Ouch, it has been awhile.

Seeing that I haven't posted in awhile I figure it's time. We recently re-located to Fort Lee VA. It is temporary as my sweet husband has to wrap up his career course before we head out to our next duty station. I've started CrossFitting with a brand new affiliate http://www.colonialcrossfit.com/ and so far I'm still getting my rear kicked. I'll discuss more of this later on. I am back in the blogger world and for today I'm keeping things short and sweet. Have a wonderful Thursday world.

December, please hurry and get here.

Thinking.

Quote of the Day. Nuff Said.

Just eat real food, eat it often and exclusively — except now and then — enjoy your life, and create opportunities to socialize and share food with others. Get good sleep, give your lover a decent fucking, and laugh at anyone and everyone who wants to prescribe a life for you, especially as concerns politics and its whores.
– Richard Nikoley of Free the Animal

Titration this.

I am so beyond tired of computing hundreds of chemical reactions, balancing equations, and interpreting graphs. Tomorrow is my third try on this ridiculous test. My brain feels like scrambled eggs, my eyes are sunken in. I am tired. Time for some easy music, green tea, and some star gazing. Not that I will have the ability to appreciate the stars as West Texas is covered in flames and my dark night sky is clouded with ash and dust. I suppose green tea and easy music will cure the weariness for awhile, then it is back to the books.

Six more weeks of school, R&R, and then I'm headed to Europe...oooh I CAN NOT WAIT!!! :)

Crossfit Junkie.

It never fails, as miserable, lonely and depressed as I might be, Cross fit always seems to bring an effervescent smile on my face.

I have always had a huge problem with confidence in my abilities to push heavy weight and perform accurate moves. I know the strength is there, the motivation is there, and the determination; but for some reason I seem to always lack the confidence. Today, conquered this confidence burden.

Every single time I have tried to master the Overhead Squat I have failed, miserably. Bruised toes, sore wrists, and a wobbly core all encompass my poor attempts at this functional move. Today, I conquered the move. In fact, I successfully completed 6 reps for five rounds along with some other moves in those vomit inducing WODS.

It was awesome. I was so giddy with delight and proud of my accomplishment. I never thought I would be able to conquer this move. My posture is piss poor, flexibility non-existent, add in a wobbly, dancing core and that has historically spelled a huge recipe for disaster.

Today, was a much needed happy, successful, fulfilling day. Today I tackled my confidence and prevailed with a perfect overhead squat. The most exciting part is I did five rounds of 6 reps each. I was the last person to complete the WOD today, but I don't care. The fact that I completed the workout with 100% accuracy is what is most important.

Today, thank god, was a great day.

Monday Blues

Oh, how the weekend always seems to fly by so effortlessly. Tomorrow starts the 1st week of the final nine weeks at school. In 9 weeks, I have completed my very first year of teaching. I'm still sane. It's amazing. Surprisingly enough, it was not too bad, even with two crazy dogs, two unsuccessful attempts on my certification exam, oh yeah and a deployed husband. I've only grown two gray hairs, dark circles every now and then, and a few mere indiciations of crowe's feet forming on my eyes.

This Army wife thing is tough, the constant up and down battles, being alone with no nearby support system. I miss my husband. I miss my confidant, my number one, my partner in crime. I find myself relishing in anger over the actual validity of these deployments. I understand the basis, but not the frequency.

With each day that passes, it only brings us closer to being together again.

"We are all a little weird and life's a little weird, and when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall in mutual weirdness and call it love."