THE GAME PLAN

With Thanksgiving done & over with & a trip to LA right around the corner in February there is a new game plan on the table. The plan to lose 25-30 pounds in 8-10 weeks. Dropping 2-3 pounds a week. YIKES! LA bound I want to look good & I'm just ready to drop these extra pounds I've put on over the past year & a 1/2 since my move to the Lone Star. I weighed this morning & I can't believe I'm sorry this out loud, but current weight is 158 pounds according to my scale.

The goal weight is between 125-130 & I will even be cool with between 130 & 135 as long as it's muscle & not jiggle. :) So starting tomorrow November 29th through February 7th IT'S ON! Running, Yoga, Pilates, boot camp work out, abs, push ups, better eating, cutting back on my sugar intake - it's all on. Got to do it. JUST DO IT!

It's time for a life style change.
I will save the before & after picture when there is an after. :)
Wish me luck! :)

BTW I know I have been out of touch, but I promise to catch up on all my blogging tonight.

ENJOYING THE PASSAGE OF TIME

Today is my birthday. I am 34 years old. Yea me! I don't feel 34 and yet I do. There is a part of me that is a 7 year old tomboy girl running bare foot all over the neighborhood in her Annie underwear & t-shirt on a blue bicycle with a banana seat and there is a part of me that is a woman who has had a journey of a life that is compared to a roller coaster and who has made many mistakes and learned from everyone of them even if I had to make some mistakes twice.
This year I have decided to celebrate my birthday a little different. A day of doing what I want. A day of relaxing. A day of pampering. A day of reading. a day of exploring. A day of reconnecting with that 7 year old & that woman all at once.
I have been on a journey of change lately of which I will share someday, but for right now am keeping it close to myself. I've realized my entire life has been a journey & will continue to be. There are just some times in your life when you open your eyes & realize you are in the middle of a journey and in the middle of a change. I haven't always embraced the changes, sometimes my stubborness as tried to fight it tooth & nail, but these changes I am embracing & am looking forward to seeing where they will take me next, and I'm sure there will be moments along the way when I want to fight the changing and look back, but I will try my hardest to keep focused.
I have always been spiritual, but over recent months I have become more aware, and things have happened & light switches have been flipped on and other light switches have been flipped off and yet other light switches have been flipped sideways. The difference in me is not fighting it. Changing what I can and adapting to what I can't change. Embracing my anger and sadness and grief and happiness and joy and laughter all with the same awareness. I know I will come out stronger & more healed & more grateful this way.
Mostly I'm am grateful for this wonderful & ever changing life I have been given. I've been blessed with some of the most wonderful things & wonderful people in my life. And I am truly grateful & truly blessed.
So happy birthday to me & my birthday wish is that I may learn to enjoy the passage of time.

STYLE-SPIRATION

I more of a see outfits & find a way to recreate them on the cheap. that is what style-spiration is all about.

HOME-SPIRATION

(Photos found at The Selby, Apartment Therapy,and others)

BLOG NEGLECT

I'm the Karate Kid blogger. Wax on. Wax off. My blogging is one week on & one week off.

Try to get some postings up this weekend.

HAPPY FRIDAY!

IT'S THE PHOEBE

Remember that episode of Friends where Phoebe runs like a maniac. This video makes her look like a ballerina swan.

Collection of People Running Like Idiots

BROKEN OPEN

Posted What I'm Reading Now earlier.

Here is a little snippet from the book:

"We are all half-baked experiments-mistake-prone beings, born without an instruction book in a complex world. None of us are models of perfect behavior: we've been known to be egotistical, unreliable, lethargic, and stingy; and each one of us has, at times, awakened in the middle of the night worrying about everything from money, kids, or terrorism to wrinkled skin and receding hairlines. In other words, we're all bozos on the bus.
This, in my opinion, is cause for celebration. If we're all bozos, then for God's sake, we can put down the burden of pretense and get on with being bozos."

So far I am digging this book.