What?!

Set your dvrs for Tuesday night!!

Paused.

Thursday is my day with no obligations. I don't let myself go to the studio at night just because John will be at the gym. I only have one workout to do on Thursdays and I can do whatever I want. Today, it was a long, relaxing jog around Mt. Tabor in two combined routes. It was fun. I have some things on my "soon" list that I want to do, but they are kind of waiting for the job thing to happen to kick them into motion. I have some good irons in the fire, job-wise, and am focusing my energy towards them and am hopeful that one post in the near future will get to be broadcasting something I am very excited about. But until then I feel like I'm on hold a little. It's OK, and I've certainly had time to go through everything in my life and evaluate it and am pleased to say that I don't have anything that really needs changing (aside from the job status). I've actually come to appreciate these obligation-free Thursdays and this afternoon, I got a cup of coffee and looked on the intertubes for a while, then cleaned the house. Another thing about Thursdays is that diet or no diet, if I want a beer, I'm going to have a beer. I'm having one now :) Husband worked until after midnight last night and was right back in the office today and according to his Facebook status (the only way I've talked to him today), he was busy all day. Now he's at the gym with Trainer. I assume he will come home tired. One of the things he said about me when we first got together was that he loved to come to my apartment because as soon as he walked in, he breathed a sigh of relief and felt his blood pressure drop. The fish, and the inevitably clean house, and the typically calm feeling of my life. So tonight when he comes home, the house is clean, his lunch for tomorrow is fixed, a bottle of wine is open, candles are lit and everything is peaceful.

Wordless Wednesday

You know what's awesome?

Having a frog in the tank. I also love the crab trying to show off in the background...

You can tell by John's boring tv show in the background that there is nothing better to do than video my pets :)

Presents and Jewelery and Girlfriends, Oh my!

My lovely friend Amy is moving to New York to go be fancy and live in the big city. Amy and I danced together in Spankasaurus Rex, we shared the Epic Summer of Girls' Nights and then most recently, we danced together in Sugar Q. The girls of Q all met up on Saturday at Amy's Deluxe apartment in the sky for a belated holiday celebration and a final goodbye to our dear friend. We also got to rifle through all her fabulous things that were not going with to New York. By the end of the night, we were covered in her jewelery and we might have had a little bit of wine.
OK, enough wine that we couldn't stand up for our group photo :)

The Bird

I love my digi-frame so much and I keep it running all the time. That way, every time I walk through the room (or when John is watching something boring on tv) I glance at it and see some snapshot of our awesome life. I'm getting close to 4500 pics on there so I don't even see the same pics on a regular basis. What I do see though, are some themes. I wear lots of bikini tops and hats. John gives me a "thumbs up" a lot. We have lots of pictures of horses and fishing trips and us with our bikes when we used to bicycle. We kiss a lot. Not that it's all love though, because this theme also surfaced....

Some tips for your workout at home!

Start off with some simple stretching. As you get warmer, deepen the stretch. Point your toes!
After you are warmed up, try some full body motion. touch your toes!
You may want to add some hand weights to increase your strength and tone your arms and back.
If you need a little extra inspiration, try a workout video!
Special thanks to our Fitness Model, LBK