Wacky Wednesday: Last Hope K9 Rescue

I know you are all over me wanting a dog, talking about dog, posting pictures of cute dogs, blah, blah, blah.  Well, it just can't happen yet in my life, but it will.  I would like to however pat myself on the back for being so obnoxious about posting pictures on Facebook and getting OTHER people to adopt.  Yup that's right, three adoptions thanks to my annoying posts, and unfortunately that is just encouragement for me to continue.  Sorry.

Let me introduce you to Last Hope K9 Rescue, they rescue dogs from kill shelters.  Kill shelters, seriously?  Who does that?  My heart breaks.  They have these amazingly, cute, well named dogs{and puppies} that need forever homes.  People really need to adopt these dogs instead of breeding or getting a puppy from birth, if you can want a puppy to love, you can love a dog who has NO ONE!

Happy Lame Wacky Wednesday{I'm playing catch up}!
~M

Here Goes Nothing!

So here goes.  I'm going to attempt to continue{start rather} blogging and I am hopefully setting myself up to be successful by giving each day a theme, a theme of something I love.  Those who know me, and once you get to know me, you will see I am a huge fan of themes.  A theme is like fuel for my brain, it allows my creative wheels to work and occasionally spiral out of control.  Feel free to read the definition of theme.

Here's the order:

Mexican Monday:  A recipe, not necessarily a Mexican recipe.

Treadmill Tip Tuesday:  A fitness tip, new exercise, muscle group focus.

Wacky Wednesday:  Anything, funny story, rant, random fact, DIY project.

Thirsty Thursday:  Adult beverage mix, kid drink, beverage event.

Photo Friday:  I'm always browsing photos/helpful tips, and I'll share some of my own too.

My weekends will be for recovering and setting myself up for the following week.

I'm super excited to start this, I realistic my life can get out of hand so I will do my best to stay on top of things.  I really just hope that I am able to reach some people with what I share.  I want so badly to have a positive impact on someone's life through words, fitness and photography and if there's other things in my way I must go over them to try something else.  So for you I will blog.

~Mandy

When, not If.

Why is it that when I sit with the laptop in my lap, balanced with one hand and a full cup of coffee balanced in the other, Tucker wants to give me all kinds of loving??  Then when we're driving around from place to place and I turn the radio on to fill the awkward silence, he has something to say, turn it off to hear him, leave it off for a bit, turn it back on, etc. etc.  Is it on purpose, or do kids just not have the common sense? Don't get me wrong, I know I should be cherishing all these moments with Tuck before they are no more, and I do put the computer and coffee down to get the hug and kiss, but...I'm still going to complain about it anyway :)

Anyway, I have this really bad habit of saying "If I...", instead of "When I...", like in the instance with becoming a group fitness instructor, "WHEN I become an instructor, this is what I want to teach..."  I need to change my mindset to IF it's an option, WHEN am I going to do it.  Right?  There's all things feel good quotes about being happy, and centered, and if life was perfect, but that's not always how we behave.  The past few years, I sat around waiting for something to happen when I realized it wasn't going to I had to do something.

"At any given moment you have the power to say: This is NOT how the story is going to end."

(Credit)  See what I mean?  It sounds all fulfilling to the soul, makes you want to drop everything you've been doing, that you probably hate, and do something you love.  And why shouldn't you, everyone deserves happy.   Now here I am waiting to pass a fitness certification or two so I can do what I love and help people be healthy and fit.  When I    helped my friend last week get around the track and showed her some added moves, it was such an adrenaline rush.  That moment told me, I've made the right choice to get into the fitness world, that I can do this, and this IS how my story will end.