Goals, Running, Anniversary and Business Meeting

It's almost the middle of September, and I still haven't grasped that summer is almost over!!  Could it be the move to California that made it go by so fast???  Could it be how busy I've been setting up our new home, working on my Beachbody business, actually cooking and keeping a house clean (man, I don't know how people with children do it!!) I really can't put a finger on it, but WOW!!

I set a few goals for me this summer, and even though summer ends soon, my goals have a deadline of September 30th.  One of those goals, is running, without stopping, up this huge hill we have close to the house.  It's called Texas Hill......and on my treadmill the incline goes to 25% for a good 1/4 mile.  It sucks.  AND the picture does not do it justice.....this thing should be called Texas Slope, seriously.  Once I run Texas Hill Slope, it goes on to a bunch of rolling hills, and I do a 5K.  I love the running trails here on base.  It's pretty safe, except for the Mountain Lion that roams around.....somewhere......pray I never see that beast!!!




















I'm doing attempt #3 tonight........wish me luck on both not meeting this Mountain Lion, and making it up Texas Hill!

My second goal is to run a flat (or pretty flat for around here...meaning NO TEXAS HILL) 5k in under a 9:00 pace.  Right now, I've only been running the 5K with Texas hill, and my pace is in the 9:45's.  I could do it on the treadmill, BUT I think it's slightly more challenging outdoors :-)

My third goal is a goal in itself.  It's to really sit down, and go over my goals that I want to accomplish before the New Years.  NOW, I know what you're thinking!!  HOW easy is that goal?  You could probably whip it out in less than a day.  BUT really, when I have so much swimming in my brain, it's a lot harder than you think!  I have so much I want to get done before the New Years, I want to make a realistic goal board, I don't want to throw just anything on there!

I will post my new goals by September 30th!

I have 8 DAYS until my second Ragnar experience, and to say I'm excited would be an understatement!  I have NO idea who these people that I'm running with are, but that's the fun of it!!  I do know a couple of the guys work with Devin, but I haven't met them.

Here's a little flash back of my last experience!! Ragnar  Northwest Passage 2011  I was going to post a few pictures, but I couldn't decide, so I figured the link would work better.

Also coming up in a little over a month is the Nike 1/2 Marathon race!  I've been concentrating so much on the 6.5 and the 9.2 mile parts (the 4.9 will be easy) of the Ragnar race, that I haven't even touched a 13 mile run yet :-(  I'll have a month to get into 1/2 marathon shape after the Ragnar!!!  CAN I DO IT??

This last week, Devin and I celebrated our 12th year of marriage!!  I can't believe how time has flown by, so fast.......sometimes I just wish things would slow down a smidge.  I feel like with each Anniversary, it's one less year we get to spend together, and that makes me sad.

So, since today is Thursday, I'll throw some old school pics of us in here!! Throw back Thursday!!

This pic is dated in the late summer of '99, when we first met and spent almost 30 days hanging out, getting to know each other, and just being friends.  He was on leave visiting family in Upstate NY (we are both from the area)....he lived in South Carolina at the time.  He visited a second time about 9 months later, in the early summer of 2000, and that's when we started our long distance relationship :-)

This is a picture of us on the Maid of the Mist in Niagara Falls, Canada.  I believe this is early on in our relationship....about 3 months into it, I think we pretty much knew this was it!! <3

I surprised my hunny with tickets to Disney World on his birthday in November, after dating for only 5 months.....a month later, he surprised me with an engagement ring!!!  We went to Disney World March of 2001, 6 months before or wedding!!












 


Our official engagement picture!  Look how young we look!













                                     And here is a wedding picture, dated September 9th 2001

And of course our Honeymoon in Cabo San Lucas, unfortunately it was during September 11, and a bad Tropical Storm :-(  It was a pretty sad Honeymoon, and one of the few pictures that we took........we tried to make the best of it, but there was just such an overwhelming sadness throughout the resort, we actually flew to Cabo the DAY BEFORE 9/11, from Newark NJ.....I had commented how wonderful it would be to take our week that we had off after our Honeymoon to explore the city and check out the Twin Towers as we watched them get smaller as we were taking off.  It was even stranger flying back in, and seeing nothing but dust, and rumble were these beautiful buildings once stood.  AND TO THINK, I had MADE Devin switch our flights from 9/11 to 9/10 so we could start our Honeymoon earlier!!!  That's another story all in itself......Anyways.....*NEVER FORGET*

Our 12th anniversary was spent a few days earlier on the 6th, we spent the night in San Francisco's Fisherman's Wharf area and had a pretty good time!  We dined at the famous House of Prime Rib, it was a 1.2 mile walk to the restaurant, so we decided to do just that....walk......ummmm, up hills BOTH WAYS!! NOT LIEING!!  Holy HECK the hills in San Fran are NO JOKE!! LOL and honestly.......I wasn't really that impressed with our choice for dinner :-(((( It was extremely HOT, loud, noisy, slow, and the food was just okay.  Nothing to brag about really, and to be honest with you, we had more fun at Joe's Crab Shack for lunch the next day!!!  All in all, we did have fun, went to Ripley's Believe it or Not and we even stopped by the Full House house, we did the drive by picture ;-)  Sadly, the front door is no longer red :-(

  

SO you know the drill....on to some BEACHBODY NEWS!!!  The amazing Abby (my friend, and the one who got me started in Beachbody) is hosting an online meeting to talk with people about what it means to be a Beachbody coach.  If you're curious about what I do, or need a change from the daily grind of a "regular" job, want to add some income to your household, are interested in a legitimate "work from home business", OR just straight up want to know WHY we do this, please consider joining us on this call!!  Go to my like page (don't forget to like me), and "LIKE" the picture that you see below to reserve your spot!  There are only 25 spots available so please save yours BEFORE Tuesday, September 17th!!  

