Day 16: Lucky me

Who's got two thumbs and can say she was blessed enough to worship between an American Cameroonian and a white South African this morning? This girl. Lucky, lucky me. :)

I <3 my multiethnic/racial/SES church!

Day 15: Baby Shower!!

It's heeee-eere!

...too bad all my pictures were super crummy. Because who puts 8,000 million man hours into preparing an amazeballs baby shower and forgets to bring a quality camera to take a single picture?!

This girl, apparently.

Ah well. It was lovely and she was blessed. Which was the whole point.

Day 14: Baby Shower Prep Pt III

...with the sister-in-law. She made me about 2000 raindrops glued to 1000yds of ribbon.*

Total act of love, as I understand it, seeing as this was completed after 2am.

*slight hyperbole

Day 13: Baby Shower Prep Pt II

Cutting/baking/icing raindrop-shaped cookies and getting in some fab facetime with my love Keon and her little love Neko.

Day 12: The 300 Meter Mark

...Also known as the point that you start steeling yourself to hear Coach Lee's booming voice calling out "150 AND... PUSH!!!

That man was a man of projection. Sheesh.

*This is a new athletic complex built just up the street from the house I grew up in! Oh the things I would have done had that been there during my glory days. :)

Day 11: "You light up the sky..."

If you look closely, you can just see the hint of a promise.

Day 10: Blast from the Past

Oh, don't mind me. Just meandering my way through the streets of the hometown when suddenly... "These things still exist?!"

(oh my San Antonio... forever on that slow train...)

Day 8: Going Places?

"Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition."

-Thomas Jefferson

Day 6: Baby Shower Prep

Dough-making with a "real woman's mixer."

Love my Ms. Pam!

(happy 4th y'all!)

Day 5: Trabajo

Truth moment? 

I actually forgot about the challenge today and happened to take this picture for work. Also, there is an acute possibility that I am breaking some sort of code of privacy here.

Day 3: Stella & Dot

50% off. 

Winning.

Day 2: Pinterest Win

I can finally mark one of the (exactly) 1,000 pins I've acquired on Pinterest to my "Check!" board. 

This gloriousness is a waffle bar. 

my Mission Year girls + (glorious) Waffle Bar + Benny & Joon = one successful movie night

Day 1: Cheddar's & Celebrations

This is my cousin Pablo. Today he has officially become the very first male in our family to graduate with a Bachelor's degree!

Wow.

Writing that out makes it all the more incredible and me the more proud.

Day 134: ::sigh::

Let's just all take a moment and marvel.

...

::sigh::

Day 133: I DID IT!!

If you look up "Runner's High" in the dictionary, this pic* should be right next to the definition.

Still incredulous-- I CANNOT believe my legs, my lungs, my brain did that! 13.1 miles!!

I am feelin' soooooo good right now. :)



*so technically I cheated today-- my bestie Nicolita actually took this pic, but given I couldn't feel my legs, knees, fingers or bum for about 45mins after this run, figure I get a pass

Day 132: Carbo-Loading

My Last Supper of sorts:
chicken alfredo w/ garden veggies, garlic toast and 6-8 cups of water

I forgot how busy restaurants can be on weeknights in College Station. Nonetheless, I showed up at Cheddar's, The Hobbit (or there and back again) in hand, and sat and read and hydrated and carb-loaded until my sweet little heart was content.

Half Marathoning it up in the AM!

Day 131: My church rocks.

This is Christmas Jubilee; an evening of dinner, dancing and fellowship.

After an incredibly stressful week and an equally full day, it was actually delightful to spend a little time getting pretty.

So even if I hadn't enjoyed a good meal, sweet conversations with people that I don't see often enough, dancing my boo-tay off and meeting our new Pastor and his wife, it still would have been a great night.

There is something about getting all dolled up that  lifts the spirits like nothing else can.

Day 130: Introducing...

Walmart's line of Plus Size earrings

Go ahead. Do a double take. Yup. You saw right.

Plus Size EARRINGS.

What the what, Walmart!?! Seriously??

Day 127: [torrential] showers bring...

gigantic mutant earthworms, apparently.

I happened upon this government experiment gone wrong on the walk to work today. I put the penny down so that it would be clear how abnormally massive this thing is.

When the time came to collect, I decided to cut my losses... Lincoln got left.

Day 58: Star Wars!

Checking off no. 51 of my DayZero list! Woo-hoo!!

I am fully aware that this is only the beginning, however, I am pretty excited to have found someone who is not only nerdy enough to own every. single. episode. but is also stoked (STOKED!) at the idea of watching them with me. Score!

[jambalaya + college apps + Star Wars + super nerd of a friend = fantabulous Tuesday evening]