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I'm a smoothie fiend in the summer months, and I usually throw together whatever I have on hand to make a healthy, light lunch. I try to pack as many good things into my Ninja as I can. I might occasionally post a recipe, keeping in mind that these are all very personalized, with the "smoothies" tag. This is so I can find the recipes, but I also don't mind sharing with you. Feel free to ignore these posts.

( Chocolate Cherry Bean Smoothie )

We're in the hazy, humid, hot summer months in my part of the world, and that means I'm not getting nearly enough walking outdoors done. Thankfully, the elliptical is in a nicely temperature-controlled room convenient to the television, but I really would prefer to be outside. *sighs*

I hope wherever you are the weather is being more agreeable for the fitness pursuits you most prefer. Regardless of agreeability, I hope the weather is *safe* where you are. There is a great deal of dangerous weather out there.

As usual, please share as much or as little as you'd like about your fitness efforts (or lack thereof) this past week. No judgement, only support!

( My Week in Review )

May the week ahead give you plenty of opportunities to do something kind for yourself.

Boring stuff: My week this past week involved doing homework, sleeping, and being lumpy. Though I did exercise four times, so I wasn't that lumpy. A walking lump maybe.

Adventures: Today M and I did an art trail on one of the islands, and it was great. Cool art, a glass blower who does Venetian glass making techniques with all these amazing patterns in the glass let us watch her make glasses and explained everything while she did it and it was really cool.

We hit up one of our favorite bookstores (The Book Rack in Oak Harbor) and drove and looked at water and looked at sculptures and walked a few trails and it was a wonderful day. Now I am very tired. Photos here: https://flickr.com/photos/27659024@N08/albums/72177720327356511.

Tonight I'm taking one of the kidlets to a paranormal/horror cirque de soleil type thing, so we'll see how that goes. People bending in ways they're not supposed to and doing things I could never do in a million years. Can't be all bad.

We're having to rebuild the search server again (previously, previously). It will take a few days to reindex all the content.

Meanwhile search services should be running, but probably returning no results or incomplete results for most queries.

Hello my friends! I have not done this in 80 bazillion years, which is apropos since I haven't done a lot of things in 80 bazillion years. Like, I used to write. I used to have ideas. But I've been going to school (getting my BS in psych) and working and doing the booster club thing, so I've been busy and so brain-full that creativity has been restricted to those things. However I'm in my last quarter of school and I'm on summer break from the job, and hockey season hasn't started yet, so I thought I'd try to get back into the habit of being human and stuff.

I spent the past weekend at my mom's helping her with her annual garage sale. It was fine, and we always have fun, but it's a multi-person garage sale, and one of the ladies that is there (who is a good friend of my mom's) drives me a little bit bonkers because she never. stops. talking. Which I guess is good because it makes me get up and walk around.

I bought a walking pad a while ago and haven't used it, but I'm working on getting back into a rhythm with it. Luckily I have decided to do it during the hottest days of the year so far, because that's how I roll. This would likely not be a thing if we had an air conditioner, but we don't, so there you have it.

My other goals this summer are to do some mini-adventures, rewatch Generation Kill, listen to serial killer podcasts, read a bunch of books, graduate, sleep a lot, and come up with ideas for hockey season. For today, goals are to do some errands, do the walking pad, then do some school stuff. I got a late start because I didn't really sleep at my mom's, so I slept in today which was amazing and I approve of it. We'll see if I can manage adding posting here to the summer goals as well.

And, because I wouldn't be the person I am now without it - I shall shout out two of my bb!hockeys - Carter Bear and Shea Busch who got drafted this year to the Detroit Redwings and the Florida Panthers respectively. So proud of my boys. (my kids are my kids, the kids I work with at school are my kids, and the hockey kids are the boys. It's kind of a system).

Anyway, hi friends! I have been reading about your lives, I promise. I love you all.

Hello, again! Welcome back to another week of checking in with one another about our fitness goals and progress therein or lack thereof.

As always, please share if you're able and/or willing. Please know that this little community is for you, so you're welcome to adjust, change, or drop a goal at any time. We're here to listen, not to judge.

( My Week in Review )



I'm sending you all the good vibes for a great week ahead!