Dec 14

A Christmas Survey

Posted on December 14, 2012 by Megan

After 6 days spent home on the couch, I am finally starting to feel a little better.  I’m certainly not 100% yet, but since Wednesday when I picked up a prescription for antibiotics I’ve slowly started to join the real world again.

Since I’ve done absolutely nothing note-worthy this week except watch LOST re-runs I thought I’d share a Christmas quiz that Hungry Runner Girl came up with.  Being sick sort of zapped my Christmas spirit so I’m hoping to rekindle it over the next 10 days starting with this quiz.

1. Favorite Christmas album/CD/song?

My favorite CD, and the only Christmas CD I own, is Mariah Carey’s 2nd Christmas album.

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But my favorite individual song is probably Silent Night or any of the Trans-Siberian Orchestra instrumental pieces.

2. Run on Christmas morning or take the day off?

Depends on what day I do my long run.  Since August and I will be traveling all day the Saturday before Christmas there’s a good chance my long run will get pushed back to Christmas eve which means Christmas morning would become a definite rest day.

3. What do you usually eat on Christmas morning?

Strata and homemade coffee cake.

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4. Favorite holiday or Christmas tradition?

I love that every year on Christmas eve we were each given one gift and it was always pajamas and a book.  And after opening our one gift we would drive around and look at Christmas lights.  Can’t miss out on the house that coordinates its lights with music!

5. Real tree, fake tree, or no tree?

Every year growing up we would go cut down our own tree.  We always had a propensity for trees that were as wide as they were tall and looked more like a Christmas bush which my mom absolutely hated.  Since living on my own I’ve only had a fake tree but I’m hoping to change that next year. :)

6. Christmas pajamas…yay or nay?

Can’t go wrong with Christmas pj’s.

7. Where do you spend the holidays? Your own house, your parent’s house, extended family, in-laws, friends?

Just like last year, August and I will be driving the 1,200 miles to my parent’s house in Kentucky.  Thankfully August seems perfectly willing to do this for the foreseeable future.

8. Favorite food you always have during the holiday season? Favorite Christmas food/treat?

I love our Christmas eve dinner which consists of a bunch of appetizers like oyster stew, shrimp cocktail, mini sandwiches, and a cheese ball.  The oyster stew is probably my favorite though because my mom only makes it once a year.

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9. Open presents all at once or take turns?

My mom always wants for us to take turns but we always end up opening them all at once.

10. Favorite Christmas movie?

Love Actually, Home Alone, and Christmas Vacation.

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Dec 11

Tuesday Confessions- Flu Edition

Posted on December 11, 2012 by Megan

1.  I’m still sick.  This is my 4th day and there is now a permanent indentation on the couch because I’ve been laying there so much.  I haven’t felt this bad since 2009 when I had mono.

2.  August and I exchanged Christmas gifts on Sunday.  That’s right, gifts that were meant for December 25 were exchanged on December 9.  We just couldn’t wait!  And I think it’s safe to say that neither one of us have any regrets about opening them early. :)

3.  If I’m going to be stuck at home feeling like a pile of poo at least I have these two to keep me company.

4.  I totally ordered the wrong iPad for August’s Christmas gift initially.  Why the newest Ipad is simply called “retina display” and the last generation is called “3rd generation-retina display” I’ll never understand.  Can we not call the newest one “4th generation-retina display”?  That way people like me who know nothing about electronics don’t accidentally order the wrong one and then have to exchange it?

5.  I’m still not finished with my Christmas shopping.  I was all into it right after Thanksgiving but then my shopping motivation disappeared and I haven’t been able to find it again.  I only have 3 more presents to order/buy and I just can’t seem to bring myself to do it.  Of course, this whole 4 days of sickness hasn’t helped as I max out at about 10 minutes of sitting upright.

So tell me…

Anyone have any tips or good blog posts about using my new camera?!

 

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Dec 10

An 8 Mile Run and The Flu

Posted on December 10, 2012 by Megan

Alternative title: marathon training week 6 and I’m feeling so sick that I can only manage to post in bullets.

-Eloise and I got in the 8 mile run my training plan called for Saturday morning.  Since I had to be at work by 8:15 am that morning and work happens to be 7.5 miles from our house I decided that the best idea was to simply leave the house at 6:45 am and run to work.  And well, that’s exactly what we did.  Try not to get too jealous of the stellar views I saw along the way.

-I realized just how runner (and biker) un-friendly the city of San Antonio is on this run. The entire route from our house to work is on back roads, no highways at all, but there were still instances where there was no sidewalk to be found.  And for one 1/2 mile stretch on one of the busiest non-highway roads in San Antonio not only was there no sidewalk but the shoulder was only about 2 feet wide.  Had it not been 7 am on a Saturday morning which meant virtually no traffic, Eloise and I would not have been able to run this route.  Definitely a major fail by the city of San Antonio in my opinion.

-Within hours of finishing this run I was hit by one of the worst headaches I’ve ever had in my life, and shortly thereafter was greeted by a lovely sore throat.  When you combine those 2 things with the hacking couch I’ve had the past week, and I was one sore sight.  I spent the entirety of yesterday laying on the couch watching football and woke up this morning and if anything, feel even worse.  Needless to say I will be spending today rotating between the couch and my bed trying to kick this virus or infection out of my body.  The holidays have to be the absolute worst time to get sick and I sure hope that I don’t pass this on to anyone else (aka August).

Hope you all had lovely weekends and that you’re feeling better than I do this Monday morning!

Twitt
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Dec 07

Ruled By Self Doubt

Posted on December 7, 2012 by Megan

Hi my name is Megan and I suffer from a serious case of self doubt.  It’s true, I’m constantly putting myself down and literally telling myself that nothing I do is good enough.  Perfect example; yesterday I had a meeting with one of my superiors.  I was super nervous about the meeting because I was telling her about my professional goals  and going into it I just knew she was going to tell me how silly or stupid my ideas were.  Literally as I was walking up to her door I was imagining exactly what she was going to say and it went something like this:

“Megan, do you have any idea how bad of an idea that is? You’re never going to succeed.”  or,

“Do you  honestly think you’re qualified to do that?”

I mean, could my thoughts have been any more negative?  And what’s ironic is that the meeting couldn’t have been any more different then how I imagined it going.  I know the only person who doesn’t believe in myself and doubts my abilities is me.

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I wish I knew how to turn the thoughts off, like there was some switch and as soon as a negative thought pops into my head that I could just switch it off and the thought would vanish into thin air.  But unfortunately it’s not that easy and usually once a negative thought creeps in they build on one another until it’s a constant battle between the thoughts in my head vs what I know to be true.

I don’t know how to stop doubting myself but I’m going to make an honest effort.  I’m going to start by putting this saying next to my computer so I have to look at it all day, every day.

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And every time August gives me a compliment I will stop rolling my eyes and thinking “he only says that because he’s my boyfriend and he has to”.  Yes, that’s what I think whenever he tells me I’m pretty or I’m smart.  And yes, I know it’s terrible and doing nothing for my self esteem.

Hopefully in taking baby steps I’ll be successful in changing the way I think and feel about myself; at least I hope so.

So tell me…

Do you ever suffer from self doubt?

If so how do you deal with it?  Please share your secrets with me!

Twitt
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