BYOC - Now 3 days late...

Now to BYOC:

1. For $50,000 – would you go without brushing your teeth, showering or wearing deodorant for 3 months?

Wearing deodorant hands down!!! I would lose my mind if I didn't shower or brush my teeth. I am a little crazy about both of those things and occasionally I take 2 or more showers a day and brush and floss like a crazy person (I have never had a cavity...) My big fear is that all my teeth will fall out without warning.

2. Is it harder to tell someone you love them or harder to tell someone you don’t love them back?

I have realized recently what real love is. It isn't a place that you fall softly and gently. It is a place that shocks your inner core. I have fallen out of love before. That was a long and drawn out process. It wasn't a shock to either of us. It was sad and makes me really wonder comparatively the level of love we shared, EVER..... I am not sorry for any dabbling in love that I have done, but I am not really sure about how bad this one is going to hurt. The love that I am in now is like an understanding of someone else beyond anything that I could imagine. I believe in hope and I believe in love. I am hopeful that my heart isn't shattered with this, I can't be sure that I won't be the recipient of one hell of a hurt heart if this doesn't work out.

3. What is on your bedside table?

My nook, my glasses, a Fitness and Wegmans and Runner's World magazine, my iPhone charger stand, and a lamp.

4. If you could be invisible, who would you kiss?

The one I would kiss would know who it was immediately though, cuz he says it's magic. But I also would want to kiss Mike Rowe (Dirty Jobs) I love him for real!!!! I just know he would love me too if he just got a chance to see how wonderful I really am!

5. Repeat question: Summarize your life in blog land and real life.

Blog Land: I am not caught up with nearly enough of my blog friends because I have been busy with work and working out this past week. I am traveling this week so I will have some good down time to catch up.

Real Life: I have been ramping up my travel again and that means work is interfering with my busy workout schedule! Work is messing with my spinning and running. The only great thing is that I am going to San Diego and leaving the arctic freeze-land of Western NY. I might even get a run in not on a hotel treadmill, but outside along the bay!

BYOC - Bring Your Own Crazy (1 Day Late..)

I know it’s a day late for BYOC time straight from Read's Blog I did copy this. So I thought I would participate in Bring Your Own Crazy….5 little questions you can copy and paste into your own blog to give your brain a break and to get to know your fellow bloggers better.

1. If you were on death row, what would your last meal be before your “death”?

I love, love, love Thai food. In fact if I have told someone recently that I would like to roll around in the Thai food that we were eating and lick it off of him. He laughed and said that would be good. I thought it was a good answer!

2. If you drive a car, do you speed?
Yep, bad!!! I actually have 2 teens who say that I am reckless and a speed demon.

3. What movie(s) do/can you watch over and over again?

For Christmas this year I got my favorite movie from my dearest friend who had to search for it on-line. "Truly, Madly, Deeply" it is a British film that stars Alan Rickman, who I find weirdly attractive.

4. What’s your favorite blog topic to read about and your favorite blog topic to write about?

I love to read about everyone's life. I am fascinated about reading about all the things that I am suddenly having to be concerned about now as I participate in life with men....
Shaving, sex, naughty thoughts, food, sex, girl parts, boy parts, fantasies....

I absolutely love when someone hits a milestone. Doesn't matter if it is a weight loss or NSV! All good! I also love how freely thoughts flow from so many. I hope that I sound as good as so many of my blogging buddies.

To write about.... I like to share. I like to ramble about the weirdness in my life. I don't feel, even at this relatively early stage in my banding (couple of days short of 6 months) that my banding defines me. My successes now are more on the things that I am dealing with actually "living" my life. I struggle sometimes to write some of my personal reflections on my blog, uncovering and exposing some good and not so great things about myself. I have been trying to work through a particularly difficult thing right now. I hope that I can muster the courage to bounce some of my thoughts out there. In the mean time, as long as I am sharing.... I have been writing letters to myself with all the things that a best friend should be telling me. I think it is working. I haven't cried in 2 days!

5. Repeat question: Summarize your week in blogland and in real life.

In blogland - I am glad to see a lot of posts, more regularly being updated. I am also adding some bloggers to the ones that I am following more frequently. I absolutely go to Read's blog. I have a big, blog-crush on her!! Shhhh don't tell her. I just know I would love to hang out with her!

Ames
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75!! Woo Hoo!!

I am down 75 pounds today and am very happy! 2011 is going to be a good year I feel. I ran with my bestest buddy today (outside in the freezing cold) but it was great! I was laughing when I saw this pic for 75 that said "road work ahead", it is soooooo true. We are doing the Chicago Marathon together in October and running outside is so great. Even though it was cold, I felt really strong and happy. Happy to be outside and on the road! We actually had a great time laughing while running. I made him run a full 5 miles when all we had on the schedule was a 4.5 miler!



Had a great week off of work to recharge the batteries! I went skiing with the kids on Tuesday and Thursday. We had fun. I couldn't have kept up with them like this last year! It feels like that was someone else back then..... I don't look back, but I am aware that not all of me was bad, I just don't dwell on all of the negative thoughts that I had about myself!