Every month, Beachbody highlights and has a sale on a special Challenge pack, and this month's choice is crazy! If you're a beginner and want to take it a little slowly (not quite ready for Insanity, or P90X) but still want to see some awesome results, THIS IS FOR YOU!!!  OH and if you really LOVE TO DANCE this is really for you!!  TWO, YES, TWO PROGRAMS for the price of Shakeology!!  SOOO that means, you get Hip Hop Abs AND Rockin' Body FOR FREEEEE!!!  The Dance Pack Challenge is an amazing deal!!

Dreams are Becoming Reality!

I'm pretty sure this blog post will be all over the place!  So much has happened in the last few months since moving to California and I'm feeling blessed, excited and scared!

Some of these dreams, are not my own, I share them with Devin, and it's amazing when we can sit and visualize not only our life together in the present, but also in the future!

A while ago, around the New Year, I started reading "The Secret", and ever since then I've tried to use its theory.  Positive energy and thought will reap positive things in your life.  I've always been a pretty positive person, but have always doubted my ability to go through with certain things all the way.  I'd try to reach out for something I truly wanted, when things got too tough or weren't exactly going my way, I'd turn slightly negative about it and give up.......never knowing what or how things would have turned out.  The bottom person in the picture below is me ;-)

So here I am, in California......what does this all have to do with "The Secret", my dreams, and goals???  Well, when I started reading "The Secret" I kinda thought....WTHECK is this??  So I figured, why not give this over positive thinking a try.  Things that I put out to the Universe (yeah it sounds,weird, but you gotta read it to understand) didn't happen right away, some things did.....but not big things, those took time.  SOOOO again, back to "here I am in California"  I basically willed this, I put it out there and it happened.  California was my husbands first pick on the dream sheet, BUT NOT his first JOB pick.  He had bigger goals, he wanted to specialize in his rate.  Unfortunately this job wasn't available when we went over our "dream sheet" although there was a job in California he could do....it wasn't his dream job.  I felt super bad for him, he'd worked so hard, come so far in the last several years, and just wanted this job that he basically been grooming for.  I kept saying, hey, you never know, you really don't!  Just throw out there that you've already got the job!  Tell yourself that, and I'll tell myself that.  4 months later he got his assignment call........he got his "#1 pick" in California (the one that wasn't truly his dream job), BUT they had another offer for him, and guess what it was?  HIS DREAM JOB!!!  A spot had come open on the team!!  So we'd still be in California, but it would be the job he wanted for so long!!  NOW how crazy is that?  I did, for 4 months, pretend that he had that job, knowing that it was a huge long shot, basically impossible, but trying to keep those negative thoughts out of my head, trying to focus on this job for him.     

                                         

TODAY is when it hit me, that maybe this secret thing isn't so bad?  It seems that ever since he's had this job, opportunities have just been knocking on both our doors.  I was so scared to not commit to a commuting job, and stay home and be a housewife and do my Beachbody job solely.  BUT I put out there I was going to MAKE this work, I put my passion out there to the universe.  I'm going to help people with their health goals, and dreams and I told myself I wasn't going to fail, that failure isn't an option.....and guess what?  I'm saving for our 2014 trip to Hawaii, and our  retirement home!!  AND the best part, our debt will be paid off by the end of this year!  LESS THAN 5 months!!  I wish I could post what our debt is, but I don't like to get that personal, plus it scares me.  Maybe when I feel comfortable, and we are out in 5 months, I'll write a blog about it......I mean, it probably isn't scary to most people, but let's put it this way....I hate student loans......

Another big goal I've been contemplating and putting out into the universe, although I know NO ONE HERE, is running another Ragnar!  AND my opportunity came knocking a few days ago!!  I'll be running the Napa 2013 Ragnar!  I'm truly excited, and although I don't know a single soul on my team, I know it'll be crazy, just like my first experience!  I'm really looking forward to this!  Isn't it crazy, I'm looking forward to no sleep, packed in a van full of sweaty people who haven't showered in 2 days........yeah, that's right!! HAHAHA  It's all about the wine at the finish ;-)

So right now, I'm going to throw my goals out to the universe. I'm going to keep my positive vibe going,  I won't let anyone bring me down....and I'll keep dreaming big!  I'm going to be re-doing my dream board, and it'll reflect from now until New Years!  

ON TO BEACHBODY NEWS-  Since it is AUGUST 1ST (WOWWW) we all know (or at least most of us) know that there is a new challenge pack on sale!  BUT THIS MONTH there are TWO challenge packs on sale!  TurboFire and Body Beast!!!

The break down:  Each workout is originally $180.....they are now $160 for the month of August!! 

TurboFire is originally $80 by itself.  So you're getting TurboFire for $80 and Shakeology for $80!!  You get Shakeology for $25 less than what I get it for and $50 off original price!!! 

OR if you look at it this way Shakeology is $129 so you'd be getting TurboFire for $30!! Either way you look at it, it's an amazing deal!!

Now to break Body Beast down, basically, it's the same thing, but Body Beast is originally $90 by itself.  So you're saving even more with this deal!

And don't forget......Free shipping on Challenge Packs!!  So that's even more money saved!!  Such a great investment to make for yourself and your health!  DREAM BIG!!