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When do YOU have time to blog???

Be not of those who think perfection consists in undertaking many things, but of those who place it in doing well what little they do. For it is much better to do little and to do it well, than to undertake much and do it ill.” St. Francis de Sales

My blog posts are becoming fewer and further between. WTH? When do you people have time to write? Do you pound it all out at one sitting or draft and edit and edit? I’m a sit down, get it done, publish kind of girl. I like to wrap it up. No loose ends.

My writing time is in the morning and since I started morning boot camp last week that killed 3 days during the week of “writing” time. We also implemented a new scheduling system at work that has opened up a whole box of cluster for our company as there are MANY people trying to learn (all at different paces) AND utilize the system all at the same time. We’re waiting to see if a head will roll (or two), but in the meantime our company has offered OVERTIME (unheard. of.) to get the backlog of scheduling caught up. Yours truly is all kinds of up on that train. We have back-to-school in 4 weeks (already?!?!?) and the OT will definitely ease the burden of supplies and new shoes, shorts, shirts, etc., which means even less time for blogging!!! I guess until the blogging pays for itself that’s the way it will be and since I’m not really in it to market anything, nor really found (or am looking for) a niche to fill, I don’t foresee that any time soon! So, in the meantime, (or at least the next 3 weeks I have boot camp in the mornings) my blogging will be sporadic. Unless you all give me some good ideas.

This weekend when I wasn’t blogging I was here:

Walking with one of my oldest and dearest friends for ONE WHOLE HOUR on the beach early Saturday morning! Great sweaty girl time!

Then, later in the day when I wasn’t blogging we were here:

Ending the day with friends on the beach

So, really. How and when DO you blog? Does the beach (or other fun) get in your way? I really want to know….

By the way, it is Natural Family Planning Awareness week. For those of you thinking it’s the ol’ Rhythm method here are a few sites to check out and learn a little somethin’ somethin’ about your body (or your wife’s), save a little dough and avoid added carcinogens in your body (because don’t we get enough from everything else we face on a daily basis?). So, I may (or may not) have a few re-blogs here this week on interesting NFP stuff. Excited, aren’t ya? 😉

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Weekly warbling..

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Joining in with the usual suspects @Conversion Diary for a wild weekly wrap-up. You never know what you’re going to get, there’s some great stuff in those who join in, from theological discussions to Pinterest, to Youtube silliness, funny kid stories and so on….check ’em out!

This will be quick because I need to get the girls and I out the door in the next hour…I’m an envelope pusher like that.

1. It’s been a good week in the exercise category, what with switching it up and all. I’m back to the a.m. workout cycle AND mixing in some afternoon lunch cardio as well. It worked THIS week.

2. As an added motivator in my switching things up, I’ve been positively obsessed with success stories and Socially Fit has their usual every Friday, as well as Peak313 on Wednesdays, so if you need a little boost they are a good place to start!

3. Also from Peak313, I stole this and put it on my Facebook….

4. I also snuck in some veggies to our pseudo Thanksgiving-in-July dinner the other night with Cauliflower Mashed potatoes. It’s the little changes. The kids loved it AND it was a bonus veggie. Win-win all around. well, except for the extra gas….

5. We have passed the 1/2 way mark of Summer. Can I get a Hallelujah?? We have 5 full weeks of summer left. If you shop at Wal-mart or Target you might think it’s next week….since they have all the school supplies displayed in plenty. I just can’t even go there mentally yet. I still have some beach time to get in and some non-rushed mornings and homework-free afternoons left!! But…..I do miss the routine (hence the need for a Hallelujah). It’s a double-edged sword…

6. Anyone who is using NFP and Marquette, we are finally online charting with an interactive model. You can find it here and the staff is very helpful if you have any questions. You can find it HERE. Just takes a few minutes to register and you are good to go.

7. A few months ago my neighbor made a reference to his “Outlaw” neighbors as a young guy on his Harley rode by. He has a dry little sense of humor and I thought he was joking….the subject of their Very. Loud. Bikes. had come up a few times. Since they kept rather late hours and early mornings, sleeping with the windows open was a bummer with these guys. Anyhooo…. This morning I was walking and they were leaving (later than usual) and lo and behold….HOLY COW, they really ARE Outlaws. Wearing their colors and all. wow. To be fair, aside from their noisy cycles they haven’t bothered us, nor do I expect them to. It’s just that you don’t expect to see infamous motorcycle gang dudes riding out of your sleep little ‘hood in the a.m. On that note….

I’m out. It’s time to make lunches and get rockin’ and rollin’…..Y’all have a good weekend ya hear?!

Switching it up…again

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“They” say that the more you change it up in exercise routines the better result you get, what with muscle confusion and all. Phew. Because I am ALWAYS changing my routine and trying something new. True, I have my regular lunch routine but the rest of it is always mixed up. None of this is because I want to stay trendy, mainly because I get bored. Often, it is a result of the kids and their schedules. No matter the reason, every few weeks I am off to something “new”.

