bootcamp

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started yesterday (thank you, sil pat, for calling in and letting me know that i spelled yesterday incorrectly) evening. i'm working out with this group. here's their website. it's been about 5 years since i've done an actual bootcamp. i really enjoyed my last one (in atlanta). and this looks promising also. instructors make all the difference! our instructor, meridith, is great. challenging and inspiring. my workout buddy is my neighbor, who goes to the class regularly. my session is only for 5 weeks.

bootcamp coupled with the diet i started in february (and have already lost 10 pounds) and bicycling with steve will hopefully get me in shape for this
which hopefully i can wear in our backyard in this.they say if you put it out there in the universe, it will happen. this is me putting it out there.

*** image via texas fit chicks facebook page

today

is my birthday. if i could have any birthday cake i wanted, i'd have this one, from smitten kitchen. i'd even make it myself.... i don't mind. i love.love.love a yellow cake with chocolate icing. instead i'll probably make this one for myself. it's good. i've made it before. and it's flourless. i've been eating no flour (or very very minimal) for the last few weeks and feel tremendously better when i do. flour just doesn't agree with me. i have more energy... my mid-afternoon slump is almost non-existent now. and i have fewer headaches. big plus.

and one would think that since i'm the boss i could give myself my birthday off. but alas, no. i'll be working. all day. but don't worry.... hubby made me breakfast. and hopefully we'll get in a birthday bikeride this evening. and we celebrated my birthday this weekend at my favorite sushi restaurant with some close friends. we had a great time.

one year!

i just realized... my one-year blog-iversary was may 21! 239 posts. it went by so quickly.

thank you to all who stop by and read. thank you to all who comment. i truly, truly appreciate it.

image via martha stewart

it's only monday?

image via country living

too many chores. too many projects. it's making me wish i could curl up in this bed for a spell.

painted pianos

i grew up playing the piano. i took lessons every week from the 2nd grade through high school. i spent months memorizing rachmaninoff. my lessons ended when i went to college. so did my playing. i don't even know if i could read music anymore. i'd hope it'd all come back to me after a few sit-downs. but probably many sit-downs. occasionally i think it'd be nice to have a piano in the house. even better so if they looked like these.

via littlegreennotebook

via design mom