Life Mottos?

In my last week of practicum, I wrote little notes to several of my kiddos.  Especially the ones I know struggle greatly with school, self-esteem, and just life in general.  What did I say in the notes? 3 phrases popped into my head (okay maybe 4)... my go to thoughts when anything gets hard!

Never say Never!
Nothing is impossible.
You can do anything you set your mind to...
Don't ask "why", ask "why not".

I'm DONE

Well I'm done with my master's.  School? maybe... but at least my master's.

In 16 days I can say I got two degrees in 5 years and before the age of 23. I've always worked hard for myself.  My parents will tell you that.  They claim they never pushed me... although I'm sure they sometimes slightly nudged me.  I'm so glad they taught me to be self motivating. It feels very good to be here now.

Mom, Dad- You have your differences.  But you did a good job. Love you!

Next up... a career?

Spin 4 Life

That my dear blog readers is EXACTLY what I plan on doing. I need to lose about 20% of my body weight to be healthy again.  I'm pretty sure I'm already addicted despite the fact that tomorrow I'm going to be reallllly sore! It was definitely hard, and literally 20 minutes into the 50 minute session I was wishing it was over! The owner was very nice and kinda funny. And best of all, Maggie is going to go with me!

I think I'm going to try to go again tomorrow at noon.

My goal is to go to 16 spin classes before June 1st!
One down, 15 to go!

The missing toys...

This morning I opened the door to our patio while I was getting ready so Lucy could scope out the outdoors! Well when I peeked out at her I realized she had taken a few of her toys out there and they were precariously sitting on the very edge of the balcony.  I yelled at her to bring them in and surprisingly she did. Phew! or so I thought...
Then like 30 seconds later she throws one over the edge... it of course goes right in the middle of the bushes below.  Great....
So I make my way down there with her... because if I'm going to have to go look for them, she is coming with me. And would you believe it there are a total of 4 toys down there... 2 of her balls and 2 of her bones! What the heck!

What do you do when

school is out and you aren't working yet...

I've been coming up with ways to keep myself busy. It could be the middle of June before job stuff works out.
So my first thoughts have been on ways to get into some sort of organized workout programish thing. I can't do it on my own and haven't been able to find someone to bug me about it for free so I researched my options.

1) Spin for Life It's a spinning studio in uptown and it's like $60/month for unlimited classes.  They have like 20 classes each week at pretty good times (not to mention soon time won't matter because my schedule will be wide open).
2) Run On! Dallas This is a place where they literally teach running.  It's a twice a week class for 8 weeks and it's $120 (which is basically the same as the spinning place).  The next class starts June 1 so I'm thinking that I might do the spinning thing for now and then start up this running program in June.

I also want to get involved in volunteering/ some way to meet some other people (since all my grad school friends are moving away).

Here's my plan:
1) Volunteer at Highland Park UMC (where Megan and Taylor go) and work with their special needs ministry.
2) Megan is going to hook me up with a young professionals group that attends functions to raise awareness for the Museum of Nature and Science.  Talking about museums comes easy to me so hopefully this will let me meet some new people and do some good non-profit publicizing!
3) Get and stay involved in the Sunday School class that William and I have been attending at Park Cities Baptist Church.

Hopefully this will keep me busy... otherwise I might go crazy!