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The Test

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When heaven is about to confer a great responsibility on any man, it will exercise his mind with suffering, subject his sinews and bones to hard work, expose his body to hunger, put him to poverty, place obstacles in the paths of his deeds, so as to stimulate his mind, harden his nature, and improve wherever he is incompetent.
- Meng Tzu, 3rd cent BCE

Just about a month ago, I clicked “submit” for a full payment to register for a Crossfit Level 1 certification in January.

Oddly enough, before laying down that large sum of money, I was a walking billboard for all things Crossfit. I was chatting up strangers every chance I could just to have the opportunity to talk about Crossfit, spread the good word, and foster hope and inspiration in others.

Can someone explain to me why it is that the day I PAY to take a step toward making this a career, I lose it?…

…I lose interest; I lose excitement; I lose drive. I stopped doing everything that I did for fun for the last two years… WHAT THE HECK?!

It probably did not help when shortly after I paid for the cert, I hurt myself pretty badly in the gym. Poor form had finally caught up with me. While I was able to do more, faster, in the gym, I was sacrificing my form, and what it had come down to was I either HAD to change how I was doing things, or I could stop working out all together…

…not a chance.

When I was confronted by my lack of interest in the one topic that I used to brim over with excitement about…I finally opened up about it. I didn’t understand the timing…I didn’t understand how I could teach people Crossfit when I felt like it was breaking my body down…I didn’t understand why when I was the healthiest I had ever been in my life, and had the most help on my side, I was the most broken (or so I felt). This is when Nick got up and walked to the kitchen and pulled this quote off the fridge for me. He just handed it to me and said nothing.

When heaven is about to confer a great responsibility on any man, it will exercise his mind with suffering, subject his sinews and bones to hard work, expose his body to hunger, put him to poverty, place obstacles in the paths of his deeds, so as to stimulate his mind, harden his nature, and improve wherever he is incompetent.
- Meng Tzu, 3rd cent BCE

During the build-out here at the office, Nick had these thoughts pretty often. There were things that would pop up that were unexpected, and he felt beat down because of them. One day he was flipping through a book that was given to us at our going away party and came upon this quote. For him, that one quote was what got him through all the tough moments in the 9 months of build-out…

…and now it is happening to me.

I’m being tested physically, as literally as I can ever imagine. I am being tested emotionally, not understanding why these things are happening. I’m being tested financially…I didn’t just pay for that cert for fun, or like I just didn’t know what to do with the money…

…I truly believe that I’m being tested. I’m being tested to improve those aspects where I am incompetent.

Form. It is ESSENTIAL to do it properly in any sport or fitness program…especially Crossfit since it is at such a high intensity.

Empathy. I went from being the least athletic person I had ever met, to a walking Crossfit billboard. I was fortunate enough to have coaches who were HUGE on form, and made a huge deal about doing it right… Regardless of this, sometimes you get hurt. Sometimes you get crazy in there, forget what you’re doing when you’re exhausted, and form breaks… Having this experience is driving the lesson of ALWAYS having proper form home for me…and educating me through experience how to teach my future clients how to perfect their form; it is also giving me empathy to understand their frustrations and pain when things break down…it sucks, I know…

Reality check. I feel that this experience in the last month or two has brought me down to Earth a touch, created more relativity in me. I have to admit, I may have been a tad bit much for the last two years (nothing I would take back one bit)…to the extent of one person telling me I was a walking blog post, and other friends walking away… I don’t have a problem with this either, it taught me who were real friends and what I wanted in a group of friends…but I do think that this blast of reality for me will make me much more relatable to future clients…and that is definitely a gift.

…unless I fail to make the turn…

…welp, that is a choice that I am just NOT willing to make this time…

Big FAT Scaredy CAT!

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The fact is, that to do anything in the world worth doing, we must not stand back shivering and thinking of the cold and danger, but jump in and scramble through as well as we can.
~ Robert Cushing

This has been a big growing week for me. On Monday, I agreed to give a talk on Wednesday (last night) about my story of health transformation to a room full of about 15 people.

Does that sound scary to you?

It sounded TERRIFYING to me.

I had planned on telling my story as part of a 8 week wellness transformation program, in the second week of November. I planned on giving myself a month to prepare.

I gave myself 2 days.

Last night, I sat in front of a group of about 15 people, and shared my story with them.

I grew.

I sweat bullets.

I stretched.

…and I not ONLY survived…but I did well, too.

