Rocky Balboa

Casey Knapp. Just about my favorite person rockin' it in this world. He has it figured out more than most people.

A dear friend left me today. He has been my rock all year long and someone I have confided in for the last three years even when we don't live in the same place. I said good-bye for now to Casey Knapp. He has been there for me in every way possible in the last eight months and I don't know how I would have made it through the winter without him. I am so thankful for the friendships you know will last a lifetime. Mr. Knapp is a beautiful man with a beautiful soul. You will be missed, my love.

And while I mourn my friend's departure, I shall run today and start my regimen leading to a half-marathon in mid-July. I bought a running watch which will help me train and see my progress in the next nine weeks. I figure since I can't afford to buy a membership to a gym I can bring the treadmill numbers to me. I can monitor my pace, distance, time, and calories with this mighty GPS watch. It can even track my routes and it will keep all my info tucked away in it's gaudy blue body. I do admit I like it. I can save all the history, too, and put it on my computer. I can pretend to be a machine for a little while and watch myself transform. Ha- the small things that get me excited. I'll keep you updated on my progress as a running machine.

And, last but not least, Day 2 of quitting it. So far successful. Jittery and anxious, but successful. I know running will be a saving grace in my times of irritable anxiousness/panic attacks. I hope I don't literally bite anyone's head off during this process.

Oh, and I almost forgot about my dating life I was so adamantly going to write about. The stories are there, but the superstitions are high.