I remember my weird dream from last night!

Okay - so most know that I missed the Cooper River Bridge Run this past Saturday. Booooo!

I wanted to be there so badly... and I'm still totally bummed.

Last night, I had a dream about being there for the race. In my dream, I finished with a 48 minute XX second time! I just remember it being SO easy to run the 10k because of how my body had acclimated to the higher elevation here in CO.

It's so weird, but now I'm really curious about how much easier it will be to run at sea level!!!

Has anyone ever experienced this?

What I'll be missing...

See the girl in the pink shorts? Yep, that's me, after running a 10k (aka 6.21371192 miles), up and over the Cooper River Bridge.

I will not be in attendance this year, much to my disappointment and my friend's disappointment. I love that run. I love having 65 year old men and 6 year old children alike, pass me up! I love the challenge. I love hearing people ringing cattle bells for all of the runners. I love having people on the sidelines cheering you on. I love having an audience. I love the atmosphere.

I just can not afford that damn plane ticket.

Grr. Double grr. And triple grrrrrrrr!

I just can't get over that I'm not participating this year. I want to be there. I love that run (even if I did get mad diarrhea 20 minutes after this picture.) Lol.

Almost a year.

I can't believe that it's been almost a year since G and I moved to Colorado.

A year and a couple days ago, G flew out to Denver to interview for his job with Denver Health. The next day, he got the news that he had the job and told me over the phone "well, guess we're moving to Colorado!"

After that, it was a whirlwind. G flew home and then a couple weeks later, from April 12th - 19th we spent time on vacation in Kauai. Upon returning, I was let go from my job for blogging about a co-worker and our shitty employer. (Yeah, if I've learned one thing... don't let people know your name or who you work for, and if you do, don't bad mouth them online where they can find it!) So I spent the end of April and all of May preparing for our move. (I had accepted my job offer while on vacation in Kauai!!!)

The last week of May, we moved!

While I don't miss Charleston, SC, the racism, the confederate flag being flown, proud "natives," hypocracy, ignorance, and the overall unwelcoming attitude of a majority of South Carolinians (yes, "Southern hospitality" does NOT exist there, except for the fakers), I do miss the people we befriended as well as a couple other things:

The view from our old apartment
The beach
The gorgeous sunsets
Thunderstorms and crazy weather
Shem Creek
Frogs! I love frogs!
The Cooper River Bridge Run (which I would love to attend this year, but don't have money for an airplane ticket... boo.)
Fishing... with G all the time. (And this pic is four years old, so lay off of my GAP overalls!)
Backyard BBQs with friends. (This is our friend Tim jumping onto a Slip-n-Slide. We're big kids!)
(I might mention that G took all of these pictures and one of his photos is being used in the next edition of Charleston Magazine!)

Sweet!

One of my favorite blogs to read dooce.com's author, has written a new book and she will be doing a book signing in Denver on April 6th.

I will go and I am stoked about the idea.

Wait... wait... waaaaaait. I am stoked yet I am bummed. I have a dilemma.

The Cooper River Bridge Run is on Friday, April 4th this year!

What to do... what to do. I really want to do the bridge run because Kelly said she'd fly back to Charleston with me and run the bridge with me, and Carrie said she thought she'd come up from Miami AND I want to see all of the peeps in Charleston!!!

But on the other hand, staying in Colorado and simply driving to dooce's book signing would be a lot easier on the wallet...

I guess we'll see!