I’ve come to the conclusion that I’m tired of sitting and waiting for the fear to pass to live my life. The fear will always be there. It is my job to let the fear run over me, look it in the face…

and tell it that I want to freakin’ PARTY!

After I graduated college, I had every intention of going back to school for my masters. I was just going to give myself one year.

One year turned into six.

I started having every excuse in the world as to why NOW was not the right time. I dont’ have the money right now. I’m worried that once I get my degree I’ll want to start a family and then I’ll have to stop working… What if I suck at it?

Seriously, I have single-handedly listed every single excuse known to man OUT THERE…

…and where has that left me? 28 years old, still helping other people reach their goals, and pushing mine off more and more.

This will get less depressing… promise :)

I am thankful for all the crazy ideas that I’ve had about what I think I want to be…counselor, midwife, real estate agent, and on and on and on. I let fear talk me out of all of those things…but I would like to think there was a reason for it.

Timing is key. Maybe before I wasn’t ready for my vocation, or “calling”, until now.

I was having a conversation with Nick about this recently (one of millions I feel…). He looked me straight in the face and said, “Jen, it’s time for you to woman up and do what you want to do.”

He’s right. It’s time. I’ve sat around waiting far too long…

December 3rd and 4th, in San Diego, CA I will be attending a Crossfit Level 1 Cert to become a Crossfit trainer.

Makes sense…doesn’t it? :)

 

 

Coming to Life…

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“In life, there are no ordinary moments. Most of us never really recognize the most significant moments of our lives when they are happening.” -Kathleen Magee 

To say that this quote is significant in my life right now would be an understatement. While there is a blue whirl of chaos around Nick and I right now, in it, somehow, I’m finding serenity. This morning I got up early to drive down to the ocean and go for a run. Now for those of you who know me well, you know how I feel about running…I detest it! I dont’ really understand why people do it…it’s not fun, and it hurts…oh it hurts so bad. I truly, however, wanted to go out and run today…not because of the actual act of running, but because of what I knew was waiting for me there. A blue ocean, a blue sky, white sand, and a row of tall, green palm trees. After my run, I had the absolutely PLEASURE of having an hour-long conversation with my much-loved friend, Alexis, while I sat next to the ocean. What an incredible way to start a day, huh? :)

After talking to Alexis I started thinking about where my heart has been for the last month. Moving to a new area, a new side of the country, a new group of people, a new job, a new home, a new relationship status for Pete’s sake; it easy to get tangled up in all of that and forget what makes you happy, what makes you feel full of life. I have not been taking care of myself. I have been eating probably the best I ever have since being here, today is the first cup of caffeinated coffee I have had since being here, and I have the most consistent workout schedule I think I ever have…but I have not been feeding my heart…my soul. I wish that I could sit here this very second and list out my goals to you of what exactly it would be that makes me feel life full right now…but I’m not really sure to be honest. I’ve been so wrapped up in personal improvement of myself, how to market our new business, how to balance working with, living with and loving Nick in our new situation, how to make our name go up the pages on Google, how to create this or that; so much that I have legitimately been losing sleep over it…that I have forgotten what makes ME happy, what makes me feel full.

 I’m so grateful for my talk this morning with Alexis, for so many reasons. She is the type of person who makes you see how wonderful and beautiful and INTERESTING you are, and you can almost HEAR her heart …hear how much she cares for you and the world as a whole. She is the most affirming person I have ever met on the planet. She also, however, tends to always spark that inspiration in me that I need…she’s that gentle little kick in the ass without even meaning to be. After asking me what my favorite part of being in Santa Barbara was, and if it is life-giving…I said yes, of course, but realized that I haven’t really taken the time to see what kind of life-giving it has for me! Santa Barbara, I haven’t even really met you! So thank you Lex for the conversation this morning…I’m going to figure out what is life-giving to me and DO it…and I challenge all of you to do the same :)

Much love,

Jen

T-Minus 11520 Minutes

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Lifes a journey, not a destination

 

I am sitting in probably the only clutter-free spot in our house right now; on our sunshine-yellow couch that will soon be taken away by a stranger. Looking around are boxes full of “must-haves”, the few things we have found important enough to us that they earned a coveted spot in the back of the Expedition for the trip west; the rest will go. It’s beginning to feel a little sad in here.

