Blurry, But Still Glorious

today was a good day! I got started off a bit late and missed like half of my Old Testament institute class where we were talking about the end of the days of King Solomon, but it was still a great start. We had Subway today for Lunch bunch. I didn't put any mayo, mustard, ranch or anything really fancy on mine, I just ate what they gave me. I think my sandwich had lettuce, turkey, tomato, and maybe cheese. I wasn't paying attention to what was inside of it because I was busy listening in class. I also ate a bag of ranch Doritos, a white chocolate macadamia nut cookie and drank a Capri Sun. After that and choir (which is still steadily sounding nicer every time) I just went to the mall as usual. I went to See's Candies for the first time in a while, I think it was last year since I went there or something. I don't remember if I went earlier this month or not... Anyway, so I got a sample and made a stop at Deb because I'm trying to decide what I want to buy next month before they close.

Besides my usual stuff at the mall I went to Farr's and got some Mango Paech Tart frozen yogurt. I'm pretty low on money right now, so I knew it had to be something cheap, so I chose ice cream

I headed over to the Gym after this, I really needed to work out today. I've been kind of lazy this month and I'm just now getting back on track. I did the elliptical, stair stepper, a little bit on the treadmill and the bike, and I even attended 30 minutes of the afternoon cycling class. I knew I would be there for a while tonight because of mom and dad being at choir, so I did a little bit of everything besides swimming. I was probably there tonight for around 4 and a half hours or so, probably 5. It was packed, something that is normal at the beginning of the year at the gym, it kind of tapers off a little as the year goes on. I didn't get to as many of the weight machines tonight as I was hoping to, I did get a good amount of arm workouts in though, especially with the free weights.

Hands down the highlight of the night happened around 8:30, when I was placing the amount of weight I wanted for the assisted pullup machine and Darik walked by, also a few minutes after that when I was heading towards the turf area and i ran into both Darik and Dylan. I was also kind of startled and caught off guard by it though too, so my brain started zipping away really fast. I saw the slam balls next to me and just took the 10lb one off of the top holder it was on and decided right there that I was going to do some overhead slam ball walking lunges. I did those all the way across the turf area and then quite honestly as an excuse to be near the both of them I switched to 10lb kettle bells (might have been 15 I wasn't paying attention) and did the lunches again, but this time holding the kettle bells an either side of my body. I get really distracted when those two are around, so I made sure to keep myself busy. I did some bosu ball push ups and situps some arm workouts with dumbbells and other stuff that doesn't come to mind right now.

I didn't want to distract them, and I was feeling really energetic, so I just kept on doing my thing. I did some pull ups on the assisted pull up machine and also did some ab workouts on the TRX straps. At some point since I had my phone with me I decided to get a little bold and I started playing around trying to take pictures of Darik without him noticing. I managed to take a short video with snapchat of him doing pull ups, but ended up scrapping it because the lighting messed up. I was just fooling around for fun like this for a couple of minutes and then decided I would just be better off just seeing if he would let me take a picture of him. I knew it was really random and out of nowhere, but my train of thought and action had already been triggered and I wanted to follow through with it while I had the courage to do it.

He turned out a bit blurry because my hand was kind of shaking, but he still looks awesome in this photo. :) 

I've always wanted to catch Darik and Dylan in my camera lens, because I love taking photos of things, places and people that I love. It turns out that Darik was totally cool with me taking pictures of him, this is something I'll keep in mind and make sure not to go overboard with. I would love to have more photo memories of him, even if it is just a few. Both Darik and Dylan are important friends to me. Sadly I didn't get a picture of Dylan because Dylan had already left by this time. Darik was talking to some people and so I just took the chance while I could and I'm glad that I did.

Anyway, I started doing the weight machines in the front of the gym and watched him and Cara leave. I'm hoping I will see them again soon! I'm hoping I'll get to see Cara more too because I really don't know much about her, but I want to fix that because the stuff I have learned so far is interesting. She seems like someone I could become good friends with. I don't say that about very many people.

Anyway, I just took it easy after 9:30 and just stretched and played games on my phone until mom and dad picked me up around 10:30. The rest isn't really that important. Well, I did talk to Darik and Dylan just a bit, I suppose that was important. :) I just listened to The Birthday Massacre for a bit after and now I'm going to bed because I am super tired. :)