Tuesday didn't go as well as I had hoped.

Went running - that totally sucked. I actually hated each and every step. Odd. It's not like me to be so negative - especially with exercising. Need to get my groove back!

I ate pretty well during the day
good foods: Salad, green beans, chicken, egg whites, english muffin
bad foods: one twizzler, one chocolate mint drip, a few twerps, a belgium chocolate, popcorn (for dinner), beer

Let's hope Wednesday is better. Only 21 weeks and 3 days left
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OK, moving on to non-fitness stuff. Just had to post about the random folks contacting me lately. Can we just say WEIRD.

Nickey: Last August, I got an e-mail from an old friend, Nickey. Nickey and I have know each other since 2nd grade. She moved away in 3rd grade and some how we managed to stay in touch over the years - and that was BEFORE the age of internet and e-mails. We wrote actual letters and sent them through snail-mail. After highschool we lost touch. We were heading down different paths in life. After 10 years, she managed to locate me and send an e-mail. What a pleasant surprise. Now we drop random e-mails and it is all very normal to me.

Jenn: Last week, I get an e-mail at my work address from Jenn. Jenn and I have also know each other since about 5 years old or something. What's weird, I don't know why we were ever friends. Through our younger years we would hang out occasionally but ran in totally different circles. As we got older, we hung out more often as parts of our cirlcles started to overlap and towards the end of high school we were together all the time. Oddly, as I think back, I just don't understand why we hung out. We always fought, had completely different morals, thoughts and feelings, and constantly got irritated with one another. It was as if we were sisters so we felt obligated to talk, even if we didn't have anything in common. About 3 years ago, we had a blow out fight. Enough was enough. What was the point of trying to be friends when it was obvious that we really just didn't like each other. She wrote a horribly insulting and nasty e-mail to me and that was it. I did not respond, I did not feed in to it any longer. Why should I? Why do I sometimes feel obligated to be friends with someone just to be nice when really, I don't like anything about them? Yes, I am an odd person, we know that. I no longer felt like having her in my life, so I removed myself from it all. So anyway, back to the subject at hand. She e-mailed me last week being all friendly and chatty with me. How are you? How is your family? Tell me what great things are going on? blah blah blah blah... Umm, hello? What gives. Glad you are well (I never wish bad on anyone), I am well also, now please - just away. Forget I ever existed, do not get curious about me and my life, do not e-mail, do not call. It's just more peaceful this way.

Ron: Now if the above wasn't weird enough....I get an e-mail to a different account and happen to check it the SAME DAY that I get Jenn's e-mail. Ronnie...let's see how I can summarize this one. He's my ex-boyfriend. My first 'love'. We dated when I was 17 (or there abouts) for 7 months (he was 21ish). I broke it off. No reason. Nothing more than the fact that I'm still young and flighty and ready to move on. Boy, that didn't go over so well with him. I found out years later that he had already purchased an engagement ring. I felt horrible for how broken-hearted he was. But it was only 7 months! He took a bit of a downward spiral in to drugs and alcohol. Eventually he snapped out of it and we were able to build a great friendship that lasted for a number of years. Before I moved I tried to catch up with him to say goodbye. Well, in the typical Ronnie fashion, he was dating a girl and she ruled his life. He had no time for me (this was an ongoing theme over the years). I ran in to him randomly in the next year while I was visiting a friend. Again, he was dating a girl and had no time for me. So, imagine my surprise when I get an e-mail from him after 6 years! Weird. What's weirder is that he somehow knows that I'm getting married. As far as I know, we have no common friends. Not sure how he even got my e-mail address. I'm willing to keep in touch but guarded for now. I want an explanation as to why now after all these years when he didn't have 10 minutes to spare way back when. To give you a bit of insight on how hurt I was that he blew off our friendship....I have a 3 year old niece - Veronica. My sister was also good friends with Ronnie at one point, so when she asked me for a name suggestion, Veronica was the first that came to mind (this was before I met Rob for the record). Funny thing, he didn't even know it. Turns out he now has a little girl - Veronica - as well.

Did I win the lottery? Have I inheritied money? Why are these random people popping up in my life? God, I hope there aren't others. If I wanted to stay in touch with you, I did. If I didn't, there was a reason!