No Sweat

Remember the post I wrote about what makes a real runner? I was reading my most recent Runner's World magazine and smiled when I read this quote:
"I often hear people say 'I'm not a real runner.' We are all runners, some just faster than others, that's all. I have never met a fake runner." quoted from Bart Yasso who is an author of a book called My Life on the Run. I think he sums that up very nicely.
I think most of you know, but some of you may not, that today I had a photo shoot for Shape magazine. I don't know who all reads this blog often so I probably haven't told all of you but I'm going to be in the September issue of Shape. (could be bumped to October but hopefully September) So my photo shoot was today. I was not too nervous about it until yesterday.

I got a phone call from the photographer while sitting in my car. I was just about to get out to go get my nails done. Ten minutes later I am off the phone, shoot all planned, and I realized my shirt was a little wet from my stomach sweating, it was hot in the car. Panic officially sets in. I think to myself "Oh my gosh, my stomach sweats a lot when I am on the trail not to mention if I get nervous, it's going to be hot, and my coral colored tank will not hide anything!" Then this morning it hits me, I will just slather myself in deodorant! Worked like a charm. No sweat issues at all!

So I met the photographers at the trail and they were super nice guys and fun to work with. I felt kinda famous having one of the guys hold up one of those big lighting circle things by me to get the light just right. Was nice to be on the trail and not sweat for a change. On the downside it was humid as all get out with no breeze. So my hair did not cooperate. I am nervous about how the pics will turn out hair-wise...but hopefully they will be good. My face also decided now was the time to have a massive break out session. I made a comment about it and the photographer said he could edit that right out, he could fix anything. Wouldn't it be nice if we could edit real life like that?

Happy birthday!

Happy birthday Julie!

And happy birthday Missy's hubs Jason! Aka the husband who supports our Bon Jovi road trips, girl's trip to Mexico, and doesn't yell at me for taking his wife to the Coach outlets.

Tonight in my scrapbook room...

I had to work today but when I got home I had this sudden urge to scrapbook. I hadn't done it in a very long time.
This is what I came up with. Took me 4 hours. Doesn't seem like it should take so long but by the time I go through all my paper and coordinate what matches with what and make sure I know exactly what I want to use...seems to take a long time!

It was a fun one to do, now I just need to find somewhere in the house to hang it. So I mentioned I was digging through my supplies making sure I had just what I wanted...all the sudden some movement catches my eye. Oh goody, a big spider.

See him there? He was at least in some bubble wrap.

Inside the bubble wrap with the spider was this frame. I tried just turning the frame/bubble wrap upside down over the toilet but the darn thing wouldn't move. So I had to pull out the frame so I could dump the spider or smash him. Didn't want to smash him on my frame. So...I pull out my frame and notice a funny thing, the frame looks like it has a pimple.

Um yeah DISGUSTING. The only thing I can assume that nastiness is would be a spider egg/nest/killer baby spider ready to hatch and get me. So this thing has obviously been living in my bubble wrap awhile. Everytime I think about it or look at it I get chills! So I did the only logical thing there was to do. I grabbed a fly swatter and stood 4 feet back from the spider and the frame, stared at both of them, hugging myself and saying to Caylea "I don't know what I am going to do but I do know I'm going to blog about this, so go get my camera." Again, DISGUSTING. Lots of pros to being single but one giant con is nobody around to kill spiders for me. I managed to destroy the little spider and his pending family. Blech.

A little help here

"So far God, I've done alright. I haven't gossiped, I haven't lost my temper.

I haven't been grumpy, nasty, or selfish. I'm really glad of that.

But in a few minutes God, I'm going to get out of bed;

I'm probably going to need a lot of help."

-Unknown

Important letter

"First I was dying to finish high school and start college.

And then I was dying to finish college and start working.

Then I was dying to marry and have children.

And then I was dying for my children to grow old enough so I could go back to work.

Then I was dying to retire.

And now...I'm dying.

Suddenly I realized, I forgot to live"

"The tragedy of life is not that it ends so soon, but that we wait so long to begin it."

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So simple...

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The best revenge

"Maybe you've been hurt. Perhaps someone betrayed you. Beat down, let down. Beat on, cheated on. Talked about, left about. Stolen from, run from. Neglected, not protected. 30 years ago, or 30 minutes ago. You want revenge? Here's the absolute, undeniable, hands down, bet your bottom dollar, best recipe for revenge, live well."

(this website by the way is awesome, click on the source link below)


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The Keys to Life

The Keys to Life according to Will Smith...

" The keys to life are reading and running. Why running? When you're running there's a little person that talks to you and that little person says 'oh I'm tired. My lungs are gonna pop. There's no way I could possibly continue.' And you want to quit. If you learn how to defeat the person when you're running you will learn how to not quit when things get hard in your life.

The reason that reading is so important; there have been millions and billions of people that have lived before all of us. There are no new problems. There is no problem you could have that someone hasn't already solved and wrote about in a book. The keys to life are reading and running."

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Funny S@$*

Went to see Tony Lucero last night with Julie and Michelle at the comedy club and I'm not sure if I have ever laughed so hard in my life. He's a comic hypnotist and we went to the Hypnotic Erotic Show. Thank goodness none of us thought it would be a good idea to volunteer to get hypnotized! We have pictures and I was looking through them and I don't have any I can even put on the blog. It was a DIRTY show. But freaking hysterical. If I would've been any of those people on stage and I found out what I did afterwards I would die. If you ever have the chance, go see the show.

