i RAN today!!!!!

I am still trying to celebrate my little joy of running for a mile today. I have never done this before in my entire life and tonight I really tried and i did it! i guess my heart is okay after all. well at least i feel a little bit fit now. have been trying to take the vitamins too. they taste horrible and they are really big and green but i practically force them down my throat. the prescribed dose is two per day but they were just too big to take two so one will have to suffice. it's the GNC's One a Day Women. i often wonder what will happen if men were to accidentally take this...hmmmm. But yeah, as soon as i was done running, i hurried to tell nan about my little accomplishment. i expected her to get up and hug me but she didn't....maybe she wanted me to shower first. running is a lot different from walking. i can walk for as long as my legs can take it because it is my favorite exercise.....actually it is a wonderful mind clearer, but running takes will; lots of it! hopefully, i will be able to do this more often now.
so yes, back to the chocolate cake diaries....i had another piece of it today...and boy was it good! i definitely have a sweet tooth. my only justification is that i eat it at breakfast and no other time. figure that by the end of the day, it will be worked out and most of the calories will be consumed. on that note, i put fertilizer and MiracleGro on the roses today. They didn't seem to be doing well in the cold weather. Hopefully they will be better off now.
the cough is still there from the cold that i had. i suppose that i am 95% back to normal now. i guess the coughing is my body's way of ridding myself of the cold germs. ewwwww! realized that the medicine is not working well with me. i look at it and i remember this medicine i used to take when i was little. it was cherry flavored and looked like pepto bismol but it smelled like a hospital....like the rubbing alcohol mixed with the disenfectant scent...see, i have this habit of smelling everything that i eat (which offends nan all the time...especially when i am eating her food)...and it doesn't always work in my favor.
why do people have to take medicine in the first place? why couldn't there be preventative measures for everything? like vaccines and ways to prevent rather than to cure things? i guess then the pharmaceutical industries will be bankrupt. i'd rather take a shot than to take medicine and have to convince myself that it's going to taste like chocolate cake or icecream.
i was going to say more today but i am coughing now. better get to sleeping. it's already late and tomorrow, i may have to work. Not quite sure yet. Not exactly enthusiastic about it either. It's Martin Luther King day. Supposed to be a public holiday here in the US of A but i am not sure yet if i have the day off. usually, my work schedule is based upon the school holidays during the semesters. When i used to have the day off, I used to say thank God for Martin Luther King....but even if i don't have the day off, i would still say it. He did good things for a great number of people...not only blacks, but for the minorities in the US....and i am a minority.
this reminds me of something....On CNN tonight there was this special on Voice Profiling. it's like racial profiling but by figuring out the person's voice. See here in the US, there are different accents based on what part of the country one comes from. After a while of living here, you know where a person is from by the way they pronounce certain vowels. Especially the A. Then there are the American Blacks, who speak in a very different way, their speech is more distinct in the south...because of this, they are discriminated against even when they are on the telephone. the program showed a white caller and a black caller talking to a person about a possible rental of an apartment. the owner of the apartment gave more details to the white caller than to the black caller and seemed more willing to have the white caller as a tenant. even until now, there are still problems like these. this is sad. we call ourselves civilized and yet we cannot respect other humans...or even treat them as equal...not even that! and the worst thing was that the landlord had an indian accent...and yeah, that is hard to miss too.....made me feel embarrassed because i am indian and i do have an accent too....and it is not indian but a mixture of caribbean and southern drawl....go figure!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!