Love for Life.

Whoa! So much to be thankful for this week! Let the randomness begin...

I am now officially a Team Beachbody Coach!! So excited to continue my fitness/health journey coaching others and motivating them to dominate at getting healthy!! I am on my second round of the aptly named INSANITY and loving it. Hardest thing I have ever done in my life, but worth the sweat and emotional breakdowns! I have never felt so strong in my life. I can run further and faster, jump higher, do more pushups and just feel so healthy and so much more in shape! I am kicking the rest of 2012 into high gear! Who's with me?! If you have a questions about Insanity/P90X/Turbo Fire or any other Beachbody program., I am your gal:) I will update later with my website information!

I am heading up-state for a three day weekend with my grandparents who just celebrated there 60th (yeah, you read that right!!) wedding anniversary on Thursday. I am so excited to get away and relax and enjoy my much needed time with the g-parents!

So excited that we are heading into Fall and cannot wait for the Fall foliage! Definitely my favorite time of year. The chill in the air, the leaves and I get to start wearing scarves:) Here's to LOVING life and the dominating the rest of 2012!!

Amanda Bynes... Cookoo for Cocoa Puffs!

What the beep happened to Amanda Bynes?! She is off her rocker if she thinks it is ok to "bump" into a parked car or do u-turns in the middle of the road everytime she drives. The kicker, "let me just put a blanket over my head while driving so noone can see me." Yeah... then you can't see that parked car you just hit. Bitch please! All of this is so disappointing because I used to love her. Have you seen She's The Man? Loved it way too much! Hillary, you know what I am talking about;) Our guilty pleasure was watching that movie over and over. I own it. There I said it. Amanda, get your shit together girl!

Biological Clock, Are You Real?!

It's scary, sometimes depressing and exciting (yeah, that many emotions...) when you see so many of your friends around you settling down and having babies, buying houses and having this great little family life. I am going to be 30 next year and I think I might be having a little bit of a panic attack about this elusive "biological clock" everyone talks about. I told my parents several years ago that I did not plan on having children and probably would not get married. They were not surprised and my mom said it was fine, she had plenty of grandchildren:) I thought I was in the clear! But, I have recently discovered that if I am going to have a child, I should probably at least think about the possibility over the next few years. I am terrified that I am even thinking this because it has never been what I wanted and maybe still don't want, but I have to give these thoughts a reasonable amount of weight and examine what I really feel, right?  I just feel like maybe my career and living on my own is not enough anymore? When do you decide to move on up to the big leagues? I know this is only something I can answer myself, but I am just putting it out there in the universe. I have friends that have the same thoughts as me, no marriage, no kids and I feel like I am betraying my own thoughts by considering a life I never wanted to dream about. Here is my question: Is the biological clock real or am I just an over-analytical, sensitive freak who needs to have a reality check? I think it is probably the latter. I love all my friends (and sisters) with little munchkins and adorable families that are kicking ass at being a mom and wife, props to you! But, is that really what I want?!

Reese and Jake...

 I mean, really... How cute can they be?!

Yes, I am still upset that Reese Witherspoon and Jake Gyllenhaal broke up, like 3 years ago. I understand she is happily married and preggers right now, but geez, her and Jake were just the cutest! I really thought they would go the distance! I love her, I love him: match made in Heaven? Guess not. Damn Hollywood, always playing tricks on me...

Isn't is Sunday?

Wow, that mid-week holiday was a doozie! Don't get me wrong, I will take any holiday when I can get it, but I was convinced all day Tuesday that it was Friday and all night last night that today was supposed to be Sunday. Yikes! That really does a number on you! But, the Fourth of July was super mellow and a little lonely, but that is fine. After running a few errands in the morning I laid in the hot hot humid sun for a couple hours and read my book. Let me clear something up. The main reason for my running errands was to be in the air conditioned grocery store and to drive with my AC on. No, I do not have air conditioning in my apartment and when it is humid, there is nothing that can help but AC, so I was a total bucket of sweat yesterday. Great visual, I know. over 90 degrees and almost 80% humidity. Awesome. I did a little laundry and watched 21 Jump Street (not worth the time, even with Channing Tatum...). My holiday was capped off by wonderful fireworks on the Hudson in Nyack. I really could have used a pool and a BBQ yesterday. I was really missing my family's annual July 4th hike through Archangel Valley in Alaska. Maybe next year:) I hope everyone enjoyed their holiday!

Hugh, Fiona, Beck... What a Weekend!

TopFest in Bryant Park

Hugh Jackman on the Black Carpet

What a weekend! Enjoyed the Beautiful Saturday at TropFest which is the world's larget short film festival from Australia brought to New York for the first time and hosted by Aussie hottie, Hugh Jackman Such a beautiful, fun day watching great short films on the grass, with Hugh popping up on the stage every so often and best part, it was a free event! Yes please! I will definitely be going to this next year.



Fiona Apple blowing my mind!

Beck rocking the house!

Sunday was spent at Governors Ball Music Festival on Randall's Island (on the East River between Queens and Manhattan). What a day!! The venue was awesome, food vendors and food trucks all over the place and fabulous music! Starting with the Phantograms - who I had never heard before, but really liked, The Cults- they were fine, Devandra Banhart - LOVE him, Built to Spill - Fabulous!, Explosions in the Sky- they make beautiful music that I love, Cage the Elephant - fun! FIONA APPLE - finally!!! I have always loved her and her performance was everything and more I wanted, seriously so amazing! Modest Mouse - so great and surprising awesome live! Brought back many memories of my cousin Andrea. And finally... BECK! My longtime love finally in front of me singing every classic song I loved and ending the set with "Where It's At" my all time fave!

Such an amazing, fun filled first weekend of summer! Success! 

Yes, I watch this show...

I have always liked Jenny McCarthy, ever since she was the host on the 90s Singled Out. It also helps that she and my fave Chelsea Handler are BFFs. She is back at hosting another dating show, but this is more of an "adventure" dating show. Throw 7 guys and 7 ladies into the "wild" of the Dominican Republic and let them loose on wild adventures in hopes of finding their soul mate. The idea is fun because, let's face it, you can really see someones true personality under extreme situations. Some of these people are skankarific but some are alright. Here is the basic gist...the ladies chose their male partner in the first episode and go on some adventure through the jungle and the winning couple gets to stay in the Oasis (beautiful house) and the losers get to stay in the "worst conditions". I thought, ok, they must mean, on the ground, in the woods, under a tree with no tarp or anything and a single blanket. Apparently that is too rough for tv. haha. So, they get to stay under a lean to with sleeping bags and mosquito nets. That sounds pretty ok to me! Maybe that is just the Alaska girl in me. The rest of the singles are either in tents or cabins. Anyway, at the end of every show either the men or women get to stay with their partner or chose a new one. This is my new guilty pleasure of the summer and I'm loving every minute of it!