Because I can, I will.

So, I have been super stressed out with my new job. Starting over and all has been both humbling and terrifying. I was almost to the point of thinking all was lost and I was doomed until I made a new friend at work. This friend and I are both new to the office, stressed out and very fortunately live a minute away from one another. One day, for some random reason in the ladies room, we were discussing a skirt I tried on in the closet that I no longer fit into and then the idea popped into her head that maybe we should run together in the neighborhood to get some exercise and lose weight. I wasn't quite sure if I should tell her right off that I would rather DIE than run around the neighborhood because I really needed to make a friend and nixing her plan without giving it a try wouldn't seem very "friendly." So against all my inner desires and determination to never ever run unless I was being chased, I started running with her. At first, I did everything wrong. I ate pizza and drank soda before the run and then didn't wear the right clothes. Slowly though over a week or so we built up my endurance to where I could run for 10 minutes without stopping. Granted, I wasn't running fast, but I was running longer than I ever had before. A few more days into working out, I started to notice that I missed it when I didn't work out for a day. We also started doing classes together and it has been very awesome to have someone there to make me laugh when I'm being a baby or when the move in class is just too hard. We seem to be getting better and better and though I haven't lost any weight really, I have noticed that my mood has changed quite significantly at home and sometimes even at work. I know in part that it is due to endorphins and all, but I also think it has to do with the fact that I have made a little friend. She is a lot younger than me, but she is so funny and has such a great spirit, that I feel I have more energy around her and I think that is making me happy too. So, even if things stay stressful at work, I will at least be building up my body of steel so that I can eventually enter a Cross Fit competition or something and become a professional body-builder/IT Recruiter.