Eh

Well, Lisa stayed. I know everyone just wanted to know that. At least she didn't have to cook rice last night. And she wasn't completely nasty either so I did feel bad about blog bashing her. :).

I just got back from the gym so I am chilling. Zumba and then Yoga. My body was actually not happy during yoga. I hadn't done it in FOREVER and I was very tight and inflexible. Some muscles did not want to go into the positions. But I got thru it and all is good!

The Style Channel is airing the red carpet from the SATC premiere in NYC. So, I am going to finish watching that. It looks fun and I wish I had been there!! How fun would that have been - premiere at Radio City Music Hall!!! And Giuliana Ranic from eonline is giving the interviewees SATC trivia. I seem to be getting them right. Maybe I was a little obsessed with that show :)

Good night!

No title

I can't think of anything creative for the title! And I am trying. Oh well. It is Wednesday and my brain wants some rest. :).

SATC premieres this weekend. I have not been this excited about a movie in, well, I can't remember how long!! We are seeing it Saturday. Yes, Friday would have been even better but schedules make Saturday the best time. I will try to avoid any and all spoilers Saturday afternoon. I usually don't mind spoilers but this is different. I want to go in with a clean slate. I just pray we aren't disappointed. That many women pissed off though -- I doubt the producers want that. So, I think we are guaranteed a good movie!!!

Top Chef is down to the final five. Lisa has to go. That woman can't make rice. The last two episodes she has messed up the rice. Even I can make rice. If she doesn't go home tonight, I will be very disappointed. Her attitude stinks, she can't seem to make a dish the judges like and really, to make it this far is just beyond comprehension!!! (and, well, she always seems to mess up the dang rice!!!)

Okay good night!!!

Bad News and Good News all rolled into one

I got a call last night from Michelle who had some great work news. She is getting a promotion at work -- she will now be an Assistant Manager. yay! In Denver! Um, crap. It is a great opportunity for her and well, I will get to visit Denver a lot now. Its an easy plane ride. She leaves in about 3 weeks.

Everybody have a great Tuesday.

Happy Birthday Michelle!

Today is Michelle's birthday! Oh, to be 27 again :). I will grab her sometime this week and take her to Zushi Sushi for dinner. Her Mom understandably gets her today :).

This weekend has been pretty good. Yesterday I took a self defense class held at Ryan's Krav studio. To say I am sore is an understatement (well, I also worked out with him today, so that kind of helps with the soreness). Ryan was the man in the attack suit and I got to get in some kicks and hits on him. I never want to see him in that suit again though -- it was just freaky looking! In the final exercise, we had to stand and let him attack us and try to get out of it. For some reason, he decided to bear hug me to the ground and let me fight him some more. Gesh, thanks. I did learn I really do like to kick and punch -- I might have to take some beginner Krav courses -- and its good cardio too. It was a very good course though and I learned a lot. He said they might be holding more of those types of seminars. Anybody in the Dallas area interested, i would be more than happy to pass on the info!!

The rest of this Sunday is going to be chill. I am tired and my neck hurts (gee, I wonder why. Being pulled to the ground doesn't really help..... :)). I have a movie to watch and The Office to watch again!!! Have a great day !!

Office Thursday!!!

The Season Finale of the Office was on tonight. It was wonderful! It did not disappoint :). The final scene just totally blew my mind and I actually called who was getting engaged (come on, it was tooooooo easy to have Jim propose to Pam. They were leading us to think that. Not so fast, my favorite writers!!!). Don't get me wrong, I want them to be together but they aren't going to have them engaged so early. Pam broke my heart with her talking head though. Jenna Fischer is still my favorite actress and this once again proved why :). Now I have to wait until Sept to find out what happens!!! Man, o man.

I had a fun workout tonight - I did the 24 Hour Dance and Zumba class (30 min each). My feet are killing me but I had so much fun. I can't imagine how this woman has as much energy as she does. She teaches an hour core and abs class BEFORE the dance class and then she teaches yoga afterwards. And she was like the energizer bunny! Behka is a wonderful teacher and I hope to emulate her when I finally get hired on to 24 Hour!!! Okay, so I can't actually teach dance (if you saw me today, you would have LAUGHED!!! But it was still fun :)). But I can bring her energy and drive to my formats.

