I’ve always believed that education is extremely important. Now that I have a college degree, I feel as though I may not be using it to its full potential.

Don’t get me wrong, I am thankful I have a job, but I can’t help wondering if there is something more out there. Scratch that, I KNOW there is something more out there, I just haven’t decided the best way to get there.

I am the most financially secure that I have been in a really long time, maybe ever, but I am still struggling. I know that I am worth more than I am making, but how do I get to that higher plain?

On one hand, I can blame the economy, or not having the right connections, or having to “do my time” at entry level, but on the other hand, I had been told that I am a “woman of influence” for the past 4 years, and I was raised as a strong independent woman. Should I really settle for this? Am I cheating myself out of something more? Something closer to what I know that I can do?

The answer is “no.” I shouldn’t settle, I have to make a change. Now the bigger question is “how I do this?”

I’ve been really thinking about what I want to do. If you had asked me a year ago, I would have said “law school, no question.” But now I am not so sure. I’ve really been feeling a strong urge to utilize my love of language. I’ve been going back and forth. Law school has always caught my interest, but do I really want to practice law? Do I want to teach? Do I want to write? I don’t know! It’s so confusing.

I have friends who have known what they wanted to do for so long, since they were children. I have gone back and forth for so long. I’ve never actually known.

My family has always told me this story about my great grandmother. I was very young when she died so I don’t remember really her.

I’ve been told that when I was a baby, she saw me. She stopped. Then she pointed at me and simply said, “She’s going to be somebody.”

That story has been drilled into my head for the past 21 years. It’s so much pressure! Can I really live up to this? Do I have to live up to this?

I’ve been so afraid of failing and not living up to that story that I’ve lost sight of the more important question. What do I really want to do?!

Now I am finally starting to think about what I really want out of life. I am prioritizing and thinking of the big picture… … …No, not the big picture. My picture.

So here I am, with a big blank canvas in front of me. And no idea what to cover it with. This should be a fairly interesting journey.

Training for the Army Ten Miler is going well. Marc and I are averaging around 4 miles on our runs and we signed up for the 5k Race for the Cure in June. I also found out that despite the random month of binge eating and no working out I had, I have still manage to lose 10 lbs since January. Not too shabby.

I have to say, I had quite a weekend. On Friday night, Marc went out of town with our roommate, so I ordered Chinese food, locked myself in my apartment and watched Dan In Real Life. LOVE LOVE LOVE that movie.

After gorging myself on Chinese food, I did some reading and somehow managed to kill my computer..okay,”kill” may be a bit of an exageration, however I did manage to get a Trojan and a worm… and now my computer is basically not working, so I am blogging from my man’s laptop. Gotta love him.

Saturday, I partook in my newest addiction, jazzercise! You have to try it, so much fun. A year ago, I would have scoffed at the idea, but I am getting hooked. The music, combined with my lack of coordination, but my refusal to admit that I look like a chicken having a heart attack,while doing the moves really gets me pumped!

After Jazzercise, I showered and went to the Nat’s game. It was a lot of fun, and like I said, they are getting so much better, at least the outfield, the infield is still pretty sub-par. It was a gorgeous day, and we ended up leaving before the game ended and the team inevitably lost, but it was still a great outing.

Once I got home I had some dinner and then proceeded to take a nap-or so I thought. I closed my eyes around 6. When I woke up, it was 12:30. My eyes nearly bulged out of my head when I saw the time. I think stayed up until after 4:30 and woke up at 8:45 this morning, running out the door to try to get to DuPont Circle in time for the farmers’ market I had been aching to go to.

By the way, in spite of some ridiculousness with the public transportation system that delayed my arrival, the farmers’ market did not disappoint.

I stepped of the last step of the metro escalator into a warm day, music being carried by a gentle breeze, a few men selling newspapers, and the smell of fresh baked bread, cheese, and farm-grown veggies. The block was packed. People were everywhere. I took my time, working my way through the crowd…twice, before I finally started to think about what I would buy.

