I don't know if you've noticed but 5ks have become extremely popular as of late. Maybe that's just because I live in a college town but I see advertisements for all sorts of races. Ones where they throw color dye at you, ones where you trudge through mud, ones where you wear glow in the dark at night; seriously, where do they come up with these things? I'm not going to lie I have thought about signing up for these fun runs...until I see the prices. If you sign up almost a year in advance you can possibly get it at the early bird price of 20 bucks but any later the price jumps up to 60 bucks. That's SIXTY DOLLARS, for what? So that people can throw dye at me? Where does all this profit go to though? This is the question I've had as late, so I did some research. None of these fun runs, that today's college kids are obsessed with, give to anything. What I mean by that is that when you pay 60 dollars it is going straight to these fun run organizations. If that's what you want to do, do it! I am not judging at all. They all look like a lot of fun. But what happened to doing runs that benefited society? Why aren't those advertise anymore?
My roommate and I started to look into those kinds of runs (Which are really hard to find now a days). In my super close friend group three out of five have lost a parent due to some medical ailment. So we started looking for runs that benefit that. Things that mean something to me and help other people and guess what? WE CAN HAVE FUN WHILE DOING THIS TOO! So what did we find? Relay for Life...Duh. So I started a team and I'm going to start fundraising to help stand up against cancer. That my friends is what is important to me.
So that being said, if you want to donate to my Relay for Life team- The Breast Friends (Classic),
Just go to the Relayforlife.org and scroll down to find Participant- type in Erin Langford (Duh) and I should be the only one who shows up! Thank you!
Memory #12
Back in Cedar Park there is a little burger joint that is owned by one of my own lovely friends parents. This place is frequently visited by my family...like a lot. Its kind of sad sometimes. Whenever people come travel to our house and we need somewhere to go eat we almost always end up going there. Everyone in my family has their specific burger that they get every time we go. At the time my brother and dad would just get a plain cheeseburger with bacon, my mom would get the western burger. Which is a cheeseburger with barbecue sauce, bacon and an onion ring. I would usually get the California burger, which has guacamole and that is all you need to know about that burger. I've started to branch out though.
Why am I telling you about our burger preferences? One I'm really in the mood for a hamburger and some fries (yum) and also there is a memory there. When I was a senior in high school I got a job at this said burger joint and while it was a pretty sweet gig it always left me smelling awful. Usually I worked after school every day except Wednesdays and I didn't do a lot of weekend working, usually! Sometimes when I ended up working a Saturday at the end of my shift I would sometimes text my mom and ask if she wanted to have dunch (Since I usually got off work at 4 but was usually starving). Most of the time she would say yes and meet me and we'd split a western burger (Since you know I started branching out and I had started to like it)
Those were some of my very favorite kind of dates. Impromptu and with my mom. I don't know what age people are when they decide that hanging out with their mom in public isn't cool but I never reached the stage in my life and I'm totally ok with that. In fact I'm grateful that I was never embarrassed to be with my mom.
Go hang out with your mom, ya cool kids!
Love always,
Erin
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