Okay, I am tired now. Time for bed! Hope everyone has a great evening and a fabulous Friday!!

Oh, and congrats to my cousins Kelly and Katie. Both are pregnant and recently found out they are both having girls!! Chloe is gonna have a baby sister :). They are both due in October -- kind of fun timing huh :).

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy Mother's Day to not only my momma, but to all moms out there! Jon and I made mom a lunch -- I don't get to cook enough and it just seemed like a fun idea. I made a lasagna which I thought was pretty good. The top layer was a crispy treat, but the rest was nice and moist and tasted pretty yummy (again, really, my own personal opinion :)).

Okay, I was getting a little stressed thinking that I was going to have to get ready for a spin audition on May 14. Today I just was thinking I am not ready!!! I don't have the cycle shoes, the windscreen (the cover for the microphone, I had no idea what it was before!), or even the actual ride (among other things)! I have an idea but it wasn't coming together quick enough. I got an email today and there is an audition date on May 31. That gives me plenty of time! And I don't have to take the day off work. (Which, truthfully, I might just take that day off anyway....... Its already on the books!) Or, I could audition for Aqua Wednesday and then just go back for cycling May 31. I plan to do Aqua primarily if they will let me. I just want to sub cycling (so, yeah, I shouldn't be so nervous about that then, huh???).

Besides that, nothing super duper big is going on. Life is good, last week was just hectic and stressful. I had some long hours at work and would come home tired. I am thinking that is why I am so exhausted this weekend! I want to be well rested come tomorrow, so off I go. Plus, I need to do my nails. They are looking very ragged. :(

Have a great evening!!

Why Allergies?

Seriously. I am still suffering. It seems like its been forever. I had another asthma attack last night -- enough to get out the darn rescue inhaler. Not enough to be transported anywhere or fear for my life. I guess I am lucky in that case. I don't need a breathing machine or trips to the ER. I got no sleep last night and a trip to my doctor today. It is amazing how quickly you can get an appointment when you say, "hey, I can't breathe." I did go to work today even though I got zilch in the sleep department. My doctor gave me a steroid shot (I've been jittery all day because of it) and some new inhalers. At least I like my doctor enough to not hate a trip to her office (although the last test she ordered did result in a sonogram and a biopsy and some undue stress.....). She got me squared away, and back to work I went. I still had stuff I had to get done. I may not have been able to breathe but I didn't feel HORRIBLE........ I feel so much better now. I had to chill tonight. I was supposed to work out with Ryan but the decision was that even if I did feel better, it would be stupid to just irritate it again. So I will feel better tomorrow and work out extra hard then. I can tell my body it will just be :).

Other than that, everything is pretty cool. My brother moved into my second bedroom and is convinced my cats hate him. They hide during the day when I am at work. I tell him they hide from me during the day too. I am starting to get into the studies for my Group Fitness Cert. The first chapter is Exercise Physiology. It is blowing my mind. I love to learn how the body functions but this is so much technical information. I am sure I will get it, it will just take time! After Chapter 3, I will be fine.

Okay, it is still kind of early but I am going to bed. My body needs some more rest. And it is going to force it upon me no matter how much I want to stay awake.

Have a wonderful Tuesday night!

The end of the weekend!

Well, I guess I shouldn't have a happy exclamation point since that means tomorrow is Monday. And that means back to work. But hey, it was a good weekend.

Friday night I was going to stay in and take it easy. And then Michelle called. You know I am going to get into all sorts of trouble with her. We went to dinner at my coworkers new restaurant. He opened a sushi restaurant with his parents and it was actually very good. We were all about the Ahi Tower. It had a nice spiciness that was just perfect. If you are in the mood for a good sushi place in Dallas, let me know and I will get you the pertinent info! His opening the restaurant is why I get to learn Project Manager skills. When he isn't in the office, the others on our project come to me. It is so nice :).

