Arizona -- Put on your HealthyFitAwesome Shades.

Because I'm in Arizona. Visiting my beloved cousin. And feeling punchy (read: your kids? They're not reading this post. Because you said so.)

And because my superadorableI'mgonnabejustlikeherwhenI'm30 cousin is fun, which takes me away from the computer. Which it should.

But I still suck a little for not posting at all. So I'm making it up with a...catch-all post of sorts. Some of it is linkage, but mostly it's stream-of-net-consciousness.

Because-vegetables-are-actually-bad-for-you-and-your-parents-made-you-eat-them-because-they-really-just-hated-the-babysitter-and-wanted-her-to-deal-with-you-tossing-your-non-cookies-into-the-toilet-when-you-got-sick-after-eating-them.

HOW STUPID ARE YOU, AMERICA? It's healthy food. Your body is genetically predisposed to like it better, and it would if you would STOP TOSSING CRAP INTO YOUR PIEHOLE.

And, omg, why are we still calling it a piehole?! (Other types of holes: rabbit, pot, man, ****, and water, only one of which is non-graphic. Poor bunnies.)

On the note of animals (bunnies, not men) (I happen to like them testosterone-y types) (most of the time, anyway) (usually the exceptions go as follows:

*my 120-lb (read: petite, in no way fat --> this was not a fat joke) cousin is 9th person on elevator at a Diamondbacks game*

Drunk Hick: Oooh I think we're over the weight capacity.
Other Dude: What's it going to do? Break down?
Me: *laughs* We're going down [in the elevator lol] anyway.
Drunk Hick: Going down on what?
Me: Classy. That's a real classy joke.

Ass.)

Oh...I was on the subject of animals. Here you go:

You have to be shitting me.

"Honey, I ran out of my Bottle of Virtue! You have to forgive me!" Seriously? Wooow. Humans hit a new low.

Oh well. We all have our vices. I know what (one of) mine is:

Tee-hee.

And your Daily Challenge? Is three-fold (Dudes, I was away for 3 days. You get 3 challenges. Slackers.).

1) Think about something everyone has always told you (literally or, you know, societally) that you should do but THAT YOU DON'T WANNA.

Decide not to do it. 'cause it's your life, yo. (Mine? I don't need or want to be CEO of a financial corporation. Especially not now.)

2) Are you a straight-from-the-carton person (like me? *beguiling smile, cat-w/-canary style)?

Take more than 5 minutes to make your food. Just do it, dude. It's five minutes. I spend that much time readjusting my laces before I run. (no, not really, but I enjoy pseudo-hyperbole)

3) Today, find 5 ordinary but AWESOME things in your life and point them out to yourself. I'm thinking little things, people. Little and simple.

Mine for today? How about one for each sense?

Gustatory: Had first protein shake ever and all the solids gathered into a kick*** chocolatey mess at the bottom, which tasted gooeydelicious and which I proceeded to gobble up. [See? Simple, disgusting, and yet somehow awesome.]
Auditory: Uncle told me like 3 times that I looked "awesome" and "really fit". Same uncle that told me straight up that I needed to eat when I was anorexic. "Hi, good to see you. Eat a burger." Good man.
Olfactory: Honey hand soap in the bathroom at my cousin's house. Honey from Savannah, Georgia. Smells pretty freaking amazing.
Tactile: There was ONE non-prickly cactus at the gardens today, so I rubbed my finger on it and went on for five minutes about how "fuzzy WUZZY!" it was.

Motherf***er got MINI PRICKLIES in my fingers. They don't come out. Ever.

Ow.

Visual: Ittle Izzard who was a third the length of my pinky finger. Little albino lizzardy friend. Who did repeated isometric exercises with his wittle tail. Wiggle wiggle!

!!!

So cute.

And finally, a bonus: my cousin has HAAAAAAAMSTERS.

[Hamsters? My biggest weakness, second only to diet pop. Yeah, that's right. I said pop, and I'm from California. Why? 'cause I FELT like it!]

Peace.

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In other news, I'm about to enter my final year of school, and I'm looking for a job I can get with an econ degree that is in the nutrition/fitness industry. Ideas?

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Workouts:
Saturday: 10.8 mi
Sunday: nothing (sat on plane?)
Monday: climbed Camelback (3 mi total), 30 mins elliptical
Tuesday: 4 mi, walked a lot (Botanical Gardens! YAY!)

I'm kinda slacking, but I've gotten a workout in consistently, and I'll be back at school later this week, so...I love my family. Stop looking at me that way!