Only seven short days from now we will be having our going away party with all the people we love here in Beverly, and the following morning, heading west…well south, THEN west :) Since I’ve shared so much of myself in the last year, I want to share a little about Jen BC (Before Crossfit)…

Over the last six years, I have had MANY conversations with my parents about moving to California. It’s a little odd thinking back on it, considering I had never visited California until March of 2010! I just had a feeling that I was supposed to live there; and I’m not talking LA, I’m talking a small-ish coastal beach town where I could learn to surf and be “crunchy”, haha. I am not really either of those things, but really secretly (well maybe not so secretly) want to be, hehe.

So anyway, over and over I would have conversations about moving to Calfornia, all of which NO ONE took seriously. Why not?? Well, I had a litttttttle problem with commiting to goals that I had. I would start a workout regiment, done after a month. I would try a new crazy diet, done after a month. I would talk about moving to California, changed my mind after a couple of months. I wanted to do this for a career, or that for a career, then I would get distracted on to something else. Not super appealing, but I did a lot of it. So, summer of 2009 one of my close friends got transferred from his company here in Massachusetts to the west coast branch in San Luis Obispo, CA. I had a renewed interest in moving out, and thought, HERES MY CHANCE! I’ll know someone, it’s a small beach town, this will be GREAT! Then, I got accepted to a program that I had applied to here in New Hampshire for health education (at least that was consistent, my interest in health!) and decided to stay for that. Just six short days after I was SUPPOSED to pack up and go out west, I met Nick at the Salem Culture Festival. Whoa BABY I would NOT have been happy if I had missed out on THAT one! On our second date, Nick mentioned (not to get ahead of himself of course) that he wanted to eventually go back to California, and asked me if that was something I would be interested in….um, yes PLEASE!

So after much thought, I decided not to do the health ed program (THANK GOD) and decided to stay here, join Crossfit and start eating like a caveman. Yep…those were the best choices I have ever made…and more importantly, STUCK TO!  :) I have learned more about health in the last year than I would have EVER learned in that program, and the two versions of health (the one the school would have taught me, and the one I’ve learned for free here) couldn’t BE more different!

So here I am, a year and a half later, heading for California anyway…a place that I truly have always felt is where I belong…don’t ask me why! Things are really starting to fall into place for our future practice, right down to the font on our logo! Last week I spent three days in the office with Nick and got to see the office, how it flows, how it thrives and how it functions! It was INCREDIBLE! I have struggled a bit with being “just a C.A.” for a little bit now…and for you C.A.’s (chiropractic assistants) out there reading this, please don’t take offense…I knew nothing! See, I was a receptionist for the last three years, and I had no interest in moving across the country to continue doing that…and I was constantly hearing comments like “oh so you’re going to be Nick’s receptionist?” While I felt that it was going to be more than that, I really didn’t have the information to say otherwise. Well guess what…one of probably the most valuable things I learned while I was in the office with Nick was that it is NOT a receptionist job…wow! Honestly, the C.A. is like a conductor for an orchestra, or a stage manager for a play…Nick MAY be the star of the show, but the conductor or stage manager is JUST as important in making sure everything goes smoothly and stays on course. There were so many little tiny details that the girls covered that the doctors never even had to think about, so that all of their energy could go toward giving the best possible care to their patients. To top it all off, I get to be the ambassador of first impressions for all our future patients! :-D ..and get to play with the kids and hold babies…just another perk :)

I am SO excited to start this important career.

So, starting next week, I will keep you all posted on our journey, with the cool things we do and see along the way, and of course a few handstand pictures as well :) :) I love and appreciate you ALL, and hope you had the best holiday yet :)

Much love,

Jen

Love and Gratitude!

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I’m FULL of it today! No, not silliness…well maybe…but I’m FULLLL of LOVE and GRATITUDE! I bet some of you are thinking, “Good GOD, what is this girl ON?!” and some of you are thinking this is totalllly normal because you’re the EXACT same way! I tend to be a little more grateful and lovey-dovey on Wednesdays though because I tend to start my morning off REALLY right on those days… I get up early (well we get up early everyday, but still), make breakfast, have time to sit and chat because Nick doesn’t have to be to work early, and I get coffee at Atomic and a ride to the train :) What’s NOT to love?! :)

This Wednesday morning was especially wonderful. We got up earlier than we typically do on Wednesdays and layed in bed talking, it was wonderful. Then we tried a new recipe from Mark Sisson’s cookbook, Breaded (almond flour) poached eggs (recipe coming soon!). Oh MAN! This was fun to make, AND delicious!!! Then Nick made this crazy delicious smorgisborg of goodness that I get to have for leftovers today! There was sausage, and sweet potatoes and a whole bunch of different vegetables, topped with cool, creamy avocado. Clean up that drool spot :-p please.. :)

