TIMSHEL

We were face-timing and I noticed a familiar beat playing in the background. She Wolf by Shakira. And he sang the whole thing to me. I have the world’s best boyfriend.

In my opinion, if your significant other doesn’t make you laugh daily, you’re with the wrong person.

Thank you to all the men and women who are willing to firmly stand between this country and the evil that wishes to destroy it. I’m forever in debt to those who gave the ultimate sacrifice.

Miss you like crazy brother.

Today, while I was pulling out of a parking lot, I miscalculated how much room I had and slowly bumped into another car. I’ve never hit anything so I felt like it was the end of the world. I waited for the owner to come out expecting my next phone call to be to my insurance company.

The guy, he looked like he was 17 maybe 18, he walked over to check the damage and said “that’s all? don’t worry about it”. Now, that sounded too good to be true so I asked him if he was sure and he said “yeah, there are bigger things to worry about than a little scuff on my bumper, anyone could have done it and just driven off, really it’s not a problem” and then he hugged me (because I was noticeably distraught and worried) and told me to have a good day.

I was not expecting that at all. I just can’t believe how selfless he was about the whole thing. I don’t believe in god or heaven but I do believe in karma. I can only hope that good things come his way.

I went lead climbing with some friends today. My cam gave away on a fall so I dropped and swung into the wall breaking one of my ribs on impact.

Do I have any climbing followers… because I’ve never had a well placed cam slip on me.

So pissed. I guess I wasted hundreds of dollars on gear that doesn’t even work.

When ‘Sam’ and I met four years ago, we made tentative plans to hike the Appalachian Trail after graduation. His schedule is clear enough until he starts work in August, but because of my recent life changes I’ll be starting Basic Police Academy Training in July. Which is good, because I’m really anxious to get this process started. So, we recently came up with a compromise.

Originally we were going to do a thru-hike, but we obviously don’t have that kind of time so we’ve settled on doing a couple section hikes and eventually we’d like to try to hike the whole thing. We’ll be on the trail for about a month, starting in Northern Virginia and seeing how far we can get.

I also won’t have to train for Tough Mudder or the academy. Hiking mountains with 40 lbs of gear on my back while trying to adjust to the elevation changes will be more than enough of a cardio/strength training workout. And unlike running/lifting, I’ve never considered hiking to be a workout. I’m really excited, we both are. I haven’t seen him this giddy in a long time. He’s spent the last couple days researching and buying new gear.. I should probably get on that too haha. Oh and trail names. We need to figure out our trail names.

Kinda just wanted to give anyone who reads my stuff an update. We won’t be leaving until the end of may, but I realized that’s only a few weeks away, and we’ll be doing some climbing in Yosemite so I’m not sure when I’ll be home to post stuff.