Rants, Recipes, and Running

I'm choosing to do a "currently" post. I feel like if I try to highlight my week, this will turn into a rant. Honesty time: This week kind of sucked. Moving on. Currently: Reading : The Light Between Oceans. If you haven't read this - you must! Such a good read. Conflicting. Loving : Longer days of sunlight!! I am able to run & bike at 5 am without my headlamp...so I'm a happy girl! And the sun is staying out until about 7! Makes a huge difference on quality of life. That is one of the hardest parts of living here. The longest the sun stays out is 8 pm!!! Makes me miss those Midwest summers where the sun stays out until 10 pm in the summer. Thinking : That my husband is never coming home. He was originally supposed to be home on April 25, then that got moved to April 29, then it got moved to April 30, then May 1. Now I don't think he'll be home until May 6 - but that's being super hopeful. This is getting super old. I'm ready to live ...

You may not know this about me (or believe this about me) - but I am a big-time "scaredy cat". I don't do diving boards, I don't do heights, ever sports stadiums make me a little weary..... I never climb anything . I'm too scared of falling. So I'm not really sure what I was thinking signing up for an obstacle run. Especially the 10K, where I have to do it twice . 12 foot walls had to be climbed up and jumped down from 24 times. We had to climb a 30 foot wall using ropes. There was this rope-net that was 20 feet above the ground that we had to spider climb across. We had to climb this other "rope" ladder thing about 20 feet into the air....and then slide down a pole. We army crawled through tunnels under roads (that had fake snakes in them) We army crawled through mud, mud, and more mud.... The only obstacle I couldn't do was crossing monkey bars. My hands were too wet, and I kept slipping. And lets just be honest...I can't cr...