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#RESOUND11 High/Low

All my highs and one of my lows this year all relate to running.  The running year started off great.  My first out of state run for the year was in Hilton Head SC. The tree lined streets with a path specifically for runners, walkers and cyclists were so beautiful and peaceful.  I traveled for a race out of state, alone for the first time and it was also fantastic.  Although it was cold and cloudy it was still absolutely perfect at the Pensacola Double Bridge Run.  I set a personal best,  met some cool people and really enjoyed the time away from daily life. I also had the opportunity to run with my family in Arkansas for our innaugural family 3 mile.  Locally I checked out several new parks (all reviewed on thesoulpower.tumblr.com and ran my 13th Peachtree Road Race, which unfortunately was a low.  
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It was hot and humid and all of my preparation was for naught.  My time was slower than the previous year and for the very first time I had to go to the medical tent with heat exhaustion.  The medical staff was top notch and they got me back up to make the trek home.

My other low this year related to finance.  For the first time since college I had to take on another job to make ends meet and they still didn't meet.  With unpaid holidays, an increase in benefits costs, and car troubles even necessities have been difficult to manage.  Entertainment had to be saved up for and those trips I took -- were on last years money.  The financial situation has not improved but clearly I'm not starving, the second job isn't providing enough income so it's back to the drawing board.  I remain hopeful.

#RESOUND11 The Thelmas AND Louises

Now this is funny because while I thought that all I did was work this year, I did actually spend a little time with some very special folks like:

Sonya - my Soror who can break on anyone at anytime for any reason.  Hysterically funny and ridiculously smart and about to be a PhD.  She's a fantastic listener, a great storyteller and she inspired me to get my fitness situation in check with her fine self.

Dennise - my Carribean queen.  She is woefully late always but is somehow right on time.  She's always down and can party me under any table.  She takes care of me every thanksgiving since my family isn't here and I love it.  I don't have to eat turkey when I go to her home, I can eat all the curry I want!

Vickie - my Soror who is probably the most positive person I know.  She doesn't sweat the small stuff, or the big stuff either.  Her perspective is so ILL.  I'm trying to learn how to let stuff roll off me under her tutelage.

Pat - she will give you the shirt off her back literally and always checks in when I go underground which during this last year, has been often.  She's a helluva party planner/designer and has almost managed to get me to be more domestic.

Lewis - this chile is a BEAST.  I could be her mom, but I feel like her kid.  I have never seen anybody work, manage a family and everything else like her. She takes care of EVERYBODY. She's really incredible.

These are the people who are always down, have my back and are just too fantastic for words.

I JUST LOVE THEM!!!!!

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#RESOUND 11 - Getting Started and Catching Up, sort of

First let me say I didn't discover this thing on my own.  I found out about the project on Google+ via +Danielle Richardson and +Jason Toney. Thanks for informing the uninformed masses.

Diving in LATE but better than never I guess.  Here we go.

ONE WORD - WORK

After thinking on this for two days, and worrying about the stuff that I missed at work today because I'm freaking at home and ASTHMATIC, I figured out that work is what dominated my world in 2011.  I didn't do any traveling, didn't really do a lot of fun stuff, because I was broke and had to work another job to make ends meet. When not working for money I was working for church, for my sorority or some other organization that I volunteer with.  The hardest work that I did all year long was work on me.  Broken spirit, broken heart and broken body all had to be mended.  Are they all at 100%? No but, I'm working on it.

If there could be a secondary word it would be exhaustion.

VICES - LAWD! For Real???

Not a drinker, smoker well a former smoker, well yeah I do have one.  I'm addicted to nicotine gum.  God I want to get rid of it.  Let me see what else.  I have a bad habit of over-committing and doing stuff that I know I shouldn't do like run outside through moldy leaves when I'm allergic as hell to mold (hence the asthma situation).  A procrastinator of the worst order who doesn't do stuff until it is absolutely mission critical and... ok that's enough.

VIRTUES

People move me, the human condition moves me.  I cry for people, I welcome people to cry on me.  My door is always open and if I can rustle up bail money I'll get you out of jail.  

THEME SONG
This is not a theme for the year, but is more theme for my life thus far. Perpetually looking for nirvana but forever landing in the throws of depression, this is really my dream, but guess what?  To get there send me right back to the one word - WORK.

 

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