I swear if I see 'amillenialist' used as a pejorative one more time I will write a post about how the 'Hunger Games' represent the triumphant return of postmillenialism to YA fiction.

I ran 5k straight for the second time today, which makes me very happy because it means that the first time wasn't a fluke. It's something I can do consistently. Now I just have to keep on doing and pushing myself further. There's definitely room for improvement. It takes me a bit over half an hour to do it, so roughly... 6mph? I'm going to try and get up to 7 as my next goal. I'm nowhere near marathon, or even half-marathon ready, but its great to reach a milestone like that.

Combined with, after completing the 100 Pushup program, I do 100 pushups every other morning (Set of 25-25-20-20-10), I feel better than I have in a long time, And I probably look better too, because despite not losing much weight, I can't wear my jeans without a belt anymore. It's not the perfect workout by anymeans, and I'm not like, taking 1000 supplements and timing the perfect consumption of protein powders, but I'm not interested in physical perfection or whatever. I'm interested in keeping an active lifestyle and not settling into lethargy for the rest of my life.

 Sometimes when I get disappointed about the things I don't have/haven't accomplished I should look at the little things.

I mean, just health wise. I haven't had top ramen, canned chili or a microwavable meal in YEARS now. They are simply no longer on my grocery list or brain as a meal option. There were times when I'd have all three on the same day.

 It seems like I have to move at least once a year. Not that I'm complaining.

Lease is up at the end of August, so me and my roommates. Lex and Jobrill, started looking early. Think we found the place and we're putting in our applications tomorrow.

2500 Sq. feet. Compared to our 1300 right now. $1200 compared to our current $1250. The place is GIGANTIC. Eric and I were looking at it and had no clue as to how we'd be able to utilize as much space as there is. Having an actual kitchen, a real dining room where we could put an actual table? I haven't eaten at a table in MONTHS.

A YARD. Oh my word ;_;

I'm really excited. This is a place where I can see staying for more than a year. Well, we'll see how I feel after a while if we get it, but this could be very, very good.

 This saturday I made:

Stuffed Mushrooms
Shrimp Cocktail (Made my own cocktail sauce even)
Hummus
Bruschetta (oh my word living basil smells so good)
Grilled Asparagus

And mixed at least twenty cocktails or so for my guests.

I don't really do it too often, but I really enjoy cooking up a storm, and I'm even happier I hardly got to eat any. Food went quick! Now I just need to find a place to live where I can have a lot of people over more comfortably. 

Over the past couple weeks I've had these episodes where I randomly crash wherever I am. Usually around 10:30pm or so. I don't even realize it until I wake up at around 3am or so. On the couch, in my reading chair, once in front of my computer. I'm really getting sick of it. It's happened pretty much every evening this week so far too. What is the deal

 I feel like a huge dork for it, but I cannot help but enthuse over how amazing shaving with a safety razor is. It's such a relaxing morning ritual, right up there with the first cup of coffee of the day. The whole process is just so much more involved, and using actual shaving soap instead of that crap cream in a can leaves my skin feeling fantastic. Way better than smashing the old electric against my face.

And that's not even mentioning I can get 100 blades for less than $20.

Birthday shopping for my brothers this year is going to be easy.

 I hope Matt Smith has a tenure just as long if not longer than David Tennant did. That season that made me grin ear to ear, especially after BSG betrayed me.

Taking two days off from work this week! This week is kind of a perfect storm at work because on top of a pretty big workload we've got some serious vacationing going on:

Me - Out Wed/Thurs
Jobrill - Out Thurs/Fri
Eric - Out Fri

So it's perfectly staggered to have at least one person in at all times, but just barely. Vacations are definitely the hardest thing to work out now that we only have three people in our department. Especially since we all live together and are interested in doing the same things.

ANYWAY. Super excited about my trip. I got a sizable chunk of cash bottling champagne over the last weekend so I'll have some walking around money without digging into my budget at all, current plan is:

Morning: Leave for Boise
Lunch: Barley Brown's Brewpub in Baker, or Terminal Gravity in Enterprise if I end up making good time
Afternoon: Visit grandpa. Meet up with Alex
Evening: Blitzen Trapper with Alex at the Knitting Factory

On my way home the next day I'll visit the Prodigal Son in Pendleton for dinner.

Also, is it sad that p. much my biggest dream right now is to move to Portland, get a generic tech day job and then try to find evening work at one of the countless microbreweries in town to get my foot in the door of the industry?

That may have been the best Venture Bros episode ever.