I truly have no idea where February went. Going into the month, I knew it was going to be extremely stressful. I had three straight weeks were I didn't have a single free evening. It was all work, school and other commitments.

Plus the weather was just awful all month, which made for some truly miserable days.


This picture pretty much sums up my month. Bad weather and lots of school.

SPORTS

It's March! Which means we're only weeks away from tournament season starting! The Terps have locked up at least a No. 2 seed in the Big Ten.


Post-Wisconsin victory celebration

We went undefeated in the Big Ten at home (and actually only lost one game at home all season, to UVA). It's going to be so great to be back in the tournament!

The Eagles traded McCoy. I am sad.


RIP Milcetich family jerseys.

The news broke last night and I pretty much was unable to pay attention through the rest of my Operations class. But then I read this this morning, and it helped me laugh through the pain.

MILES

Even though I was super stressed and time crunched for a lot of February, I did manage to hit a bit of a pattern with running toward the end of the month.



I took my friend Zac's advice a lot and squeezed in some shorter workouts here and there to keep my sanity.

Plus I ran Love the Run 5K and trained for the St. Patrick's Day 5K and 10K. Longest run of the month was six miles, unfortunately on the treadmill. That was definitely the trend this month with the weather being so terrible.

BOOKS

Reading was definitely something that got pushed to the side this month. I had started reading the Goldfinch, which was really good, but really long, and the library took it from my Kindle and I never renewed it.

The only book I actually finished was American Sniper.



I'd been on the library waitlist forever to get this book and was so glad to finally get my hands on it. I know there has been a lot of controversy surrounding both the book and the movie and major questioning on the validity of some of the stories in the book.

Here's my take on the whole thing.

I liked the book a lot. It was a pretty fast read, and I appreciated Chris Kyle's sort of arrogant, cocky writing style. The guy was a Navy SEAL, he had some opinions on stuff, and I appreciated that he just wrote them and didn't try to sugarcoat things to appease people.

Some of my favorite parts of the book though were the parts his wife wrote. I thought the book did a nice job of showing the impacts of war on one family. Taya Kyle actually has a book coming out later this year, which will dive more into that topic. I think I'll probably read it because I thought she had a pretty honest perspective.

This book gets high rankings from me, but if you're easily offended, you won't like it.

LOOKS

With the ice/snow mess that was the entire month of February, I worked from home a lot, and therefore wore a lot of sweatpants and stuff.


Lax t-shirt from the high school days

But I did venture to the office a few times, once after a nice big Terps win and rocked some celebratory red and black.


Linh had the same idea

BABY BONUS

And because no monthly recap post is complete without some pictures of the adorable cuties in my family, here's what the munchkins sent me for Valentine's Day: