Adventures of a marathon girl

Hi y'all, This country, much like me, seems to be all or nothing in everything. When it rains...it RAINS, when the cold kicks in your butt will freeze off, when spring visits life blooms around you and when summer decides to make an entrance you better believe it is a grand one. Holy smokestack the weather pulled a 180 and I'm running in shorts and tops again. Loving the summer heat as long as it will last because trust me: the flatlands won't make you enjoy this for too long. Dutch summers are typically wet, grey and not warm. The summer we get to enjoy is about 2 weeks in May and then some around September but hey...I am currently stacking summer joy memories so I can go around telling everybody about our amazing Dutch summers like all the other misguided reality challenged ones around here. Look I have to admit running in the summer heat isn't my favorite time around. Trust me I love heat, summer, beaches and ocean but running in heat I am not a huge fan of.

Hi y'all, Remember my last post? The one on the butterflies and how very unclear it was? Well right about three days after that post a huge glittery, sparkly, bubbly and very lively bomb dropped from the sky and made a possitively good kind of mess. I needed some time to just breath, reorganize and wait for the dust to settle just so I could try to find focus in all that is new and awesome. SO what happened? Well I got a new job and by new I mean not only did I find a new place of work...the job itself is completely new to me too even though I do realize that most of what I'm good at is part of the job. I started working as relationship manager at the Dutch ALS foundation on April first and ever since that day I have been trying to keep up with my own life. After about twenty years in education I can honestly say that I had a good run (well...a run...) but that I'm done running that race. Another chapter to the same old story would probably destroy me and even thoug