october...

sooooo the new colors on my blog are in honor halloween. although the text is in pink because october is BREAST CANCER MONTH. october is also PHYSICAL THERAPY awareness month. go to
breast cancer
physical therapy
chicago marathon
october is also the month chicago holds the annual chicago MARATHON. the marathon consists of thousands of people from all over the world, mostly usa and africa and few other countries. the marathon is 26.2 miles, and a big mile stone towards progressing to the higher level marathon. you have to qualify within a certain time limit to go forward to the higher level. i volunteered on the medical team last year. it was a AWESOME experience and i wish i could do it again this year. its on OCTOBER 7TH, the marathon starts at 8am and ends around 3pm. please if ure in chicago, go downtown and just help out or go support the runners. it takes tremendous effort, motivation and determination to run this and accomplish this milestone. many of the runners are in the middle ages and or young children. they even have a special race for the disabled atheletes, who perform with great capacity. since your body is not designed to run without a stop for 6 hours at a time, it just collapses at the finish line. its fascinating how people finish this race, its not easy running for 26.2 miles. it takes my car 35-40 minutes at 45 mph to accomplish around 26 miles. imagine running it?
its just a different feeling to be around people who have accomplished something like this.. just fabulous to help out. for someone that knows how hard running is - my personal goal is to run 2 miles without stopping. (hahahaha i know its pathetic, but whatever) i really appreciate these runners. i did a post on it last year when i volunteered, sucks i cant reference it cause i shut down my old blog.
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hahaha yes yes indeed all of you were right. chocolate is something i couldnt do without for TOO LONG. although if its worth anything its super hard to go without something thats in ure face at all times. i mean whats happened to our society even simple healthy foods have chocolate in it to make it taste better:
cereal - coco puffs, coco krispies and what not
granola bars - chocolate chips, heath bars, snickers power bars
cookies
ice cream - omg, alot of variety of chocolate ice cream..
cakes - so many different kinds..oh my
brownies
candy
trail mix - even that has chocolate
coffee - all GOOD tasting fraps and capachinos have mocha
hot chocolate
muffins - even muffins are made with chocolate chips -- that i actually dont like
bread
spreads like nutella
milk - chocolate milk or powders like ovaltine and bournvita
lets not forget all the different types of chocolate - omg kit kats, twix and what not. and my ultimate favorite is cadbury's fruit and nut (yummilicious)
smores

I MEAN this is just everyday things... so yes i slipped. but i mean it was hard to keep up, cause even if i go to study, i cant have coffee. i even bought chocolate coffee from folgers. what i told you i liked coffee and chocolate, its an awesome combination, smells like hot chocolate. its phenomenal actually. it was just too difficult, but well my goal is to lower the amount of chocolate intake.. although i did last a whole 2 weeks before my slips..

so ALL OF YOU ARE WINNERS AND EACH OF YOU HAVE ONE WISH... please make it reasonable. i'll try my best to make it come true ;)

ENJOY OCTOBER AND all things fabulous. in it.. more awareness posts will be coming.