In a 5k race at San Carlos Hometown Days.

We ran all over SC. Up hills. Down hills. Through neighborhoods. Through streets being monitored by police men. I started off pretty strong. For the first mile I was in the front 60 group. But then I started to slowwwwww down. I blame it on my knee braces. They hold me down. haha. And when I run I can't breath for some reason. So lack of oxygen might have been a problem. During the last half mile which was around the park we were supposed to end at I seriously felt like I was going to die. I had to stop and lean against a car for like a minute before I started running again. I ended up coming 12th in my division out of God knows how many. The 11th place girl was only 30 seconds ahead of me (which makes me wish I didn't take the break).

I was surprised that I was even able to do it though. I had been planning on walking most of it. The last time I even ran a mile was four years ago. However, looking back on yesterday I wish I had done the 10k. I mean, I could have just walked the last three miles. And I would have come in first because no one from the 13-15 division tried it. I think I missed my one chance at a first place because next year I'll be in the 16-18 division and theres probably gonna be some girls doing 10k at that age.

Oh well.

Oh, ps; I'm totally burnt (I've only been sun burnt one other time in my life) and I can't move my legs at all today.

Till the sun burns,
Jen.

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I've got an audition. Kaiser Permanente commercial. I have to be a 'skateboarder girl'. Its a SAG job and I'm not in SAG so it's gonna be tougher to get it. But I'm wishing myself luck anyways because there's always that chance. I hope typing this blog isn't gonna jinx my chances of getting it though.

Till the skate boards,
Jen

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too many women (and men) every day and does not discriminate. It hits moms. It hits teens. It hits the chronically unhealthy. It hits the super healthy. It hits couch potatoes. It hits athletes. It hits blacks. It hits whites.

It seems like we've all been affected by breast cancer at some point in our lives, whether we have had it, or have had a family member or friend who's battled it. Everyone has a chance of getting breast cancer. Other than skin cancer, breast cancer is the most common cancer in American women.

So why not do all we can to stop it?
There has to be a cure. It�s just waiting to be found. But money is needed for the research. And is it that hard to donate a little? Even five dollars can help. So you donated the money you were going to use to buy a movie ticket. What a tragedy. But surely you won't regret donating when in five years from now you or someone you love is diagnosed with this serious illness and the fancy scientists are that much closer to finding a cure.

My mom has always been the healthiest person I've known but then- GASP- She was diagnosed with breast cancer. Even her doctors said they couldn't figure out why she had been chosen by the cancer. She's been battling it for the past two years. I only saw her cry once, and that was when she was first diagnosed. After that she went back to her normal life, but with a little more fight. She started working out five days a week instead of three and started doing all the things she had been putting off, like going to see our family in Norway. It really didn't seem to take control of her. She had cancer. It didn't have her. The only thing was that she had to go to the hospital everyday and lost her hair. This summer she's walking in the Avon Walk for Breast Cancer where she'll walk almost fourty miles (39.3) in two days. Since 1992 the Avon walk has been raising money so that men and women affected by breast cancer can get the medical care they need and so that the top research teams can be supported in their ongoing search for a cure.

If you'd like to put a donation in you can donate to my mom go here http://info.avonfoundation.org/site/TR/Walk2008/SanFrancisco/1515475332?pg=personal&fr_id=1480&fr_id=1480&px=3992473. Since the Avon Walk is a charity it is tax deductible. That being said, why NOT donate? I mean, the money's coming back to you anyways. And who knows? Maybe the dollar you donate is the one that finds the cure and saves the life of your mom, your sister, your wife, your daughter, your brother or even you.


Till the cancer cures,
Jen


Some facts;

One in eight women or 12.6% of all women will get breast cancer in her lifetime.

Breast cancer risk increases with age and every woman is at risk.

Every 13 minutes a woman dies of breast cancer.

Seventy-seven percent of women with breast cancer are over 50.

Approximately 1400 cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in men in 2000 and 400 of those men will die.

More than 1.7 million women who have had breast cancer are still alive in the United States.

Breast cancer is the leading cause of cancer death in women between the ages of 15 and 54, and the second cause of cancer death in women 55 to 74.

Seventy-one percent of black women diagnosed with breast cancer experience a five-year survival rate, while eighty-six percent of white women experience five-year survival.

You are never too young to develop breast cancer! Breast Self-Exam should begin by the age of twenty.

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this game for hours

http://intihuatani.usc.edu/cloud/flowing/core.html

I just found it. And its so addicting.

Till the fish sticks,
Jen

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You Could Maybe Be a Vegetarian

You may think being vegetarian is a great idea, but you don't have all the tools to get started. Find a local vegetarian group or buy a few vegetarian books. Even if you don't go completely veggie, you can introduce more vegetarian foods into your diet!

I find this amusing though because I AM a vegetarian and have been for almost two years.
The internet is fun. I think I'm gonna go take more surveys now.
Till the ham burgers,
Jen

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to lose ten pounds.
I'm recording everything I eat at jeneatsfood.weebly.com


When I'm thinking about eating though I don't eat.
I'm usually snacking all day but like now I'm thinking about it consciously and I just cant eat.
At prom last night I got the veggie meal. It was ravioli. I picked at it with my fork and noticed that it wasn't cheese ravioli like normal people eat. It was filled with mushrooms. There was another vegetarian girl at the table and a vegan girl too. The Vegan girl wasn't eating her's because it had cheese sprinkled on top. And the vegetarian girl had started to eat hers when I said to the vegan "well, I guess I'm not eating mine either. I hate mushrooms." At that the vegetarian spit her's out and basically started gagging. she had some sort of problem where she deathly hated mushrooms or something. So the three of us sat there not eating. They both took pieces of bread but I'm starting to just like not like food so I didn't mind not having anything. They served a cesear salad before the meal and the vegan girl hadn't eating that either. As she's eating her bread she goes "I feel like people are gonna think I'm anorexic."

but yeah. I forgot where I was going with that story.
:]

Till the mushroom raviolis,
Jen

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