Saturday, Jon and I went to see "The Wedding Singer" at the Dallas Summer Musicals. It was very cute -- not the best musical I have ever seen but it was funny and very entertaining. Plus the 80's references were great. It was set in 1985 so it was perfect timing for me to remember all the references they were throwing out. Now I have the urge to go see the movie again.........

Sunday was just Sunday. I was supposed to go to a rape seminar today but it was cancelled. Never fear, Ryan still teaches me self defense techniques. He said they will reschedule and he will let me know when. He did, however, beat me during our session today. So, really, it was probably a good thing the seminar was cancelled -- my arms were shaking and I don't think I could have thrown anybody off me during the afternoon. I am gonna be sore tomorrow, I am sure of it. I did get to use the punching bag today. Yep, I was excited. I had no aggression to get out today but I still felt great afterwards. :) So when I am actually mad, it will be even better!

Everybody have a great evening and a wonderful Monday tomorrow. I am going to try -- you know, since it is Monday and all :).

Crazy Kitty and the Return of the Office

The Office has returned!!! Yes, first things first :). It ended about 35 minutes ago. I need to watch it again. Not tonight because I am getting a headache, but yes, I will watch it again. I felt it was a very good return for my beloved series and I expect it to only get better. I missed it more than I truly thought :). And, yes, I know it is a TV series.

Now to the crazy kitty. As most everyone knows there were some horrible storms that blew thru Dallas early this morning. Simon, oh my darling Simon decided to take this time to go even crazier than normal. He jumped on my head, crawled on my chest, meowed like a crazy cat. When he finally settled down, he just looked at me like "hey, when are you going to stop all this noise?". Sierra was just chilling, like normal, in the living room. My part of town didn't seem to have as much damage as other areas, which really surprised me. It sounded like the wind was beating down my bedroom window! I didn't see blue lightening like Jen did though. Kind of wished I had -- I never knew there was such a thing!

Other updates -- they have postponed auditions at 24 Hour Fitness for instructors so that is on hold for about a month. That actually helps me out a lot. And there is nothing to say I can't go o to the YMCA or someplace else to get a job. I would be able to easily pop out an Aqua audition but Indoor Cycling still needs work.

I am very happy tomorrow is Friday. I am still just very tired and I really shouldn't be! But I will get over it soon. So, good night and have a great night!!

Oh so tired!

I really should have stayed home to catch up on my sleep. But, the funny thing is I really didn't sleep that bad last night. Not sure why I am a zombie today! I know why I am sore, but really should still be wide awake.

Ryan, in his attempts to shake things up and in the process teach me some self defense, decided that he needed to teach me how to get out of a choke hold while on the ground. I really didn't object because it is actually very good knowledge to have these days. You never know what freakin crazy person waits around the corner! Anyway, Sunday I practiced throwing him off me over and over again. And I get tossed about too since he has to demonstrate how to actually do it. We only did this 10 minutes, but my goodness, it was a total body workout. I didn't think I would be this sore, but I guess it makes sense. If you throw a 180 lb man off you, over and over again, you are going to feel it. I have a couple of bruises too, but really it is all worth it. I like the fact that he can show me moves that can potentially save my life in the real world. I pray I never need them, but dang it, I am ready!

Now the goal is to get through today. I have a workout planned tonight and then on to work on two auditions. The Aqua one will be easy. I will find music and put exercises to it. Cycling is still my tough one. But if I get hired on with Aqua, I can always come back and re-do cycling. I still want to do that but I want to make sure I bring 100%. I took a Cycling class on Saturday and really, while she didn't stink, she wasn't the best teacher ever. I don't want people leaving my class saying that about me! :)

Okay, I gotta get to work. And try to figure out what I want for lunch. I am actually thinking veggie burger from across the street. I need to get out but it is too windy to really want to walk too far.

Later!!!

