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Content and Happy! August 1, 2010

Filed under: Happy,Home — Kelocity @ 4:52 pm
Tags: Operation Beautiful, Organization

I’m turning 27 in a couple of weeks and I am NOT happy about it. I never thought I’d be one of those people who dreaded their birthday, but this year, I’m just not that into it. When I was little I could not WAIT to turn 26. For me, 26 was it. That was a mature, happy age. 27 definitely puts me into my “Late Twenties” and that’s downright scary. How did that happen?

Maybe it’s been all that thinking about it that made me reflect a little bit on my life. Truth is, I’m finally totally content. I have a job I love, a house I’m proud of, a husband I adore, and a (somewhat) healthy lifestyle to boot —and I’ve been lucky enough to do all the traveling that I waited my whole life to do. Yea. I’m pretty lucky.

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So enough with all the negative thoughts that go along with getting older and growing up. A couple of weeks ago I decided to grab my life by the horns and change my attitude. I also knew that I need to organize myself more and try to be less anxious about everything (I’m usually a really anxious person and it’s starting to even drive ME nuts!)

As part of the Operation Beautiful movement, I decided to share my newfound thoughts on the blog.

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Here’s a few things I’ve been doing differently and I’m loving it!

Read More!
I love to read. I love getting lost in a book and staying up really late to finish a book. So if I love it so much, why have not read a single book in months?! Last week, I picked up “Sarah’s Key” by Tatiana de Rosnay and I read the whole thing in 6 days. I didn’t watch much TV and left some of my chores by the wayside and it was glorious! I noticed right away how much calmer my demeanor was. So relaxing.

Run More!
I’m back into marathon training season again! I love having a reason to get out and run. I always feel productive when I got a long run in—even if nothing else gets done. It feels good to put me and my body ahead of everything else sometimes (in moderation of course!) We’ve also been walking more in general lately. I love our 3-mile after dinner walks through the neighborhood. It helps Irving and I connect, chat with friends, and get some fresh air. Can’t argue with that!

Grow Up!
Ugh, for 27 years, I’ve been a habitual nail biter. It was totally embarrassing and immature and I knew I had to get over it! So I made the decision about four months ago to just quit cold turkey –and it worked! I noticed right away how much I calmed down after that. Biting my nails made me anxious and in turn I kept biting them! It was a horrible circle. But now, they are long and pretty and I am SO proud and happy with them!

Try Something New!
Erika and I did a Circus Class a couple of weeks ago and it was awesome to let our inhibitions go and hang upside down on a trapeze for a while. I recommend it to anyone who wants to feel alive again. It was awesome.

Organize the Physical Clutter!
Irving and I are both fans of the motto “A clear desk is a clear mind”. But my little home office has become claustrophobic lately and it’s really unproductive. I can’t get anything done when there’s paper piling up and boxes towering over me. Ew.

Look at all these wires I’ve had to look at on my desk for years now!

There are so many ‘devices’ that I use on a daily basis! Camera, Garmin, Bluetooth, Phone, Ipod, Blackberry, SD Reader, portable hard drive!

So last night, I dragged Irving to Kohl’s and finally bought a Charging Station for all my ‘stuff’.

It was perfect!!!

Each thing now has a place!

Look how nice and clean my desk looks now! (I need art above it though, don’t you think?)

I may have tamed the wires on TOP of the desk… but UNDER was a different story!

(We’ll have to work on that!)

I also finally installed my ginormous powerstrip!

It was almost as tall as ME!

Part Two of my project was to fix my ugly bookcase and make it prettier!

BEFORE:

AFTER:

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Better, right? I finally ditched the cardboard boxes. Yuck.

So all this stuff together totally made me find happiness that was in there all along. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve always been a happy, out-going person… but now, I feel content too. And that’s a great feeling.

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Sunday Funday!

Filed under: Food,Friends,Happy,Hollywood Events,Workout — Kelocity @ 4:09 pm
Tags: Burgers, Farmer's Market, Running, Umami

This morning, I got out the door at 6:30a to meet the Los Angeles Racers for a 5-mile run. It was fantastic. I was still a little tight from the 5k Erika and I ran this week (because I’m sadly a wee bit out of practice with the running!) But I really pushed myself today and it felt amazing.

I was with a few friends and I kept pace with them pretty good today. Sometimes it feels amazing to push past your comfort level a little bit and push on. It was a really rewarding run.

Plus the sun stayed hidden by the clouds til after we were done. That always helps.

Here’s the stats:
5 Miles in 1:03. Burned 470 Calories.

Mile 1: 11:48
Mile 2: 13:28
Mile 3: 12:28
Mile 4: 12:32
Mile 5: 12:45

I was hoping for some negative splits, but I’m pretty happy about our pace. That was doing 5:5 intervals (5 minutes running and 5 minutes walking).

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After coming home and showering, Erika and Timmy and I walked down to the Hollywood Farmer’s Market.

We saw this lemonade stand and HAD to get some!

I got a Watermelon Lemonade! (PS. I’m trying curls in my hair. What do you think?)

For lunch, we met up with Irving at Umami Burger in Hollywood.

It’s a funky new restaurant that all the celebs are raving about.

At first, I was less than impressed. The staff wasn’t very outgoing and it was a little awkward.
There are also a lot of ordering “rules” and they are pretty adamant about them. I thought this was a little off putting.

But all that aside, the burger was actually really impressive.

(But I hate when restaurants don’t serve anything on the side. It was literally JUST the burger. Where are my fries and pickles? (They are sold separately and that really annoys me!)

This was definitely a gourmet burger, and it was worth all the aggravation.

Irving’s had crusted parmesan and some other goodies on it.

I’m not a huge meat eater, but I ate every last bite of mine. MMM!

For “dessert”, we had some of Honey Straws from the Farmer’s Market!
Irving’s matched his shirt!

A very fun day in Hollywood.

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Random Fact About Me July 28, 2010

Filed under: Happy — Kelocity @ 8:41 pm
Tags: Nintendo, Tetris

I Loooooooove Tetris! I wish my Nintendo still worked. (The 1989 console, not the newer gameboy junk).

I downloaded a Tetris widget for my computer a while back and I seriously play EVERY DAY!

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Not to toot my own horn, but I’m pretty good. It takes me FOREVER to finish games sometimes because I keep clearing the lines back down to the bottom. haha

Tonight, Irving and I just listened to this over and over.

Awe man, I miss my old-school Nintendo. I really think that if they brought those things back, they’d make a killing. I’d take that over the wii anyday.