Today was my Friday. It was INSANE at work today... everything came in now that I'm off until next Thursday. And I have had a headache the entire week again. It was not fun. But the day went fast, I survived and now I'm off for almost a week.

The marathon is in 4 days. WOW! And I have officially passed my goal. As of today, my total fund raising was $7040.75! WOW! I'm so excited and proud of that total. I am just touched by the generosity I have seen. It has been amazing.

I'm scared about running.... well, running/walking. We'll see. And watching Channel 4 news, they are going NUTS about the marathon coverage. It is a bit overwhelming seeing all it again and again, knowing I'm not fully trained and still recovering from my back injury. But I am going to do what I can do and make it across the finish line.

Life in general is going well. The weather is getting warmer and Spring feels like it is finally here. I have the windows open and getting fresh air in the house. I'm looking forward to all the fun Spring things that are coming, including starting up the Couch to 5K with my fitness group... I have 35 people going! Holy cow! That's a bit overwhelming!

Besides the running group, I'm starting up a new session of dance lessons tomorrow night and in a few weeks golf lessons will start too. I'm really looking forward to that. Last night I signed up for 5 more 5K's in May and June and started looking into fall races. I found a couple of 1/2 marathons I might do in October and November that look good. My friends will be joining me, so that'll be fun.

And speaking of my friends, I am SO happy I found this group! They are just GREAT people. I feel so lucky to have them. We have so much in common and the understand where I am at in my life. They are just so supportive of everything... the stuff with the dating situation, training for the marathon, everything. Some of the emails I get are too funny and really do make me Laugh Out Loud! :)

We are going to be doing a Girl's Night. I got an email from a small theater who has a show called Girl's Night, The Musical. I guess its basically a sing-a-long with lots of fun songs about 5 friends. I'm trying to get the whole group to go which is 7 or 8 of us. I know it will be something different and fun to do.

So all an all, life is good. I'm tired. I'm stressed. I'm nervous about the marathon. I'm still off from the whole dating thing. But its almost summer, I'm busy and I have great people around me who help lift me up to where I want to be. It has taken me a really long time for me to get to this point in my life and I'm really happy about it.