This week marks the return of the dreaded early a.m. workout. Now, it positively BITES to get out of bed @ 4:45 a.m., but there is not denying that I am an early morning workout person. Period. End. When I workout in the morning, I am more focused on the rest of the morning and tend to make better decisions (nutritionally speaking) throughout the day. It’s a win-win. The difference with this a.m. routine is that it is Monday through Friday rather than a few days during the week. Next week I am considering another boot camp, however, this one is offered at 5 a.m. ish. It’s a 3-week deal. I’m still considering it. It won’t work long-term, especially when school starts back up, but definitely a good mixer upper.

The best thing, I find, about shaking up my routine is that it feels fresh again and motivates me to keep going.

I also find great stories like THIS @ Socially Fit to remind me that procrastination is not helping me. Or THIS @ L-Jay Health to encourage me to add new ingredients to my menu. Or THIS @ Peak 313 Fitness to try new moves. And stories like THIS @ Eat Clean Diet to remind me we ALL have the power to change, but we have to WANT to and we have to put in the SWEAT equity to get there. No one is going to show up for us. Even if they do, it’s not going to do anything to help US.

What about you? Do you mix it up. Or is it same old same old? Morning or afternoon? What motivates you?

Have a great day!

All good things must come to an end….until next year!!

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Thanks to The Treasure Trove (Lynnell), Dance Mommy’s Odyssey (Laura), Sempiternal (just call me AJ), The General (MB) , Redefining Normal (Brite), The Eagle’s Nest (Amanda), and Blog it ALL (Lea) for this month’s “Blog-Every-Day-in-May”. Or most days. Or some days. Or whatever you felt like days. It was fun and all good things must (PRAISE GOD FROM THE ROOFTOPS!!!) come to an end. (I know my Hubby is happy, too!) So we will all now return to our regularly planned blog schedule or non-schedule and I thought I’d wrap it up with what I gained from this little exercise Bloggapalooza.

In no specific order:

I gained new “Followers” this month….these lucky people automatically receive an email each time I post a new blog, so they never have to worry about missing one single minute detail of my life. Lucky, right? Well, in case you want to be lucky, too…just click on the “+Follow” in the top left of the screen…..see below….other handy-dandy tools, “Like” if you enjoy the post and “Reblog” if you really like it and want that to be your post on your blog. I didn’t even know what that WAS until Sempiternal “Reblogged” me…very cool indeed!
I found several new blogs along the way, one to encourage my fitness and health journey AND encourage my Faith walk like Clare @ Peak313Fitness. The woman loves her some Jesus and keeps the workouts fresh to constantly keep that temple humming and wondering what in the heck is coming next?!?
Ellie @ Emerald Pie. Her life in Ireland is fascinating to me, a world apart and yet no different in her daily life, challenges and busy-ness as a mom and wife. Her Irish scenery is AH!MAZING!!!!
Ex-pats and their very interesting lives in Dubai @ Circles in the Sand and Three years and home in Switzerland. Witty, insight and photos into other parts of the world, customs, differences in their “normal” lives and how they adjust and roll with each day.
A gem of thoughts to teach our daughters (though us parents and sons would benefit, too) from One Joyous Heart . Witty, dry, sometimes right on the edge of cracking, raw observations on motherhood and life to two very young and very close-in-age cutie-pies, Camp Patton (I see glimpses of myself when the girls were so very young at this stage….I want to hug her and tell her, keep taking pictures, take videos…they grow up and you. will. survive!!)
I’ll be keeping my day job. The only time I want to write is first thing in the morning…that 20 extra minutes or so (the “or so” often sets me running behind!) after my Quiet Time. I don’t think I’ll get a Nobel in those 20 minutes. Probably. Apparently you need to write often and enjoy it..another strike. Soooooooooo…..just press “Follow”…you’ll know when I update.
You can get lost for VERY. LONG. PERIODS. OF. TIME. on the internet. You might think I learned this from Facebook. Child’s play. There are so many flippin’ blogs out there. Thank goodness for my Reader, but then I often get sidetracked by hyperlinks to other blogs, then add them to my reader and boom….there goes another hour. CrAzAY!!!!
Stepping out of my comfort zone to share something I feel passionate about usually brings out my best writing. Over the next couple of months as I move my old mac blog over to WordPress (an EXTREMELY time-consuming process–one would think as “user-friendly” as apple generally is, that “THEY” would have made it easier to transfer blogs once they decided to no longer support mac blogs–but that is a whole other venting blog…) I will also add a page of “The best of….according to Hubby”.

This month I’ve celebrated Mother’s Day internationally, my birthday, my sister’s birthday, the end-of-the-year chaos, enjoyed new baby pictures, witnessed the ups and downs of a NICU baby doing her best to grow big and fat and go home (and won a T-shirt!), remembered the joys of maternity leave and the heartbreak of it ending, new house pictures, great words of encouragement, learned about Broadway plays, enjoyed recipes from new gardens and a world of LIFE happening.

So, this month comes to a close, but the blogging goes on. Maybe not everyday, but it goes on. Like life. So get out there and enjoy it!! And THANKS for visiting!!

Just keep chuggin’ along Thursday…

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