Middle of the week fun update

Well, really nothing too exciting. I am kind of boring. I need to kick it up soon though (tonight, actually) because I have an open audition in less than one month. Audition?? What?? Okay, I am not turning into an actress :). In order to get hired on at 24 Hour Fitness as a Group X instructor, I have to show them my stuff. My stuff is not very good right now. My stuff is very rough and basic. I want to see you do an indoor cycle class and talk to a class at the same time (and remember to tell them everything they need to know)... if you can, then you can mock me (and you can also help me practice!!!). It is all very exciting but at the same time, I really wonder what the heck I am doing. So, I am just going to focus, focus, focus.... and find some wonderful current instructors to flatter and help me (you think I am kidding. The Group X manager actually told us to do this :)). There are several that just rock and I would love to get their knowledge embedded in my brain.

In my cert class, I met a current instructor, however she does Aqua currently. I never once thought about Aqua -- I have never even been to a class. However, after talking to her, I might just learn everything I can and go for that audition as well. She has even offered to help me. Just teach me everything she knows. I am amazed. These people are so helpful and positive and just fabulous. Such a far cry from where I work right now!!! So, April 12 is my drop dead date. There are audition dates at other times as well, however this one is in Addison (the other one is in Ft. Worth) and it gives me enough time to prepare. If I had to audition this weekend, I would surely not get hired! This is a baby step into a fitness career and I really want to see where it goes. (2 years ago I would have laughed at you had you said I would be doing this now!!!)

So, that is about it. Oh, and Fireside Pies is as good as Jen keeps saying. Yummy, yummy food and the most awesome gooey chocolaty dessert. Gooey and chocolate are two words that really do belong together :).

Have a great day!!

Bleh.......

Okay, I am getting over bleh........ That is how I felt all week. Not horrible (except Tuesday, when I called in sick), but not just great either. Today I feel somewhat productive and alive. It am pretty sure it is the sun coming out and making the sky bright and happy. I might need to invest in a sun lamp soon. The cloudy days really bring out the joyous, happy Kim.... :(. The switch to Daylight Saving Time didn't help at all.

I attended my first Zumba dance class last night with Mia and Jen. Oh, it was fun. I did well not to trip on my own feet, but it was good to just move and really not care what others thought. Zumba is a Latin dance with lots of elements thrown in -- and you just move until you can move no more. And then you move some more! The teacher was a lot of fun too. I have taken a class from her before and really liked her. I definitely will be doing more Zumba! There are very few classes taught in my area though so I have to plan my schedule in advance for this one class.

The weekend will be low key, which is fine by me. The biggest thing is dinner tomorrow night with the girls at Fireside Pizza. Jen has been raving so we gotta go! I also finish cert training on Sunday. I think I am ready for the quiz, but I plan to re-read tonight. I downloaded music for the practicum and need to make sure I am comfortable with that. I have a warm up which actually sounds easy, I know. Watch me mess it up!!! And just because I get certified does not make me an instructor -- I have to audition and all that fun stuff. After Sunday, we'll see what I've got. :)

Everyone have a great Friday afternoon. Enjoy the beautiful weather, because God knows in Texas, it might change in 15 minutes!!!!!

What was I thinking?

Today I did the first day of my Cycling Certification Training. Now, I can do these classes with the best of them, but can I really teach them??? It will be intersting. I actually have homework for next week - including studying for quiz and practicing for the practicum. I have a 3 minute warm up I have to prepare (luckily it is already spelled out on a sheet for us, but still, kind of nerve racking when I have never done it before). I have 2 cycling classes I have to attend in the next week as well to observe and take notes. There are people in the cert class who have been doing cycling - indoor and outdoor - for awhile so it seems to be their thing. I took the classes to get higher intensity cardio into my workouts. I just can't dance so that would be a hard one to teach :)>. I can do the dance classes, I just think teaching them would be harder with me tripping all over the place! So, next week will complete the training and I will actually be certified.

Currently I am watching "Sydney White" with Amanda Bynes. It is so cute so far. If you want happy fluff, it is a good movie for that. After the movie though, I will have to get to bed. I am actually pretty tired. 4.5 hours of cycling training will do that to you!!

Later!

Snowy???

