Randoms

Random facts for my life-in-real time journal aka my blog:

- My curling iron recently broke into 27 pieces.  Nothing happened, it just decided to go on strike after 5 years on the job.  I miss it, but a chi curling iron isn't in my budget right now...so I guess crazy hair it is.  Oh how I miss thee, Curl Down. 

- When we went hiking this weekend, I noticed that Tucker (my 12 year old Lab) tried to keep up with Samson (my 1.5-2 year old ish Lab) during the hike.  When Cooper was around, Tucker used to do his own thing while Samson and Cooper hung out, but I realized we are all starting to adjust finally and Sam and Tuck might even like each other now. Ugh, I still can't even think about her without crying.  Every stinking time.  I wonder if I'll ever be able to think of her without reacting like this. 

- FitLab is growing, praise the Lord.  And I do mean, praise the Lord seriously, not just as some phrase.  I really feel like He's blessed our desire to help others.  I can't believe how different my life looks from just a little over 2 years ago.  I love our company, I love the clients that I get to work with...it just blesses me more every day.  I had a client email me this morning to let me know she hit a goal of 35 pounds she's lost so far.  That's literally like losing 35 softballs off your body!!!  Think of carrying that around with you all day!  It wasn't without discipline, hard work, and a LOT of heart...and food logging (ha!)...but wow, it was such a proud moment for me for HER!  It makes me want to cry to think of how her first goal was just to be able to sit at her desk and cross her legs and/or to be able to get down on the floor with her grandchildren.  How dramatically different is her life today?!  

Another HUGE FitLab blessing is Celia, someone we recently hired to help teach classes and to grow the business.  She joined our bible study/small group several months ago and the second I met her, I had a quickening in my spirit that she may be an answer to a prayer I'd been praying. I'd been asking God to lead me to a specific someone to help, someone who was equal parts tough and sweet, disciplined but could understand people who couldn't be disciplined sometimes, someone who had a passion for fitness...someone willing to grow as we grew.  Celia expressed an interest in FitLab from day one but she had a job and wasn't in the position, she thought, to change careers.  Well, little did she or I know that soon she'd lose her job and come on as a team member with us.  Her story is AMAZING. She's lost almost 100 pounds since her sophomore year of high school.  Check out her bio by clicking here.   No client could EVER say she "doesn't understand" or that it's "too hard"...she's been there!  Besides being an inspiration, she is absolutely stunning - inside and out!

- It seems like everyone around me is getting pregnant.  It's like they're all drinking out of some fountain I'm not.  ha!  Somehow I'm still shocked at how insensitive some people are about delivering this information when they know people around them are struggling...but then I'm even more shocked with myself that I haven't gotten used to the fact that people who get pregnant easily don't understand and will never understand and can't possibly realize how insensitive it sometimes comes across.  It's a problem in me that I'm still working on and learning to grow through - and I'm having to learn to forgive even when people don't know how much it hurts sometimes.  I think one of the hardest times to forgive is when people unintentionally offend  or disappoint you.  And this has to do with infertility and a million other situations, too. You have to forgive without them knowing you've done the forgiving and sometimes t's too easy to let resentment take root. That is one thing  I won't ever allow myself to be or become.  Bitter.  That is such an ugly word and it only hurts the person living with the bitterness.  I will not go there.  I will thank God every day for today...whatever today looks like. 

- One thing I've noticed is that now that blogging has become so popular and there are so many "features" meant to make reading convenient, it's somehow made the connections that you feel with people disappear to some degree.  While the reading is easier, some of those very things have made commenting harder...word verification, the fact you have to click out of reader, click comment, click, click, click a million times to do anything.  I feel like it's made this blogging journey a little more isolated, which isn't really the initial intention of beginning a blog.  It's to connect.  I've found myself commenting in my head far more than I take the time to click click click to comment legitimately.  Kinda sad, really.

Anyway, enough for the day...