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Throwback Birthday

I’m pretty sure if you’ve been around long enough then you know that I absolutely LOVE my birthday.  So when I saw that Life of Bon was doing a great Throwback Thursday link-up over the next few weeks and I saw this topic on there, I just had to join!  
I have had some fabulous birthdays in my life, so I figured y’all would enjoy it more if I just share tons of pictures, so be ready for picture overload, my friends! Enjoy!

I couldn’t find the pictures from my surprise sweet 16 party 🙁 but it was great fun too!! I have some amazing friends and I’ve been blessed to celebrate birthdays with those I love most!  It was fun to go back over the past few years and seek out fun pictures from birthdays past!  Next year I’ll be the whopping 25 and I’m excited about future birthdays to come!

BTW, today is the last chance to sign up for Bloggers Helping Bloggers!  It’s going to be great fun!

Bad Decisions

Let’s talk about bad decisions… I know I’m not the only one who has been there and done that!  This past weekend, I made a string of bad decisions.  No, not the ones that landed me in jail or kicked out of my house or even in the hospital (although I kind of feel like I should be there right now!)

I made some of the WORST eating decisions of my life…. and folks, I’m paying for that crap!  I’m sure I made some other bad decisions this weekend, but I am feeling the gross-ness of what I chose to eat this weekend while at home on “vacation” or “stay-cation” I guess.  I went to the movies twice where I indulged in the buttery goodness of popcorn, although it doesn’t feel like goodness right about now.  While indulging in that, I also had my fair share of candy snacks.  I don’t know about you, but I buy my snacks at the store and sneak them into the theatre.  I can’t pay 4x the amount for some candy, I’m sorry… it’s ridiculous!  I did a lot of lounging around also, so that didn’t help that I was weighing myself down with junk.  Then on Friday night, I ran a super fun flash race at night.  I mentioned that I would be doing that, but it was one of those races that had beer.  So I had a small beer afterwards which didn’t help.  Then hung out with some friends another night and had my fair share of a frozen pizza and quite possibly another beer.  Then there was the late lunch, snack, and early dinner day where I crammed a crap ton of food into my pie-hole probably within 4 hours tops.  Oh my bad, I actually had 2 lunches that day…

So yeah… welcome to my life of disgusting!  So I feel like crap today and I felt like crap last night, but I made the drive back to Starkville so I could be back in time for ROTC workouts and I did my hour of yoga.  It felt great, but I felt gross doing it.  Then I woke my tired butt up this morning to do the 5AM thing… yeah, can I just admit RIGHT NOW, that the workout this morning was the worst workout I’ve had in a really.long.time!  Granted, before ROTC this month, I wasn’t doing much working out period, but still… I struggled on the run, had the biggest side stitch of my life when I got done, heaved my way to the water fountain (pretty certain I was about to hurl all my junk food out) and then made my way through the rest of the workout… It hurt.

So here’s what I’m thinking… get through the workouts this week (with a lot of pain) and only drink juice for the next 2 days to cleanse my poor junk-ridden body so that I can be prepared for the drinking and eating I’ll be doing this weekend at a rehearsal dinner and wedding.  I’m sure I don’t have to mention the fact that I’ll indulge in cake, but yeah.. gotta get ready for that too!

The upside is that I’ll hopefully perform some sweet moves like this to help burn some of those calories off!

On my mind.

I’m a planner.  I generally like for my blog posts to be scheduled because then I don’t feel stressed about writing one the day that I feel it’s “due” for lack of a better term.  Most mornings; however, I don’t have a scheduled post – so then at times you may get a post that was a draft and I finally had the motivation to finish it or… you get a post like this one.  Random.  Completely and totally about what is on my mind right now.

I’ll number this for my sanity:
{1} I read this post yesterday from twitter and really liked it… At times blogging is absolutely ridiculous.  Yet, it’s something I love and at this point, I don’t see myself stopping so although I wish there were some things that were different and I do believe that blogging gets out of hand for some people, I’ll still be here folks.

{2} I just sneezed like 3 times in a row… and it was one of those “that actually felt kind of good” sneezes.  Do you get those?

{3} I’m in the middle of reading V is for Vengeance by Sue Grafton.  I really love her books, but sometimes it takes me a little bit to get into them.  This was probably the 3rd time I re-started it, but I’m finally in it and loving it!

{4} Yesterday and today were vacation days for me.  It’s been glorious and I actually chose more sleep over a run yesterday morning.  I felt guilty, but it happened.  I’m heading back to Starkville tonight so that I can make it for this vigorous week of PT.  I’m actually really excited about it!  I think I’m going to actually document the week with pictures and do a post on what my PT weeks have been looking like.  It has been something I’ve talked about a lot lately.

{5}  I wonder if it’s improper form to let the world know exactly what a future post is going to be about… but then again, I revert back to that article I read from point {1} and realize that I’m blogging for myself and I’m terrible at keeping surprises from people, so in the blogging world, I shouldn’t expect myself to be any different.

{6} I’m someone who loves surprises though and I get pissed when people tell me early.  Isn’t that ironic?!

{7} I want to go to Disney so bad…. I’ll be there in November for Wine & Dine, but I wish I could go before that too, but such is the life of a VISTA who gets paid less than minimum wage at the moment.  Oh well.

{8} I have less than 50 days as a VISTA, which is insane, but exciting!

{9} I applied for 2 marketing positions at this non-profit arts organization in Houston, TX.  The positions seems absolutely PERFECT for me and I would love to get it, so cross-fingers, we’ll see.  And if you’re in Houston and know what I’m talking about… I wouldn’t complain if you put in a good word! *wink*

{10} So… I kind of hate it when people don’t call when they say they will.  I’ll leave it at that, for now.

And I’m pretty sure that 10 random thoughts that just came out of my noggin’ are enough for y’all today.  I believe this was boring and unnecessary, but what kind of blogger would I be if I didn’t post during the week?!  I kid.  There is nothing wrong with that.

Have a fabulous Tuesday!  I’ll be spending my day reading my book, straightening my hair (oh fun!), packing, seeing Monster’s University (hopefully), driving the 2 hours to Starkville, and enjoying a night of yoga!

**I’m not gonna lie, this was not on the top of my head, but it was worth mentioning… You have 2 more days to sign up for Bloggers Helping Bloggers, just FYI!  I think it’s going to be great and I have so many great bloggers already signed up!**

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