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The Good and the Bad = Life

July 28, 2014 Kim 98 Comments

If life was all good we would get bored!! And, if life was all bad we would probably give up. Thankfully, life is a mix of good and bad!!!

Good: My boys are following in my footsteps!! They both enjoy running!! And, this summer they have been helping around the house and they like things organized just like I do. Yesterday Hunter alphabetized all of his books – I was so proud!!!

Jordan is right behind me in the light gray

Bad: My blog has caused me stress every day for several weeks. I thought that I had it all under control with the switch to self-hosted but instead I have issues every single time I try to access it! Tech stuff isn’t my favorite!!!

Good: We had a really great garage sale this weekend!! We got rid of lots of stuff and made a nice chunk of money – plus we had fun hanging out and working together!!

Bad: I slept less than normal this weekend – gotta get the lack of sleep under control!!! Not sure why I can’t sleep – I know I’m tired!!

Good: The other night we walked over to return something to our neighbors and ended up hanging out catching up with them – always fun!!!

Bad: It is really hard to find reliable people to do jobs of any sort (even when you pay them up front!!!). We have had a hard time finding someone to do some maintenance work at our venue!

Good: It’s the start of a fresh new week and the possibilities are limitless!!!

Life really is pretty good right now – the bads really aren’t that bad!

What is good/bad in your world right now?

Happy Monday!!!

Kim

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“It Walked Off”

July 25, 2014 Kim 71 Comments

Sometimes people say things and I don’t even have a suitable response because it is so ridiculous!!!

When we have events at our venue we give the renter a key and then they are supposed to lock up after the event and drop the key in a mail drop box on the door – super easy!!!

Wednesday, late in the afternoon, I met a lady at the venue who had the place booked for the evening.

After a jam packed day, I finally sat down to relax (read blogs!!) about 7:00 pm.

At 8:00 the lady who had rented the venue called me. She said that she had a small problem. “The key walked off.”

What?! How does that even happen???

She said that she had looked everywhere. After telling her there would be a charge if it didn’t turn up by the next day I told her that she could leave and I would head over to lock up (20 minutes each way).

Hunter rode with me to lock up. We did a quick walk-through of the place to look for the key. It was in plain site on the kitchen counter!!!

While I was happy to find the key before I had googled ‘Locksmith Mentone‘ to find someone who could come and change the locks, I was beyond frustrated!!! I had already spent most of the day working over there and then the rest of the day playing “mom taxi” since I’m solo parenting this week!!

Oh, well – at least the key ran back home!!!

Happy Friday!!

Kim

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Does Your Heart Need a Rest?

July 23, 2014 Kim 1 Comment

Monday morning I had an appointment with my DR. She knows that I’m a big runner and she mentioned something that I found very odd.

She said she read an article in Redbook entitled What Cardiologists Tell Their Friends. One of the things was that repeated excessive effort can overstretch the heart muscle causing micro-size tears – damage that is often seen in marathon runners.

She said that the heart is a muscle like any other muscle and shouldn’t be worked every day.

In my mind, this goes against everything I’ve ever heard!!!

I’m not sure how I feel about the article and my DR’s thoughts on this subject – I like to workout at an intense level every day and can’t wrap my head around the fact that this could be damaging the very muscle I’m trying to make stronger.

Have you ever heard anything like this?
What do you think – is running doing more damage than good?

I have no plans to quit running and pushing myself – it makes me feel good to workout hard almost every day!!

Happy Wednesday!

Kim

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Living with Guilt

July 21, 2014 Kim 101 Comments

I don’t know about anyone else but guilt has been a constant part of my life for as long as I can remember!!!No matter how hard I try I feel guilt in pretty much every area of my life – as a

as a

as and even as a

Growing up I carried a lot of guilt for various things and all of the responsibilities that I had while I was in high school.

One thing that I’ve found helps me cope with guilt and even helps prevent it on occasion is making sure that I’m not dumping things off on others.

Last week before I left for my girls trip, I spent a day cleaning the venue and the morning I left ironing the tablecloths. We had an event on Friday and I knew that there wouldn’t be time after I got back to town to do everything.

I know that Chris would have gladly done the work while I was gone but I also know myself – by getting everything done in advance I alleviated at least some of the potential for guilt in my life!!!

I know that pretty much every bit of guilt I feel I bring completely on myself but that doesn’t always prevent the guilt!!!

What are your tips for dealing with guilt?

Happy Monday!

Kim

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Vacation

July 14, 2014 Kim 76 Comments

I’m taking the week off – girl’s trip full of working out, laying by the pool, and happy hours!!!!

Due to technical difficulties transferring my blog to self-hosted I haven’t been able to respond to comments for several days but I’m just going to let that go for now and catch up over the weekend!!!

Next week I will be super excited to catch up with all y’all!!!

Have a great week!!

Happy Monday!

Kim