OOTW-Week 3 Army Green

This week was green.  Close to an army green.  We lucked out and had casual week for the last two days!

B.o.B

This was the best concert I have been to in a while.  I love me some Bobby Ray Simmons.  So nothing could have ruined this moment.  I was so close, and I swear to goodness this man looked me directly in my eyes.  Ask Debbie, she thinks he did the same to her, and she doesn't love him like I do.

He is Beau-ti-ful!

This is just a tiny blurb of the evening as it went.  I am working to upload the rest of the videos to my youtube channel.

OOTW-May week 2

I am back with an outfit of the week post.  I unfortunately missed the first week of May, but I at least have week 2.

Enjoy.  Inspired by the color aqua.

Monday: White twill capri pants. Sheer aqua floral 3-quarter sleeved top.  Navy blue flats.  White hoop earrings.  Turquoise beaded necklace ,with white beaded bracelet.

 Tuesday: Brown wide leg pants, aqua knit short sleeved sweater.  Aqua Jessica Simpson heels. Handmade flower hair pin, paisley beaded necklace and earrings

  Wednesday: Brown twill skinny pants, one shoulder sleeved aqua print top.  Matching 3-quarter sleeved cardigan, with brown wedges.  Brown wooden necklace and small turquoise stone earrings.

 Thursday: Black skinny twill pants, multi-print aqua shirt, with black cardigan.  Orange/rust colored wedges.  Gold horn necklace with beaded turquoise and orange bracelet.  I don't remember what earrings I chose.

 Friday: Khaki skinny twill pants.  Navy and aqua striped shirt dress, with a navy blue cardigan.  I wore flats this day, instead of the wedges shown.  With a handmade necklace and multi beaded necklace.

Rookie Cross Fit

Saturday April 23, 2016

Rookie Cross Fit Competition 

There is swearing and inappropriate gestures...viewer beware...

Changing Me

I have been going through the process of life changes. I am working at bettering myself to be the person I've always envisioned. And with that comes a lot of stress, tears, laughs and need for constant self motivation.
I first started with going to church. I have found great relief in going every Sunday knowing that I will hear a message that somehow always pertains to me. I started back at the end of October 2015, and have been ever since. I have only missed 2 Sunday's so far and am proud that I am making a positive change to enrich my life. I've even started attending singles night on Thursdays and am now in a financial class Monday as well. Just opening up my life to something different and maybe meeting a new set of people with more positive outlooks has been great for me. I am the definition of pessimistic, so to try and work on being optimistic has been challenging.
While I am working on this journey with church I have also changed the way I eat. I think having a positive outlook in life can't be successful if I am eating poorly and miserable in my body. So I slowly started to eliminate all the crap out my life. It is an adjustment to remember that sugar is a drug and I am addicted to it. It is slowly killing me, and I have to give up the control. After the holidays I cut most of my candy eating down to one mini piece of caramel Milky Way a night. I mean, I was still eating candy, but not like I usually would. We have a huge candy bowl at work, I would buy candy anytime I was at Target or the grocery store. So one mini piece was incredible. However, at this same time I was dealing with swollen feet, chicken skin, dry skin, stomach pain and cavities. So I decided to cut candy at home and occasionally have a piece at work if the mood so touched me. Now I can say I don't crave candy like I used to and can go weeks without it.
I also decided to research gluten and lactose intolerance. I already know I have a lactose intolerance, so there wasn't much else to research, but I did cut the added dairy and already noticed a huge difference in my constant stomach bloating and headaches.
I am going to start adding back the gym, but I haven't made it there yet.  I am still finishing the last of my master's degree so I have to find time to complete school, work, and make time for my self without going too crazy.
I will say I already notice a huge difference in how I feel about my life and myself. I can get down on myself and how I think things should be going, even when they aren't.

OOTD Week 4

Week 4, was pretty lazy.  I didn't even paint my nails.  Enjoy anyway.

OOTD Week 3

So, I have gotten a little lazy when it comes to my outfits for work.  Usually, I have my outfits picked for the week on Sunday.  (We even had a 3-day weekend, and I still slacked off)  I have a system.  I paint my nails, and whatever color strikes me is what I try to make my outfits match along with.  Week 3 didn't happen like that.  I didn't even take a picture of my nails.  I only painted them a solid color, no designs, and took it off before I remembered about the blog.  Oh well, I at least have a picture of the nail polish itself.  Grey Area, by Sally Hansen.  One of my favorite colors.

Enjoy Week 3

OOTD WEEK 2

This is Valentine's week, so I tried to stick with a burgundy/pink theme.  The nails as usual were the inspiration. The last pic is my $7.00 dress I wore to the Brik Party, which was crazy fun!

 ENJOY!!

I KAN RUN

I am currently signed up for a program through Kaia, I Kan Run.  Which is a training program for running.  This is currently training for the Shamrock'n in March. This is a 10 week training to build up to the half marathon.

I have always liked the idea of running, I remember when I was in junior high and a little bit of high school, that I liked to run.  I was fast and competitive.  I remember there was a girl, H, and she and I would run at the same speed and would love racing each other.

Fast forward now to adult me, and running is a different animal.  I weigh much more, I'm 20 years older and more jaded.  I have developed shin splints recently, and I think it's because of my first pair of shoes I used when I started Kaia F.I.T., last year.  They sucked.  And it took me too long to make the switch to proper cross trainers.  Not even running shoes, but my cross trainers were bad.  Aside from that, I have improved my running through the pain.

However, I still struggle with swollen limbs, my ankle is what plagues me most.

This was taken after a run just recently.  It is always swollen to that degree or greater.  My ankle actually hurts all the time, not just while I'm running.  Walking at work is horrible as well.  I am not a big believer of going in to the doctor for every ailment, I prefer to self prescribe.

Besides my poor ankle, I have excruciating shin pain.  I will say that it is getting much better, the more I run.  My main goal through this 10 week training is to eventually be able to run comfortably at my threshold pace.  Our coach went through and gave us a breakdown of our numbers, based on our mile pace.  My mile pace shown here:

Here is her breakdown sheet she gave us.  It is very motivating for us as runners to have an idea of what we should be aiming for.

My main issue is my fear of running fast.  I have a fear of running fast and causing more damage than necessary.  I am afraid that if I go for it, I will be in more pain that I already am. On the one hand, it makes it easy to run easy, but at the same time, I will never get any better if I give up so soon.

I will continue to post my running journey as we go on.  Granted we are starting Week 6 on Tuesday, so I have a back log of posts to share.  But I will.  It will be neat to look back on this blog after I have successfully completed my first half-marathon and see my progress.

On a side note: I have an inner confidence that I will be able to run the CIM 2015 that I crazily signed up for.  I don't like to not be part of the in crowd, so I signed up when all the girls signed up!  I am nervous, but I will get ready.

K, is helping me with my positive attitude, so I will keep plugging away.

OOTD.

I am back with my OOTD posts for the month of February.  It all started with the nail colors.  The theme this week was purple.  So I made sure to wear some variation of purple in every outfit.

Enjoy my work week!

I am back...

I am going to open this blog up one more time.  The last time I posted was 2011, and it was a lot of negative posting.  So this year, I will be more positive. I am going to post all things related to ME!

Outfits of the day, shoes of the day, lipstick of the day...whatever I feel like.  Food pictures, recipes.  Working out, my struggle with training for a marathon.  The loves of my life, Bijoux and Bexley.  School stresses, hair journey, dating (maybe), mostly random things that happen to me or to people I know.

This should be fun.