I won’t quit but I’ll cuss the whole time

I’ve been quiet on social media lately. For those of you who know me pretty well, that’s unusual. Sure, I may share the occasional link and funny photo, but usually I’m writing on my blog pretty regularly (or making a conscious effort to). Well, I’ve been hit by the depression monster. And it fucking sucks. […]

I’ve been upping my training lately. We changed gyms to one that’s a mile from the house so we can go in the morning and eliminate our excuses. That way, our evenings are free to go to yoga twice a week. On the off crossfit mornings, we have been doing the Couch to 10K app, […]

Had a moment of panic the other day. Felt two protruding hard nodules at the bottom of my neck. After freaking out and consulting Dr. Google, I realized that these bony protrusions were my clavicles. WTF? I have clavicles? Huh. I’ve been noticing other things too. Like I’m wearing scarves around my neck. And when […]

Choose your hard. It is hard to be unhealthy. It is hard to have to make doctors appointments around a work schedule, manage medications, deal with side effects of those medications. It is hard dealing with back pain, not being able to breathe from asthma attacks, having headaches and dizziness from high blood pressure. It […]

John and I celebrated our one year anniversary of CrossFit on July 20, 2017. Here’s the piece I wrote on that auspicious occasion. It’s been one year since I started working out at my crossfit gym. I was trying to write something profound, but it was boring. Then I tried being snarky, but that didn’t […]

I am inspired by music. I love to listen to all kinds of genres, switching from Queen to Adele to Garth Brooks in one play list. While watching the Oscars on Sunday, one song piqued my interest. It was from The Greatest Showman, called This Is Me. I downloaded the song (Amazon Music, I heart […]

Heard this new song on the radio called “Fear is a Liar” by Zach Williams. Very powerful. It went right to my heart, gave me chills, and made me cry. It made me realize how much of my life I’ve lived in fear. Afraid of not being good enough or smart enough or pretty enough. […]

On Wednesday, I got off work a bit early and was able to come to an earlier gym class. As it ended up, I had a private session with Coach Mike. This was not a good idea. Today we worked on the snatch, a weight lifting move that is quite challenging for me.  Ok, it’s […]

I talk about going to gym. A lot. Because it has had a huge positive impact on my life, I feel better and stronger than I ever have before, and I want to share this experience with others. However, when I talk about going to gym, people ask what kind of exercise I do. Of […]