DC Bound (Continued)

Since I'm not going to the gym I guess I should work on the assignment that sweets gave me yesterday.  He wants me to narrow down everything/everyone I really want to see while I'm back in D.C.  It'll be a short trip, but hopefully it'll be tons of fun :)  He's never been to D.C. so I'm trying to think of the must-sees for him as well.  Let's start with the obvious.  I need to lay eyes on all of my LB's!!!! In terms of places....

1. Campus...The REAL HU

2. Of course the place that started the end of my metabolism.

3. Georgetown

4. H&M (Because West Palm is sorely missing one)

5. The mall/downtown

6. Adams Morgan

What am I missing? Suggestions?

30 minutes on the dream treadmill.....

I don't have it in me.  Even though my quarter-life crisis was the reveal of my metabolism's abandonment.  I really just can't seem to move my body out of the bed to go to the gym this morning.  I've been on a really good run.  I go every day and although I see no difference on the scale, I am toning up.  Hmm...unfortunately the muscle tone in my legs is making them bigger and so my pants still aren't fitting the way I need them to.  But I'm TRYING!

 

Woke up at 4:50am as usual to start work (from the bed). Check.  

Posted a few articles. Check.

Called in to job 2, via email, like I do every Tuesday. Check.

Took my obligatory, on-again/off-again 20 minute nap between 5:30am-6:20am. Check.

Looked at my sneakers by the bed. Check.

Go to the gym....hmm....

Back to sleep for another 20 minute nap.(sigh) Check.

I guess my back & side meat and I will be together a little bit longer than I'd like.  We'll try again tomorrow.

D.C. Bound

The mere mention of Reagan National Airport makes me sooooo happy.  I vividly remember the excitement every time I landed because it meant that I was back 'home.'  For that matter I remember taking off from Reagan and watching the birds walk across the iced over Potomac and landing in South Florida where white booty shorts and gold flip-flops greeted me.

I can distinctly remember a wrap that would be perfect in D.C. and would fall and frizz in the tunnel extension that connected my Spirit, Airtran, U.S. Air (when it was cheap!) plane to the physical airport (what are those things called?)

Anywho...the countdown begins because Dani and Shayne will be in D.C. in just over a month.  I'm sooooo very, very, very excited!

I'm a Bag Lady

Girl Meets Boy

Girl Likes Boy

Girl Likes spending time with Boy

Boy Likes spending time with Girl

Girl Lives in House A

Boy Lives in House B

Boy and Girl move past the going out all the time phase

Boy and Girl instead like to lounge at house A and/or house B

Boy and Girl realize its too early to consolidate locations, but too late to live the "I'll see you on the weekend" plan....oh yea...we work weekends too!

**Enter the bags**

I'm effectively a nomad of sorts.  I bounce between house A & B with the scary precision.  Wake up in the AM and I pack my work bag for job #1, gym bag, work bag for job #2, and an overnight bag.  Come back to my house the next day to unload and repack etc.  Shoes live in my trunk, toiletries in my purse....

One of my besties calls me "the moon princess."  I can't even argue....

I am in a constant state of planning for all of the "what ifs" that could occur within a 24 hour period.  Every few days I completely unload my car, do laundry, assess what's living in each bag, make changes and repack.

I'm so tired...and I constantly ask myself if its worth it.  But on the days when he isn't here and/or I'm not there I realize it totally is...

Gotta go... time to pack!

Home Improvement

Yesterday we painted. Well if you are looking at the picture and more importantly the face of the sig. other, you'll see that he painted and I assisted/made faces at the computer. 

While painting I thought about the resurgence of home improvement projects. With the economy not looking so pretty and more real estate than buyers, people are fixing up what they have as best as possible. Or if you're like me I just watch HGTV and decorate in my mind. But home improvement can mean other things besides breaking out paint and fixtures.

Watching the painting process I realized it made me think of the steps that went into the project.

