Ashley Renee Perry: New Beginnings

Only ten days into the new year and I already have adventures planned, travels being made and new love in the air. It’s apparent that my year will be one of changes, moves, surprises and monumentous events! Not that my previous two years lacked those adjectives but this sure has been a whirlwind of the last 13 days. In short, I moved from my Redmond home to my Istanbul home. I discovered a new deep passion for running different from my previous obsession. I was able to come to peace with the person I have become and to understand the direction that I am willing to go. I have accepted that not only am I spontaneous and sporadic but that it’s ok to feel unrooted, disorganized, and somewhat chaotic at times because when you are simply yourself not only do you attract positive things but also positive people. The biggest change in my life this past 13 days goes by the name Shane. I made a rule a while ago that blogging about relationships was a horrible idea because it makes it difficult to read about it later. It leaves the door open to jinxes and sounding absolutely silly, but this I want to mention in hope that by mentioning it I will suffice my need to tell people as well as my fear of jinxing something amazing.

Through a mutual friend I met Shane. The easiest way to describe him is to take my personality, my positivity, my passion for health and fitness, as well as all my other qualities and place them inside a guys body. I am literally redefining the phrase “opposites attract” and calling its bluff with “ similarities not only sync but mesh to something beyond perfection.” Short and sweet without too much detail is how I am going to leave this, because words won’t ever be able to describe the feeling I have for this person.

Its ironic because I foundmyself thinking about the quote that started this entire blog and I started to really appriciate the things that it has taught me.

"You never know that the biggest day of your life is going to be the biggest, the days you think are going to be big ones, are never as big as you make them out to be in your head. Its the regular days the ones that start out normal, those are the days that end up being the biggest!" "You never recognize the biggest day of your life until you are right in the middle of it." -Greys Anatomy.

Literally every day of my life is a new spin of events that continue to make me grow into the person I guess I am supposed to be. It amazes me when I look back at all my “normal” days that turned out to be “huge big” days. Such as the very normal one in which Shane came into my life. I want to thank my friend Ashuly for taking me to her company christmas day to deliver sparkeling grape juice.

If there is one think that I want people to take away from ym blog, other then getting an idea on what I have been doing with my life for the past 2 years but I would want people to learn that there is so much more out there then the problems and stressed of our lives, that living positively and in the moment really has its benefits, and that in reality thing always turn out ok. Never give up and always be the change in the world around you. Ok I guess that was more then one thing but I think you get the picture.
Here are some photos of a race that Shane and I ran together the day I left Redmond. It was the Polar Bear run for St. Thomas Academy my time was a little higher then i wanted I came in at 24:35 minutes on my new nike+ band that also said the course was 3.78 miles rather then 3.1 which is what a 5K should be. It was a beautiful day in central Oregon for a race and we wore Shane's Trinity Bike jersey's to help show off his sponsors for his team.