peace out.......

i decided to stop bloggin........i just have no time and not much to say.

if you wanna catch up give me a buzz and let's have a beer IN PERSON.

chel OUT!

Babblings at 4AM

Recently it seems that I have been spreading myself too thin. I feel that I am at a constant state of chaos and it is starting to take a toll. For example, I woke up at 2:30AM and have not been able to fall back asleep due to my mind going all over the place. It's now 4:30 so I decided to get up and basically start my day.

I have always been that "go to" girl in several areas in my life with work, friends and other random stuff and have always loved it. I love helping people, creating solutions and new paths for myself and getting things done or scratched off the list. I have always had trouble saying NO when others ask for assistance. I guess I just need to figure out how to balance everything and manage my time more efficiently but HOW!??

I have been at my current job for just over a year and recently have been questioning my happiness there.....the significance of touch changing the lives of others through my staff. I often question my ability as a leader to my therapists and front desk staff and how that effects the over all smooth operations of the massage clinic. I often wonder if I am at the right place since I have all these questions and rely on others performance to reflect my overall performance in my owners eyes. I guess I am questioning my decision on going to corporate massage.....it just seems like sales, numbers and appointments is constantly hovering over my head and that is not the reason I got into bodywork.....so do I really want to continue down this path or swim upstream against the current with the rest of the therapist out there.

I just wish there was more time in the day. More time for relaxing, family, training,etc. I surround myself with really ambitious people who seems to have every thing mapped out and organized and I wonder how do they do it? How do they work full time, train for hours a day, organize events and still make dinner for the family and not have their spouse feel neglected. Surely they are cloned or either have some sort of magic potion they are not sharing with me!

I guess that's it for now.....since I am up I can use this time to catch up on my friend's blogs:)

My quads hurt

So here i am....at work with a bit of time to recap my last weeks. I was sick.....really sick and unfortunately the worst of it fell on the day of Toddfest. Well, it went off without a hitch anyway. The bands rocked, Boomerz rules and everyone had a great time....especially Matthew who ripped his pants at the after hours party at our place while doing his version of the Thriller dance....I will post that to the blog once I get home.

I pretty much took it easy the rest of the week to recover enough for a long run on Saturday. Sat morning was an early one meeting with my group at 5:30 for a 16 miler. I can't believe that I actually finished. It was most likely the worst run of my life. it was slow, hot and I would have hacking fits every 5 miles or so. I probably should have not run but I was really glad that I did and that I finished despite how long it took. I pretty much decided on Saturday to never take another extreme amount of time off from training as I have over the past year.......it sucks getting back in the saddle.

So after my run I hit the gym to shower and went straight to work....BOO!!! but after work we headed down to Houston to catch the Candlebox show:) Let me just say.....WOWZA. The show was amazing, the sound was really nice at the venue. The Warehouse is downtown but the MinuteMaid park, which I have also not been to yet. The show was not sold out which made for plenty of room for the crowd and we were able to get fairly close to the stage. The opening band was really good too, which made for a really nice evening. The dinner and big ass $11 margaritas at Cyclone Anaya's didn't suck either.

Okay.....gotta answer the phone and get back to work.....OUT~~

In case you can't find me......

In case you can't find me at home, work or the trails you might wanna check the Flying Saucer in the triangle. Okay...Jess or Jeremy with Crossfit....stop reading NOW!!

Last Wed Rae and I went to check it out and have a few beers. I decided to plop down my hard earned $14 and joined the UFO Club......basically once I drink 200 different beers I get a plate on the wall with my name and I will be forever the envy of the rest of the drunks who hang out there. Let me just tell you.....THIS PLACE ROCKS!!! The food is great and they have 70 beers on tap and a list a mile long in bottles. So what does this mean? I really have to step up the training to afford these 200 beers that I must enjoy. My mission to be on of the first 10 women on that friggin wall.......down side...only 3 beers per day count towards your goal. Today.....3 visits and 192 beers to go!!!

Swing on by and check this place out. Sit in Janice's (jan-niece) section or at the bar with April.:) Tell Clark the bar back hi for me too....that boy washes a mean goblet!!

It's Done

I had a long hard 12 mile run this past Saturday. It felt really great to be out there running.....so great that when I got home I turned on the computer and did it.....





I am now registered for the full marathon. My first in over a year and the first I have run as Michelle, not a coach, since 2002.

I am so excited!! :)

nice.....

There is nothing like a new pair of running shoes. I have been out with a jacked up back for about a month. After finally feeling better I decided to award myself with a pair of much needed running shoes.

The folks over at Rogue Equipment hooked me up with a sweet pair of sneeks.


I broke them in with a 10 mile run sat morning. LORD I was slow but man did I have a great run! I felt as if I could have run several more miles which is really odd since that was the longest run I tackled since......gosh.......over a year and a half??? YIKERS. Well it has been too long and it felt really good to be out there. I can honestly say that I have really missed running.

I can't wait for this season to start......BRING IT SAN ANTONIO MARATHON!!!

yes!!!

my favorite quote from our T Jones girls gone wild weekend.........



You still want yur Dirty Monkey? Said will a super thick cajun drawl from the chick at the drive thru daquiri place.

Jacked...

I woke up this morning and attemped to go for a run and my back started hurting. Slowly it has turned from a dull ache to full on holy-mother pain. I gotta go to work tonight too:( I have been laid up on my couch with an ice pack.

This really is a downer to my new found energy for working out again.

DANG!!!!