Little Miss Runner Pants

friends
sex
music
drugs
love
anything

so, here goes...

RUNNERGIRL asked..
1.) how long have you known your closest friend?
hmm.. i guess the title of "closest friend" would have to go to Nebraska Girl. we met the summer of my junior year in mexico while doing study abroad, so I guess it would be about 5 years.

2.) have you ever choosen not to have sex with someone and regreted it later?
i thought really long and hard about this one, trying to come up with a good answer, but....

no. i've never regretted not having sex with someone.

3.) who is your favorite artist to run to?
overall the artist with the most tunes on my I-pod is JEM.. and no. not Jem of

JEM!!! Jem is excitement..ooo-ooh JEM! (raise your hand if you have any idea what i'm talking about?!?!!)

but JEM, of Finally Woken.

4.) do you think that marijuana should be legalized?
absolutely. not because I personally want to legally use drugs.. but because its just not worth it. legalize it already. tax it. be done with it. move on.

5.) how do you know when you are in love?
i... don't know. i'd say i "just know" but.. thats crap. truth is, i don't know. have i ever been in love? i thought so.. but.. maybe not? i don't know.

6.) what one book or movie has touched you?
While I was Gone by Sue Miller.

KIM of STOP YOUR B*TCHING... asked
1.) have you had any major falling outs/why did they happen/resolution?
yeah. chicago boy and i had a pretty bad falling out a few months back -- why would pretty much come down to he's wrong and i'm right and thats just all there is to it.

!! totally kidding. um, no... basically, it came down to communication and over-reaction and stubborn-bull-headedness.. on both our parts. luckily we both value our friendship enough that we were able to eventually sit down and calmly talk it out and realize what idiots we both are, and... that was kinda that.

2.) best time/what made it so good?
italy. the ex had just broken up with me.... well, we had agreed it was for the best, but... yeah he basically broke up with me.. and i think it was just a huge release of a lot of pent up emotion and... i dunno. we were in italy!

3.) first concert?
HA! Paula Abdul!!!! with my DAD! in seventh grade. man... wow.

4.) favorite cold medicine!
SUDAFED!!!

5.) how many times have you been in love?
i've thought i was in love 3 times. i look back now and wonder.

6.) who do you have a crush on these days?
OMG this guy at the bike store today. holy moly. there was actually going to be an entire post dedicated to this man's just complete and utter hotness, but i got side-tracked by this game.

you do not understand. he was...... amazing. his teeth... so white. so perfect. scruffy hair, total BMXer type.. but just... i went into total giggle mode. i was looking.. not my worst, but damn near.. had on my glasses.. just.. i was in bad shape. i just wanted to stare. i walked out of the store with $150 worth of bike stuff...

not that i wouldn't if he hadn't been there... but... omg. by the time i got to my car i was already coming up with ideas for other reasons i could come back to the store like the next week... obviously in full-on A.Maria dress.. so that i could properly woo (read:drool)...

but yeah him. i have a crush on him. i have no idea what his name is... but...

OOH! he gave me a 10% discount. i'm still unclear as to why.. probably because i was walking around like an idiot and he felt sorry for me.. but i don't care. he is BMX Boy, and i will definitely find a reason to see him again!

whew okay this is getting long. up next..

JON IN MICHIGAN asked..
1.) Does your best friend know you blog?
yup. she doesn't read very regularly, but i think my addiction has prompted her to start her own blog.. so thats fun!

2.) If you had to marry someone and had to choose between love and sex (can't have both) which would you choose?
um... love!!?!?!!!!

er. LOVE!!! without the question marks. i mean obviously, right? i would choose... love. LOVE. yes.

love.

3.) Favorite song from a commercial?
i super have no idea. like just... no. no idea. umm... ?! yeah no. i got nuthin man. i'm sorry. nada.

4.) Have you tried any drugs that required a needle?
good gawd no. never had an interest, never plan to. no and no.

5.) Would you share needles with someone if you loved them?..
why I would need to share a needle with a loved one is beyond me… but if we’re talking life or death. Yeah. If not… then dude. Get your own needle. I love you but get your own needle, ya know? and p.s... what's the needle for?!

6.) What would make you give up blogging?
Hmm. I don’t know. I could see needing to take time off, dealing with life, as fellow RBF’ers have done… and I totally get that and could see needing that… but blogging for me has become so much more than just running. It’s truly become an outlet for me, a way to clear out my head or just say things that I can’t maybe say to certain people in my life, etc. the RBF has given me some great friendships and strangely, there are some that I’ve never met that know more about me, or at least about certain aspects of my life, than my friends do... and I’d hate to walk away from that.

and from the game starter herself, NIC asked
1.) Have you ever fallen for a friend?
yeah. my best friend in high school.. i fell for him pretty hard. we started dating my... junior or senior year in high school (really sad that i can't remember) and stayed together thru part of college.. little over 5 years.

2.) Have you ever slept with a friend?
yup. once. it was uh... yeah no. don't need to do that again!

3.) What song is at the top of the Playlist you play when you're getting ready to go out?
oooh... lets see. currently Esthero.. If Tha Mood. damn i love that song.

4.) How old were you when you first experimented? (If you've experimented, of course.)
being the goody goody girl that i am... i was 22. study abroad in europe... germany, to be exact. me and the american kids and a kid from Denmark. maybe another kid from sweden. i don't exactly remember!

5.) Have you ever broken someone's heart?
that old high school sweetheart.... i was the one that ended it. that was hard.

that sucked. so.. yeah.

6.) What's your favorite Sunday afternoon activity?
oooh. kicking back on someone's (mine. that i dont have anymore because of my loft situation) back deck or porch.. whatever.. with a good book. a drink. maybe some music in the background. just chillin.

oooh i love summer for those kind of lazy afternoons.

right. and so there ya have it. more useless information about a.maria. i'm sure you're all so thrilled!!

(and yes, i realize i'm totally cheating and taking the easy way out of having to actually post something by doing this.. but my house is a wreck. i apologize and will be back to update you on my upcoming 20 miler tomorrow!)