WORK IT OUT!!!
I love working out!!! Who knew that this lazy girl could be so happy working out!
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
Thursday, June 25, 2009
Old age is encroaching...
It really is! I know this to be true because there are things that I can no longer do that used to not even phase me. For instance, I cannot stay up late and wake up early feeling refreshed like I once did. I actually need 8 hours of full on R.E.M sleep in order to properly function in the morning. When I was in college I worked as a barista at Starbucks. It was during these fun filled pre-OLD years that I used to stay up till 3 or 4 in the morning and then go to work at 6am feeling a bit out of it, but overall ok to work a full shift and then go to class and participate in philosophical discussions about cooperative argumentation. There's an oxymoron for you... Cooperative argumentation... Is that even possible? And I actually took a class about this in college! But I digress... The other thing I can't do anymore is eat whatever I want and not have to work out or worry about calories. This REALLY sucks! I cannot sit and eat a Whopper meal with cheese and feel OK about it afterwards. Now, I get sick and can actually feel the blood pressure rising and arteries clogging. I HAVE to work out at least three times a week if I want to still fit into my "going out" jeans and have any amount of self respect. I also have to start worrying about wrinkles and age spots and cancer and osteoporosis... OH MY! Having to worry about these things is one thing, but having to pay into the home prevention cures is another thing. Vitamins, eye creams, facials and hair treatments is expensive! I spent forty five bucks last night on toiletries and that was just for razors and cream! Oh yes my friend, old age is encroaching upon me and I can feel it's cold breath on the nape of my neck. On a lighter note, I had my first Neti Pot experience last night.
For those of you who haven't heard about this little invention, say HI to the Neti Pot. This little invention was designed to clean out your nasal cavities and clean out your sinuses. It was first used in India to help clean out the nasal cavity to help with breathing during yoga. If you have a moment, check out this interesting New York Times article http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/03/fashion/03skin.html I am a true believer in the powers of this little pot and feel GREAT after using it. Never slept so good in my life!Wednesday, June 24, 2009
Driving...
I was driving home last night and spotted myself a pristine looking VW BUS! Now that got me to thinking, wouldn't it be awesome to have one of these sweet lookin automobiles and drive it all over the country??!! I'm seriously considering doing just that because I have a plan. Mind you, this hair brained idea came to be at quarter to midnight last night while driving home from a long full day. SO... I'm thinking, I only have about a year left of payments on my Nissan and nearly NO credit card debt. College has been paid off for quite some time and I don't have a mortgage or lease of any kind. Once the car is paid off I can start selling off furniture, clothes and various other nick knacks I've collected over the years. Then I take a sabbatical from work and hit the road! Right, right.... I need the VW BUS first. Not sure where I'll find one, or if this will ever happen (leaning toward the latter at this point), but right now leaving everything behind and just living sounds pracitcally perfect in every way.
"Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?"- Jack
Kerouac
I would love to live that adventure. Just Molly (my dog), my self and my beach cruiser strapped to the back. I'm sure I'd have to find jobs here and there and figure out a way to bathe and cook food... But those are all but triffles of neither here nor there's because you can do anything you set your mind to. You just have to want it bad enough and have that strong burning desire to do nothing else but it.
"Why think about that when all the golden land's ahead of you and all kinds
of unforeseen events wait lurking to surprise you and make you glad you're alive
to see?"- Jack Kerouac
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
Tuesday...
I never seem to leave enough time to get things done in the morning. My intentions are good... I set my alarm for 6:45, knowing that I have to be at work, in my desk with phone logged on at 8:30 am. But I will not get out of bed and instead I hit the snooze button until 8 and finally will myself out of the warm comfort of my california king. Then I find myself in a tizzy trying to rush through the morning routine of feeding the cats and the dog, watering the front and taking a shower. Keep in mind I live 5 minutes from the office and I still manage to have to rush and worry about being late. Meanwhile, in the back of my head all I'm thinking is, I REALLY WANT COFFEE! To waste 10 minutes driving out of my way to sit in the drive thru of Starbucks would be the most wonderful thing at this particular moment in time... But no, that's not what is on the TO DO list this morning or any other morning because I cannot have enough self control to get of out of bed in a timely manner.
”Dost thou love life? Then do not squander time for that is the stuff life is made of.“ - Benjamin Franklin
I imagine what life would be like if I were a stay at home mom. I would have purpose and reason to wake up in the morning to get the kids ready, make lunches and carpool for summer activities like swim practice or day camp. I would have TIME for myself to run and get a cup of coffee and get home to take care of daily chores. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for the working woman getting out there to earn a living... all part of the daily grind. But honestly, I do not want it... Those working women can HAVE it. I dream of a life of planting flowers, going grocery shopping and cooking dinner. But for now... I will have to sit in my cubicle and dream of those things. For those are thoughts of the future.
For time and the world do not stand still. Change is the law of life. And those who look only to the past or the present are certain to miss the future.- John F. Kennedy
Monday, June 22, 2009
Gotta start somewhere...
I'm sitting in my gray cubicle staring into the corner as I have no windows and thinking, "How did I get here..." To start, I have to stare at the corner because I was informed that only managers can position themselves to look out from the opening of their cubes. Like royalty sitting above their subjects staring down upon them as inferior creatures. I am an inferior creature? There is nothing holding me to this place I call work... Nothing keeping me in this town I call home... Nothing grounding me to this state where almost 10% of my pay is taken for taxes. It's a wonder that with nothing holding me down, why I haven't just floated off into space and simply disappeared. I've been toying with the idea of selling off all my "things" just things that I really do not have any sort of attachment to.
You can never get enough of what you don't
need to make you happy. - Eric Hoffer
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