I live in the middle of Dallas. I usually don't get to see all the fun stuff that the outlying areas see weather wise. While others were getting snow, I got a little bit of sleet and mostly rain. Cold, cold rain. It was even clear enough to drive to the gym to work out with Ryan. (Trust me, had it been bad, he would have been cancelled). This morning I did see a little white stuff on my car which was nice, but it would have been fun to see all that snow last night! I did come in a little late today though because there was ice on the roads and some big accidents. I figured why wait in traffic, waste gas and get annoyed when I could leave later and get to work at 9:00. I probably would have gotten to the office at 9:00 no matter how early I left. Very few people are here today so it might be a good, quiet day to get some projects done!

Well, everyone have a great Friday. Stay warm :).

Equal time to my other kittie!

Here is Sierra looking very angelic :).

Put the camera down!!!

Hump Day!

Well, since I last wrote in my glorious blog, I had a birthday. So, what does it feel like to be 36 (yes, you read that right, I actually put down my age!!)? It doesn't feel too bad. Once i got used to the idea of the number, it really has settled well. Plus, come on, I look dang good for a 36 year old, so might as well embrace it. Yes, I do realized that sounds conceited. I really don't mean it in a conceited way, I promise!!!

So, this morning I registered for 24 Hour Group Instructor training. I am going to become a Spin instructor. I have been thinking about it for awhile and I went to the info session last night. It seems like the right time to take the plunge! Plus, the training through 24 is much cheaper than if I did it through some other format and right now, it fits in my budget. Eventually I might get yoga or Pilates certified but since they don't do that directly through 24 Hour, I decided to hold off for bit. I should focus on one thing right now and just getting in the door is what matters. Once i go through the training, I will have to "audition" for a slot but they seem to teach you everything you need to do to succeed. I will keep you updated!!!

So, I think that is it for now. I need to finish eating lunch and get back to work! Later!!!

Happy Valentine's Day

Just wanted to wish everybody a Happy Valentine's Day. It is also my Friday. I am off tomorrow so I actually have to get stuff done today. Darn :)>.

Well, that is all. There are no big stories to tell today :).

Monday Fun

Well, not really fun, but it was at least a good day. We did interviews today for the receptionist position. Since the PM is grooming me to do that role, he wanted me involved in the interviews. I haven't interviewed anybody in a long time! I kind of missed it. We had two today - both were pretty good. I had my favorite. It is nice to be involved in that part of things though.

The Writer's Strike is 99% over!! The Office will be coming back, even if just for a limited time (I think only 5 or 6 episodes will be able to be produced). But, hey, they are coming back!!!! Yay! Early birthday gift for me. Yes, again, I know I am a dork.

This weekend's weather was so insanely beautiful. I did get to spend sometime outside on Sunday. The patio at Cafe Express was a great place to people watch and the food was super yummy! There were some interesting outfits out that day :). I am kind of sore right now because I hit a spin class after work. It was packed for a 5:30 class (the 6:00 is the one that gets full). Anyway, I had crazy spin instructor and the energy in the room might have propelled me to sore legs :).

Well, that is about it. Good night!

Update!

Howdy :). Things have been going well with me. Nothing super big, just a lot of little things. Work is pretty interesting these days. Idiot receptionist quit. No two weeks notice, no nothing. She was always the epitome of professionalism, so I know everybody is just shocked she gave no notice. It has caused some problems with the office since that spot has to be covered at all times. But we've managed. In the end it is a good thing, but dang, I won't have any more idiot receptionist stories!!!

I also received my performance review today. It was pretty good! I was very happy with what we talked about. Now I have to think of goals for this coming year. Man, I just got done with my big one... I still haven't thought about the next step!!! Speaking of the PHR, I got my final score. To pass, you needed a 500. I got a 566. I was pretty happy with that one! They did break down how many questions you got correct in each section. Okay, so in Health and Safety, there were 14 questions and I got 13 correct! We just thought it was funny considering where I work. That should have been my 100%. :).

Okay, that's about it. I was very happy to see the Giants win Sunday night! I even won $10 :).

Later!!!