After breakfast, our morning was accompanied by the amazing soundtrack of NATURE!! Huge blasts of thunder and lightening, which was soon followed by that amazing sound of a riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiDICULOUS downpour :) mmmmm :)

Some of you may be reading and thinking…what’s the big deal? Yeah, doesn’t sound like a bad morning, but it’s not THAT awesome Jen. I disagree! Every single bit of it was awesome, and I am SOOO grateful for every second of it, and here’s what I think: get on board. Get grateful for every single thing in your day that goes good, feels good, ANYTHING! The more grateful you get, the more things in life that will happen for you to be grateful for! Don’t ignore or passively let those little warm fuzzies slide by without notice…grab em, kiss em, hug em, and tell them you LOVE them! :-D

I read this neat little article this morning and I think I may want to even incorporate some of these tactics a little more in my day!

  Gratitude is a great way to really get the advantage of the secret. To really take advantage of it, try saying thank you for everything you have. You may know how wives really appreciates the little things their husbands do for them. So, in turn the husbands keep doing things for them! It’s the same way with the universe. If you are grateful for what you have, the universe will give you MORE things to be thankful about!! Some things someone could do is:1. Every morning, before you get out of bed create that feelings of gratitude. Be thankful of everything you have. Do not just think of things you are thankful for, but FEEL the gratitude.

2. As you get out of bed, as you take on step, think, “thank” and when you take another step you think, “you”

3. As you get ready for the day, go through a list of things you are thankful for, be thankful, for maybe the eyes to be able to read this vital information. Really FEEL IT. You might prefer something else right now, and maybe get different things that you would like later in life, but be grateful for all the things you have now.

     What are you thankful for? Maybe it’s the nice clothes you have, maybe it’s a perfect body, maybe it’s for the blessing of a new day, maybe it’s for your family, friends or the new people you will meet, or even the knowledge of using the law of attraction. Really FEEL it. I can’t stress it enough.

You may find yourself smiling. I’ve actually found myself laughing at times, and it feels AMAZING!!

     Thank you everyone who reads this. I know you all have busy schedules and I’m so happy that so many people take the time to read this. Thank you for letting me spread my journey of the law of attraction around this friendly universe.

So thank you for taking the time to read this this morning, and thanks for being awesome and all you-like :)

Have a rockin’ Wednesday guys! :)

Love,

Jen

Life Is Magical…

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I walked out of church on Sunday afternoon feeling beautiful, unique, and full of magic. The speaker spoke about how we are all magical and special; how we are made of star stuff, the very material that stars of made of. We are the same as flowers that we take the extra moment just to stop and smell, the same as the blanket of twinkling stars in the sky…we are beautiful and magical.

LIFE is magical.

Just yesterday I experienced a magical moment in my day. Whether there is an explanation for this or not, I do not honestly know…but to me, it was magic.

For the last 2 years, since I moved to Massachusetts, I have scoured the beaches for seaglass every time I have had the opportunity. I have an abundance of browns, whites and greens…but I have yet to find the one color I want the most…the illusive blue seaglass.

Yesterday, after visiting the beach with some of our friends, I was changing, cleaning my room and getting ready to begin a load of laundry. As I turned around, there in the middle of my beige carpet lay a piece of sapphire blue seaglass, all alone. How could I have missed that before? The contrast of the blue against the beige was so sharp there is no WAY I missed that! I picked it up and studied it, it most definitely was seaglass. Dumbfounded, I asked Nick if he knew anything about it, and sure enough, he didn’t, and thought it was just as odd as I did.

I have looked for years…and yet, one LITERALLY followed me home. I have no way of explaining it, although I think I exhausted every possibility of an ATTEMPTED explanation. The explanation for this Pisces, however, is that life is magical… Magic is everywhere, every single day. Maybe it was a sign, a sign that I’m on the right path in life…maybe I just stepped on it on the beach and dragged it home…regardless, its magical, and I’m so grateful for all those magical moments in my life :)

Enjoy your magical life :)

Jen

The World Is A Playground!

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Thursday nights…sigh. QUICKLY becoming one of my favorite nights of the week. It’s really the perfect mix of components; it’s almost Friday, our CSA comes in, and I get to head to the beach after work to meet up with some of my favorite ladies in the world to workout together next to the Atlantic OCEAN! What could be better??  