1. Gather supplies

2. Clean the area

3. Get to work

4. Remain focused and expeditious

5. Clean up post project

6. Survey & enjoy your work

Hmm...Applicable in all facets of your life I suppose.  I however will apply this specifically developing my own 'home'

1. Gather Supplies

Philippians 1:6 
being confident of this, that he who began a good work in you will carry it on to completion until the day of Christ Jesus.  

John 6:35 (New International Version)
“Then Jesus declared, "I am the bread of life. He who comes to me will never go hungry, and he who believes in me will never be thirsty.”

2. Clean the area

Acts 13:37-39 (New International Version)

38"Therefore, my brothers, I want you to know that through Jesus the forgiveness of sins is proclaimed to you. 39Through him everyone who believes is justified from everything you could not be justified from by the law of Moses.

Acts 2:38 (New International Version)

 38Peter replied, "Repent and be baptized, every one of you, in the name of Jesus Christ for the forgiveness of your sins. And you will receive the gift of the Holy Spirit.

3. Get to work &  4. Remain focused and expeditious

Titus 3:7-9 (New International Version)

7so that, having been justified by his grace, we might become heirs having the hope of eternal life. 8This is a trustworthy saying. And I want you to stress these things, so that those who have trusted in God may be careful to devote themselves to doing what is good. These things are excellent and profitable for everyone.

Romans 5:3-4 (English Standard Version)

3More than that, we rejoice in our sufferings, knowing that suffering produces endurance, 4and endurance produces character, and character produces hope,

2 Corinthians 5

20We are therefore Christ's ambassadors, as though God were making his appeal through us. We implore you on Christ's behalf: Be reconciled to God. 21God made him who had no sin to be sin[a] for us, so that in him we might become the righteousness of God.

5.  Clean up post project

Romans 12:3-4 (New International Version)

3For by the grace given me I say to every one of you: Do not think of yourself more highly than you ought, but rather think of yourself with sober judgment, in accordance with the measure of faith God has given you. 4Just as each of us has one body with many members, and these members do not all have the same function,

6. Survey & enjoy your work

2 Corinthians 4 (NIV)
13It is written: "I believed; therefore I have spoken." With that same spirit of faith we also believe and therefore speak, 14because we know that the one who raised the Lord Jesus from the dead will also raise us with Jesus and present us with you in his presence. 15All this is for your benefit, so that the grace that is reaching more and more people may cause thanksgiving to overflow to the glory of God.

16Therefore we do not lose heart. Though outwardly we are wasting away, yet inwardly we are being renewed day by day. 17For our light and momentary troubles are achieving for us an eternal glory that far outweighs them all. 18So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal.

2 Corinthians 5
1Now we know that if the earthly tent we live in is destroyed, we have a building from God, an eternal house in heaven, not built by human hands.

16So from now on we regard no one from a worldly point of view. Though we once regarded Christ in this way, we do so no longer. 17Therefore, if anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come! 

Chocolate Drink Vs. Milkshakes

I am a milkshake girl...to be specific I'm a "5 scoops of chocolate, one scoop of coffee and brownie mix-in" @ Coldstone's type of girl (Life changing!)

I don't understand chocolate drinks...

I can eat chocolate
Drink chocolate milk
Cherish chocolate milkshakes
Warm up to hot chocolate

But a chocolate drink? What is that? It's an odd hybrid and so close to being right...yet...not so much.

When I have a shake made correctly its a pause moment. There is a rush of good feelings, the yumminess can not be disputed. Even a mediocre shake blows a chocolate drink out of the water.

Godiva dabbles in chocolate drinks...Dani dabbles in milkshakes.

Today's diatribe is a microcosm of what's going on in my life right now.

After years of subscribing to 'chocolate drinks,' I've stumbled on a custom milkshake that makes me wonder what exactly I was 'drinking' previously.

I heart shakes :)

Apologies...

My last post literally has been a work-in-progress for 2 weeks. It was short in nature but I find that there is often an internal battle on how much should be posted in the blogosphere. Whew! now that I've gotten that 'Selfish' thing out of my system I can proceed with my normal flow of posts. I'm sorry for being so absent!