April 29, 2006

Happy Saturday!

I wore my new shoes to kickboxing last night. I love them! They are very light and springy and made me feel like I should start running. Plus they have very good ventilation on the toes so my feet were cool all night. Kickboxing in general was interesting. One of our newest participants asked me for some routine write ups that he can take along with him on their runs away from Baghdad. I guess he wants to make sure he keeps it up and he's going to try to get the rest of his team in on it. I wrote him something up quick today. Towards the end of the class a grasshopper (they're sand colored and about 2 inches in length here) jumped up to the front of the class. He commented on how I should eat. I declined and tossed the suggestion back at him and he did! He ate the grasshopper! Ugh. You should've seen everyone's expressions. All he had to say was "Mmm crunchy".

I have not been doing so well at getting up early in the morning to go to the gym. I keep promising myself I'm going to start going tomorrow but tomorrow never comes! :P It's so much easier to get up when you know someone's waiting for you outside your door. I just don't want to not be used to it when Pete comes back!

I received a birthday present in the mail today from Cindy. :) She sent me a tank top and a visor from Tennessee. ;) Love the colors. I think I made out like a bandit this year! Cookies, new clothes, an external hard drive, body wash, Thailand book, etc. :) I should turn 25 more often! haha. Thank you everyone!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Only 11.32 days till Thailand. Woohoo!