Reason #83 to buy new shoes

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What to do?

I feel like all I've been doing lately is studying for CPCU 540! I passed it yesterday and it is really nice to think of all the things I want or need to do without feeling like studying has to take priority.
I had heard this 540 was supposed to be the hardest, and it was tough, but I still think 520 was the hardest for me so far. My theory is since I expected this one to be so much harder I frantically studied so maybe I was just better prepared. Still on track to be finished by the end of the year!

So after I got home from taking the test my first thought was to hit the couch, but I have been neglecting my flowers for a long time....and my mom gave me a gift card to Lowe's for my birthday. So off to Lowe's I went. A carful of flowers later I made my way home.

Much better now! Had to make a second trip to Lowe's for another daylilly and then Wal-Mart for mulch. I put in 7 new hostas, because I seem to have some serious luck with those. I have the one very large one behind the little pine tree and there is another on the right not in the picture. So if I can have as much luck with the other 7 I just planted they should really fill it in nicely. I also have good luck with the daylillies so added another one to the two I already have. Then for some color 3 yellow flowers and one white. We will see what happens with those....I took the above pics with my phone but I will get some closer ones with my camera here when I'm not lazy laying in bed updating my blog.

Doggie 'fro

Magnus finally got a much needed shaving! And when I took him it they said the last time I brought him was 2 years ago. Yeah...well his shaving costs as much as my haircuts and people see me more often so my haircuts take priority in the budget. :) But he looks so much better now. Except his tail.

He was wiped out. He really did not want to get in the car in the morning for me to take him. I guess he is not used to going on rides anymore. Jazzie gets to go on rides a lot. I will take her to the dog park or to the lake to go for runs. But Mags can make it for about 10 minutes outside before he is done, so I feel bad but normally leave him home. So I practically had to pick him up and shove him in the car. So that was fun. Caylea got back this week from camping with her friend. She brought home some art projects, a lot of pictures, oh and a tick. I hate ticks! Not sure what is on my agenda for today but I like the fact I can leisurely decide what I want to do! I may hit the pool. And if I do it will be so nice to read a book for fun for a change!

Funnies

Recently

-had a wicked computer virus, but also had a wickedly awesome friend at work hook me up with a computer person to help me out. Um, hello those little things called anti-virus programs. My name is Shyla, nice to finally meet you Norton.
-same wickedly awesome friend at work did some looking out for me this week, very much appreciated ; )
-really in the mood to travel. Counting down the 4 months until my cruise. Also kind of want to do a float trip since I've never done one!
-went to a happy hour and actually said to a new person I had met "If you are Team Shyla you are alright in my book." Yep, I went there.
-saw Hangover 2, made me laugh. Do not take the kids.
-Had a hangover. This did not make me laugh.
-learned the key to having Caylea go to the pool with me this summer will actually be having Caylea bring a friend and they both go to the pool with me this summer. Hence, the 2 thirteen year olds sitting in my living room right now. Because Sunday's in the summer I don't mess around. In line to get in at the pool at noon with Sonic drink in hand. Elizabeth will learn the routine tomorrow.
-wondering why when my car is about 2 months away from being paid off I have the overwhelming urge to get a new car?
-more travel urges including a road trip somewhere.
-have realized I've been drinking more lately. I think it's ok though. I mean leaving work early to drink in the afternoon isn't a problem. It's not. (just kidding, well kind of, I did do that, but it was a Friday afternoon and a LONG week!)
-learning all kinds of stuff about my ex that I never knew. Just proves you never really know someone I guess. I missed all kinds of good stories of Snoop Dogg, Good Morning America, barking....it goes on and on.
-speaking of not really knowing someone, I'm kind of losing faith in are there any good ones out there?
-Turned 32. Thanks for facebook for making me feel like people like me.
-With that being said, 30's (despite some crazy roller coaster rides) are much better than 20's
-Grocery shopping at 8pm after drinking since 2 is FUN! I believe the following lines came out of my mouth while shopping "Woohoo, cilantro!" and as I hold the cilantro to my nose walking around the store "OMG this smells SO good!" and "Why is he getting eggs? Are there eggs in guacomole?" response "No Shyla there aren't eggs in guacomole, I think he just likes to eat breakfast sometimes." "Oh that makes sense."
-Same grocery trip was for ingredients for guacomole, which turned out to be THE best guac I've ever had hands down, in my life. And no, just because I had drank all day and only had 3.5 mozzerella sticks consumed thus far that day, didn't change the fact that even sober, this guac is amazing. (the sober guy literally licked the bowl clean. Not even kidding) Amazing smells during the process of him making it with all the fresh stuff he chopped up. I pulled up a seat to the island right in front of the bowl and dug in. Told him that he had officially ruined any other guacomole anywhere else for me. A.maz.ing.
-Texting after drinking is dangerous. Or funny. Or both. I believe one of my texts was "I may be a little tupsy."
-Just realized this post totally makes me sound like a lush. I'm not, I swear. Just a rough, rough week.

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