Twenty niner.

It's been a minute!  Ok, it's been a month, whatever.  Time flies when you're having fun, right?  I heard that somewhere.

So I turned 29 last week and I'm gonna let you in on a little secret…I haaaaaate birthdays.  Well no, I hate my birthday, I love everyone else's.  It gives me a reason to spoil the people I love without giving them a reason to bitch about it.  Where was I?  Oh yeah, I hate my birthday.  I'm not entirely sure why, but I thiiiiiink I might be cured.

It's pretty safe to say I got spoiled.  By my sweet and thoughtful husband, by my incredible family and by my insanely perfect friends.  I got flowers!  I got cards!  I heard kind words.  And I got streamers, yes, fucking streamers.  How can you not swoon over a man that decorates your dining room and kitchen at 4am before he goes to work?  And leaves you flowers and a Starbucks card so you can go get yourself breakfast!  But seriously, it made my little heart do somersaults.

 

 The rest of my long weekend was spent having lunch with my parents, dinner with Ben, breakfast with my best friend, lunch with a new friend, shopping with my mom and a little get together with some of my favorites.  My sweet dad also turned 60 so we had a nice dinner to celebrate on Sunday.  I can't complain, not even a little.  But I can say that my heart is more full than it has been in a while and I couldn't be more grateful for the people I have in my life.

 

 

In other news, I'm pretty much shitting myself with excitement over the fact that I'm flying to Texas on Friday.  You ever do something that's so far out of your comfort zone that you just can't wait to see how it's gonna turn out?  Yeah, me either.  So I started reading this blog a little over a year ago.  It's THE reason I got inspired to get off my ass and do something about, well, my ass.  It had gotten pretty lazy and pretty fat and pretty sad.  But the more I read the more I realized I could change!  I could fix what I had done to myself and I wasn't stuck being unhappy.  So I started making a change and I emailed the incredibly inspiring woman who's blog I was reading and about died when she emailed me back.  Then, after our initial email exchange I got courageous drunk and emailed her again.  Persistence might be one of my best qualities.  We became friends.  Great friends.  Talk almost every day friends.  Halfway across the US friends.  It took me a little over a year to sack up and say, "Hey, I think I'm gonna come visit you." and for her to respond, "Yay!!!!!"  I also get to meet some pretty amazing and hilarious people I've gotten to know during this whole journey.!!  Am I nervous?  You bet your ass I am.  Am I excited?  100x more than I am nervous.  Pretty safe to say I've never done anything like this before and I can't fucking wait.

In exercise land I've been slackin my ass off.  I don't quite feel like I'm getting the most out of my workouts.  I'm trying not to force it too much so I'm only going a couple days this week!  We'll see how that goes!!  Ok ok I might do arms on Friday morning before I fly out.  I know 3 friendly bitches that are probably gonna yell "flexbreak!!" at some point and I'd like to be prepared.  Oh and Ben won't be there to back me up (literally, see below)!!

Have an awesome Monday and be sure to appreciate someone today!  I know I do!