Missed yesterday........ooops. Thursday I went hiking at Ohio Pyle, about an hour and a half from my house. It is really beautiful, lots of trails and the river is pretty, a little cold but nice. I would like to go rafting this summer :) Friday got my hair cut and dropped off J's tanks and fenders to be painted. This weekend we are being mellow, it is nice to have J around, just doing not to much.

Here is my blog for today, woohoo! My sweet husband was sick today so I took care of him :) I saw someone that I haven't seen in a year and I was just thinking about him earlier this week, I love it when that kind of stuff happens :) It was a beautiful sunny day today and tomorrow I am going hiking and lounging by the pool at a friends house, aaaahhhh Life is good.

May 18th
I just found some barfed up shrimp on the kitchen floor, thanks kitty. I left it out on the counter to thaw and apparently it was to much of a temptation for her to resist. I shoulda covered it up, yuck.
Today is a nice sunny day in the Burgh. I am getting lots of domestic stuff done. There are a ton of little spaces in our apartment that have junk in them. When we moved here we went from a 3 bedroom house, 2 car garage and yard to a small apartment and still 2 and a half years later I am still downsizing. There is a Goodwill a block from my house so that is nice and motivating to get stuff out of here. It feels really good to this stuff. I feel like I am in a state of constant spring cleaning.

May 19th
I did it again. I am writing myself a note to BLOG. I started a post yesterday and forgot about it.
I have a dentist appt today and tomorrow I get my hair did. I have not had a hair cut since Oct of last year, 7 months, wow. My hair was pretty trashed after a certain stylist bleached the crap out of it. Tomorrow will be great, I will get to chop off a bunch and get my nice hair back. Sunny again today, I am walking to the dentist so I will be outside enjoying it!

PS ` the above picture is my new crush, Cristiano Ronaldo, Manchester United, European football player :)

I Heart New Shit

May 16th
I saw a girl wearing this shirt yesterday, love it. A curse word and a big red heart, wonderful! The wording is very appropriate for me at this time, most of the things I have that are new, are shit. Hmmm.....

I want to find my journal with my "100 things to do b4 I die" list. I think I have crossed off a few, I also wrote in a long time ago so I will see how many of them I actually still want to do. In an effort to find my long lost journal I came across a lot of my books. I have some really amazing books! Louise Hay is one of my favorite authors, I believe some of her stuff assisted me in healing IC. Yearbooks and lots of unfinished old journals, maybe I can write a book about unfinished journals, I have plenty of material. I will count them and see how many I have and when they go back too. I think the earliest one I still have is from my trip to Germany in '93.

May 17th
So oops there goes my post everyday goal, although I think it still counts since I started this one yesterday :)

Things I am dedicated too:
Shopping
Traveling
Family
Friends
My kitties

Things that inspire me:
People giving to others
Physically and mentally challenged people doing sports and athletic events
Amazing clothing
my family

Nice. I like those things. I have been talking with Ms. Jamie and I think I am going to make some plans to visit her in Bali in September. All I have to do is convince my husband it is a good idea :) Observe my powers of persuasion!! Conscious manipulation anyone :) Manipulation doesn't have to be a bad thing, my intentions are good.

Picked up J from the airport, he was in Jersey speaking at a conference, nice. Mellow Sunday, the sun is out, thank you Pittsburgh.
xoxo

Commit to something.....anything

So I have been thinking a lot lately about stick-to-it-tiveness, yes, that is my word. I thought that I did not have any BUT I have been with my husband for 10 years. How can I say I don't have sticktoitivness?? I mean being married is the hardest and the best thing I have ever done. So I will not say that I do not stay with things, what I need is to be inspired and be passionate about something and then I give my all. It seems as though he is the only thing that I have felt passionate and inspired about in the past 10 years. Growing up I would say it was volleyball, I really loved it and was pretty good at it. My love for it has waned in the past few years though. I decided to go to Ghana and that seemed like it would never happen, it took me almost 2 years to get my shit together and go but once I really in my heart decided to go, it happened. Since getting back I have signed up for a triathlon, started the volunteer process at a local shelter but I have not really followed through with either of these ventures. I have been beating myself up a little feeling like I wasn't putting effort towards these things. I realized last night talking to J I was not excited about either of these, more like a check them off my list of 100 things to do before I die kind of a thing, not inspiring.....besides I am terrified of pool drains and I asked my husband if I could train with out getting in the pool, of course his response was, anything is possible, ever the optimist he is, I was hoping I could just not do it :)
As I was walking home from coffee this morning I realized once again that I tend to do all or nothing with just about everything I do. Over and over the lesson for me right now has been about balance. So in an effort to not go so crazy, my first commitment is to this blog. I will write in it everyday for one week, starting today. That is easy, setting myself up for success!
Thank you.