Not us- pictures of us will be coming soon :)

 

This was our third week of meeting up together to workout on the beach, and after two weeks of squandering for ideas on what to do for a WOD, we decided to plan ahead this week; Amanda took initiative this week…and she wasn’t messing around. When I pulled up on my Schwinn next to Amanda’s car, she was more than excited for our friend Lauren to arrive so she could spill the workout.  

“Okay guys, the workout is…4 rounds of 25 pushups, 25 boxjumps, 25 overhead lunges with THIS paint can (she really had a paint can), and a 400m run”  

“Really?…” She wasn’t taking it easy on us…at all. Just to do the math FOR you, that’s 100 of each exercise, and a mile run. Yeah…  

When it was about time to start the workout, we switched the boxjumps to squats so we could keep the workout in one area. Before starting the workout, we pumped up the jam (yes…yes I just said that. I may have to apologize in advance because I worked out this morning AND once again, had iced coffee) and just started a dance party on the lawn at Dane Street Beach. We may have been getting some looks, but honestly, when “Cal-i-for-nia Girls” by Katy Perry is blasting, you just can’t NOT dance! So judge away…we’re just here to dance.  

The workout was hard. Period. But awesome. Nice work AMANDA!!!! Next week though, watch out…I’m planning the workout, and you set the bar high my love :-p :) I love you guys, and I LOVE Thursdays :)   

Speaking of things I love…I LOVE Fridays TOO!! This was my third or fourth week of going to the 6am class to workout. I love it. I was struggling this morning though. The alarm went off at 5am, and after snuggling and talking about our weird dreams for a while, I still wanted to go back to sleep. I knew, however, that I had told Kathryn that I was definitely going, and I would have felt bad if she showed up and I didn’t (which she didn’t :-p). So 6am I pulled into the driveway of NSCF…and quickly wanted to turn back around.  

On the board was something that looked a WHOLE LOT like Fight Gone Bad…except…Fight Gone Worse…  

3 Rounds
 - 20 Wall Ball (20#/14#)
 - 20 Push Press (75#/55#)
 - 20 Box Jumps
 - 20 SDHP (75#/55#)
 - 20 Calorie Row
1 Minute rest between rounds  

Modify reps as needed depending on your Fight Gone Bad goal. Ex goal is 300 do 20 reps of each/goal is 250 do 17 of each.  

20 Minute time limit including rest.  

So, since I broke 200 doing Fight Gone Bad recently, I thought shooting for 300 was a litttttle excessive…so I modified down to 17 a round. I used the 12 # ball for wallballs, but modified the push press and Sumo Deadlift High Pulls to 45#. 55# felt like 300# at 6am…  

In the 20 minutes time limit I got through 2 full rounds, and the wall balls, push presses and box jumps of the third…which means that I finished 221 reps in 20 minutes (including the 1 minute breaks). I’ll take that! :-D   

Tonight is Danny’s last class :( :( :( :( He’s moving on to teach in Rowley to little kids…which is AWESOME for you Danny! But you will DEFINITELY be missed :) You were the first person I met at Crossfit, and you were my first coach, and still really, THE coach to me :) Looking forward to tonight and its good times… :) We’ll MISS YOU DANNY!!!! :-D   

Happy Friday everyone! Have a freakin’ AWESOME weekend! I will be attending Ohana Day tomorrow at Lynch Park for Franson Family Chiropractic :-D  Can’t WAIT!!! Making this sweet summery salad…if its good I’ll post the recipe  :)   

Love,  

Jen

(Almost) 30 Going On 13

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As my bruised legs push my peddles harder and faster in an attempt to beat the rain home, you couldn’t possibly wipe the smile off my face if you tried. Homemade cut-off jean shorts, bathing suit underneath, riding along on my Schwinn…

Sounds like a flashback to my childhood…but it’s not; it was yesterday. I was in heaven.

The short three to four mile bike ride home in the pouring rain was the highlight of my day. It was hard to choose just ONE highlight with a day filled with frisbee on the common with my love, brunch with friends, reading on the beach…but there was something about that ride home in the rain that topped them all.

