Hello luvs!

Just a quick post to say hello and wish you the best for this week.  As mentioned earlier, I am currently the slated President-Elect of my local Junior League and am headed to the great state of Texas tomorrow for the AJLI Winter Conference.  I am excited and nervous at the same time.  I haven’t flown in almost four years (after being a champion flyer since a wee age) and frankly overwhlemed by the path a head of me, in a good way.

But a big part of me knows I need to go and take this trip.  I haven’t traveled in ages and it’s an opportunity for me to visit a state I have never been before, get to know the incoming President and experience this organization on a much bigger picture level.

I’ve scheduled my Pinterest link up for Friday and my dear blog friend, Nina from Peace, Love and Good Food will be guest posting tomorrow.  I hope you tune in and I’ll be back here on Monday!

Have a beautiful rest of your week,

I am blessed.

I am not fine.  I am not okay.  I am not getting along.

I am blessed.

We are asked the question of, “How are you?” on a daily basis and I would be remiss if I didn’t confess that one of the following standard answeres crosses my lips, “I am fine., I am okay., I am getting along.”  And we all know most of the time that’s the safe answer, not the most honest answer but the safe answer.

We have a lot to be thankful for, to feel blessed about, so going forward I am answering that question with the following:

I am blessed.

I challenge you all to do the same thing.

Happy Holidays!

It was one of those days, you know one of those days when you know you should of stayed in bed or stayed home.  But hard days are part of life, as much as they can be ugly and hurt you have to go through them to learn.  Many things happened today that made me wish I had never left my house.  And actually at 7am this morning when I had slept through a defunct alarm because of a power outage, I didn’t  think I would make it to work because my car was trapped behind our electric garage door.

Then the power was restored and I was able to frantically make it to work on time sans coffee with a banana for my breakfast and oh so fabulous hair and no make-up.

My day was rough but I learned a lot about being flexible and just going with the flow.

As I grow as a perosn and in my profession, I know days like these are important.

How do you deal with them?

For all my girls:

Via Delphine Fieberg

A while back, at the entrance of a gym, there was a picture of a very thin and beautiful woman. The caption was “This summer, do you want to be a mermaid or a whale?”

The story goes, a woman (of clothing size unknown) answered the following way:

“Dear people, whales are always surrounded by friends (dolphins, seals, curious humans), they are sexually active and raise their children with great tenderness.
They entertain like crazy with dolphins and eat lots of prawns. They swim all day and travel to fantastic places like Patagonia, the Barents Sea or the coral reefs of Polynesia.
They sing incredibly well and sometimes even are on cds. They are impressive and dearly loved animals, which everyone defend and admires.

Mermaids do not exist.

But if they existed, they would line up to see a psychologist because of a problem of split personality: woman or fish?
They would have no sex life and could not bear children.
Yes, they would be lovely, but lonely and sad.
And, who wants a girl that smells like fish by his side?

Without a doubt, I’d rather be a whale.

At a time when the media tells us that only thin is beautiful, I prefer to eat ice cream with my kids, to have dinner with my husband, to eat and drink and have fun with my friends.

We women, we gain weight because we accumulate so much wisdom and knowledge that there isn’t enough space in our heads, and it spreads all over our bodies.
We are not fat, we are greatly cultivated.
Every time I see my curves in the mirror, I tell myself: “How amazing am I ?! “

Worn out!

Is anyone else?  I can never seem to grasp the concept of self care.  I am running in my 3rd 5K race in two weeks on Saturday.  I feel okay about it but physically I’ve been pushing myself way too hard and for some reason I am not good at taking a day off.

For instance, on Saturday I ran with some coworkers in a 5K for Autism.  We walked some of it but it was very hilly.  Following that I participated in a service project for the Junior League.  We went to a local apple orchard and helped pick apples that would be donated to a food bank.  Both activities were fun but I was exhausted.  On Sunday, I worked a shift and Monday I worked a double shift.  I had another day off yesterday.  But because I had to catch up on stuff, it didn’t feel like it.

Days off are hard for people like me, I am so used to being busy that trying to slow down bores me so I just push through.  I am definiitly at my end and need to rest.  I am off Friday and Saturday so I am going to try not doing much of anything on one of those days.

Wish me luck.

Have a beautiful day!

My says all the time how the Universe tries to send us messages about paying attention or the choices we may of made.  I’ve officially gotten smacked in the face and I am trying to gain some wisdom from it.

As most of you know I ran and completed my first 5K this weekend and all the adreline left me feeiling good about life.  I lose my IPOD during the race but accpeted and moved on.

Then on Monday morning I discovered my wallet was lost, by Monday night I knew where I had left it but no one has turned anything in.  I cancelled all cards and ordered replacements.  I have a feeling it will be never turned in but this is a bit harder to accept than the IPOD.

All and all clearly I need to start being less scattered and pay more attention to other things in my life.  I tend to overbook my life and move very quickly which clearly can result in missnng vital steps.

How do you avoid getting scattered?

Have a beautiful Wednesday!