Hooping Inspiration

A little inspiration for myself to help keep learning new hooping tricks. So much fun but so aggravating at times!



Note to New Hoopers: “You CAN Do This. We Are Built to Challenge Our Bodies & Minds”

Storms

It's a stormy day here in Kentucky. Seems like we are getting our share of the weather that has hit the southern states. Hopefully it won't be as bad here. I'm stuck at work, but it is a relatively safe building. I know there are a lot of people that aren't as fortunate. Sending up prayers for all of the families who lost people during the tornadoes and for those who may still get hit by it!

Puppy Dogs, Friends, and Close Encounters

It's been a good weekend. I had yesterday and today off from work (Two days in a row off? What???), and I figured I would be sitting around the house bored for the majority of it. Instead, a friend I hadn't seen in months decided to kidnap me at two in the morning. I had to bring my puppy, Lilith, with us considering she has never gone a night without me. It's been an adventure for the both of us!

Most of it was spent trying to make sure she didn't get excited and use the bathroom in a new place. (We failed on some occasions, but she did really good at letting me know when she had to go most of the time!) She also learned that the crate is not an evil place and is actually quite cosy to sleep in! We all went to the park and played for a while (because we're all 23 and still like playgrounds) and Lilith got more attention then she could manage. She was exhausted when we got back and slept through the night.

Of course, we ran into trouble when we got home because my landlord was outside when my friend dropped me off. I'm not supposed to have any animals so we had to smuggle her inside under my friend's raincoat. (The things we do for our furry friends!)

All in all, it has been a good two days, and I still don't have to be at work until 3 tomorrow afternoon. I wish it wasn't raining, because I would love to go on another long walk with Lilith, but I guess I'm going to have to deal with cuddling with her and the cat on the bed and watching Netflix. (Oh, the horror!)

I'll talk to you later, loves. I hope everyone has a wonderful day!

Break Up Texts and Internet Mishaps

Well, I remembered to post two days in a row. Gotta keep it up!

I woke up this morning to find out my internet wasn't working. (I'm a Netflix junkie so no internet on my 360 is no bueno) and when I got home from work it was STILL not working. I spent thirty minutes on the phone with tech support only to have them tell me that they needed to send someone out to look at it... On Monday. I was freaking out and wondering what I was going to do with myself over the weekend (it's sad how our lives fall apart without the Internet.....) when it suddenly started working again. Maybe the universe heard my freak out session and listened for once!

On a completely different topic, I broke up with my boyfriend today.... Through text.....

I know. I know. How horrible am I? But honestly, I had no other choice. I have been wanting to do it for a while, but I could never get him face-to-face. I only see him about once a month, and he seems incapable of picking up his cell phone and getting in contact with me, even though whenever he is with me his phone is practically glued to his hand. He always claims he is busy, but I get on Facebook and find that he's been posting stuff on there all day. I am getting tired of being the only one trying to make the relationship work.

He never answered the text... So either he was asleep or he is completely ignoring me. (I know for a fact his phone is on because he got a card for it last weekend. Of course I didn't here from him until the next day, and that was after I had to ask him on Facebook if his phone was working.) If he WAS asleep, I am dreading the conversation that will ensue in the morning..... But it needs to happen. I can't keep stressing over a relationship like this.

I don't even feel upset about it. Weird, yes, but not upset. Maybe that's my clue that if really needs to happen?

Starting a New Habit

I'm terrible at commitment, I'll just come right out and say it. I have never been able to keep up with a blog before, and all of my diaries from my childhood are barely even half full. This lack of will power of course leaks over into other areas of my life, and my health and lifestyle are suffering for it. This year I was diagnosed with hypothyroidism, which explains a lot of what I have been going through the past couple of years (depression, rapid weight gain, chronic fatigue and illness), and although I am now taking the necessary hormone replacement, I know that I need to take more steps to improve my life.

I was told that getting a blog and writing out my feelings will help me cope with this lifestyle change, and I am hoping it will help deal with the depression that has been crippling me since I graduated high school. (I do not take medication for depression because I don't want to become a zombie.... Everyone I know who is on antidepressants seem to change in a bad way.)

I've begun to exercise regularly (hooping!) and have gotten some of my energy back, but my eating habits are awful. I work at Subway, so I am eating that three times a day (that Jared diet is a load of crap), and on my days off I usually eat Captain D's or Dominos because I live alone and any food I cook goes to waste. I actually love cooking, it just isn't convenient for me right now. I need to retrain myself and start eating healthy again!

I'm going to force myself to keep up this blog, even if I don't have much to say most days. I need to find some release. Maybe it is on here.....