Friday Friends

Meeting up with friends on Friday, writing and finding community!

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What the hell is going on?

It’s been a couple of week’s, what the hell is going on? We have officially entered the so loved magical season! Personally it has never been my favorite time of year. I despise the commercialism that has engulfed so many. The thought that a place like Walmart and so many other retail stores are fit to be open on Thanksgiving day so the drone humans can leave the company of their families and go shop for more SHIT! Really?…and some wonder what has happened to family values and the simple joy we get from being present with other humans. I miss the days, when if you forgot to buy the canned cranberry sauce, well then, Thanksgiving would be cran-sauce free…YAY! And the music! The music is fun and festive, but not for six weeks…EVERY WHERE YOU GO! Its an infestation of sorts and eventually I feel like bugs are going to crawl from my eyes and head to the light….not because I have a head full of bugs, but rather, because the music after a bit makes me feel buggy! It’s completely screwed how sad so many people get, or how stressed friends and family get about how little or how much they can give to others (and this is the shit that some have left the Thanksgiving dinner table to go get)! How can we say this is a magical season when family and friends are depressed, stressed, and silently wishing for the season to come to an end? How can we make the season magical? How can we bring light to the dark? I want to take the sadness away, remove the stress, and simply live in the moment like every other day! When our eyes meet, I want to transfer joy to your heart. If for only a moment I want to understand you and you understand me. I could care less about the monetary establishment this time of year has created. In fact I would love to boycott spending! Today as I work through this Friday, I will be aware. I will be patient and kind. I will share moments of laughter with my colleagues and friends. I will share joy, love, and the usual giggles with my family at home! How will you make this season merry and bright? Can you find a way to make a moment magical without the help of the ole’ mighty dollar?

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Freaking Moments Despair Celebration!

What, what, WTF?

This week has been a freaking roller coaster ride! Smashed my phone in the weight machine at the gym, new phone set up can be more difficult than buying a new care, and with all that I HAVE WORKED OUT SO GOOD AND I RAN! Oh and the intermittent fasting has gone really well too :) where’s the freaking food?????

Today I really wanted to develop some thoughts around my fitness and eating plan. But now I sit here in this diner and my brian is slow and sleepy, that’s what happens sometimes at 0500 hours! Or maybe its the fasting state of my brain, I might be shutting down, malnourishment setting in and my muscles are wasting away to my fat eating monster cells. HA…really I think it was the amazing bubble bath this morning after a week of ice cold showers post workout.

Why ice cold showers, you ask? Rev’s up the metabolism and stimulates weight loss.

So I posted this to draft only on Friday, but today I am just going to publish and start over. I am not even sure why I decided to write on a boring topic...and besides this is Friday Friends....no Whit on Fitness ;) I can write on any topic I damn well feel like writing about, so that will be what I do. If its fitness, so be it, if it's something totally off base, YAY!

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First Friday Blogging, when I should be jogging.

The road ahead stretched out over the horizon... The wheels on my rig were hot from all the miles I've come, and yet I have so many more to go. Running is so much faster on wheels. However, the real running needs to start, it's always tomorrow, next week, soon! But really, it needs to start today. What? I thought this was going to be a short story, a girl on an adventure! Ha! It is. The rambling adventure of a girl with a crap load of ideas, spewing from her mind. Today it will be in this blog. I am trying to write for a fan club called NaNoWriMo, where a bunch of crazies come together during the month of November to write 50k words, in the hopes of writing an actual novel! Me, I have decided to join the fandom, but instead I will join my writing friends, on Fridays, and I will write random shit in this blog...WELCOME to Friday Friends! The horizon doesn't look the same from a passenger seat window, or even as the driver...I want to find a different experience, one where I put in the work to get to it, to enjoy the journey of putting one crashing foot in front of the other...so I can feel like I am being absorbed by the horizon instead of chasing it.....that though might be a load of bullshit! But, I will try it out and see. I want to become a runner. Just so I can say, "I can run." Yep, I am chubby, and I run! I've started running. Yep three weeks ago, it started as an adventure running from zombies with an app called Zombies, Run! What an incredible way to get yourself running...from zombies. Its a narration of sorts, putting you in the middle of the apocalypse. You are the main character running to find safety and supplies. I advise that this may not be a great app to use when running in the dark, it might just scare the shit out of you. Over the last three weeks I've also used Jeff Galloway's walk, run, walk method. I may have advanced my game too quickly as I was feeling excited and strong. My hips last week were f***ing killing me, needless to say I have been forced to take the week off. I plan to hit the tread and road again next week, moving more slowly, and STRETCHING before and after my run!! So what shall I do while I heal, and feel like crap, and feel like a wiener? I have been listening to podcasts about fasting. I have fasted in the past, for a very short period of time. I loved it, but I listened more to the chatter around me about how bad it was for me, and I quickly gave it up. What I am coming to find out, is that it isn't as bad as we want to believe. What I have learned is we are a world full of humans that live our life through food, we take breaks to sleep and work, but our main goal is to EAT...MORE....MORE....MORE!! Thank you Ray Cronise, your wisdom this week has shredded my thoughts! This is science friends, not just some idiot rambling about drinking lemonade with binges of salt water that will throw your body into bliss less hell (yep, I may have tried the lemonade cleanse :) Long story short, I am a work in progress, and I really want to try taking a break from the constant thoughts of food. My body mass is proof that I will not die quickly from starvation. The thought of my muscles being devoured by my calorie deficient body, well, that is as likely as my sudden death from starvation. There is a lot of marketing that goes into our thoughts about both eating and the affects of not eating...its industry that drives even our science...and to me its disturbing. This week I have taken time to turn inward. This week I decided in healing, in loving my body, in loving my presence in the world...I will be the Queen of my own reality!