August 4, 2015

monday morning encouragement: today, remember this

“No matter my history, past mistakes, relationship status, or career choice, I am worthy of love.” —So Worth Loving

Today, remember this. Remember these words & let them resonate within you. Yesterday doesn’t matter. Last week doesn’t matter. Two years ago doesn’t matter. High school doesn’t matter. Your childhood doesn’t matter. Today, no matter where you’ve been or where you currently are, you are worthy of love.

You are great. You are worth it. You are lovable. I know today you may not feel this way. But a feeling doesn’t always determine the truth. But the truth will always remain the truth despite a feeling. You are worthy of love & that is the truth. Don’t feel it, know it.

Don’t worry about your past. Don’t worry about the worries of your present. You have only one day at a time, you only have today. So start it by…

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August 4, 2015

Etiquette

The definition of etiquette is:

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Yet, when this topic is talked about, be prepared for WWIII! I was going to buy a woman a book called “Wedding etiquette” – NOT that I thought she was some hilly billy from West Virginia, but it answered a lot of questions she kept asking me (at the time I didn’t know them, I had to go home and google them!) But, I kept getting stuck on the awful title, I KNEW she would get offended, so I never bought the book.

fast forward to know, she found out about my “plot” and basically won’t speak to me now. But as I hung out with a group this weekend there were so many etiquette’s BROKEN this weekend, it’s actually mind boggling.

A friend had a birthday celebration this weekend, they decided to incorporate family and friends. We had a great brunch, went on a group tour of the city and then just had a chill day/evening. Where am I going with this, you may ask? Well, my question is – whats the proper etiquette on inviting people to say, a birthday party that we purchased pre-paid tickets for? Someone in the group that was invited decided to bring their friend and no one really cared but – it threw a lot of the events off. Wad that rude of them?

July 30, 2015

As the planing continues 

As I continue planing a big party with the man, I’m coming across some very big bumps in the road, the ones that make you say “we should elope”.

My most recent bump – gossip. Some Internet trolling took place recently and inside jokes were taken personally. Boy has this snowballed into quiet the cluster. I’ve apologized, jumped in front of the bullet – but nothing seems to have fixed everyone’s feelings, including mine. I’m quiet the introvert, and stuff like this makes me want to run and hide and not communicate, but this group needs that. They need the social media gratification which makes me so uncomfortable.

I recently found out an “Internet personality” whom I enjoyed – has a blog! Here the world saw her run from NYC back to her home in Texas, everyone thought her best friend stole her boyfriend, the comments were vicious. In reality, she got so caught up in social media she wasn’t even herself anymore, she was the personality. She would get upset when she didn’t get enough likes on pictures, vines, tweets.

My question is, “when did we come like this?” I see groups of people out, starring at their phones and not engaged in each other. I’ve known people to delete pictures because they didn’t have enough likes. If you get 189 likes, how do you notice ONE like you didn’t receive from someone you know, unless you went through the list of 189 likes. How long did that take you?

Since my personal mishap, I’ve deleted everything but Instagram. I’m on the fence on deleting that as well.

Anyone have any suggestions?

April 24, 2015

First of the year – 1 week away

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Clearly I slipped up with this whole writing on my blog more bit…. A person at work very abruptly was let go mid October, I felt her absence with the amount of work sent my way – thankful we found a great person to take her role and she’s pretty awesome. Now, I have more time to breathe.

With my hometown world-famous marathon just completed on Monday (Boston Marathon) all of the elite runner people I follow have made me extremely excited about next weekend – my new hometown race – the Pittsburgh marathon! Although kudos to all of you who do full, I’m still in my glory of 1/2’s. I’m pretty excited to have my first one here, especially after how difficult the training was this time around, it had been extremely cold this spring thus far in Pittsburgh and my psoas was keeping my full training potential at bay. Now with the warmer weather and making sure I’ve added back in some strengthening/stretching to my routine – I’m ready for this race!

Some of my favorite things are:

New Balance 1400 (They stopped making these – halp!)

Nathan QuickShot

Nathan Strobe light (for all my early AM runs!)

Clif shot blocks 

January 3, 2015

New Year.

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So it’s 2015, and this is my first post. I created this site about a year ago, and it took me a whole year to finally write something. So, let’s talk.

I moved approximately 565 miles away from a place I had made my home, to a place completely different. I was/am uncomfortable, and I don’t feel like I fit in at all. I know, I know – we all strive to be different but, I don’t personally want to feel like a green alien in a sea of steeler fans. So, I decided to distract myself in a very regimented schedule. Run in the am, go to work, come home, make dinner, shower go to bed. start all over again. I was tired, but distracted and, getting fat. I’ve gained a whopping 10 lbs since moving here. So, like 23098403928409 other Americans, yes – I vow to lose those LBs. That is one thing I learned, just because you still workout like crazy – when everyone around you insists you eat their cakes and pierogi’s – you’re going to get fat.

I’m ready to make myself happy again. No, I don’t like the steelers, I’m sorry – you can give me a back-handed compliment, but be ready for some Eff bombs coming your way. I will always give a positive twist on things, if you decide to stomp on it with negativity I’m just not going to put up with you. I promise I won’t always post “Debbie Downer” posts either, I just had 9 days to rest and reflect on 2014 in Massachusetts. My soul feels healed again, and I’m ready.

So while people make really outrageous “new years resolutions”, I prefer to make lists – that are obtainable.

1.) Travel more – I don’t make very much in Pittsburgh for a salary, but I need to budget a little better and get out of here more, for the health of my soul

2.) Rid the negativity – backhanded compliments, will be addressed. If you have nothing nice to say or do – you will be deleted. I don’t have time for you.

3.) Make time for those I care about.

4.) Pay my car off & my credit card in 2015 – This will help me then tackle Sallie Mae and *gasp* be debt free!

I wish you all a positive beginning of 2015 – make reachable goals and be nice to each other!

xoxo