New Blog??!!???

Yes, it seems I've started, YET, another blog. It's called Get Ready... Get Set...GLOW! and you'll have to visit it to see what it's all about. I warn you that given the fact that I tend to see all things internet as a supreme waste of time this blog may not be updated often and may disappear but I've - on occasion - wished I had an active blog to write in so I'm making my own wish come true. Hopefully see you there....

The more intensely we feel about an idea or a goal, the more assuredly the idea, buried deep in our subconscious, will direct us along the path to its fulfillment. - Earl Nightingale

MySpace

I checked out MySpace today and actually signed up for an account. I think I like it better than FaceBook because it feels more like....well.....my space. Of course I only have the one friend that I believe is automatic when you sign up. At least he isn't scribbling all over my "wall" not allowing me or my real friends to get a word in edgewise. LOL

I don't think anyone can find me yet because I don't have an URL. I was going to use my full name and then right when I was ready to make it official a popup comes up to let me know that it will be final. So then I thought maybe just my first name might be better but the dreaded final popup showed up and scared me off once again. So here I am suffering from potential URL paralysis.

Things continue to go well. Lost a little more weight and some inches in the past week. I'm also moving ahead with my massage business or at least have a plan to do so.

If I ever finally get around to choosing a MySpace URL I'll post it here.

We cannot do everything at once, but we can do something at once. - Calvin Coolidge

Deactivated my FaceBook Account

I just wanted to post that because a few people had asked to be my friend and I didn't want them to think I was ignoring their request.

It just got to be too much. The same 3 or 4 people and the things they were constanting posting were making it impossible for me to find anything that the people I truly wanted to connect with where writing about.

I think that in deactivating the account all my friends are no longer friends should I reactivate it. If I do I promise to look you up and offer to friend you again.

I have to also say I'm not missing this blog a bit. I'm moving ahead, loving my newest rotation, and the new recipes I've tried. I'm still loosing weight slowly but surely and seeing slight body changes but that's not the focus of my life. Living is the focus of my life and I'm working on the changes I've wanted to make for a while. Slowly, oh so slowly and sometimes happily and at other times it's a struggle but it's moving ahead.

I joined an online 3 month Fitness challenge and it's funny because in the check-in we pretty much talk at each other without much honest to goodness back and forth or support. I realize that when I put this blog up that was what I had hoped for. The honest to goodness back and forth, give and take, support each other not the lack there of. LOL I've connected with one or two people who are also doing the online challenge so I'll probably finish it out. Even if I don't it was worth getting involved because it made me realize what the heck I was missing.

I'm off now to do a full Bikram practice. Namaste!

The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to stay where you are. - John Pierpont Morgan

Not getting FaceBook

I know, I said I wasn't going to blog anymore but I have to ask this burning question. What is the big lure with facebook? Maybe I'm not savvy on setting up my facebook page? Maybe it's official and I'm just to damn old for facebook? Maybe it's just not my cup of tea?

I went in to check it today and my "wall" is filled with little vignettes of other people's lives. Yes, they are acquaintances and friends but most of what they've made public doesn't really seem to help me keep in touch with them or catch up with them for that matter.

Honestly Betsy, your post about your garden made the most sense of any of them. But it just made me jealous. LOL We're no where near ready for gardening yet. Well maybe digging things up but not actual planting.

So I'm going to post this but I'm not checking in, well other than to say I did Tempo followed by Hit the floor and loved every second of it. HA!

It's how we spend our time here and now, that really matters. If you are fed up with the way you have come to interact with time, change it. - Marcia Wieder

Getting off the Fence

"It doesn't matter which side of the fence you get off on sometimes. What matters most is getting off. You cannot make progress without making decisions." - Jim Rohn

This quote dropped into my box this morning. It really speaks to me. I half wonder if I've been using this blog as a distraction. Gabrielle talks about this a lot in her Hot Yoga manual and dvds. At the same time, I'm looking less and less forward to writing in it despite the fact that I'm moving ahead in many areas of my life.

Yesterday for instance I got an amazing amount of stuff accomplished and also decided to switch up my exercise emphasis a bit. I'm excited about what I have planned and where I'm going. I'm experiencing a lot of positive energy and forward movement (down 3 more pounds) but I just don't feel like pulling up a chair and talking to myself about it. So on that note I'm making a decision and I'm pulling the plug on regular blogging.

It's nothing more than a time gobbler and that time can be put to much better use. This is a total 360 from where I thought I was going with this blog (had thought about posting serial progress pics) but at this point in time and with spring coming it feels right. I'm not going to delete my blog yet because I may come back in and do periodic updates but hopefully not.

This blog is WAAAAY TOOOO BOOOOORING!

Boredom is an emptiness filled with insistence. ~ Leo Stein

Easter Snow and the perfect RAW Easter Snack!

Thinking: Yes, we actually had snow flurries today. It was very cold and really windy. Despite the weather, I've been thinking about how much I've enjoyed the last few days.

Feeling: Quiet and content

Learning: Not a heck of a lot.

Eating:
1. Green smoothie and The perfect Easter Snack: Raw baby carrots
2. A big mixed salad 3 small pieces of raw onion bread
3. A raw potato pancake and a small piece of left over raw B-day cake, fruit ice cream and topping

Activity:
I haven't had a rest day for a while. I had planned to take one today but decided to do a half version of the Bikram floor series and a little Kundalini in order to keep my hip limber. It felt great - more restorative than workout.

Meditation: 1 hour this morning - wonderful!

Gratitude: Once again, I'm thankful for the day and for my family

You put a baby in a crib with an apple and a rabbit. If it eats the rabbit and plays with the apple, I'll buy you a new car. ~ Harvey Diamond