{Louisiana Lovin'}

I guess you can say I have my own little Louisiana wall. I love it. I love Louisiana. I love the people (some of them anyway haha). I love the food. I love the history.

It's doubtful though that I'll ever live there again. I've kinda made a home outside of home. I miss my family. I'm hoping I'll be able to visit in February during my long break from work.

We left Louisiana when I was 13. My dad went active duty in the Army and his first duty station was Germany. We lived in Germany for 3 years before moving back to the states. I loved Germany but that's another post.  

Columbus, Georgia became my next home and I lived there for 10 years. Georgia would be my next home away from home but, again, that's another post. ;-)

After 10 years in GA, I joined the Air Force and then Denver, CO became my next home. I'm still here (no longer in the Air Force) and I do love it. No matter what though, Louisiana will always be home.

I have little reminders all over the place. I can't seem to help myself.

Anyway, that's a little piece of me and what's on my mind this Saturday.

{Another cold day}

Today's high is 15 degrees.

I'm pretty sure this is one of the coldest winters we've had since I got here in 2006. Don't get me wrong, we've had cold days but not weeks of single digit temps. Brrrr.

I may have mentioned my hate of night shifts once or twice. Today is one of those days. Seriously, working nights just makes me angry. I'd say I need a new job, but this is a new job! Maybe I'll still look anyway.

Saturday is the big day for my first 5k of the year.

I was going to run with Gandalf, running connoisseur, but if it's going to be this cold on Saturday then I won't run with him.

No, but really he does love to run. I've also not ran longer than 1.5 miles with him yet; which is another reason I'm rethinking running with him.

One thing that I'm upset about right now, in regards to doing one 5k race a month... My cousin told me yesterday that they are having a surprise party for her mom in June. Sweet, I'll try to go since I'm off that weekend. It's also the same weekend as the Estes Park 5k!! *grumble grumble* I was really looking forward to that race since Estes Park is bee-u-tiful!!

They even run by the Stanley Hotel! You know, the hotel that inspired Stephen King to write The Shining!

Anyway, so I guess I won't be doing that now unless I decide to not go to Louisiana in June. I was actually  looking to go earlier than June anyway since my grandma's been sick a lot lately.

Yesterday I ran 2.5 miles (well, almost). It was actually a decent run. I was dreading it, didn't want to do it, was dragging my feet. Once I bumped up the speed though to a running speed, I was actually glad I was running. What? Impossible. Nope, true story.

I was definitely NOT motivated to run in the 10 degree weather

On another topic, here's a photo of one of my favorite Target finds...

Well, the dog's staring holes into me. I think he's trying to tell me something.