my body is a wonderland

i love my body. can i just get that out there? i am in love with it. other people probably love their bodies, too. they teach you that in like health class 101. love your body. i love my body.

i could leave it like that but 25 years from now when i log onto the intranets and read that i'll be like, what? was i high when i wrote that? high on endorphins, there, buggo. i went running today after sitting out of the past week because of my cold. so today i was feeling better and figured i'd go for an easy jog around prince's park, maybe walk some of it if i needed. and my body was like, BAM! and burst right back into runner mode. it was like i've never rested, i was able to do a workout that i was able to do a month ago before i left. so take that, kokenes, mr. "everyday you sit out of running is 3 days lost of training." maybe for morbidly obese people like him. so, in conclusion, my body is friggin AMAZING. i love it. which is good, too, because i have about 3 weeks till my 10k and 2 months till my marathon. bring it on.

in other news, i love my family. dad wrote me an email yesterday, i'll copy and paste it in here so i don't ever forget it:


Hi Leesch, I'm not use to writing letters so bare with me. It sure is quiet without you at home but on the bright side your room has nevered stayed this clean. I hope school is going o.k. You have a couple of weeks of school in already and they haven't even started out here yet. Remember, if you ever need anything either use our credit card or tell me and I'll try to send it out to you. I can't wait to see those pictures that you are taking, so I can tell everybody how much of a learning experience this is you and us. I hope you are feeling better, take care of yourself,and I miss you. Love Dad To think, it only took me 10 minutes to type this


i was smiling so much when i read that. oh dad, he is so witty. seriously though, he made me laugh. and it may only be a few sentences but it means so much to me, and i miss my family, and i wish they were here with me. i don't know how else to say it.

other than that.. now that the love is out there.. me and siobhan went to a footy game yesterday at MCG.. essendon vs hawthorn. i'm gonna go eat lunch and then i'll be back to write about that adventure!

hmm. i wonder if i should have left my internet on. oh well.

alright so yesterday at the footy game siobhan was like "let's go take a picture with those giant pompoms!" referring to the huge pompoms that each team's cheersquad flails around during the match. so we go down there and ask them, and they are SUPER friendly and start talking to us, they think that's it's great that we're from america, we get another "welcome to australia!" and then they ask us if we want to sit with them (2nd row right behind the goals!) and hold up banners and flags and all that. of course we say yes and it was pretty much the greatest sporting event of my life. we got on the jumbo tron almost everytime that they scored a goal (a whole 7 times) and i'm sure we were on tv as well.. essendon ended up getting DESTROYED by hawthorn but it was still the most fun game EVER. now we decided that every time we go to a footy match we'll play the innocent americans.. "can we take a picture with your pompoms? oh, they're floggers? how cool.."

alright! that's a good update for now, methinks, so i'm gonna peace out of this joint. see you in december!

love me