New December Challenge...

I need to mix up my workouts and find more workouts that I can do quick at home for when I have to work all these days in a row! This is my next challenge, I want to do this everyday in December for 1 month. Wish me luck!!!


Peace

Ready to Run!!!

Feeling like my old self again. At the gym I ran 2 miles at an 8min/mile pace and then "got my swoll on"!!! Afterwards I got the feeling that I love so much, the feeling of being sore and tired from a great workout! I also got to go on a nice long walk with seester and Kobe dog...it's so nice to get outside and exercise when the weather is so beautiful. 

My enthusiasm for working out and running has rubbed off on another friend. Helping someone become more active and healthy in their life is such a great reward!

Thats all for now...

Love

Back at it....

The holidays are a time for family and friends and being thankful for all we have in our lives, it is also a time for excessive eating and drinking!!!! I love the holidays but its time to get back into the swing of things and today is the day!!! I had an awesome workout at the gym today and even had a hot boy next to me on the elliptical, great motivation!!!

I forgot how good it feels to be productive in life and get a good workout in to start the day off right! The problem for me is getting started but if I think about the results after and I have the right support then this should be a piece of cake (speaking of cake....that sounds really good!!....NO NO NO NO) ha ha ha

My fitness pal really helps keep track of my food intake too, since that is 70% of the battle! 

Thats all for now....

Off for a walk with my seester so I can enjoy some good wine tonight!

Namaste!

Vegan it is!!!

Today is the first day of my new Vegan lifestyle. I have read a lot of blogs and they say its not to be done cold turkey so I think I will try this on the weekdays and let myself indulge on the weekends with my favorite foods. I am hoping this new lifestyle will give me more energy to sustain my crazy work schedule and keep me healthy.

My kryptonite is tofu!! Gross!!!!

Here I go!!!!!!!!

When things just don't go your way...

I am feeling bogged down with sad feelings and I don't know where they are coming from. Actually, I do but I am trying to work things out one at a time. First, financially, I don't know where I went wrong. I feel like I can't work enough to keep up on my own anymore. Financial freedom would be wonderful. I hate that my life is limited but my finances. I need to change that, work harder, spend less frivolously, I need to figure it out cause no one else will do it for me.

Next. Dealing with the realization that someone does not think you are worth their time and the heart break that goes along with that. I know he is not the one for me, I know I deserve better but at the same time it makes me think what is wrong with me. When will it be my turn to be in love, when is it my turn to find someone that will make me happy and laugh and look forward to tomorrow. What do I need to change to make this happen for me?

Work. Work takes an emotional and physical toll on me. I love my job and the people I work with but it is starting to bring me down little by little.  They keep taking and taking from us at work and expecting more and more. First, they take away our raises and now they have taken a little bit of our shift differential away. It feels like a punch in the stomach.

My friendships and family relationships are suffering because I am not happy in my life. I feel like I am too far down to bring myself up and it makes me really sad. I need to figure out a way to live a happier life.

Sometime things happen that make you laugh so hard you want to cry...

This morning should have been like another morning.... get up, go to the gym to get my swoll on, clean the house, pay some bills and feed the hogs, ya know the usual. However, this morning I woke up in a puddle of water covering my kitchen. My fridge decided to defrost itself and not to cool off again and everything melted from the inside. All I could do was stand there and laugh. This is a good excuse to clean my floors and the fridge. For the time being, my food has found a new home in my sisters fridge and the floors are clean.

Lesson of the day.....somethings suck really bad in life but all you can do is figure out how to fix it and laugh....laugh so hard you cry!

The women of the Needham/Jacobsen family!!!!

While the men are away the women will...get together around the dinner table and drink wine!!! I started 2012 exactly where I wanted to, with my sisters, niece, mom, grandma and aunt drinking wine and discussing our sunshines and clouds of the year. This is going to be a great year! As my sister says, this year is all about letting go and living the good life (I threw in that last part).

Every year everyone makes their resolutions to lose weight or go to the gym more often and it usually lasts for a week or two. This year I am going in a different direction (the weight and gym is an ongoing battle), I have decided to work on being a better daughter, sister, auntie, and friend! I want to enjoy the people who make me a better person and make my life better in general.

I need to learn to enjoy the life I have because I am very blessed and very lucky!