Crazy Weekend!

I would have to say that this past weekend was pretty eventful. First off, I finally graduated! Yes, technically  I have been done with school since December, but I was finally able to walk during UVU's spring graduation ceremony on Friday.

The next great thing I was able to do this weekend was run the Thanksgiving Point Half Marathon. I was pretty worried after I found out that it was supposed to be 31 degrees and snowing the morning of the race, and the thought of not doing the race at all crossed my mind. Despite all that, I decided to give it a try, and it ended up being so great! Todd was a great coach, and helped me get ready for the race. I was so lucky to have him there with me, I don't think I could have done it without him ;-)

The course was a lot tougher than I had anticipated- there were so many hills! But I made it through, and now I can't wait to run the Kanosh 5k and the Red Rock Relay later this year! Yay!

Stretching in the only dry spot we could find  

Waiting to start the race!

Crossing the finish line! I made it!

The up and coming...

Well, since I don't have another awesome trip planned for this sumer, I decided I need to plan some things to look forward to. Two of which are a great motivation to stay in shape.

The first one is this Saturday (Yikes!):

The next awesome thing I am doing is this:
A 187 mile race that I get to do with 11 awesome friends! Yay!

Dodgeball!

Thanks Ape and Eric for sharing your dodgeball kit with us!

The Holga in Mexico

Well, seeing as I took about 25 pounds of camera equipment to Europe over the summer, I thought I'd take the opposite approach and just take 2 cameras- my trusty canon powershot, and my holga. For those of you that don't know what a holga is, it's basically a toy camera that takes fun, unpredictable photos. Here is a picture of what the camera looks like:

And here are the photos I got from it:

Cruise Pics!

Well we just got back from the most awesome cruise ever and here are some pics:

Sans School Assignment

Being done with school has definitely had it's perks- no homework to do at night, free weekends, and no stress about getting assignments done and getting good grades (although my job has taken the place of school stress times about 10) Anyway, I decided that the things I have learned in my classes at schol are far too valuable to let go of. I think that even though I don't have a teacher assigning a task and giving a due, I should still be doing projects on my own. So here is a short list of projects I have assigned myself:

1. Take at least 1 roll of film of photos a week- and get them developed and processed, I don't need any more negatives sitting around that I don't do anything with.
2. Recently I purchased a few supplies to make more linocut prints- the problem I have is deciding what to actually print. So I decided that the next print I do has to come from something I find in my house- not including anything from the internet.

I'm going to start with these 2 and see where I get. Simple enough.

Lunch Break Blog Time

Well it's definitely been a while since I've been able to write on this, but I thought that because I don't have school to keep me busy, I should be able to post more. Plus I just got a new wireless router that gives me blazing fast internet at home, so now I won't get kicked off the internet every time I check out a blog...

So here's what's new in a nutshell:
1. I finally graduated from college
2. I did get rid of facebook because I feel like if I want to know what someone is doing with their life, I should just call or go see them instead of being a creeper.
3. I got a new job. I'm working as a designer for an architecture and interior design firm.
4. I'm going on a cruise!

Those are the biggest ones I can think of at the moment, but since I've made the goal to update my blog more- including giving it an awesome design- there will be a better flow of current events. Until then...