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By Leah @ Why Deprive?, on April 24th, 2013
The last three months have been strange. On the one hand, school was horrible. It was probably my hardest semester yet, and there were more than a few times when all I wanted was to drop out and have my life back. I managed to make it through statistics, but barely.
Math is hard enough as it is, when you take out the numbers and replace them with letters and symbols, that’s just mean.
And my knee injury has kept me from running off any of my stress. I’ve been going to the gym, but it’s just not the same.
It’s been a struggle.
But on the other hand, the last three months have been pretty great. For the past two years I haven’t had a life, everything I did revolved around school. I almost never went out, and when I did, I would only allow myself one night per weekend. That was excellent for my GPA, but not so much for my sanity. Now, I’m barely home on the weekends. I’m getting out and doing things, and it’s been so good for me. School has definitely suffered a little, but sometimes something just has to give. Now semester is finally over, and with the exception of statistics, I did alright.
More importantly though, my knee is actually starting to get better. It’s been feeling good enough that I even went for a run yesterday.
It. Was. Awesome.
The weather was perfect, I felt good, my phone played nothing but good music, it was exactly what I needed after 2.5 months off.
My knee is definitely not 100%. Even though it felt fine through my entire run, and afterwards, I don’t feel like it’s ready to get back out there regularly quite yet. But the end is in sight and I am so, so excited about that.
All in all, despite my struggles over the last little while, I’m happy. Life is good, and now that I have a break from school, life is even better.
By Leah @ Why Deprive?, on April 2nd, 2013
The last three weeks have been pretty rough. Work has been crazy, school isn’t getting any easier, and I was really struggling to keep my sanity.
On Thursday morning when I exploded my smoothie all over the place, I knew I was in pretty desperate need of a break.
The long weekend couldn’t have come at a better time.
I did get a little bit of my homework done, but I have nothing due this week, so I didn’t put much effort into anything school related. Instead, I spent three beautifully sunny days with the boyfriend.
I even let him talk me into doing some things I never thought I’d do.
I know, I’m pretty much the greatest girlfriend ever. On Friday we went fishing, and then on Saturday morning we got up bright and early to go shooting. And you know what? Neither activity sucked. I actually had fun doing both. The fishing was relaxing, and the shooting, well that was just what I needed after such a bad week.
And in case that wasn’t enough excitement for one weekend, on Sunday we had turkey dinner (well, lunch technically) with his family, and then another one with mine afterwards. There was even an Easter egg hunt before lunch. I ate way too much food, and even more chocolate. It was perfect.
I had Monday off work too, but spent most of it recovering from my food coma. I did however, manage to get out of the house long enough to buy myself a new purse for the spring time.
As weekends go, I’d say this one was pretty perfect.
By Leah @ Why Deprive?, on March 25th, 2013
Lately I’ve been trying to do all the things. It’s tiring. On Saturday night, we went to a BBQ and I fell asleep on the couch at 9:30. Normally I’d feel bad about that, but everyone else had fallen asleep too. That’s how you know we’re getting old.
Things at work have been pretty stressful lately. The other day, my boss actually insisted I have a margarita because he thought I needed to calm down.
My parents take St. Patrick’s Day a little too seriously. We went there for dinner, and they were dressed head to toe in green ridiculousness, and made me put on a leprechaun hat.
As you can tell, I was pretty impressed.
My mom made Lexie wear one too. I think it looks better on her than it did on me.
I bought a giant pictures from Ikea a week or so ago. I was pretty impressed with myself this weekend when I managed to get it hung up by myself. I only had to call my mom once to ask about nail placement. It hasn’t fallen down once.
Tonight I’m going to Trader Joe’s with the boyfriend. He’s never seen me in a grocery store before, I have a feeling it won’t take long for him to start wondering what he sees in me.
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