A broken down car and a week full of exams

Sounds fun, doesn't it? What a week it has been.
It was a crazy busy week to begin with, having two exams on Thursday, and work on Wednesday. That left me with Monday and Tuesday to cram in some studying, one of them being for a midterm. In short, I felt like I had to learn half a semester's concepts in two days. To top it all off, my car ended up breaking down on Tuesday. I had problems with it a couple days earlier, but my dad and my sweet boyfriend thought they had it figured out. Turns out Tuesday afternoon as I'm driving it to the repair shop because my battery light was still on, it dies on me, but at an intersection. Perfect, right? I was pretty terrified, and basically just grumpy in general.
All I could think about was how stressed I was because I needed to be spending this time studying, and I didn't have the time OR money to deal with this right now. But I was so lucky to have Justin come help push my car out of the intersection and some other random guy who saw we needed help. Later there was an older man who saw we were in trouble as well and he ran to AAMCO (where we were originally headed) and talked to the workers there. He explained that we were literally two blocks away, and they said that they would come tow my car for free to their place. What. a. blessing. Like I hate to keep mentioning this, but I really am such a poor college student, and just the thought of paying for a tow truck to move my car, AND a repair almost sent me into an anxiety attack.
So this terrible experience ended up making me SO grateful for the Lord's tender mercies for us. I am so thankful for random strangers that are so generous with their time and effort to help others out, I am constantly astounded at how good people are. (:
So I still am cramming in studying, but I know things will work out.
Forever grateful for my family, boyfriend, the gospel, and for how much happiness all of this brings me.
Thanks for readin. Hope you have a wonderful day!

Ready or not..

So this girl right here, is training for a half marathon. Believe it or not, as soon as my 12 pack of Mtn. Dew is gone, I'm going to even try to be done with carbonation to help me out with this task. I'm also hoping that by writing a blog about it, it will help me stick to it more.. We'll see how it goes.
This right here, ladies and gents, is my training schedule. I started out today! Hooray!

Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat Sun
Week 1 off 3 miles 3 miles 3 miles off 3 miles 4 miles
Week 2 off 3 miles 4 miles 3 miles off 3 miles 4 miles
Week 3 off 3 miles 4 miles 3 miles off 3 miles 5 miles
Week 4 off 3 miles 5 miles 3 miles off 4 miles 6 miles
Week 5 off 4 miles 5 miles 4 miles off 3 miles 7 miles
Week 6 off 4 miles 4 miles 4 miles off 4 miles 8 miles
Week 7 off 4 miles 6 miles 4 miles off 4 miles 9 miles
Week 8 off 4 miles 6 miles 4 miles off 4 miles 10 miles
Week 9 off 4 miles 6 miles 4 miles off 3 miles 11 miles
Week 10 off 4 miles 5 miles 4 miles off 4 miles 12 miles
Week 11 off 4 miles 5 miles 4 miles off 3 miles 6 miles
Week 12 off 3 miles 5 miles 3 miles off 2 miles 13.1 miles!

In my institute class today, we had a lesson on balancing the mental, physical, spiritual and social needs in our life. Now this wasn't the only reason that I decided on this, but it definitely got me started. I had been planning for quite a while to train for one, but I kept letting stupid excuses deter me. "I'm sick.." or "It's too cold outside to go to the Fieldhouse". And finally today I just decided it's now or never. I have a goal to work out in some way at least every day, and be running five days a week. Not only am I excited for the end result, but I'm excited to get fit again. This winter has really just had me feeling "bleh". I'm completely aware that's not a real emotion, but I feel like if you're reading this you get me, I'm more than ready for it to be warm again. I notice that when I'm consistently working out, I am in general a happier person. So here it goes! Wish me luck! I'm gonna need it.
Until next time. Thanks for readin.