It Has Been So Long!

I am too terrified to check to see when my last post was dated.  I know that I have attempted to write the last couple of months but where the hell did the time go?  I mean seriously!  It feels like we just left December and one of my lineman was canned (he was conveniently sick the two weekends that the Seahawks were in the playoffs and then was miraculously better the weekend between playoffs and Super Bowl but could not come to work) in January and I was a damn ice cube when training my friend in 20 degree weather.

I started online classes again with a new school (a whole separate experience for another blog that I am totally going to try and get everyone to go there because they freakin rock!!!) six months ago and now I am staring down the barrel at my 30th birthday on Sunday!  It snuck up on me so fast that I did not get to plan anything.  Not that it really matters because I have almost no friends in the area.  They are spread out around the country.

I did get a new job that I start on Monday and I finished my last day at Snohomish Flying Service yesterday (another post yet to come once I am caught up on my school work) and today was my first day of vacation.  I have not taken any vacation since I took leave to go get married with I was still active duty military in 2007.  I could not have asked for a better day to start my vacation either!  It is beautiful and hardly a cloud in the sky!  It is shorts and tank top weather and is really starting to feel like Spring!  I even went for a run around the lake.  It ended up more of half a run and half a walk.  I just could not make it.  I tried to push myself too hard.

Well I have to get going to get my car fixed (stupid Service Engine Soon light).  Until next time!

Why Blog

I was taking a picture of a package that I got from PopSugar and my mom and step dad started making fun of me.

Oh you are taking a picture of that to blog about?

No...

You are going to upload it to Facebook or Twitter or whatever?

No...

I like how anything that I might be interested in gets completely mocked (btw...I did NOT share the photo...not even to Instagram alone).

My mom proceeded to mention that she does not understand the purpose behind blogging.  Well, I do believe that I already wrote about why I blog...and you can check that out here...I wrote that post almost a year ago but I still stand by why I blog.

In a nutshell (not that the post is that long), I blog because it is an outlet for me.  It is not just like an online journal with posts like:

Couldn't sleep last night...

Woke up late for work...

Work sucked...

I came home and wanted to drown my sorrows in ice cream with my best friend Jose Cuervo...

I try and write about stupid things that happen to me or around me...

If I can write about an experience that can help someone shed some light on a similar experience that they have had then I am satisfied.

I give tips when I can...with a dash of humor that I am finding to be getting easier the more I find that I don't care what others think or say.

WITHOUT BLOGS...

I would have never discovered Brittany and all of her awesomeness...I swear I cannot read her posts at work anymore because my boss just looks at me like I have lost my damn mind!  She just oozes with confidence and blows up boundaries that women should never touch and does not give two shits!  I mean check out this Brittany quote from one of her more recent posts:

But the skirt was like $90, and that is not in my Taco Bell budget.

Brittany doesn't pay 90 Burrito Supremes for clothes.

(read the whole post here)

You can't not read that and keep your chuckling to yourself.  She has also just started this Google+ Series called "Last Call" and it is mother effin ridiculous!  Because of that, I am discovering more blogs to follow that are hilarious and I hope to quote them and link them to my blog as much as I do Brittany...but she has totally set the bar for what I expect from bloggers and I have a feeling that these women are right up there with her!

Holy crap I posted twice in one day!!!

Until next time!

Day 31: Why Do You Blog?

Originally, I started this blog as just an online journal.  I have had an online journal before but I did not share it with anyone because it was just my little area to vent.  I am an open book.  I will answer any question thrown at me.  I am not ashamed of my past nor do I have any regrets at all.  I share whatever I may be thinking and/or feeling at the given moment.  I try to refrain from using names but if I feel like I need to use a name then I will change it to protect the innocent or the jackhole (however the story goes right?!).  I try to just be me in my writing and not who I think I should be most of the time.  I mean why should I be anyone other than myself?  I ramble on about nothing at times.  I post pictures (not many yet but I will be working on it).  I share things that I feel will have an affect on anyone who reads it.  I want someone to feel something after reading some of my blogs.  I want you to laugh or cry with me.  I want you get a sense of what I went through or am going through.  I have blogged about sensitive topics (like here) and really silly ones (like here).  I have posted videos to express how I was feeling (like here).  I blog about the things that I am passionate about (i.e. ZUMBA).  I have blogged about some of my success (like here).

Now that I have completed this 31 Day Blog Challenge (granted I did not blog every day but made several posts on a single day), I am just going to continue to blog and hope that people read and are touched by what I write!  Until next time!

Day 25: Your 5 Favorite Blogs

While I have subscribed to almost 20 blogs now (such a short list...I know), here are a few of my favorites!

Brittany Gibbons:  Barefoot Foodie
Lisa Arch:  Flawless Mom
Holly Fierro:  The Many Adventures of Hef (she's a really good friend of mine!)
Heather Haley:  A Raw Recovery (also a really good friend of mine!)
Emma:  OutMUMbered

Happy Reading!
Until next time!

Day 20: A Difficult Time In Your Life

Unfortunately I have had a few difficult times in my life and I believe that I have actually blogged about them. Here are the links to those blogs:

I was sexually harassed and never reported it.

My struggle with my weight.

I was not sure if I could handle my divorce.

I do not have children but I was pregnant.

These are four of the posts that I found that really document my struggles.  I know there is one more but I cannot remember what it was called but it was about how I was treated by my ex husband and two of my ex boyfriends.  I would say enjoy the posts but they are not necessarily pleasant.

Until next time!

I Have Not Forgotten...

I promise that I have not forgotten to write, I just allow myself to get consumed by the days as they go on and on and by the time I want to write, I can barely keep my eyes open! What have I neglected to write about lately? Here is a small taste of a few posts that are to come!

1) Spiders committing suicide...possible suicide pact?

2) First 5K run in about 8 years was completed on Mother's Day this year with my momma and sisters and best friend (Want a little more? I have showered close to a dozen times since last Sunday and I am still getting color out from the inside of my left ear...has you intrigued huh?!).

3) Training for a 3.5 mile run from HELL...no seriously...that is the nickname for the run...

Depending on how exhausted I am tonight, I might get them all posted...but definitely by the time MY weekend is over (I am always off Mondays and Tuesdays)!!!

Until next time y'all!!!