What Weekend...

So I think I had a weekend,  I must have missed it though.

Saturday - I woke up at 6:45 am did my shred, then left for my 8am hot yoga class, came back from that made breakfast, showered, did my burpees, and left the house at 11am, picked up my caravan of derby bums (really I love them I swear) got there at 12 and we left for Virginia,  got to game at 4pm, had to quick get ready they were waiting for us, DC traffic is the black hole of drive time, then we skated (WON Woot!), turned back around for home, and I got home at 11:30pmish.

Sunday (today) - got up at 8am, did shred & burpees, left for 9:30am yoga, ran 3 miles, headed to derby warehouse to be a scrimmage body for the boys practice, got home at 4ish, showered, got dinner with the honey head, came home & have been doing wash while generally being a chicken with it's head cut off! It's now 7:45pm and I am finally having a weekend.

This week is gonna be much of the same.

Phew. Catch ya tomorrow!

quick day two

Im quickly writing this because I have to leave for a game in Virginia!  So its day two and I did my shred & hot yoga!  And look at me blogging!

Seriously if there is a question or topic you want me to write about ask in the comments.... other wise its just all me for 30 days.... oh and im about to do my burpees!  Almost forgot that one.

Enjoy you r Saturday!  I gotta pick up a car of bums.

30 Day Madness!

So i am starting a 30 classes of hot yoga in 30 days challenge today!  Along with that i'm going to do the 30 day Shred & a burpee challenge (by the way whoever named that exercise... why?).  AND i think i may try to blog for 30 days!  Which means things are gonna get real boring around here!  Can i think of 30 days worth of stuff to blog?  Well you can help if you want and leave a comment of something you would like me to talk about!!!  (is that cheating... NO b/c i'm making up the rules! LOL)  SO ask questions or make suggestions and i'll see what i can do... other wise your getting 30 days of whatever random crap comes out of my head!

In other news i recently did a 3 day juice i wouldn't call it cleanse... it was more to reset my stomach so i would stop eating all the things all the time.  So i drank 4 16 to 20 ounce juices a day for 3 days. It wasn't too bad i just started missing the action of chewing food instead of drinking it's liquified remains.  I have a derby team mate that did a juice cleanse for 2 WEEKS!!!  Then followed it with only eating puree raw food for a week then finished by only eating raw solid food. He is a vegetarian!  and i don't know how he lasted 2 weeks. He also thought chewing things was nice!

Derby is busy as is work, life, and the general craziness of the universe.  On the plus side you get 29 more days of this...

Until tomorrow!

"Mawage. Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday."

The title is a quote from Princess Bride because i always think of that when i think about weddings. 

So my friend just asked me today if there was anything I would have changed about my wedding and my only change would have been my photographer.  Now I realize a % of the blame goes to myself for not fully communicating with my photographer. BUT she was so not interested in taking my wedding photos she was more interested in talking to my friend who was also her friend. She was cheap though… so you get what you pay for.

But other than that I totally loved my wedding. It was small, unique to me and the husband and inexpensive. I picked the things I really wanted and all the other hype went out the window.  My sister did the same thing with her wedding. I feel like so many people fall into the list of what every wedding is supposed to have or be and end up with this monster of a thing.  The two weddings I attended in 2013 actually also did the same thing they did the things they wanted and said screw you convention. Not knocking conventional weddings per-say just knocking the idea that you HAVE TO have a wedding a certain way.  Also all the money people waste on all the things they say you MUST HAVE! 

One big thing I don’t get is wedding cakes, most of the weddings I have been too have had real pretty cakes but they tasted AWFUL.  So when I had mine we went to 3 different bakeries and tried their cakes one place had a moist pumpkin cake with cream cheese frosting that I died for!  So they were the winner!  B/c I find most cakes have a moisture issue like the cake is so dry! That is not a cake that is sadness. Don’t want to brag but everyone loved our cake. Weather they just said it to be nice or not I don’t know, I didn’t seek out they just confessed loving it.  So if you’re getting married do cake justice would you! Or go with an ice cream bar! (Coldstone does that!!) 

Another reason why wedding things are on my mind, it was my 3 year anniversary on Monday!  We didn’t do much because of other life things happening plus were kind of celebrate the milestone ones more people than celebrate every one.  But tell me how it can feel like way longer and not that long at the same time. I feel like we’ve been married forever yet not that long at the same time.  I guess the forever part comes because we have been together for 8 years and 8 months (LOL) we’ve lived together for 8 years and 6 months of that time and have been married for 3 of those years!  So all that to say yay 3 year anniversary!  Yippee to still liking (yes and loving each other) each other, still learning new things about each other, and still wanting to go on crazy adventures with each other. He is certainly the peanut butter to my jelly!

Pride & Responsible

Pride - a feeling that you respect yourself and deserve to be respected by other people

Responsible - having an obligation to do something, or having control over or care for someone, as part of one's job or role.

Something that gets at me like nothing else are people who don’t want to take pride in the things they do or be responsible for their actions / life / commitments. There is a situation (let’s call it that) that took place (taking place) in my derby world right now that involves the lack of these things. People having no pride in team or themselves I would have to guess which would lead to them completely passing the buck on their responsibilities. 

It’s frustrating because the responsibilities aren’t too demanding and everyone else gets their stuff done. But the same people over and over want special treatment or rules to be bent for their wills. They complain and whine their way to the results they want and because they did this for so long it resulted in the place we are at right now.  

If you read this blog you know how much I love my team the sweethearts.  I love my team so much b/c we work together so well, we know the things we need to do and we do them, when one of us is falling behind we see what we can do to help, and in general I feel like we have some grace and class.  So to be in the situation we are in right now is just not fun. We will move on and be better for it (most of us have already put our feelings away on this I’m slow to let things go). But it’s still just real shitty. 

