Real Neat Blog Award Survey

I absolutely love doing surveys, and I was so happy when Jamie tagged me to do this one!  I loved reading her answers to the questions, and I can't wait to see how everyone else answers.   I'll be joining in the Thinking Out Loud fun today as usual- now let's get to the questions!

The rules are:
1) Put the award logo on your blog.
2) Answer 7 questions asked by the person who nominated you.
3) Thank the person who nominated you, linking to their blog.
4) Nominate any number of bloggers you like, linking to their blogs.
5) Let them know you nominated them (by commenting on their blog etc.)

1.)  If you weren’t happy with yesterday, what would you do to change it?
Honestly, yesterday was a great day!  I got in all of my workouts and got to work from home, plus had some amazing food.  You can read about my day here, but there's not much I would change about it to be honest!  Maybe if Dan was home all day that would make it better.

Dan + Selma..what more could I need?!

2.)  What is your favorite book?
I've read a lot of books in my life, and I really can't think of any that stick out to me as a favorite.  I'm currently reading Lopez Lomong's autobiography and I can honestly say it's the first book that has impacted my life and how I see things.  I'll be dedicating a post to the book because it's so incredible.  I also tweeted about it, and Lopez responded which was cool!

3.)  What has been your biggest success and your biggest challenge?
Biggest Success: Making the Blue Band my freshman year!  I can't imagine my life if I never joined.  Not only did I meet the best people who are still great friends, but I also met Dan!  It's pretty competitive to get in the band, so I still think that it was a fluke that I made it in.  Definitely one of my proudest moments.

My first game as a member of the Blue Band!

Biggest Challenge: Being sensitive.  I am not a very emotional person, so it's hard for me to understand other people's emotions and can be really harsh and uncaring. 

4.)  What does your perfect day look like? (April 25^th is void… ;)
Spending time traveling a new city in a new country, preferably surrounded by water, with Dan and Selma.  Great food should be involved too, and the weather should be partly sunny and in the 70s. 

I wouldn't mind re-living this day!

5.)  What is your favorite memory?
All of my trips out of the countries are my favorite and strongest memories.  I can still picture being in Switzerland hiking up to our little hotel:

or seeing the Trevi Fountain for the first time:

I guess I should say my favorite memory is from Dan proposing.  Whoops!

6.)  What is the craziest thing you have ever done?
I'm not really afraid to try anything once, but I don't really consider anything that I've tried "crazy".  Some people consider me crazy for running marathons, but I would say my adventure trip to Costa Rica was full of crazy things (by the way, I'll be writing a post about my trip sometime soon.  It was so much fun and I want to re-live it!)

White Water Rafting

Zip-lining through the jungle with no hands (the instructors called this "pollo loco"- crazy chicken)

7.)  If your life were a movie title, what would it be?
That would be a very boring movie... but I would have to go with my blog name and say "GretchRuns"!  Yeah, I wouldn't see it either ;)

8.)  If you could do anything you wanted right now, what would it be?
I love to travel and experience new things and cultures, so I would love the opportunity to travel for my job!  I've always been a fan of Rick Steves and it would be a dream come true to have travel guides published or a TV series where I just get to travel the world.  That would be unbelievable!

I tag…
Jennifer
Heather
Shaun
HoHo Runs
Kristen

I also tag YOU!  Answer some questions below..I'd love to hear your answers!