I settled on a small chicken, which for now is residing in my freezer, until I figure out what I am going to do with it. I also bought some chicken legs, garlic and oregano beef sausage, some fresh mozzarella.

Then I moved on to produce. I immediately bought an enormous bundle of swiss chard, which I cooked tonight…it was divine. I then bought some heavenly smelling scallions and some arugula.

After that I was feeling brave, so I bought a spicy/hot oregano plant and a Tuscan Blue Rosemary plant. Hopefully, I won’t kill them. I used some of the rosemary tonight, it was delish.

After wandering around for a little while longer, I decided to head back to the metro with my finds.

Unfortunately, I didn’t get a run in today, I wasn’t feeling too great so I decided to take the day off.

I did however, make an amazing dinner consisting of lemon-white wine chicken legs and swiss chard sauteed with onion and garlic. So good! I had a slice of horseradish cheese after dinner-Try it! It’s to die for!

So overall, I had quite an eventful weekend, finished off with a tasty, FRESH dinner. I felt so good after eating tonight because I knew that everything was homegrown.

I loved it.

That’s right! YESTERDAY I SIGNED UP FOR THE ARMY TEN MILER!!!!!!!!!!!!

It’s not until October, but I am so excited! I’ve been a little lack luster about working out later, I can’t wait, I now I have something to train for, and what makes it better is that Marc is going to do it as well!!!

If you are interested in signing up, here is the link, but do so quickly, registrations are going FAST!: http://www.armytenmiler.com/

Anyway, I just wanted to share my excitement, time for me to go work out!!!

I’ll keep you all posted!

The Army Ten-Miler!!

Here it is: Gouda Lord!!!

My place of work is… entertaining. I work at a law firm, which seems like it would be a very professional work place. Don’t be fooled.

Last week I had a coworker come up to me and tell me that they were “buzzed.” It was ten o’clock in the morning. I also managed to attract an admirer…who I’ve never met, I like to call him phone stalker, although he did cross over into email. Although, if you know me at all, this really wouldn’t seem that strange to you…I have a habit of attracting-ahem-unique admirers.

Don’t get me wrong, I actually like my job, there are just some zany things that occur at this place.

Anyway, overall, as I said, today was very entertaining, we had a meeting in the morning and a happy hour til close of business. Normally, when one thinks of happy hour, one will imagine going to a bar or restaurant and drinking frozen margaritas and eating wings. Not here. We gathered in a conference room, it was actually pretty fun… Anyway, because of these two interruptions in my day, I really didn’t accomplish too much…that and the fact that my body is hating on me for lack of sleep…AUGH! And it’s already late… 12:30. I am becoming an old lady. At least tomorrow I can wear jeans to work, it’s the little things that make me happy. Ha ha!

Cherry Blossoms

Right. So what else happened today? Marc and I went to see the cherry blossoms in DC… beautiful! Unfortunately it was a bit of a dreary day, so it wasn’t good for picture taking…but we did manage to get a couple of good shots… The city was packed! Everyone was out walking, jogging, entertaining their ridiculous amount of children and taking pictures of the spring bloom. It was a good time, especially if you like people watching!

So, overall today was a good day. But I am beat! My plans for the weekend? They’ll probably involve playing with this blog so I can figure out how to use it, taking pictures and probably going for a nice long run. We’ll see what it brings…

Looking across the Tidal Basin at dusk

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Looking silly...

Alright, first blog! I really started this blog so I could keep up on my cooking discussions with my two lovely ladies on our collaboration “cooking with sage” (which you should obviously check out!)  but also because my counterparts have urged me to document the ridiculous events that occur in my life on a daily basis.

These events range from meeting someone who had no sense of smell..and unknowingly insulting him to dealing with a stalker who had never met me, he simply enjoyed talking to me on the phone.

Needless to say, I have a very eventful life, although I try to keep it on the DL, so I hope you enjoy my stories!