This “summer” (seems like its been summer since April here on the east coast…) has felt the most like SUMMER (remember summer vacations as a kid?) than any other summer I have had SINCE I was a kid. I have traveled, went camping, rode my bike, played frisbee, gone to the beach, did cartwheels at the park, played in the ocean, sat on the roof talking late at night…and the list going on (and it isn’t even July yet!!!). However, riding my bike in the pouring rain, through lush tree-covered neighborhoods; laughing and loving every second of it, made me feel it the most. I seriously felt like I was living…I don’t even CARE how dorky/corny that sounds :-p I am learning more every day that we don’t need to be a kid to have fun…I literally watched a car drive by with a kid in the back seat; face pressed against the glass, a look of pure envy plastered on his face as they drove past us. How cool is that…almost 30 and a kid is jealous of how much fun WE’RE having! :)

So go out and do something that makes you feel like a kid! Throw a frisbee, do cartwheels, ride your bicycle, climb a tree, swing on a swing set, jump in a puddle…do whatEVER you really WANT to do! If someone looks at you funny, like you’re too old to be doing that…they’re probably just wishing they could do it too :-p

Life is just too short NOT to…

Have a freakin’ fanTAStic Monday :)

A Blessing In Disguise

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Have you ever had one of those mornings when there is NOTHING in this world that could drag you out of bed early? I was DEFINITELY  having one of those mornings today. Tired and sore, all I wanted to do was sleep another 30 minutes.

“Babe, time to get up! We have morning rituals today!!”

“Babe, how much do you NEED me there today?” Now let me preface this by saying that I have NEVER, in the however many weeks “morning rituals” have been running, NOT wanted to go. I have dragged myself out of bed at 5am each Friday, sleepy or not, to start my morning off right in the back room of Franson Family Chiropractic. This week however, I just didn’t have it in me.

“I REALLY need you there…there are supposed to be some new people coming, so I really need you there.” This is ALSO the first time Nick has ever been very clear about needing me there…usually I have to convince him I really DO want to go.

Now I have to admit, I was grumpy. I really didn’t want to get up, I really did want to cash in my “I’ve never missed a single day” card…but I rolled out of bed with a subtle “Humph” and put on a baseball hat and headed out the door.

Driving into the driveway of the practice, I didn’t see a single car, and immediately felt a little frustrated (I get grumpy sometimes!! I’m human! haha). We waited till 6am (started at 5:40am), and excitedly got back in the car to head home for a little extra sleep before work (for me anyway). However, as soon as we got to our driveway, my attitude about going back to bed changed. Nick and I poured a cup of coffee, and he asked me to join him on the deck before he had to head back in. We had 30 whole minutes of quality time, and it didn’t take a lot of thought to realize it would be dumb to skip out on that!

I’m really glad I got up at 5:20am this morning when I didn’t want to. I’m really glad I poured that cup of coffee instead of getting back into bed. I’m really glad I started my morning going back and forth saying what we were grateful for, out loud to one another; having our OWN little morning rituals at our house.

I’m grateful for my moments over coffee, in our little tree-top hideaway, with you :)

Happy Friday!!!

Ewwwwwwwwwwwww….

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DIS-GUSTING!

Oh my GOD, I can’t believe you’re eating/drinking that!! What IS that?! 

I’m standing at the train station, waiting for my train, minding my own business, consuming the last of my smoothie from the morning. Rich with nutrients, a vibrant green in color…somehow someone was disgusted by me drinking it. Without any sort of holding back at all, a man walks by, turns his head toward me and makes the most disgusted face I have ever seen in my life. 

Hmm… 

Spinach, peaches, blueberries, fish oil, avocado and a little added protein…I dont’ see the issue here… 

Now just for one moment, let’s play a game… 

Let’s pretend we live in a world where this is not weird to drink, and MCDONALDS is…just imagine if every time we saw someone digging into their Mickey D’s bag for that second cheeseburger (I say this because one day I was stuck, on the inside, in a seat with someone that had a never-ending supply of cheeseburgers in a little tiny bag…and went as far to lick the little bit of ketchup that dripped on their bag, with their tongue, RIGHT OFF THE BAG…but this isn’t weird..you’re right…) we looked at them like they were beyond disgusting… 

Not “PC” right? We would be considered judgemental… 

We live in a funny funny world my friends…funny funny world. A world where eating fruits and veggies blended into a convienient nutrient packed smoothie  is considered ”odd” and eating something that could survive 3 years in a coat pocket without changing in the slightest because it’s so gross that even BACTERIA doesn’t want to eat it is “normal”… 

I’m okay with being “disgusting” then… :-p 

Let’s go out and disgust some people today!! I’m down! :-D  

Love, 

Jen