mph) and my fastest speed ever (29.3 mph)!!!

What I Did When I Wasn't on It: Week of May 12th Edition

BUZZFEED

I mean, how can I, or anyone for that matter, resist:

27 Slightly Annoying Things About Being A Girl
14 Reasons Everyone Needs To Move To Denmark Immediately
14 Music Myths That Definitely And Totally Aren’t True
59 Reasons We’re Going To Miss “The Office”
24 Signs Your Person Thinks You’re Human

And that's from the past 24 hours... Just sad, I tell you, just sad!


Dear God, please make it stop!

What I Would Have Posted: May 9th Edition

Today, I cut my hair...all of it.

What I Did When I Wasn't on It: May 8th Edition

One of my friends and I have been talking about having a joint birthday party getaway, with 4 - 10 of our closest friends.

Today, I researched beach and mountain rentals.

Paul's Year = Ashley Joy's Week?

My friend just texted me about this guy who gave up the internet for a year. This is insane!!

He says that what he missed during his year away is the same that I am missing in just my week off of it. Will I be able to last this long?!?!

First Week

It has been a week.

My productivity has continued, but I have found a new love, a new distraction...Buzzfeed. I used to read Buzzfeed before, but not like I do now. I am going to have to limit my viewing time.

I do feel a bit disconnected from the people, from the world. Outside of Buzzfeed, I continue to read the news a lot. I miss out on somethings because of I do not see the hidden news stories that some of my friends would post. I miss reading what my acquaintances are doing on a daily basis.

What is funny is that I mentioned my departure to three of my closest friends and none of them knew that I was even gone. I must clarify this and not make them seem like bad friends, but two of the friends are rarely on it and I told them a couple of days after I deactivated.

What I Would Have Posted: May 7th Edition

Got Got by Spotify

I went to sign in to Spotify, which reactivated my account.

I had to sign into it to deactivate again. While there, I saw I had 11 new alerts. I did not click on it, but I am so curious what they were.

Oh well, the account is deactivated.

I created a new Spotify account.

What I Did When I Wasn't on It: May 4th Edition

Last night, I made a dozen blueberry lemon pancakes.

Why I am Doing This? -- Reasons 001 - 003

001. It caused me so much anxiety.
002. I was (am still) mildly addicted.
003. I need to have control over my time.

First Four Days

It has been four days.

I have attempted to go on Facebook a few times. It mainly happens when I am sitting down with my phone and I am feeling, but do not realize it, slightly bored. I scroll over to the page where my Facebook app used to be. I pause and realize, "it is not there, I am not on it and I am just bored". The most obvious(and funniest!) infraction was when I clicked on the window in my Firefox most visited pages where my Facebook page used to be. Another page opened and all I could do was laugh and shake my head.

It is amazing how productive my Thursday and Friday were at work. I got so much stuff done. I am not sure if it is because I was really busy or if it was because of the lack of Facebook or both.