Then we move on to other aspect of my life where this comes into play… work. At work I feel like 80% of the people don’t want to take any pride in their work or responsibility and it leads to things not getting done (important things) or if they do they get done very poorly.  It results in other people feeling over worked b/c they are making up for someone else not doing their job and the biggest pain it leads to is the blame game. OH how the blame game is so annoying. “I thought it was such and such’s job to do fill in the blank!  It’s not my job…”  I love when people say that too me b/c I would love to see this magically list of tasks they have with their “job” on it. They must have some limiting list that precludes them from responsibilities right? 

I just feel like more people need to take responsibility for things and then take pride because if you want your work to be great representations of you then have some damn pride already. Now I’m not talking too much pride where it becomes UN-helpful, I’m talking the amount where it helps you accomplish your very best. Ugh.

End rant.

The year to write more

Or so I'm telling myself! This year i wanna write more things, spend more time being creative because i have a constant stream of stories running through my head.  I don't know if other people think this way where their minds just go off on a tangent and creates a whole story.  For example i see someone walking down a busy street and i create a whole story of why they ended up walking, where their headed what kind of work they do... it happens a lot. Or if i think about a new job i don't just think about a new job in my mind i create this whole new world of possibilities this job would bring to me. how it would change everything. In reality i know that isn't really how things will go but it's fun to imagine and create a story.

So what was the 1st thing i wrote for 2014?  Oh it's a doozie... it's my hardest piece of work yet... my resume and cover letter!  Ok so i did that begrudgingly. why? i guess because i prefer to write made up things and imagine rather then try to focus on what skills i have and what someone else will find appealing. UGH. selling myself is so annoying.  I was super whinny while i did it, you can ask the honey face. and he is all "the hard part will be over once you get it done..."  FALSE! False this is just the start of the "hard part." I think that is what i hate the most. It doesn't end there.

At least i know i'm not alone in this terrible task. So there is that. it's just too bad it's terrible. Good luck to all of us out there looking for something!  Thankfully i'm not in any hurry.

But seriously i hope to write more this year... so maybe you'll have more to read here too! (one can hope.)

2013 (i missed 2012 for shame)

1) Was 2013 a good year for you? Yeah i got to go to VT to snowboard, CA to skate, surf, and see a friend, and CO to fall in love with an entire state!  Minus the whole pot being legal thing... jerks have to ruin everything. Also i got to go team camping with my SWEETHEARTS! 

2) What was your favorite moment of the year? CO!!!  Colorado was so amazing. i love it.

3) What was your least favorite moment of the year? Honey face and my sis getting laid off.

4) Where were you when 2013 began? At my friend Lucky's house, Honey face and i were sick but determined to celebrate!

5) Who were you with? Honey face, Lucky, Ray, and some other people.

6) Where will you be when 2013 ends? At Lucky's house!

7) Who will you be with when 2013 ends? Honey face, Lucky, Ray, & George

8) Did you keep your new years resolution of 2013? i didn't have one. I never have one... they don't work.

9) Do you have a new years resolution for 2031? See above.

10) Did you fall in love in 2013? YES with CO! It's so damn pretty!

11) Do you regret it? I still don't get this question... what am i maybe regretting?

12) Did you breakup with anyone in 2013?  I broke up with Cable TV... or was that last year? LOL

13) Did you make any new friends in 2013? No just worked on the ones i have making them stronger and more fun.

14) Who are your favorite new friends? See above also kinda shitty to ask this question why am i just realizing this...

15) What was your favorite month of 2013? I had a bunch of good ones!  When we went to VT, CALI and CO!

16) Did you travel outside of the US in 2013? Still nope

17) How many different states did you travel to in 2013? 6!  One being NJ so maybe that doesn't count, and 2 of them we just drove through just to get to CO from CA.

18) Did you lose anybody close to you in 2013? No

19) Did you miss anybody in the past year? I don't think so.

20) What was your favorite movie that you saw in 2013? I can't think of one.... i saw some pretty good ones that i didn't hate which is good for me.

21) What was your favorite song from 2013? William's Blurred Bynes

22) What was your favorite record from 2013? MSI How I Learned to Stop Giving a Sh*t and Love

23) How many concerts did you see in 2013? A few... can i remember them now... NOPE.

24) Did you have a favorite concert in 2013? see above!

25) Did you drink a lot of alcohol in 2013? Gross and no never any at all. Gross question!

26) Did you do a lot of drugs in 2013? Again Eww NO NEVER!! Even worse question then the one above!

27) Do you regret anything you've done this year? Not jumping when the time was right.

28) Did you do anything you are ashamed of this year? Derby fight. the end.

29) What was the worst lie someone told you in 2013? HA how about that they were my friend... (interesting this was from 2010 but is fitting now.)

30) Did you treat somebody badly in 2013? They may feel i did... (from 2010 fitting). Feelings... gross.

31) Did anyone treat you badly in 2013? Yeah see above... it happens (same as 2010... interesting)

32) How much money did you spend in 2013? i don't know but i like stuff. (LOL same as 2010)

33) What was your proudest moment of 2013? Trying to play a bank track game in LA with totally new rules against totally new teams!

34) What was your most embarrassing moment of 2013? I don't know...i'm over all pretty embarrassing... (lol same as 2010)

35) If you could go back in time to any moment of 2013 and change something, what would it be? JUMP take the leap.

36) What are your plans for 2014? Be happier with my job. Seems simple right?

Now let see if this blog post leads to more posts in 2014.... one can only hope.