My feet

5 hours walking around yesterday in flip flops
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3 hours of zumba triathalon today (1 hour zumba toning, 1 hour aqua zumba, 1 hour regular zumba)
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2 hours celebrating this evening in what could only be called fabulous shoes...

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My feet hurt.

People say that losing weight is no walk in the park. When I hear that I think, yeah, that's the problem.

~ Chris Adams

The fair

Today is one of my last Saturdays off for the forseeable future.  I had made plans awhile ago to go to the local fair with a friend, but was going to cancel this morning after I finished a 12 hour shift and got no sleep.  I ended up not cancelling, and was very glad I did!  I'm currently exhausted from lack of sleep and walking around for over 4 hours, but I had a lot of fun!

A picture tour of my time at the fair...

All the buildings are labeled with what's inside.  This wasn't QUITE as advertised...

4-H sponsored all the animals etc.  There were informational posters everywhere...they made me laugh...

Another informational cat poster

Made with actual dog hair!!!!!

Thats also what this building was labeled with.  Not quite right....

hello future beef!

Huge sheep.  I found these guys fascinating.

This goat kept eyeing me.  His horn was crooked and I'm pretty sure he was cross eyed.

I've decided llamas are scary

We went to a lot of shows/demonstrations.  This was the sheriff's office canine demonstration.  Pretty cool.

The beard and mustache contest.

I finally got to try fried fair food!!!!  This was fried snickers.  It was ridiculous.

After a long day I made her stand in jail. :)

Fun day!!!

Zumba triathalon tomorrow!

Most of us don't need a psychiatric therapist as much as a friend to be silly with. 
~ Robert Brault

Trying to stay in the moment



Making use of my awesome new birthday present...

 Nothing ever gets anywhere.  The earth keeps turning round and gets nowhere.  The moment is the only thing that counts. 
~ Jean Cocteau

Monday

Its Monday again.  Well, MY Monday.  I only had a 2 day weekend, so I'm not as refreshed as I normally am.  I'm pretty darn spoiled with my 3 day weekends usually.

But I've already been to the dogpark today and I'm soon off to the gym, so lets hope that will help me start my week off right!

Part of my refreshing weekend - fried pickles!!!!  But also the reason I must work out extra this week. 

Duct tape is like the force. It has a light side, a dark side, and it holds the universe together.
~ Carl Zwanzig

Almost famous

You totally have to read this etsy listing...you'll notice something familiar in the very bottom picture...

p.s.  in the description you can read what my friend Katie wrote when she ordered my bracelet.  *sniffs and wipes away a tear*   good friends are hard to find!!

A pile of rocks ceases to be a rock when somebody contemplates it with the idea of a cathedral in mind.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Locomotive

I had an extremely frustrating night at work, and then when I went to sleep I steamed about almost everything.  I apparently steamed in my sleep too because I had horrible dreams and I woke up even more mad and frustrated than when I went to sleep. 

I'm trying to de-anger right now but its not working:  I just woke up 30 minutes ago, and I only have 1 hour before I have to start getting ready for work.  Lovely overtime doesn't give me enough time to decompress. 

So, right now I guess I need to come up with a really positive spin on how I feel about a really unpositive situation.  Otherwise I'll end up spewing word vomit at the really wrong time and in a really wrong way. 

And Karma???  Please please please hurry up.  I need you to humble someone for me.

My african violet flower doesn't even make me feel better. 

The right to do something does not mean that doing it is right. ~ William Safire

Birthday Love

I had the most excellent birthday.  Its nice to realize how much people do think about you, even if its only truly expressed one day a year.  Between phone calls and facebook messages and text messages and facebook posts and emails and birthday cards, I came to two conclusions....

Birthdays are fabulous!

and

I am loved! 

I started my evening off with Frozen Yogurt and then dinner at Red Robin.

Yes, we ate dessert first. 

Then it was off to work. 

But, I was wearing my new birthday bracelet!...Ordered off of Etsy by my awesome friend Katie...

View from up top...its made with Scrabble tiles!!!

Side view...

Katie had the bracelet personalized to include.... Atticus...

"A" for Alicia!!!....

Pickles!!!!

Katie and myself....  one of our infamous unflattering photobooth photos....

What a wonderful birthday!

Be happy. It's one way of being wise. ~ Colette